Hongshan Temple

Hongshan Temple

Hongshan temple, built in the second year of Baoli in Tang Dynasty, is located on the Bank of Laodao River in the north of Changsha City, adjacent to Hunan Radio and Television Center, Yuehu Park, Changsha University and shanyingtan resort.

Hongshan temple is 4km away from Kaifu District government and 8km away from Changsha City. The temple, originally known as Lufeng temple, was built in the Ming Dynasty. It was rebuilt during the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty. After many vicissitudes, it was revived and abandoned several times, and later renamed Hongshan temple.

Temple History

Qifeng temple in the upper courtyard was built in the second year of Baoli (826 A.D.), and Wanshou temple in the lower courtyard was built in the Northern Song Dynasty (1094-1097 A.D.).

Hongshan temple is one of the birthplaces of caodong sect, which is one of the five sects developed by Huineng family of Southern Zen sect, including Linji, Fuyang, caodong, Yunmen and fayan.

In particular, during the period of the 15th generation disciple of Dharma patriarch, Chan Master Bao en (1058-1111 A.D.), the abbot of the Shifang Buddhist temple in Dahongshan, "he wrote three volumes of quotations, collected three volumes of Cao Dong sect, and handed down one volume of Bodhi Heart Ring to the world", which enriched the profound treasure house of Buddhist culture. These classics have a great influence on overseas Buddhist circles.

In September 1984 and September 2000, Japanese Buddhist scholars and experts from Kuzawa University visited Dahongshan in Suizhou twice, and brought precious historical materials about the ancient Hongshan temple. It can be seen that Buddhism in Dahongshan is also well-known overseas.

Related allusions

At present, in Japan, Cao Dongzong respects the Japanese monk Daoyuan as Taizu. Daoyuan (1163-1228 A.D.) came to China from Japan in the 16th year of Jiading (1223 A.D.) of the Southern Song Dynasty, and was ordained in tiantongshan. After returning to Japan, Yongping Temple (today's Fukuda prefecture) and Zongzhi Temple (today's Yokohama City, Japan) were built as the ancestral court of ricao Dongzong. The two temples of Yongping and Zongzhi are the tsotung zongben mountain of Japanese Buddhism.

On May 29, the first year of Dahe (827 A.D.), before Shanxin sat down, he still remembered that he had promised the Dragon God that he would sacrifice his own body instead of his own animal, and resolutely cut off his own double as a sacrifice to the Dragon God. Strangely enough, after cutting off both feet, the white liquid flowed in torrents and stopped again soon. Two feet remain at the gate of the town, and the color of the meat remains unchanged for a long time. The moving story of "Buddha's foot", which is the treasure of zhensi, plays the title of "master benevolence" given by Emperor Li Ang, Emperor Wenzong of Tang Dynasty. The Imperial Academy is "Youji". After praying for rain, the emperor added up the temple number and named it "LINGJI". And 12 statues in the hall were knighted as kings, princes and Marquises.

Famous everywhere

Since then, Hongshan temple has become famous all over the world, and the temple incense has gradually flourished. The worshippers in neighboring counties and counties have continued to offer incense, and the emperors of various dynasties have given more gifts.

In the year of Tianfu (939 AD), Emperor Shi Jingtang of Gaozu granted the name "Qifeng Temple".

In the first year of Shaosheng in the Northern Song Dynasty (1094 AD), Zhao Xu, the emperor of zhe Zong, ordered the monk Baoen of Shaolin Temple in Songshan, Henan Province, the 15th generation disciple of patriarch Dharma, to be the abbot of the ten square Buddhist temple in Dahongshan. According to the inscription of Baoen Zen master TA, the emperor announced that "Dahong mountain temple in Suizhou is a Buddhist temple. People say that Dahong foundation is very big and has been abandoned for a long time, and it can not rise without moral persuasion.". Therefore, in the Northern Song Dynasty, Hongshan Buddhist temple had a considerable scale.

During the period when master Bao en presided over the ten square Buddhist temple of Dahong mountain, he flattened the top of the mountain (the present Baozhu peak), restored and expanded the abandoned hall, making the "jingshe Temple of Dahong mountain" spectacular. Zhang Shangying, an emissary, wrote about it.

At the same time, in order to take care of the older monks on the mountain, he built a temple in the south of the mountain by the lake (where the temple is now restored), and named it "Chongning Baoshou temple on the ten sides of Dahong mountain in Suizhou.". After the Yuan Dynasty, it was renamed "Wanshou Temple" or "Wanshou Temple".

Heyday

In the fifth year of Zhenghe in the Northern Song Dynasty, it was expanded, with more than 500 monks, which was the heyday of the monastery. During the orthodox years of the Ming Dynasty, additional temples and pavilions were built, and soon they were burned. At the beginning of Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty, the temple of heavenly king and the Abbot's room were rebuilt. In the fourth year of Daoguang reign of the Qing Dynasty (1825 AD), several abbots asked Zhou Mu to buy farmland, and Wanshou Temple revived.

The LINGJI Temple of Shangyuan at the top of the mountain, after the death of Zen master Baoen, succeeded his abbot, Furong Daokai (1043-1118), who was also the 15th generation disciple of Bodhisattva. When Daokai presided over Hongshan Zen temple, it was the time when Cao Dongzong was born.

Later, because of the war, the upper and lower houses were destroyed, and the monks fled. Until the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty (1131-1162). The courtyard was restored, and more than 700 monks returned. LINGJI temple was revived again.

