The palace of the body

--The hall of flesh was built in Zhenyuan period of Tang Dynasty. The main hall was destroyed and rebuilt many times. This is the most beautiful and sacred place in Mount Jiuhua. It is also a must for tourists to come to Mount Jiuhua.

--Today, it is a tower and hall style building with iron tiles on it and palace style eaves on its four corners. There are wooden pagodas on the base of the pagoda, and there are niches on each floor. In front of the wooden pagoda, there is an octagonal glazed lamp, which is always bright.

--There are two North and South gates in the body hall, the south gate is the main gate, while the north gate is relatively open, with a half moon shaped Yaotai, on which three big tripods are cast. Pilgrims here burn incense and worship Buddha, and they must circle the pagoda clockwise to pray.

--July 30 of the lunar calendar is the Christmas day of the Bodhisattva in dizang. Monks in Jiuhua Mountain will hold major activities in the hall of the body, known as the "dizang Dharma Association", recite the original wish Sutra of the Bodhisattva in dizang and guard the tower of the body in dizang.

The palace of the body

Originally known as Jindi zangta, commonly known as "master Ding", also known as the palace of moon body. It is located in Jiuhua Mountain scenic spot, Qingyang County, Chizhou City.

In his later years, Jin dizang took this as his reading of Sutras in Nantai. After three years of silence, he still had a face like life, which was the sign of Bodhisattva's coming into the world. So he built a three-story stone pagoda here to bury his body, which is also called dizang tomb. Because the place of the pagoda once had "round light", it was later named Shenguang mountain. In 1983, it was designated by the State Council as the national key Buddhist temple in the Han nationality area.

Historical evolution

Initial construction time

National key temples. It was originally named Jindi zangta. It is located in Shenguang ridge, Jiuhua street. It was built in Zhenyuan period of Tang Dynasty. Jin qiaojue in the 10th year of Zhengyuan (794) of Tang Dynasty

At the age of 99, he suddenly called all the disciples to say goodbye and finally passed away. It is said that at that time, "the mountains were singing, the rocks were falling, and the birds were crying."

Cry, the ground is on fire. After three years of the letter, it still "looks like life, with soft hands and a sound at Luojie, like shaking a golden lock". According to the Mahayana Mahayana Mahayana Dharma Dharma Dharma Dharma Dharma Dharma Dharma Dharma Dharma Dharma Dharma Dharma Dharma Dharma Dharma Dharma Dharma Dharma Dharma Dharma Dharma Dharma Dharma Dharma. He was identified as the manifestation of the Bodhisattva. He built a stone pagoda and offered the body to the stone pagoda, which was regarded as the gold underground collection. Later, he added a palace, which was called the body hall. It is also called dicangfen. Because the place of the pagoda once had "round light", it was later named Shenguang mountain. Since then, Jiuhua Mountain has been widely known, and gradually formed a Tibetan Bodhisattva Yinghua Daochang, which is also known as Manjusri of Wutai Mountain, Puxian of Emei and Guanyin of Putuo.

Jin qiaojue (696-794) is a Shinto monk, commonly known as jindizang. He is the king of the ancient Shinto state (today's southeast of the Korean Peninsula) and the Jin family. It is said that he "has a strange bone, seven feet in length, and is twice as strong as a hundred men.". "The heart is kind and the appearance is evil, and the mind is natural." When he was 24 years old, he cut his hair to become a monk and brought a white dog to China. First arrived in the south of the Yangtze River, unloading boat landing, through Nanling and other places Jiuhua. It is said that Jiuhua Mountain was originally the territory of Minrang he, a native of Qingyang County. Jin qiaojue begged him for a cassock, but he didn't want to show his clothes and cover the nine peaks. Min rang he was very surprised. He was so surprised that he let his son worship his teacher first, and then converted himself. Up to now, the attendants around the statue in Jiuhuashan temple are min rang and father and son. After Jin qiaojue came to the mountain, he lived in the cave of donganfeng (later called "dizang cave"), where he lived in Zhangji and lived a very hard life of meditation. In the second year of Zhide reign of Tang Dynasty (757), Zhuge Festival, the elder at the foot of the mountain, and several other people climbed the mountain together. Along the way, they saw deep mountains and valleys, wild hazelnuts, and silence. When you get to Dedong cliff, you can see that only Shi dizang is alone in the cave. He sits with his eyes closed. Beside him is a folding tripod. In the tripod, there are a few leftovers cooked with white rice and Guanyin soil. The elders are awed by the people who are so hard-working. So they jointly planned to build a Zen house to provide for Tibetans. In less than a year, a temple was built, and the underground had a place to live and the conditions to take the disciples to live in the temple. His great disciple and first monk, Yu Yu, practiced himself, cutting thorns and covering thorns, leading people to reclaim wasteland, digging canals and ditches, building paddy fields, growing grain, self-sufficiency in labor, and persisting in hard cultivation. In the second year of Jianzhong period (781), Zhang Yan, the prefect of Chizhou, admired Tibetans and gave alms to them. He asked the imperial court to move "Huacheng: old forehead to the temple.". In the county, the officials and rich families converted to dizang with their teacher's ceremony and donated a lot of money and silk to Huacheng temple. Jin qiaojue, heard of ya'er, even the monks of Silla, also crossed the sea to come to China to serve.

