Puzhao Temple

Puzhao Temple

Puzhao temple is located at the foot of South Taiwu mountain in Zhuoqi village, Gangwei Town, Longhai City, Zhangzhou. It is the sixth avenue of the world-famous monk Shangguang Xiaxuan, following Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia. Founded in 1995, it covers an area of 160 Mu and costs hundreds of millions of yuan. It is the only temple with modern architectural style in China.

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The temple and Ruicheng leisure farm are integrated into one. The building complex integrates Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and other Nanyang styles, and integrates pilgrimage, sightseeing, leisure and outdoor activities. It is a holy land full of exotic practices and sightseeing. Being in the mountains, you feel like you are in the city; being in a temple, you can't see any incense. It's called leisure villa, but it's a holy land of worship; being in Yiyu, South Fujian, you feel like you're visiting Nanyang. Mountain and sea adjacent, heaven and earth in one, natural harmony, beautiful.! It is a great pioneering work for the great monk Guangxuan to guide Buddhism to the world.

Each Puzhao temple built by monk Guangxuan in Nanyang countries is consistent with the architectural style of that country, so the architectural style of Puzhao temple is very peculiar.

"Puzhao Temple" is the concentration of five foreign Puzhao temples. It skillfully blends different foreign architectural styles together, adds Chinese architectural elements, and magically integrates Chinese and foreign architectural culture with Buddhist culture, forming a world-wide Buddhist architectural landscape with distinctive features!

The architectural styles of Puzhao temple include Thai, Australian, Malaysian, Indonesian, Italian and American styles At first glance, it is a modern leisure villa with exotic customs, which is very attractive, especially for the contemporary young people. When Chinese youth come here, they feel strange and fresh. When Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Australia youth come here, they feel familiar. The five storey pagodas in the four corners, the solemn Buddha statues and Sanskrit incense in the temple make it easy for tourists to enter Buddhism and get close to Buddhism.

Monk Guangxuan built six Puzhao temples. The sixth one is called "Puzhao Temple" which is built in China. It is the crystallization of great wisdom of monk Guangxuan and a wonderful interpretation of world Buddhism. This kind of wisdom is not only the continuation of Chinese Buddhist tradition, but also the sublimation of Buddhism's globalization!

It's ingenious - using the principles of Chinese five elements and eight trigrams, surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the sea, it's a rare geomantic treasure land. The North-South central axis of the natural environment and the East-West central axis of religious significance meet in the lecture hall, which is a temple where Buddhists at home and abroad can understand Buddhism.

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Each building has its own unique main color, and the buildings with the same color form a group of buildings. According to the mountain, they are well arranged, colorful and dazzling!

The Yellow buildings are concentrated in the mountain gate, and the strong Thai style is just like the main melody of the music, which sets the tone of Southern Buddhism. The glazed tiles of Puzhao building and Haihui building are in deep blue, which are in contrast with the blue sky and sea. The light blue glazed tiles of Fatang and the snow-white Gables give people a sense of tranquility, solemnity, freshness and freshness. Lecture hall, Dabei hall, dizang hall, ancestral hall, Pugong tower, red tile and yellow wall, antique, simple and solemn. Green buildings -- pure land of chanting Buddha, village residence building, Zhigui building, Jialan hall, Weituo hall, green tile and green wall, surging with youthful vitality.

The most peculiar thing is that the dark blue and light blue buildings, together with the red buildings, form two huge color fish, one Yin and one Yang, which form a mysterious Tai Chi. Yellow buildings and green buildings are like two huge waves formed by fish playing in the water. The whole building is just like a master's freehand brushwork with splashing ink! This great master is the great monk Guangxuan. This is his magic stroke, which contains infinite Zen!

Sunrise and sunset, in the sunshine of sunrise and sunset, the Puzhao Temple bathed in the sunshine is just like the pearl inlaid in the arms of the towering Taiwu mountain, giving out the dazzling light of Buddha, illuminating the world and the world!

Address: in Keyan scenic area, 558 Keyan Avenue, Keqiao District, Shaoxing City

Longitude: 120.47775776721

Latitude: 30.0493944248

Ticket information: no ticket required. Included in the ticket of Keyan scenic spot.

Chinese PinYin : Pu Zhao Chan Si