Yongfu Temple

Yongfu Temple

Yongfu nunnery is located at No.2, Lane 351, Nanchen Road, Baoshan District (opposite the east gate of Shanghai University, Nanchen Road). Yongfu nunnery covers an area of 6 mu. The foundation laying ceremony was held on July 28, 2001. The relevant leaders of Shanghai Ethnic and Religious Committee, Shanghai Buddhist Association, Baoshan District government, the United Front Work Department of the district Party committee, the district religious office and more than 500 believers of Shanghai brothers Temple attended the ceremony. At the end of March 2004, the infrastructure project was completed, including the main buildings such as Tianwang hall, Daxiong hall, sutra Pavilion and Zen house. During the construction of the nunnery, the transitional house still remained in the nunnery, and the statue of abbess Mingde was worshipped.

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reconstruction

On the morning of April 18, Yongfu nunnery held a celebration of the completion of the main hall and the opening of the Buddha statue.

More than 2000 leaders and believers from Baoshan District, China Buddhist Association, Shanghai Buddhist Association and Baoshan Buddhist Association attended the celebration to celebrate the completion of Yongfu temple.

The vice president of Baoshan Buddhist Association and master Yanfeng of Yongfu nunnery expressed his gratitude for the concern and support from all walks of life, and said that he would lead all monks and clergymen to manage the temple well and engage in religious activities according to law.

history

It is said that Yongfu nunnery was founded in 1761, the founder of which is unknown. There is no Yongfu nunnery entry in Baoshan county annals (1989 edition).

There are no records in the annals of Baoshan County of Guangxu, the annals of Baoshan County of the Republic of China, the continued annals of Baoshan County of the Republic of China, the continued annals of Baoshan County of the Republic of China, and the new Annals of Baoshan County of the Republic of China.

In Shanghai, there are three records of Yongfu temple in modern history, namely Guangxu rebuilt Huating county annals, Chongming county annals of the Republic of China, Qingpu County annals of the Republic of China; there are four records of Yongfu temple, namely Nanhui county annals of the Republic of China, Songjiang Prefecture annals of Guangxu, Huating county annals of Guangxu rebuilt, Fengxian county annals of Guangxu rebuilt. Are they consistent with Yongfu temple in Baoshan There is a connection between nunnery and nunnery.

The former site of Yongfu nunnery in Baoshan district is located in the west of T-shaped intersection of chentai Road (now renamed Jinqiu Road) in Nanshan Road, Baoshan District, Shanghai.

According to the records of Baoshan cultural relics management office, the former Yongfu nunnery has a large scale, extending from the east of Xiaohe River to the center of Nanchen Road (chentai road and Nanchen road are widened and Yongfu nunnery is reduced), and extending from chentai road in the north to Fengtang village in the south.

It originally covers an area of 6 mu, with 2 wing rooms and 5 main halls.

The building area is 350 square meters.

In 1966, the "Cultural Revolution" was sealed.

It was officially opened to the outside world on February 6, 1996. There is an ancient stone tablet in it. The nunnery covers an area of 1.2 Mu and a construction area of 300 square meters.

According to the villagers around, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Yongfu nunnery was managed by an elderly bhiksuni. Some of the houses were used for primary schools in the village. School education and Buddhist activities were carried out in the nunnery, and there was no trouble.

After the death of bhiksuni, Yongfu nunnery gradually declined. At first, there was a Qian's village woman who helped to clean it. Later, no one managed it. The nunnery was overgrown with weeds and in a state of disrepair.

At the beginning of the "Cultural Revolution", the mahogany Buddha statues and magic weapons in the nunnery were burned, and the houses of Yongfu nunnery were turned into warehouses and workshops by the production team.

In February 1996, with the approval of the government, Yongfu nunnery reopened and held Buddhist activities. The original group came from Baoqing temple and was presided over by abbess Mingde.

"Guangxu Baoshan county annals" records: "Baoqing Temple (fajie temple, the monk in the second year of Yongle's construction in the Northern Song Dynasty, was destroyed in the tenth year of Xianfeng, and the monk xuefan in the fourth year of Tongzhi raised several couplets during the Qianlong period of the founding of the people's Republic of China)

former site

The former site of Yongfu nunnery is smaller than the new site. The front is the main hall, the back is the dormitory of monks and clergymen, and the middle is a courtyard.

On both sides of the hall is the inscription of master Mingmin: "the heart is pure and pure, the peach is not dyed, and the flowers of merit and virtue are blooming.".

In the northeast corner of the courtyard stands a stone tablet, 144 cm high (exposed to the ground), 82.5 cm wide and 25 cm thick.

The material of the stele is poor and the weathering is serious. The five characters of "Fengxian forbidden stele" are seal characters, which are very clear; the inscriptions are official script, and most of them are vague.

Yongfu Temple provides free Buddhist books for Buddhist believers and tourists to read and even take away. Amitabha, good.

Yongfu nunnery is a grand and magnificent building with three main chambers, Tianwang hall, Daxiong hall and Sutra Pavilion, and the middle seat is Daxiong hall. East side of Tianwang hall. The transitional house used in the construction of the nunnery is reserved.

At the gate of the Zhaitang Hall of Yongfu nunnery, there is a thick copper plate with an anchor shape, engraved with the words "Yongfu nunnery" and "host Yanfeng"; at one corner of the windowsill, there is a wooden hammer. Looking through the window, there are about ten long tables, two or three of which have bowls and chopsticks. Each pair of bowls and chopsticks is covered with a piece of white cloth.

There are more than 20 monks in Yongfu temple. Master Yanfeng graduated from Shanghai Buddhist College.

The stele stands in the open air outside the east wall of Tianwang hall, facing east, near the east gate of Tianwang Hall of Yongfu temple.

Transportation:

No. 351, Nanchen Road, Baoshan District, Shanghai (opposite the east gate of Shanghai University, near Jinqiu road and SHANGDA Road): Metro Line 7, bus 767, Nanchen Road (East Gate of Shanghai University), Baoshan No. 25, Hunan line and Jiaguang line, and Shanghai University Station No. 110 and 185.

Address: No.2, Lane 351, Nanchen Road (Huanzhen North Road, Nanchen Road)

Longitude: 121.39804

Latitude: 31.31743542

Tel: 021-56139137

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