Liankaijing Temple

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Liankaijing Temple

Liankaijing temple is located one kilometer away from the southern suburb of Nanxiong City, Guangdong Province, on the Bank of Zhenjiang river. It has beautiful scenery, quiet environment, surrounded by flowers and trees, fragrant flowers, grand and solemn hall. It is close to a small city but not noisy. It lives in the world but not polluted. It is a good place for practicing and learning, and also one of the larger Buddhist jungles in northern Guangdong. The majestic and majestic liankaijing temple in Chongguang, surrounded by Sanskrit and lush green trees, welcomes the worshippers and scholars, and attracts many tourists at home and abroad.

Historical evolution

Liankaijing temple has a long history of more than 300 years. It was originally named lianshe nunnery. It was founded in the Ming Dynasty by Nianchun's grandmaster (the grandmaster left his real body to worship in lianshe nunnery, which was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution). The temple is magnificent and the Buddha statue is solemn. According to the annals of Nanxiong Prefecture in Zhili, "lianshe nunnery, Qinglian temple, Xinglong nunnery and Dushan temple are all located in Shuinan village, among which lianshe nunnery is the most important.". The temple was established in the reign of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty. It had more than 100 residents and was a famous Buddhist holy land in the county. It was also a famous nunnery in the south of the five ridges. " With the change of history, the temple declined at the end of the people's Republic of China. During the Anti Japanese War, the society was in turmoil and the monks were separated. In the 1950s, the temple only had ruins. With several tall and straight ancient trees, the Buddha statues disappeared and gradually became the nursery site.

Since the reform and opening up, governments at all levels have attached great importance to religious work and implemented religious policies, so that the temple has regained its glory. In 1994, Nanxiong municipal government invited the contemporary Zen master and Buddhist leader, old monk Ben Huan (upper and lower), to initiate the reconstruction. In 1994, it launched the planning and preparation, and appointed Tu Yinxian and Tu sundunyong to prepare for the construction. With the strong support of the government and ten good faith parties, it laid the foundation for the reconstruction of the original site of lianshe nunnery on November 8, 1996. After more than five years of preparation, it was completed in December 1999 Completed. In October 2001, the opening ceremony of the Buddha statue was held, and the abbot was promoted to the throne. The second phase of the project plans to build the ancestral master tower, the nursing home, the pagoda of Amitabha, the lotus Pavilion release pool, the archway gate tower, a teaching building and the Abbot's room, etc., which are under preparation.

Introduction to architecture

Unique architectural style

The reconstructed liankaijing temple has a construction area of more than 7000 square meters and a construction cost of more than 25 million yuan. Its architectural style is unique and colorful. It integrates ancient architecture and garden architecture, inherits the style of imitating Song Dynasty ancient architecture and the characteristics of Buddhist culture. It adopts the layout of four in three courtyards, surrounded by walls, carved beams and painted buildings, cornices, brackets, red pillars and yellow tiles. It is extremely beautiful and spectacular. It has written a glorious history of replacing wood with steel in the history of Buddhist architecture.

General layout

Taking the main hall as the center, according to the principle of virtual reality, multiple symmetries and convenient activities, the layout of the central axis, from the mountain gate, the heavenly king hall, the main hall, the Dharma hall and the Sutra collection building, adopts a four in three courtyard layout, with circulation and Library, guest hall and Education Office, zushi hall and Jialan hall, bell tower and Drum Tower, Guanyin hall and dizang hall, Gongde hall and Teaching Hall on both sides Tang, Zhaitang and nianfo Tang, and sengliao and sengliao are symmetrical. The building features frame structure as the main body, using steel instead of wood, cement pouring combination, cornice bucket arch yellow brick yellow tile, ventilation and heat dissipation, lighting and ventilation. The Buddha statues, offering tables and niche decorative patterns in the hall are carved with spiritual animals, dragon, elephant, lion, deer, sun, moon and stars, cloud pattern water wave, flag umbrella cover and Zhuling bottle mirror, which fully display the cultural atmosphere of Chinese Buddhism and add a good place for worshippers and tourists.

Zhenshan ink treasure

During the construction period, Tian Junde, an experienced expert in ancient architecture, came to the site. Zhao Puchu, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and President of the Chinese Buddhist Association, wrote the title of "Buddha's light shines everywhere" and the name of the temple at the gate, which was written by monk Shangben Xiahuan himself. On both sides of the gate, there are eight big characters: "solemn territory, happiness and love". It has become a treasure of Zhenshan and has a bright future.

Recent situation of temples

Life education of monks

At present, there are more than 50 monks and more than 80 nuns living in the school. Some of them are young and educated, and some of them are graduates of Buddhist College. In terms of the management of talented monks, they strictly abide by the ancient system of studying in the jungle: going to the temple, going to the hall, reciting scriptures, having classes, going out to work, etc. the life education of the monks' group is carried out like the law, and combined with the modern classroom education. The school specially invited four masters who graduated from Minnan Buddhist College as lecturers and opened a series of required courses in teaching. In order to improve the quality of teaching, in addition, the school has also opened classes in fine arts, calligraphy, ancient works selection, etc. So as to improve the monk's ancient Chinese reading, calligraphy writing and appreciation level. The cultivation of monks should pay equal attention to study and become qualified monks in the new century. And has opened a "Lotus open Buddhist lecture" to teach Buddhist knowledge to believers at home every Sunday.

Purpose of study

For many years, the temple adheres to the style of Zude, lives in peace in summer and has seven Buddhas in winter. The aim of learning is to uphold precepts and return to pure land. Daily morning bell and evening drum, morning and evening class recitation, Scripture recitation and confession, listening to Scripture and hearing Dharma, chanting Buddha, sitting incense and abiding by the Buddhist system, such as Dharma, Liuhe co residence, Abbot's Dharma, carrying forward the Dharma, continuing Buddha's wisdom, promoting Dharma and benefiting life, solemn land and being happy.

Cultivating young successors of Buddhism

In order to cultivate the successors of Buddhism, abbot Shangben Xiahuan founded "Lotus Buddhist School" in the spring of 2003. The school aims to cultivate the successors of young Buddhists in the 21st century who are patriotic, love teaching, attach equal importance to understanding and practice, have a certain degree of Buddhist knowledge and practical ability, and are determined to engage in the cause of Buddhism. At the same time, in order to meet the needs of the majority of believers to learn Buddhism and better understand Buddhism, abbot Shangben Xiahuan advocated the establishment of the "bodhi tree" Buddhist summer camp, which has been successfully held for several times every summer. This activity has achieved good results.

Today, under the leadership of master Dunyong and master Zhike dunguang, the management and construction of the temple are more perfect and the legal activities are more smoothly carried out. At the same time, with the strong support and care of Nanxiong municipal governments at all levels, the supporting facilities will be further improved, so that it will become a large-scale and complete layout of the nizhong congcha in the province in the near future.

Address: South Bank of Zhenjiang River, 1km south suburb of Nanxiong City, Shaoguan, Guangdong Province

Longitude: 114.311982

Latitude: 25.117753

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