Nietang Temple

Nietang Temple

Nietang temple is next to the Sino Nepal highway in the southwest of Qushui County, Lhasa city. Nietang township is 36 kilometers away from the county and 33 kilometers away from Lhasa city. The temple was first built by the venerable adixia, and was expanded by zhongdunba jiawajine.

The origin of nietang Temple

Adixia (982-1054), a Buddhist master of ancient India, is the founder of gadang sect of Tibetan Buddhism. Its original name is Dawa Ningbo (meaning yuezang), and its French name is dibangaro outdoor rizana (meaning auspicious lighting wisdom). "Adixia" is Sanskrit, which means Shusheng. It is the honorific name given to him by Ali Xiaowang. In Tibetan historical records, he is called "juegujie" (meaning venerable). Born in the kingdom of sahor, his father was the king of a small country. As a child, he became a monk with Buddhist wisdom in jingangzuo temple. He was once canonized by Esoteric Buddhism. He became a master of Xianmi practice and traveled around India. At the age of 29, he spoke the world ministry in the branch of the Ministry of mass and received the bhikkhu precepts. Later, he devoted himself to studying the theory of Xianzong Sutra. He crossed the sea to Jindao (now Sumatra, Indonesia) and followed master Jindao for 12 years. After returning to India, Chaojie Temple became the seat of honor, and later served as the master and Abbot of the temple. At that time, yixiwo and jiangquwo, the leaders of Ali Region, were working hard to revive Buddhism. They sent renqinsangbu and leibixirao to India to learn to translate scriptures and visit eminent monks. Yixiwo and jiangquwo decided to invite adixia and build Tuolin temple for renqinsangbu. After Jiang Quwo sent the translator to India to welcome adixia with gold. In 1042 (the second year of Qingli period in the Northern Song Dynasty), adixia went to Tuolin temple with natso translators via Nepal to meet jiangquwo and others, and then translated classics with renqinsangbu and natso translators in Tuolin temple. Two years later, when adixia was ready to return to India, zhongdunba invited him to preach Dharma in qianzang area. After adixia came to qianzang, he preached scriptures. It played an important role in the revival of Tibetan Buddhism and its further development on the basis of spreading Buddhism in Xialu. When he was in Tuolin temple, he wrote a commentary on the order of Tantric Buddhism to answer Jiang Quwo's doubts about Tantric Buddhism. He also wrote a total of 70 poems on the order of Bodhi, which talked about the contents and stages of practice from learning law to becoming a Buddha. He also wrote a treatise on Zhongguan professor and a treatise on taking Bodhisattvas to practice torches, which played an important role in the development of Tibetan Buddhism.

Adixia cultivated a large number of disciples in Tibet, including jiangquwo, renqinsangbu and chuchenjiawa in Ali area, zhongdunba, kudun zunzhuyongzhong, leibixirao, nanjiaoqinbo and guanbawa in former and later Tibet area. He went to nietang, Rezhen and other places to say that in 1054 (the sixth year of emperor you of the Northern Song Dynasty), after his death in nietang, zhongdunba became the leader of his disciples. The following year, Zhong dunba gathered people to celebrate his anniversary in nietang, and raised funds to build Gupeng temple as a memorial. Because the main hall is mainly for Zhuoma Buddha, it is named Zhuoma LAKANG, which means Tara Buddha Hall. Because it is located in nietang, it is also called nietang temple.

