Huizong Temple

Huizong temple, located in Duolun County, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, was built in 1691. Kaerdan, the leader of Junggar tribe in moxierut, was instigated by Tsarist Russia to attack Monan. In 1690 A.D., Emperor Kangxi defeated kardan. The next year, Kangxi went to duolunnuoer to meet with the Mongolian Prince Taiji of the third Karka tribe of Mobei and the 48th banner of Monan, which was known as "duolunhuimeng" in history. Kangxi agreed to the request of "willing to build a temple to show the grand ceremony" and began to build "Huizong Temple".

Huizong temple is a wooden structure, with a height of 15 meters. It is located on a stone foundation, and the front and back of the temple are Baoxia. The hall is divided into two floors, supported by 20 beams and columns one meter thick. The North Hall has 981 rooms. The overall shape is very exquisite and beautiful. The top of the hall is made of blue glazed tile rolling Dragon Ridge. It has a ton and a half of gold value compared with gold. There is a bronze Temple top, an eight wall map and two antelopes. In the main hall courtyard, there are five floors, about a mile and a half from the north to the south, and about 100 meters from the east to the West.

It was completed on March 21, 1712 A.D. In 1714 (the first day of May, the 53rd year of Kangxi), Emperor Kangxi granted the temple the name of "Huizong Temple" and inscribed a plaque, Yushu Huizong Temple inscription and a pair of white jade steles. The construction of the temple is recorded in four languages of Manchu, Mongolian, Han and Tibetan. Huizong temple has dance hall, dashanmen, Tianwang hall, main hall of Bell and Drum Tower (upper and lower levels), East and west auxiliary hall, Guancang, jiacang, houdian, etc.

Huizong temple was the largest lama temple at that time. There are more than 1000 lamas living in the temple, and each Lama eats fifty liang of money every year. By rent silver land and each county supply. In addition, all the land around the temple within 60 Li is assigned to the Lama Temple. The main hall was burned down during the reign of emperor Tongzhi of the Qing Dynasty, and later was rebuilt with funds. The hall was the same as before. In 1945, it was burned by the Soviet army, and the rest of the temple was used as the warehouse of the County Grain Bureau.

On June 25, 2001, Huizong temple, as an ancient building of the Qing Dynasty, was approved by the State Council to be listed in the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units. The Huizong temple that we can see now is a new temple that was renovated and gradually reopened in 2005.

Huizong Temple

Huizong temple, located in the southeast of Xilinguole prairie in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is 2 kilometers north of the old city of Duolun County. Mongolian called "Huhe sumo", meaning Green Temple, because the top of the hall is covered with blue glazed tiles, so it is named. It is also known as "dongdacang" because it lives in the east of Shanyin temple.

Huizong temple, founded in 1691 (the 30th year of Kangxi), is a royal temple built by the Qing Dynasty. It was designed and built by zhebuzun Danba living Buddha. In 1732 (the 10th year of Yongzheng), the living Buddha Zhebuzundanba of Outer Mongolia moved to duolunnur for some reason and became the center of Tibetan Buddhism in the whole Mongolian region.

Huizong temple was listed as the national key cultural relics protection unit in 2001.

historical origin

Huizong temple is located in Duolun County, Southeast of Xilinguole prairie. As early as in the period of Kublai Khan, the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, it was named "duolunnur". In this geomantic treasure land with beautiful mountains, water, and green grass, the "Summer Palace" was built. All the Great Khan of the Yuan Dynasty went here for summer hunting.

Huizong temple, founded in 1691 (the 30th year of Kangxi), is a royal temple built by the Qing Dynasty. It was designed and built by zhebuzun Danba living Buddha.

In 1705, Zhang jiahutuktu was appointed as the great national teacher and awarded the reward seal. The abbot of Huizong Temple sent a Lama with excellent character and learning to live in the temple. In 1732 (the 10th year of Yongzheng), the living Buddha Zhebuzundanba of Outer Mongolia moved to duolunnur for some reason and became the center of Tibetan Buddhism in the whole Mongolian region.

built-up area

Huizong temple, located by mountains and rivers, faces south, covering an area of 266000 meters.

It was built in the Qing Dynasty

Huizong temple, also known as Jianzong temple, is a yellow religion temple of Gelug Sect of Lamaism in Inner Mongolia. It is located in Chengguan Town, Duolun County, Xilin Gol Grassland. It is commonly known as "dongdacang" locally.

In 1691, Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty met with inner and Outer Mongolian ministries, banners, princes, and Taiji near today's Duolun in duolunnur, which was called "Duolun alliance" in history. At the request of Mongolian feudal princes, he promised to "build temples to show the grand ceremony" and began to build temples. The next year, construction began.

Layout structure

Huizong temple is a wooden structure with a height of 15 meters. It is located on the basis of stones. In front of the temple is a Baoxia building. The hall is divided into upper and lower floors, supported by 20 beams of 1 meter thick, which is the number of 9981 rooms. The overall shape is quite exquisite and beautiful. The top of the hall is shaped like a rolling Dragon Ridge with blue glazed tiles. There are 1.5 tons of gold, one bronze Temple top, one eight diagrams and two antelopes, which can be compared with gold. In the courtyard of the main hall, there are five storeys, about a mile and a half long from north to south, and about 100 meters wide from east to west.

