Mahayana monastery

Mahayana monastery

The Mahayana temple is located at the foot of Xiangwang peak in the middle of Yutang street. It used to be a Maopeng temple. Later, it was changed into a branch of Huiji temple. It has two front and back parts, with a construction area of 2836.74 square meters. There are 74 nunneries. The Yuantong hall is dedicated to Guanyin Bodhisattva, Manjusri and Puxian Bodhisattvas on the left and right, and then the reclining Buddha Hall. The reclining Buddha in the hall is the nirvana statue of Sakyamuni.

Introduction to scenic spots

Mahayana monastery is located in the middle of Yutang street, under Xiangwang peak. The yellow wall of ganlou is very eye-catching. Originally Maopeng, in 1915, Huiji Temple monk Qingxiang contacted overseas Chinese to raise funds and changed the nunnery into a branch of Huiji temple. The Mahayana monastery has two front and back parts, with a construction area of 2836.74 square meters and 74 nunneries. Yuantong hall is dedicated to Guanyin Bodhisattva, with Manjusri and Puxian Bodhisattvas on the left and right. Later, it is the hall of reclining Buddha, in which the reclining Buddha is Buddha Sakyamuni's nirvana statue. The Buddha is 7.6 meters long, with his right hand resting on his ear. He lies on his side with a serene look. There is also a Burmese white jade Buddha statue in the middle of the hall. The upper floor of the Sleeping Buddha Hall is the thousand Buddha building, and all the Thousand Buddhas are made of high-quality camphor wood. A couplet on the floor of the Thousand Buddhas is very interesting. The couplet says, "a thousand words and a thousand talks are inseparable from the transcendence of life and death. The Buddhist scriptures and Dharma are nothing but to turn the mind and open the mind." The life and death of human beings and the confusion of Buddhism and Taoism.

The Mahayana monastery, located in the middle of Yutang street, is the largest monastery in Putuo Mountain. Its main hall, Yuantong hall, worships the "water moon Avalokitesvara", which can be said to be the best among the Avalokitesvara statues. Shuiyueguanyin is one of the 33 body Avalokitesvara. It is famous for its gorgeous clothes and beautiful posture. It is also known as the Oriental Mona Lisa or the Oriental Venus.

In the reclining Buddha Hall behind the Mahayana monastery, the Buddha's nirvana is worshipped. The Buddha's body is 9 meters long. It is imitated according to the Burmese jade Buddha. It looks very peaceful and represents the highest state of Buddhism's nirvana. The upper floor of the reclining Buddha Hall is the thousand Buddha tower, in which there are 1000 jade Buddhas invited back from Myanmar by the monks of Benshan. The whole nunnery is spacious and bright, with winding corridors and winding paths. It receives thousands of Chinese and foreign believers and tourists every year. The incense is very popular and the tourists are very busy.

geographical environment

Location: at the foot of Xiangwang peak in the middle of Yutang street, about three or four hundred meters away from the museum.

Climate: Zhoushan has a monsoon ocean climate in the southern margin of the north subtropical zone. The annual average temperature is 16 degrees centigrade. There is no severe cold in winter and summer is very hot. January is the coldest, with an average temperature of 4.3-6.1 ℃. July is the hottest, with an average temperature of 26.3-28.1 ℃. Due to the ocean and climate regulation, except for the high temperature at noon, it is cooler in the morning and evening. In particular, the small islands in the open sea are known as a summer resort in the south of the Yangtze River.

Area: 2836.74 square meters.

Main landscape

Buddha Nirvana statue of Sakyamuni

The statue of Sakyamuni Buddha nirvana in the reclining Buddha Hall of Mahayana nunnery is 7 meters long. 6 meters, right pillow ear, side body and lying, calm and happy. It is the largest reclining Buddha in Putuo Mountain Temple. Originally, the reclining Buddha was carved with sandalwood. Now it is decorated with incense clay. In the middle of the temple, the white jade Buddha statue is worshipped. The thousand Buddha tower is on the upper floor of the Buddha Hall. The thousand little Jade Buddha statues are successively invited by shancihe from Longhua Temple in Yangon, Myanmar. They have been lost in ten years of catastrophe. The thousand Buddha statue is carved with camphor wood after 1981.