Architectural features

Nie Tang temple sits in the West and faces east. There is a stone courtyard in the gate. The north and south sides of the courtyard are the houses of temple administrators. There are two white pagodas at the north end of the eaves corridor. The part of the pagoda is exposed on the ground. The shape of the pagoda is more special: one is the Yiguan pagoda of adixia, which contains the shoes, hats and clothes that adixia passed through during his lifetime; the other is the Yiguan pagoda of zhongdunba jiawajinai, which is buried with saddles and cloaks he used. The two ends of the eaves corridor connect with the main hall, and the back is the turning channel. There are three Buddhist halls in the main hall: zhuomalacan in the main hall, langjielacan in the south side hall and gubenglacan in the north side hall. Zhuomalalakang (also known as "Tara hall") is mainly for 21 Taras. Their clothes, colors and images are different, beautiful and dignified. According to the Buddhist Scripture, the twenty-one Taras are differentiated from the Guanyin Bodhisattva, which makes the twenty-one Taras have the status of great compassion and holiness. Twenty one Taras protect human beings from eight kinds of disasters, namely lion, elephant, fire, snake, bandit, shackle, water and death. Among the twenty-one Taras, Green Tara is in the main position. Her heart mantra is called fundamental heart mantra, which has the same effect as the fundamental heart mantra of twenty-one Taras, and is the best among all Taras. In addition to Green Tara, there are disaster relief Tara, disaster relief Tara, flood relief Tara, fire Tara, wind disaster Tara, zengfuhui Tara, disaster relief Tara, war Tara, prison Tara, theft rescue Tara, zengweiguan Tara, demon rescue Tara, animal rescue Tara, poison rescue Tara, demon subduing Tara, Yaowang Tara, longevity Tara, Baoyuan Tara and Ruyi Tara Mother and Meimei Tara, etc., are regarded by Tibetan people as protective gods to save great suffering; the main niche of the pagoda is dedicated to Sakyamuni Buddha statue, with ten disciples standing on both sides (namely, saripu, muqianlian, xuputi, Ananda, youboli, analu, daghaya, fuluna, gazhanyan, and luoluoluo). Longjerakan is one of the Eight Buddhist pagodas built to commemorate Sakyamuni's victory over the demon army. It is 10 meters high. On both sides of langjiequdeng, there are two pagodas, namely naroba (ancient Indian, disciple of deloba). The year of his birth and death is 1016-1100) and the pagoda of zhongdunba. Ancient benglakang is dedicated to three longevity Buddhas (namely wuliangshou Buddhas, baidulu Buddhas and Zunsheng Buddhas); the niche sculptures are extremely exquisite and magnificent, with flying gods and other gods. It is said that this is the earliest Buddhist hall in nietang temple. It was built by adixia before he died. After his death, zhongdunba built later nietang temple. According to the records of Weizang Daochang Shengji, there is a Linggu Pagoda in adixia (built by gavashiya Wangqiu) in gubenglakang. Under the tower, there is a statue of adixia named "like me". It is said that this statue was made for adixia when he was alive. There are traces of the venerable's fingers on it. There is also the great spiritual bone pagoda of Lama Dang basonan jianzan, which is extremely sacred.

Buddhist master

Adixia is not only a Buddhist master, but also a versatile scholar. His paintings are many, the most precious of which are his two Tangka paintings with his own nose blood: one is kept in Rezhen temple, and the other is kept in nietang temple. There is a 0.68-meter-high self sculpture of adixia in gubenglakang, which is extremely precious. The relics of the venerable in nietang temple include the Faluo and Huayuan bowl he used in his lifetime. What people especially revere is a wooden pagoda "zhe Mei Qu Deng", which is inseparable from him all his life. It is made of white sandalwood and is still treasured in the Buddhist niche of zhuomalaconne.

After the death of adixia, his ashes were buried about 500 meters in front of nietang temple, with a tomb and ancestral temple. Later, the tombs and ancestral temples of adixia were destroyed, but the urn still existed in the nietang temple. In 1963, at the request of Pakistan, the Preparatory Committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region sent part of its ashes to Beijing to be sent back to its hometown. However, due to the interference of the "ten-year catastrophe", it failed to go there. After smashing the gang of four, in 1978, at the request of the Bangladeshi government, the Chinese government once again sent the ashes of ADI gorge and its complete works back to Bangladesh and held a grand laying ceremony in its hometown of Dhaka.

Adixia has been lecturing all over Tibet for 17 years. He has not only left 55 Buddhist works (including 31 Buddhist works and 24 esoteric works), but also written medical theories and techniques such as yitoushu. He has also translated the famous medical works and more than ten classics of formula Ganlu dayagan in cooperation with natuo translators. The teachings of adixia had a great influence on Tibetan Buddhism. Russia leibixirao built Sangpu temple in the south of Lhasa to spread the teachings of adixia. Zhongdunba Jiawa county built Rezhen temple in the north of Tibet. Based on the teachings of adixia, he founded the Kadang sect, which has been widely spread for more than 300 years. Zongkaba founded the new Kadang sect, namely Gelug Sect, on the basis of adixia's theory of Bodhi daoju Most of the temples of Lu school have his statues or portraits, so the Buddhist ideology of adixia occupies a very important position in the history of Tibetan Buddhism.

Address: Northeast, Qushui County, Lhasa City, Tibet Autonomous Region

Longitude: 90.744017296959

Latitude: 29.35329700105

Chinese PinYin : Nie Tang Si