Buddhist heart Temple

Buddhist heart Temple

Foxin temple is located in Lianhua village, Lianhua Town, Tong'an District, Xiamen City, with a back to Lianhua Mountain National Forest Park and a face to Lianhua River, covering an area of more than 80 mu. It is planned to build foxin temple into a landscape garden style retreat integrating meditation, Dharma promotion, free medical treatment and sightseeing. To provide a place for people from all walks of life away from the noise, to relax the mind and body.

Introduction to scenic spots

Foxin temple is located in the green field of pingchou outside longbing village, Lianhua Town, Tong'an. It has a beautiful environment, with mountains behind it and streams facing it. There are lots of vegetable orchards behind the house. There are several acres of arable farmland in front of the house. Foxin temple was built by Ye Dingguo, a former Brigadier General of the people's army, for his wife Shao's living in another place to worship Buddha. The temple is a folk house in Southern Fujian in modern times. Two into three rooms, the front courtyard hall for the residents living, the backyard two-story building, as for the Buddha Hall. Shao's name is wan. In his later years, he was a Buddhist in Changzhai and converted to Xiamen Huiquan elder as a teacher. His legal name is "benjue". After the completion of the hall, Shao lived with his adopted daughter Lin Yuanyang and three maids.

Because Tong'an was the sphere of influence of Ye Dingguo, the Buddhist heart Temple flourished in Tong'an. In 1936, elder Huiquan served as Abbot here. Huiquan elder expanded the temple into a nunnery with a common abbot, caigu, practicing agriculture and Zen according to the pattern of three female people's jungle, such as DUOLIAN temple in Quanzhou. This discussion was highly praised by Shao. The plaque was changed to "Buddha heart Temple" by the master himself, and three caigu, such as Honggu, the deacon of DUOLIAN temple, were invited to take charge of the affairs of the temple. Since then, the vegetable nuns from Zhangzhou and Quanzhou have come to live in the temple, up to more than 20 people. Many women have been practicing farming and living happily.

During the Anti Japanese War, in 1938, the Japanese army occupied Xiamen. The situation was tense. Tongan, a city separated from Xiamen, was even more anxious. The residents of the Buddhist heart temple also withdrew to the mainland one after another, and the abbot Honggu also went to the mainland to build another Taoist temple. In the 30 years of the Republic of China, there were only five local vegetable girls living in the temple, including Kaiyin. Kaiyin served as the supervisor of the temple and led the people to engage in farming. In the 32nd year of the Republic of China, when Shao was born in the west, kaiyingu (and Shao's maid Lin Yuanyang) became the leader of all the property rights of the temple. In the 37th year of the Republic of China, Nanputuo temple in Xiamen granted three great precepts. Kaiyingu personally led the whole temple to receive the precepts, so as to improve the Buddhist practice quality of the residents in an all-round way.

In 1951, the house of foxin temple was borrowed by local primary schools and agricultural technology stations, leaving only three wing rooms as the dormitories for five vegetable aunts. Later, the young vegetable aunts lived together with teachers and students of foreign schools, which made it inconvenient for them to get along with each other. In 1952, kaiyingu and the women living in the temple led each other to leave the temple. After leaving the temple, Kaiyin went to live in wanshiyan, Xiamen, and then worked in the Qunhua textile factory, which was jointly run by nuns. For decades, he has always insisted on celibacy without marriage, and has been serving the Buddha in Changzhai.

When kaiyingu retired from the factory, he lived in the hut beside wanshiyan, but wanshiyan was still occupied by other units. Kaiyingu ran around and asked the relevant municipal departments to support the recovery of wanshiyan. With the support of Shiyan Buddhist Association and the full support of his master, master Hongchuan, President of Singapore Buddhist Association, Shiyan was finally recovered in 1982. After the recovery, master Hongchuan, his master, transferred a huge sum of money to kaiyingu to rebuild and expand the palace. After the resumption of Minnan Buddhist College, master Hongchuan proposed to set up a women's department and take Wan Shiyan as the school building.

Kaiyingu is a rare old man. Besides working for wanshiyan, she still remembers the Buddhist heart temple, her ancestral hall. The temple is still occupied as a folk house. In 1995, Kaiyin, together with his elder martial brother, master Kaiwu, traveled between Xiamen and Tong'an to reclaim the Buddhist heart temple. After repeated requests for the support of the relevant departments, it was not until 1999 that all the temple rights were recovered. In 2000, he hired master Shi Zhubing, a Buddhist monk of Minnan Buddhist College, to live in the monastery, with a total of 11 monks. After Zhu Bing lived in the temple, he led the residents to carry out the activities of hongfalisheng. On the 10th day of each month, a pharmacist's law meeting is held to eliminate disasters and prolong life. Doctors from Xiamen third hospital and retired Chinese and Western doctors are invited to sit in the temple voluntarily to carry out free medical treatment and application activities.

Buddhist temple holds charity every month, and free medical treatment is held on the first and tenth day of the lunar calendar. On the 10th day of the lunar new year, a meeting of pharmacists was also held. In addition, more than 50 mu of land in front of the temple will be expropriated, and the temple will be built into a landscape garden style Buddhist temple for pharmacists, which integrates meditation, Dharma promotion and free medical treatment.

Address: Lianhua village, Lianhua Town, Tong'an District, Xiamen City

Longitude: 118.05162

Latitude: 24.752423

Ticket information: free.

Chinese PinYin : Fo Xin Si