During the Duanping period of the Southern Song Dynasty (1234-1236), the Jin soldiers invaded Suizhou and became the main battlefield. Meng Gong, the governor of Jinghu, and Zhang Shun, the governor of Dutong, moved some monks and feet of Hongshan temple to Dongshan of Wuchang to protect the "Buddha foot", monks and scriptures, and changed Dongshan temple into Hongshan Temple (now Baotong Temple of Hongshan in Wuchang). Yidongshan is called Xiaohongshan. In memory of the birthplace of the temple.

Folklore

When Kublai Khan, the emperor of Yuan Dynasty, was stationed in Wuchang during his southern expedition, he specially invited "Buddha feet" to accompany the army, so as to encourage the soldiers of the three armed forces to learn the spirit of "sacrifice oneself and selflessness" of master CI Ren and fight for the elimination of the Southern Song Dynasty and the establishment of the Great Yuan Dynasty. After he became emperor, he once dreamt that master CI Ren asked to send his feet back to his hometown. Kublai Khan sent the imperial envoy to escort the Buddha feet back to Hongshan temple in Wuchang. On the way south, he heard the soldiers say that the Buddha feet were heavier and heavier. When they arrived at Zhangdi fort in Xuchang, Henan Province, the Buddha feet were extremely heavy and could not move. The imperial envoy sent someone to report to the emperor Shizu of the Yuan Dynasty. The emperor ordered the temple to be built on the spot and changed the local name to Hongshan. This pair of Buddha feet were taken away by the monks in the temple in the chaos of war. Because of their age, there is no textual research on their whereabouts.

Kublai Khan ordered Hongshan temple in Wuchang to build a "LINGJI" tower in the back mountain of the temple in memory of monk Tzu Jen. (LINGJI is the temple name given by Emperor Wenzong of Tang Dynasty).

In the first year of Tianshun in Ming Dynasty (1457), the upper court on the top of the mountain was in a state of disrepair. One hundred and forty-six years later, in 1613, Sichuan monks Guangxiang and Guangji went from Mount Wutai to Dahongshan to revitalize Dahongshan temple. After 21 years of hard work, it was not until February 1634, the seventh year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty that the temple was completed. There were Dafo hall, zushi hall, bell and Drum Tower, Dharma Jialan hall, left and right Abbot's room, and Lingfeng temple is flourishing again Rong. Emperor Zhu of emperor Sizong of the Ming Dynasty bestowed a plaque with the title of "Chu Tian Wang Cha".

In the early Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty (1796-1798), the upper courtyard on the top of the mountain was rebuilt, and the incense of Lingfeng Temple flourished.

After 1931, many monasteries in Dahongshan district were seriously damaged due to the continuous domestic wars, and the upper Temple of Hongshan temple was also hard to escape. During the Anti Japanese war in 1942, the temple was destroyed again, and the monks wandered. Up to now, there is a couplet inscribed by Chen Weizhou of huguangping horse road in Qing Dynasty on the top of the mountain, which is called "unparalleled courtyard in the east of Han Dynasty, the first peak in the north of Chu Dynasty". At the old site of the lower courtyard of Hongshan Buddhist Temple (Wanshou Buddhist temple), there are five large stone tablets of song, yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. Monks once built two pagodas on the East and west sides of the temple, one ancient pagoda in the East pagoda, and several Temple pagodas with exquisite shapes.

Buddhist status

In ancient times, Hongshan Buddhist temple was famous in China and abroad. It was not only a famous temple, but also an endless stream of great virtue monks. Both the founder of Hongshan Buddhist temple, master CI Ren, and the Buddhist monk repaying kindness, were outstanding in the Buddhist circle at that time.

Xuanzang, a great virtue monk in the Tang Dynasty, was the first monk to go to the West for Buddhist scriptures in China, and the second monk to go to the West for Buddhist Scriptures was monk Shanhong of Hongshan temple. In the spring of the fifth year of Xianping (1002 AD), Zhenzong of the Northern Song Dynasty started from Hongshan temple and went to Tianzhu (today's India) to collect Buddhist scriptures, Buddhist teeth and relics. From Yongning Village in Qinzhou (today's Tianshui City, Gansu Province) to go abroad, after going through 39 countries and entering the neighboring country, we got 5 Buddha teeth, 50 Buddha relic and Buddhist scriptures. It took 13 years to return to the capital (now Kaifeng, Henan Province) in April of 1015, the eighth year of Dazhong Xiangfu. Zhao Heng, Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty, went to the temple to greet him personally and gave him silver silk in purple. Shanhong does not love the comfortable living environment in the capital. He bid farewell to the emperor and returns to Hongshan temple. After returning to Dahong mountain, Shanhong died of illness and was buried in Dahong mountain with Buddha's tooth and relic. The exact location of the burial remains to be verified. Hongshan temple has experienced several ups and downs in history, and the last ancient building was destroyed in the late Qing Dynasty.

Opening to the outside world

In 1995, Suizhou municipal government approved the restoration and opening of Hongshan temple. After ten years of hard work, the Hongshan temple was finally completed on September 9, 2005. It was officially opened. The ancient temple of the Millennium reappeared. Today, the restored Hongshan temple has nearly 100 houses, such as mountain gate, 20 Dharma guard corridor, Tianwang hall, Daxiong hall, Guanyin hall, zushi hall, guest hall, Cangjin Pavilion, monk's room, circulation place and so on. Hongshan temple is like a shining pearl in the green waves of Dahongshan Scenic Area.

Hongshan Temple rebuilt in Dahong

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