Guishan Temple

Guishan Temple

Guishan temple is located on the top of Sanzi mountain in Huating Town, 15 kilometers west of Putian. It has beautiful scenery and pleasant climate. It is one of the 24 scenic spots in Putian. It is the earliest ancient temple in central Fujian marked as Zen temple

. Guishan ancient temple is located at the foot of Longling behind the middle peak of Sanzi mountain. It is open in front of the gate. It faces the famous Bijia mountain and faces north and south. It was decided by the founder when he opened the mountain. It has been a thousand years but not easy. The whole Vatican was built according to the mountain situation, with the heavenly king hall to the ancestral hall as the central axis, divided into two corridors, scattered orderly, solemn and chic, majestic and simple, majestic and spectacular. The total area of the existing buildings is 11600 square meters, with more than 30 halls, more than 150 monk houses and nests. There are relics from the Tang Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The couplets, chants, figures, flowers and birds, images, inscriptions and other patterns engraved on the walls, doors and windows of the temple are rich in calligraphy and painting, simple and complex, exquisite craftsmanship, and superb attainments, which can be described as "the world's skillful skills surpass the nature's craftsmanship".

Temple introduction

Guishan ancient temple is located on the top of Sanzi mountain in Huating Town, 15 kilometers west of Putian. It has beautiful scenery and pleasant climate. It is one of the 24 scenic spots in Putian. The mountain ranges from the east of Heling in Xianyou County to this point. It has a flat slope like a turtle shell in the mountains. It is close to the Purple Hat Mountain in the South and towering like a turtle head. Therefore, it is called Guishan and Guiyang in ancient times.

Guishan temple is one of the four famous temples in Putian. To the north and to the south, there are a series of small peaks on the opposite. On the left is the beacon peak, and on the right is the beacon mountain. Guishan temple was founded in 822, the second year of emperor Mu Zong's reign. The existing buildings were rebuilt in 1904. The four major landscapes of the ancient temple are Qifeng, liexiu, pines and springs.

For thousands of years, the ancient temple has experienced many vicissitudes. On the altar of the Dharma hall, there are three Buddha statues of the three patriarchs. The founder in the middle is a gold-plated full-body human treasure statue with a history of 1145 years. In the center of the altar is a plaque of "Millennium real body".

Documentation

Tang Huang Tao's "monk stele of the East Tower of Guiyang inspiration yard" describes that there is no spiritual trace to the beginning of the mountain: "at the beginning, the master's PU Guiyang was also deep in cloud and wood, the vine was like weaving, the wolf tiger had a cave, and there was no path for wood cutting. Russia was worth the giant turtle with six eyes. He crept four turtles, looked up at his head as if he were a three-way rite. He wandered and lost it, so he stayed in xizhuo'an, named Guiyang Yan Therefore, it is also named LiuMou mountain, which is one of the famous Buddhist mountains in Fujian in Tang Dynasty.

Construction scale

Guishan temple, on the other hand, was built in the Qing Dynasty. Now it has a total area of more than 11600 square meters, more than 30 halls and more than 150 rooms. The whole building complex is well arranged and carefully structured. The overall layout of the temple remains unchanged in history. The main hall, the Dharma hall, the Zen hall, the Abbot's room, and the release pool were all built on the site of the past dynasties. The stone pillars and stone foundations are all original objects of the Song Dynasty, and the Dougong structure is in the style of the Ming Dynasty. There are still "Guiquan well" in Tang Dynasty, "LiuMou pool" in Five Dynasties, shuishuishicao, mingshizhulian and Qingda Tieding in song and Yuanyou years.

