Little Putuo Temple

Little Putuo Temple

Xiaoputuo temple, also known as taishi'an, was originally located on the West Bank of the intersection of Pudong canal and liuzaogang in Liutuan community of Chuansha town. It was first built in 1620, the 48th year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty. It is famous at home and abroad for its magnificent architecture and strong fragrance.

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Little Putuo Temple (Pudong, Shanghai)

It is said that the temple has been built, covering an area of 14 mu. The banner of the temple gate is engraved with the four characters "little Putuo Temple". In the temples in the south of the Yangtze River, Buddhism and Taoism are often mixed together. In the gate of the temple, there are four vajras, which are more than Zhang high. They wear colorful armor and are majestic. There are 72 rooms in the East and the west, which form two patios with the mountain gate, the main hall and the second Hall. In the front patio, there is a big Ding (stove) in the middle, and the "Wanmin bell" in the East. In the back is the main hall, on which are four glittering plaques. The hall is towering and majestic, with carved beams and painted buildings. Each of the four columns is thick enough for two people to embrace. The hall is dedicated to Sakyamuni Buddha in the South and Guanyin Bodhisattva in the north. The North Hall was built during the reconstruction of the little Putuo temple during the period of the Republic of China. On the northeast side of the hall are the emperor's hall and the Yue Wang's hall. On the East and west sides of the hall are the statues of Buddha of Luohan and Bodhisattva of the earth's mother, as well as the ten halls of Yama. The empty corner inside the temple and the open space outside the hall are covered with flowers and trees and surrounded by walls. The construction pattern of xiaoputuo Temple became a major landscape of the Buddhist holy land in Pudong at that time.

After the completion of xiaoputuo temple, it was repaired three times in 1755, 1885 and the 20th year of the Republic of China. When xiaoputuo temple was rebuilt in the period of the Republic of China, soil was dug and piled up on the South Bank of bazaogang in front of the temple to build "Luojia mountain", which complemented the original model of Putuo Mountain Temple. There is a hexagonal Guanyin hall built on the mountain. Inside, there is a thousand hand statue of Guanyin carved out of single section Cinnamomum camphora wood. It is ten feet high and six feet high. One thousand hands are spread out from all directions. It is lifelike. The Buddha statue is plated with 200 grams of gold. It is glittering and magnificent. In the west of Guanyin hall, there is a Guanyin saying cottage; in the foot of Luojia mountain, there is a "fanyin cave", in which the grotesque scenery makes people imagine. There is a pavilion and a well in the west of the cave. It is said that people's past life and afterlife can be seen. There are lots of bamboo forests and trees around Luojia mountain. There are ditches dug outside. There are Sanduo bridge and Si'an bridge in the East and West. When you go to Huaide bridge, it is connected with xiaoputuo temple on the north bank. After many times of reconstruction and expansion, xiaoputuo temple, together with Luojia mountain, covers an area of more than 40 mu, becoming one of the largest Buddhist temples in Sichuan, South China and Fengshan. During the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, Sakyamuni's birthday (called Buddha Bathing Festival) and the 19th day of the second lunar month, Guanyin's birthday, June 29, Guanyin's becoming a Taoist, September 19, Guanyin's becoming a monk (collectively referred to as "Guanyin incense club"), Folk Buddhist activities are in full swing. In 1958, during the "great leap forward" movement, the little Putuo temple and Luojia mountain were all demolished, and the thousand handed Avalokitesvara was also destroyed in the "Cultural Revolution".

Background story

During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, there was an Hanlin with the surname of Qiao in the sixth regiment. His father died early and his mother, Cai, was a Buddhist. He worshipped Guanyin Bodhisattva and was a vegetarian. When her son went to Beijing for the examination, Qiao Cai asked Guanyin to bless her. If her son won the imperial examination, she would go to Mount Putuo to burn incense and rebuild the body of Bodhisattva.

This year, my son really won the imperial examination. He was an official of the Imperial Academy and was called Taishi. The good news from the imperial list was reported to the sixth regiment. Qiao and Cai were really happy. The imperial court ordered his son to work in the Imperial Academy. Because of his busy business, the capital was far away from home, so he couldn't come back to visit his relatives for a while. Qiao Cai sent people to deliver the letter, but there was no definite date for her return, so she got rid of her wish to return to Putuo Mountain.

A few years later, when his son came home to honor his father, his mother brought up the old story again. Qiao Taishi said, "my mother is going to Putuo Mountain to fulfill her wish and rebuild the golden body of Guanyin. My child has always been concerned about it. But Mount Putuo is in the vast sea. It's a long way to go. The sea is windy and the waves are high. My mother is too old to suffer from the limp on board. " My mother asked anxiously, "if I don't go to Putuo Mountain, what can I do with my wish?" Qiao Taishi then said: "mother, don't worry, the child thought of a way to have the best of both worlds, this time back is to discuss with mother." "What can I do? Tell me quickly "I want to invite a house building expert to visit Putuo Mountain, draw the temple there into a pattern, and come back to build a little Putuo temple like it, so that you can mold the golden body for Guanyin Bodhisattva at your home. What do you think of my mother? " After listening, Qiao and Cai agreed. However, she was a little worried about how much silver it would take to build a temple? Qiao Taishi comforted his mother and said, "you don't have to worry about that."

The news of Qiao's mother and son paying for the construction of the temple spread, and the surrounding villagers and Buddhist believers all agreed that it was a good thing to do great good and accumulate great virtue. Without mobilization and call, they all automatically raised money or came to volunteer help. Just as the saying goes: they have money to contribute to the construction of the little Putuo temple. Therefore, the construction of the little Putuo Temple soon began.

Address: No.2099 Chuanliu highway (Chuansha Road)

Longitude: 121.733438

Latitude: 31.156596

Tel: 021-58594060

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