The Mahayana monastery has two front and back parts, with a construction area of 2836.74 square meters and 74 nunneries. Yuantong hall is dedicated to Guanyin Bodhisattva, with Manjusri and Puxian Bodhisattvas on the left and right. Later, it is the hall of reclining Buddha, in which the reclining Buddha is Buddha Sakyamuni's nirvana statue. The Buddha is 7.6 meters long, with his right hand resting on his ear. He lies on his side with a serene look. There is also a Burmese white jade Buddha statue in the middle of the hall. The upper floor of the Sleeping Buddha Hall is the thousand Buddha building, and all the Thousand Buddhas are made of high-quality camphor wood.

Dabei Temple

Dabei temple, also known as Dabei temple, is the only ten square jungle temple in Tianjin, located in Tianwei Road, Hebei District, Tianjin. It was founded in the Ming Dynasty according to relevant historical data. In the early Qing Dynasty, it was built with the donation of Tianjin garrison Cao Bin and rebuilt in 1669. At that time, the scale of the building was small, only the West courtyard. In 1940, it was expanded into the East and West courtyards. After liberation, after renovation, the surrounding Gables were added and the sengliao was built. After ten years of havoc, Dabei courtyard was seriously damaged, and the restoration work began in 1980.

At present, the east courtyard of Dabei Zen is composed of Tianwang hall, Daxiong hall, Dabei hall, dizang hall, Xuanzang memorial hall, Hongyi Memorial Hall and lecture hall. The West courtyard is the residence of nianfo hall, Abbot's office and Tianjin Buddhist Association.

Within a few hundred meters in front of the gate of Dabei courtyard is a prosperous religious and cultural market. On both sides of the street, there are a lot of stalls and religious cultural goods. There is a pair of stone lions in front of the outer wall of the Dabei courtyard. On the forehead of the gate are the four characters "true as juechang" written by Mr. Zhao Puchu. When you enter the outer wall gate, you will see the heavenly king hall. In the center of the hall, there is a big belly with a smiling face "Nanwu danglai gives birth to Maitreya Buddha". Behind Maitreya Buddha is the Dharma protector Bodhisattva Weituo holding a pestle. On the left and right sides of the hall are the statues of the four heavenly kings, namely, chikuo, Changchang, Guangmu and Duowen.

Through the temple of the heavenly king is the main hall and the main hall. In the center of the hall is the statue of Sakyamuni, a bronze and gold-plated thousand Buddha lotus seat cast in the Ming Dynasty. The copper Buddha is 5.2 meters high and the lotus seat weighs 6 tons. There are 9999 small copper Buddhas on the seat. On both sides of the main Buddha stand the statues of Ananda and Kaya. In front of the bronze statue of Sakyamuni is a jade statue of Sakyamuni Buddha, which was placed in Kaiguang in 1994. It is 1.6 meters high and weighs 888kg. It was donated by Singapore's Mr. Cheng Guochuan and transported from Hong Kong. There are 18 Arhats sitting on both sides of the hall, 2 meters high, with a vivid look. The left rear corner is for Manjusri Bodhisattva, and the right rear corner is for Puxian Bodhisattva. On the back of the statue of Sakyamuni Buddha, there is Guanyin Bodhisattva, the boy of good fortune and the Dragon Girl.

Behind the main hall of Mahayana is the hall of compassion. In the hall, a clay statue of Avalokitesvara with a thousand hands, 3.6 meters high and gilded on the surface, has a solemn and moving look. Three walls in the hall are painted with murals reflecting Sakyamuni's life story.