Historical evolution

No, in the second year of Tang Changqing (822), the mountain was opened here and the nunnery was built. In the later three years, Chen, a 9-year-old boy of Xianyou, was accepted as a boy. At the age of 15, he lost his hair, and his legal name was Huizhong. The master and the apprentice only picked wild bitter vegetables for their morning "Maozhai". They practiced asceticism and were known as the two Bodhisattvas of Guiyang in the world. In the fifth year of Huichang (845), he destroyed the Buddha and ordered the monks to return to the secular life. The nearby shanxinying had no easy makeup and hid in the people's home. Huizhong was buried in a cave, and he still used bitter food to serve as a vegetarian, never leaving the mountain. In addition to Xuanzong temple, the four people in Putian mountain took charge of the restoration of Lingyan temple, and Huizhong built Guiyang Daochang. The Lingyan Temple project was completed in the third year of Xiantong (862), and no return to Guiyang was made. In October of the eighth year of Xiantong (867), it passed away. The disciples built the pagoda in the west of the courtyard with their whole body. Xue Chengyu, a doctor of the fourth gate of the state, wrote the inscription on the pagoda.

In 870, Xiantong built 9 courtyards, which are famous for Guiyang inspired Zen. There are more than 500 monks. There are no 18 tea gardens with famous products. In 872, Huizhong lived alone in a nunnery in wubuli, south of the courtyard. Later generations called it Nanshe. He was 66 years old. The tower was built in Donggang, west of Caichi. Huang Tao, the censor, wrote the stele of monk in the East Tower of Guiyang inspiration Zen academy, which is known as Guangji Zen master in the world. During the reign of emperor Guangqi (885-888), Wang Shenzhi played the imperial court, granted master Zhenji and named lingjue. Today, however, he is known as a master of real life. He has carved a gold statue and worshipped it in the Dharma hall. The statue was destroyed during the "Cultural Revolution". In 1986, he restored the temple and rebuilt the gold statue.

At the end of Tang Dynasty, Guiyang was named Fujian mountain, with thousands of monks. During the reign of emperor Zhenming of Later Liang Dynasty (915-921), King Shenzhi of Fujian invited him to give him the name of Fuqing Buddhist temple.

In the second year of song Baoyuan (1039), monk juekong came to guishanshen without a Taoist temple. He was supported by ten parties and remained as the leader of the courtyard. At the end of Song Dynasty, there were only 10 monks living in the temple. During the reign of emperor Ding and Emperor Tianli of the Yuan Dynasty (1324-1330), the abbot of Yuepu copied ten pieces of chemical materials, which lasted for five years and were completely restored.

During the Hongwu Period of Ming Dynasty (1368-1398), it was promoted to a temple. It was destroyed by fire in the fifth year of Jingtai (1454) and destroyed after reconstruction in the third year of Tianshun (1459). In the fourteenth year of Wanli (1586), the monks of Zhengjue temple in Beijing came to Fujian to visit Guishan mountain. Seeing this, they made a vow to revive and donated ten good faith from Fujian gentry. The comprehensive reconstruction was completed in the 39th year of Wanli (1611). The monks gathered again, reaching more than 500 people.

In 1679, the abbot Liang Zhong was rebuilt again. More than 200 years later, to the first year of Guangxu (1875), there was only one Dharma hall left. In the 28th year of Guangxu (1902), monk Chenghui and Miao Xing of Changji Yuhua academy came to Guishan with 18 disciples, determined to revive. It took four years to repair the Mahavira hall. After that, it created 46 characters of Guishan sect, namely: "cherish the cost of Maoding, Zen is as broad as man, zhengzeng, self-evident, the most prosperous and successful, ambition is integrated with the wisdom of the people; xiangjinfuzi, facan is forever silent, conscience is cautious, wisdom is great, and the products are gathered in MINXIU and Cangmi.".

In 1914, monk Ping Zhang went south to Malaya, where he was the abbot of Qingyun Pavilion in Malacca. Later, Guishan monks continued to go south and sent overseas Chinese to build ancestral temple. Guishan overseas courtyard is mainly composed of Qingyun Pavilion, and its presided monks are Pingzhang, Xianglin, Shanghong, dingguang, Jinxing, Jinming, Zen, Jihuang, Lizheng, etc. From 1950 to 1958, the temple buildings in Guishan were gradually restored and the "Cultural Revolution" was destroyed.