It was completed in March 1712, the 51st year of Emperor Kangxi. In 1713 A.D., the temple was given the name of "Huizong Temple". Kangxi personally inscribed a plaque, Yushu Huizong Temple inscription and a pair of white jade steles. This paper describes the origin of the temple in Mongolian, Han, Manchu and Tibetan.

Huizong temple has a dance hall, such as Buddhist dance hall, dashanmen, Tianwang hall, bell and drum tower main hall, East and west auxiliary hall, Guancang, jiacang, houdian and so on. Huizong temple, with Zhangjia Hutuktu (living Buddha of Zhangjia) as its abbot, is a temple combining politics and religion. It is in charge of religious affairs in Inner Mongolia and is used to manage the government affairs of Inner Mongolia banner.

Each banner has sent a Lama monk to the temple, which has become the largest Lamaism temple outside the temple. There are more than 1000 lamas in the temple, and each Lama is paid 50 liang of silver annually, which is provided by the rent land and each banner county.

In addition, the land and products 30 kilometers around Huizong temple are all under the jurisdiction of Huizong temple. Huizong temple is similar to Shanyin temple built 19 years later, but it covers an area of about two times larger than Shanyin temple. There are only some buildings left.

Temple composition

It is composed of Huizong Temple Square, dashanmen, Tianwang hall, eight Bodhisattvas hall, Jingang hall, Daxiong hall and its affiliated Shanyin temple, 13 living Buddha warehouses, five official warehouses and more than 120 dangzifang. It has a typical architectural style of Central Plains in Qing Dynasty, and integrates the essence of Mongolian, Manchu and Tibetan art. It has a solemn appearance and magnificent decoration, and has become one of the most important buildings in the history of Mongolian Plateau architecture A bright pearl.

Modern changes

In August 1945, a part of Huizong temple was destroyed by the war. The hundred year old Ming Temple began to decline. During the cultural revolution, it was destroyed again, and the Lamas were forced to leave the temple.

Cultural relics protection

After the founding of new China, the people's Government of Duolun County began to take rescue measures for Huizong temple in 2000. Under the condition of poor finance, it successively allocated huge funds to repair it. This work is still in progress. In 2001, it was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit.

In 2005, the first abbot of ZTE, agwang hiribudolji, went to Qinghai three times to welcome the third Buddha, Amitabha Buddha, pharmacist Buddha and other ten gilt bronze statues, and the Tibetan scriptures "ganzhur" and "danzhur" to select outstanding lamas. On June 16, 2005, the grand ceremony of reopening Huizong Temple and the sitting ceremony of Abbot Dorji were solemnly held The grand occasion is unprecedented, which makes the famous ancient temples which have been abandoned for decades regain their former glory. Today, under the personal guidance of Abbot duoerji Lama, all Lamas of Huizong Temple implement the national and religious policies of the party and the state, carry forward the fine tradition of patriotism and love of religion, abide by the law and discipline, earnestly study the classics of Mongolian, Tibetan and Chinese Buddhism and the five Ming disciplines, enthusiastically implement Mongolian and Tibetan medical services, relieve people's physical and mental suffering, and serve for maintaining national unity and social stability, In order to advocate human peace and happiness and promote the healthy development of Buddhism, we are determined to make due contributions.

The origin of the name

The name "duolunnur" originated from the period of Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty. It means "seven lakes". It is composed of donggannur, yikedahannur, bahandanur, konngerguinur, bayannanur, kebuduonur and wumukennur. On the east side of the upper capital of the Yuan Dynasty, there were abundant water and grass, rippling blue waves. The upper capital river, Heishui River, Shepi River and tuligen River converged here to form Luanhe River (the main water source of Beijing and Tianjin). As early as 1260, Kublai Khan built the East Pavilion (also known as the Summer Palace) on this geomantic treasure land. Later, the emperors of the Yuan Dynasty would visit the mountains and water and hunt in the summer when it was hot in July and August.

Related allusions

In order to consolidate the security of the northern frontier, the Qing Dynasty chose the important geographical location of duolunnur. In May of 1691 (the 30th year of Kangxi), Emperor Kangxi went to the beautiful duolunnur grassland in person, summoned the leaders of the three Outer Mongolian tribes and the princes and nobles of 49 banners in Inner Mongolia, Li zhebu Zun Danba living Buddha as the great Lama, managed the religious affairs of Outer Mongolia, discussed the unification of the country and the people After that, Outer Mongolia was officially included in the territory of the Qing Dynasty. This is the famous "duolunnur League" in the history of the Qing Dynasty, also known as "Kangxi League". During the grand banquet, at the request of the leaders of Mongolian ministries, they decided to imitate the north in this place of "plain Sichuan, clear water and spring"

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