On the west side of Dabei hall is dizang hall. In the middle of the hall is dizang Bodhisattva. On the right side are the lotus seats of the deceased Abbot monks and ten monks. On the left side are the lotus seats of some Buddhist believers. On the east side of the Dabei hall is the lecture hall, in which there are Guanyin Bodhisattva, Nantian disaster relief and longevity medicine Buddha and Nanhai Guanyin stone statues.

On both sides of the Dabei hall are the memorial hall of master Hongyi and the memorial hall of master Xuanzang. Hung in the memorial hall of master Hongyi are copies of master Hongyi's oil paintings painted by Xu Beihong in his early years, displaying biographies of Li Shutong's life, some works and handwritten scriptures.

In the memorial hall of master Xuanzang, there is a copy of the out of print portrait of Xuanzang in the Ming Dynasty, which introduces his life and deeds, and also displays some of his scriptures and works. One of master Xuanzang's six spiritual bones was originally worshipped in Dabei courtyard.

In 1956, as a symbol of traditional friendship between China and India, Xuanzang's spiritual bone was transferred to Nalanda temple in India. Now there is a simulation tower dedicated to Xuanzang's parietal bone in the memorial hall. The parietal bone in the tower is replaced by photos.

In 1982, the temple resumed its Buddhist activities. In 1983, it was listed as one of the key Buddhist temples in China. It was officially opened to the public in 1986, with an average annual reception of 100000 people. Every day, believers and tourists from home and abroad come to visit the Buddha.

The memorial hall of master Xuanzang is located on the right side of Dabei hall, just symmetrical with the memorial hall of master Hongyi on the left side. It is a special room dedicated to the parietal bone of master Xuanzang, an eminent monk of Tang Dynasty. In the memorial hall, there is a 2-meter-high embroidered statue of master Xuanzang, and a 1.2-meter-high rosette gold tower on the altar, which symbolizes the historical facts and causes of worshipping the spiritual bones of master Xuanzang.

About Xuan Zang

Xuanzang was an eminent monk in the Tang Dynasty. In the first year of Emperor Taizong's Zhenguan reign (627 AD), when he was 26 years old, he decided to go to Tianzhu (ancient India), the holy land of Buddhism, to seek real Buddhist classics. In the state of mojietuo, he entered nalandao temple and studied yoga as a teacher. In the 18th year of Zhenguan (645 A.D.), he returned to China in the first month, and was warmly welcomed by Chang'an's "empty city going out of the temple". Emperor Taizong of Tang met him in person in Luoyang, Tokyo.

He presented 657 Sanskrit scriptures to the imperial court, and Taizong ordered him to translate them in Hongfu temple. After 19 years of hard work, 75 Buddhist scriptures, 1338 volumes and more than 13 million words have been translated. Buddhism gradually flourished, and master Xuanzang made outstanding contributions to the communication between Chinese and Indian cultures, especially the Buddhist culture.

Xuanzang passed away in the first year of Emperor Gaozong's reign (664 A.D.) and was named "dabianzhao" after his posthumous title. It is said that after Huang Chao's rebellion broke down Chang'an, Xuanzang's tomb tower was destroyed by fire, and then part of its spiritual bones were moved to Nanjing to erect a tower for worship. During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the pagoda collapsed, and then it was buried and no one could recognize it. In 1944, when the Japanese invaders built a shrine outside Zhonghua Gate in Nanjing, they found a stone letter dedicated to the parietal bone of master Xuanzang. At that time, some of them were taken away by the Japanese aggressors, and the remaining part was divided into five parts and consecrated in Beijing, Tianjin, Nanjing, Guangzhou and Sichuan. One in Tianjin was consecrated to the Dabei temple in 1954. In 1956, at the request of the Indian government and with the instruction of Premier Zhou Enlai, the parietal bone was sent to India to strengthen the cultural and Buddhist exchanges between China and India.

Chinese PinYin : Da Cheng Chan Yuan