In 1986, at the age of 81, dingguang returned to chakanzu temple with illness. Shortly after he returned to Mapo Jingye temple, his great wish was fulfilled and he was glad to show his silence. His apprentice Zhenjing was equal to Guishan in building a seven level octagonal dingguang pagoda, which was put on top of the pagoda with the relic of dingguang tea. Zhao Puchu, President of the National Buddhist Association, inscribed the plaque of "six eyes" in his own handwriting, which was hung on the back eaves of the heavenly king hall.

In the Tang Dynasty, when no one opened the mountain here, he held an 18 Jin hoe and opened 18 tea gardens. Song Shaoxi "Puyang Zhi" records, "Pu mountain tea, Guishan first." The famous species introduced in the middle of the Ming Dynasty is called "mid month incense", which is listed as the top offering. During the period from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, there were 120 mu tea gardens in the northern foot of Kenfu mountain in the Tang Dynasty, and thousands of zhongyuexiang tea trees remained. Today, Guishan tea farm covers a total area of 340 mu, with an annual output of more than 15000 Jin of tea.

Fuqing temple in Guishan was built in the second year of Changqing of Tang Dynasty (822 AD). It is also one of the four forests in Putian, Fujian Province Without his ancestral body, Lingyan Temple (Xinghua Temple) in Putian was climbing westward. Along the way, he took a stick, climbed cane, crossed mountains, waded through streams, and came to a Pingwu, which was bestowed by the three purple peaks. He found that the dense forest was covered by a depression, and the spring was murmuring. The Zen master wanted to go to the depression and drink water to quench his thirst. He came up with a giant turtle with six eyes, leading the four little turtles to salute the Zen master Sanfu, and then disappeared No trace. It's inconceivable that you lose everything in a moment. The Zen master closed his eyes, suddenly woke up, and carefully examined the surrounding scene. However, he saw that the mountains were deep and the forests were dense, the peaks were high and straight, and the air cushion was steep. He thought it was the holy land he wanted. From then on, he built a thatched cottage as an nunnery and used wild vegetables in the mountains as food to satisfy his hunger. The great reputation of the patriarch spread far and wide, and thousands of people returned. All of them lived an ascetic life of "one said not to do, one said not to eat".

Guishan ancient temple is located at the foot of Longling behind the middle peak of Sanzi mountain. It is open in front of the gate. It faces the famous Bijia mountain and faces north and south. It was decided by the founder when he opened the mountain. It has been a thousand years but not easy. The whole Vatican was built according to the mountain situation, with the heavenly king hall to the ancestral hall as the central axis, divided into two corridors, scattered orderly, solemn and chic, majestic and simple, majestic and spectacular. The total area of the existing buildings is 11600 square meters, with more than 30 halls, more than 150 monk houses and nests. There are relics from the Tang Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Guishan is rich in famous tea. In the second year of Changqing of Tang Dynasty (822 AD), the famous monk without Zen master came here to set up 18 tea gardens. Chen Jingbang, the Minister of rites of the Ming Dynasty, wrote a couplet about the temple: "half the tower in the mountain, half the temple in the sky, the bell and drum in the cloud, the monk in the middle of the moon.". It is said that the famous tea "mid month fragrance" produced here in the Ming Dynasty was once selected as a tribute. In the 11th year of Xiantong (870 A.D.), nine temples were built, with more than 1000 monks. During the reign of emperor Zhenming of the Later Liang Dynasty (915-920), King Shenzhi of Fujian gave the temple the name of "Fuqing Buddhist temple in Guishan". In the Ming Dynasty, it was expanded into a temple. The existing buildings were rebuilt in 1904, including the Tianwang hall and the grand hall

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