For more than 1000 years, although the palace of the flesh body has been flourishing and abolishing, it has been extraordinary so far. The body hall is built on a high platform, with stone pillars, red walls, iron tiles, white marble floors, and a plaque of "the first mountain in Southeast China" hanging at the main gate. Step. In the center of the hall, there is a "dizang tower" with seven layers of wood structure. The base of the tower is made of white marble. There are more than 100 Bodhisattvas in the pagoda. On the front of the pagoda, there is a statue of "jindizang". Jin rides a flying "listening" horse. On the left is his disciple Daoming, and on the right is his father min Gong. Because Daoming first entered the empty door and became his father's elder martial brother. There are large and small statues of Tibetans in the front and back of the pagoda. On both sides of the pagoda are the ten halls of Yama. The whole hall is solemn and solemn. Even the visitors speak in a soft voice or show their eyes. Along the corridor of carved beams and painted buildings, you come to the back of the hall. There is a half moon shaped Yaotai with the big word "Bujin resort" pasted on the wall. On the day of the death of Tibetans, pilgrims from home and abroad come here to worship, offer incense and give alms.

Renovation and reconstruction

During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court granted silver to rebuild the pagoda hall and "the pagoda of protecting the nation's body". In 1683, the hall was rebuilt by Yu Chenglong in Chizhou. The gate of the main hall faces north and has 84 steps. In 1857, most of the temples were destroyed by war. At the beginning of Tongzhi, the temple was destroyed by mountain torrents, and then rebuilt. In 1886, the body pagoda was rebuilt on a large scale. The gate of the hall was moved to the south, and the plaque of "the first mountain in the Southeast" was hung on the gate. In the south of the hall, 8L steps were built. It was rebuilt in 1914. In 1917, Li Yuanhong presented the plaque of "dizang Dayuan". From 1944 to 1946, the abbot monk Hua Yu. 1947-1949 Abbot monk Baoyan.

It was rebuilt twice in 1955 and 1981. The temple is magnificent, is a tower hall building, covered with iron tiles, four corners of the palace style eaves. There are seven octagonal wooden pagodas on the base of the pagoda. Each wooden pagoda has a niche for Bodhisattvas. The building area of the temple is 705 square meters. It is a key cultural relic protection unit in Anhui Province and a key Buddhist temple in the Han nationality area of China.

Scale system

Temple size

The hall is 3 rooms wide and 16 meters deep, with white marble on the ground. In the center is a 1.8-meter-high White Jade Pagoda foundation, on which stands a seven story octagonal Wooden Pagoda, 17 meters high. There are niches on eight sides of each floor of the pagoda, each of which is dedicated to 56 gold statues in different sizes. They were made in 1886 with lacquer and taro. Outside the north gate of the pagoda, there is a half moon shaped Yaotai, on which three big tripods are cast. First, it is located on the east side of the North worship platform of the flesh body hall, with a height of 120 cm and a diameter of 109 cm; second, it is located on the North worship platform of the flesh body hall, with a height of 120 cm and a diameter of 109 cm; third, it is located on the west side of the North worship platform of the flesh body hall, with a height of 120 cm and a diameter of 109 cm, which is much wider than that in front of the south main gate of the hall. Most pilgrims come here to burn incense and worship Buddha.

architectural style

The body hall is a typical palace style building. It is located at the head of Shenguang ridge in the west of Jiuhuashan street, surrounded by towering ancient trees and shade. The temple is 15 meters high, southwest of the mountain gate, with strict red walls, majestic and majestic. You have to climb 81 steps to enter the hall. Standing under the steps and looking up, you can see that there are two banners above the South Hall. On the upper forehead, there are four characters of "body treasure hall", regular script, vertical plaque, three-dimensional lace around, no money; on the lower forehead, there are five characters of "southeast first mountain", running script, written by Shi yuzao, a native of Qingyang in the eighth year of the Republic of China (1919). On the Department of "Zhejiang Ciyu County believers Dong Donghai, Dong Dongfu long sense of Tibetan king Wei Ling, to help long cherished wish."

There are rooms on the ground floor. Entering the interior is like stepping upstairs. There are several rooms in the East chamber, which are the guest hall and the monk's hut. In the west, there are several rooms, which used to be "exhibition rooms of Buddhist cultural relics".

Main landscape

On both sides of the railings, there are seven layers of trapezoidal flower beds built along the hillside outside the railings. Four seasonal flowers such as Euonymus japonicus, Osmanthus fragrans, bamboo and chrysanthemum are cultivated. On the east side of it is a songzhihua stone tablet, which was written by Liu Guangfu during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty.

The trunk of pine branches in the stone is as big as copper coin, and the bark and texture are clear. There is a huge stone at the level of the tower base. Like the artificial cave top, the south side is engraved with the word "Pan Shi Chang'an", which is the wish for the permanent firmness of the pagoda hall; the north side is engraved with the word "Shengguang Yicai", which is to remember the origin of the place name of shenguangling and the Tibetan language. There is a stone lion on both sides of the long stone. Its height, length and width are 137cm, 16cm and 47cm, and its base is 36cm, 69cm and 46cm. It was carved in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty.

More than ten steps up to the front of the hall, there are carved buildings and painted beams on the top of the four corridors, decorated with rare birds and flowers such as crane, Milu and peony. There are 20 stone pillars. Couplets are engraved on the stone pillars under the north and South eaves, and the stone inscription on the north side is: "vow to make the group live and leave bitterly, and wish to release the light of mercy and turn the Falun.". There are two couplets in the south, one of which says: "the blessings of the people are endless, the wisdom of the sun and the moon are always looking forward to them"; the other says: "the heart is the same as the Buddha, the incense is straight, the eyes are high, the sea and the moon rise.". The first word of the two couplets is "mind Fu Hui", which means that monks and nuns rely on dizang to cultivate the word "Fu Hui". "Wisdom" means enlightenment and becoming a Buddha, and "blessing" means the prosperity of Buddhist temples.

There are return columns and top beams at the four corners of the tower foundation. Inside the pagoda is the level 3 stone pagoda where the body is located. Both before and after the north and South are dedicated to Tibetan statues. The wooden tower is still divided into ten parts

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