White Horse Temple

White Horse Temple

Baima temple is located on the top of Baima temple, five kilometers north of Jincheng city. Baimasi mountain is also known as Sima mountain. It is said that Sima Yi of the Northern Wei Dynasty once visited this mountain. Later, because the temple was built on the top of the mountain and named Baima temple, it was renamed Baima temple mountain. The main peak of the mountain is 1010 meters above sea level.

The founding date of Baima temple is unknown. Jin and Li Junmin visited Baima temple mountain and wrote a poem: "the ancient temple of a thousand years reflects the lofty hills, and the empty court is desolate with grass and trees." because of the war, there is only one Jinggong pagoda left, standing majestically, to show people its past glory.

In the winter of 1989, the Religious Bureau of the urban area invited master Long Hui, the abbot of shancai cave in Wutai Mountain, to be the president of the Buddhist Association of the urban area and the abbot of Baima temple, and rebuilt Baima temple.

background of times

In June 24 of the lunar calendar in 1993, the foundation was laid and the Sutra house was built, which took more than 14 years. We have successively completed the construction of the Sutra collection building, the Mahatma hall, the heavenly king hall, the dizang hall, the nine dragon wall hall, the Galan hall, the dabilu hall, the Manjusri hall, the chanting hall, the Zhaitang hall, the Manjusri tower, the ancestral hall, the relic tower, the upper hall, the two monasteries, and the East-West rooms.

The Sutra house was built in 1993 and the ribbon cutting ceremony was held on September 15, 1994. It covers an area of 348 square meters. Downstairs is the hall of five Buddhas. There are five jade Buddhas (five square Buddhas) and one statue of Guanyin (Miandian jade) invited by Yunnan residents from Guanyin Temple in Nankan, Myanmar. Upstairs, there are Qianlong collection, Dazheng collection, Foguang collection, Tiantai collection and Tibetan scriptures.

The construction of the main hall started in 1994 and lasted for two years. The completion ceremony was held on September 15 of the lunar calendar in 1996, covering an area of 823 square meters. Inside the hall is Wang III Buddha, behind it is Guanyin on the island, and on both sides are Manjusri, Puxian and the eighteen Arhats. The plaque of "Da Xiong Bao Dian" was inscribed by Zhao Puchu himself. In 1998, the Kaiguang Dharma meeting was held, and the great monk longhui, the great monk invited Buddha and the great monk Yuanhui opened some spiritual light for the Buddha statue.

Main buildings

Tianwang Hall

Tianwang hall is 243 square meters, with a plaque inscribed by Zhao Puchu of China Buddhist Association on the front door. Inside the hall, Maitreya Bodhisattva is on the front, Weituo Bodhisattva is on the back, and there are four heavenly kings on both sides. On both sides of Tianwang hall are bell and drum towers, each of which is 35 square meters. It was built in 1997, and the Kaiguang Dharma meeting was held on September 15, 1999. Great monk longhui, great monk gentong and great monk Cigui enlightened the Buddha statue.

Da Pilu Hall

The temple covers an area of 1134 square meters. It is the largest Hall of Baima Chan temple. There are seven hanging sculptures in the hall. The main sculptures are five square Buddha, five hundred Arhats, eighty-eight Buddhas, eighty-four great compassion mantra, arhat pillar, five story octagonal pavilion pillar, twelve yuan Jue, twenty-four heavens, the biography of Sakyamuni, fifty-three shens of shancaitongzi, Lingshan society, Lengyan society, Longhua society, Huayan society, Sanshen Buddha, Sanshi Buddha, and bliss World, glass world, Tibetan statue of thousand hand Avalokitesvara, thousand bowl Manjusri, Tantric Dharma protector Vajra, and large Tantric Vajra seat. The big one is three meters high, and the small one is just over ten thousand. It is a rare project in China. The hall was inaugurated in 2000, and monk Jidu attended the Dharma Assembly.

On both sides of Pilu hall are dizang hall and Manjusri hall, 352 square meters each. The statues of dizang Bodhisattva and min Gong Dao Ming are all made of white jade. In Manjusri hall, there are five Manjusri: smart Manjusri, lion Manjusri, wisdom Manjusri, no dirt Manjusri and Rutong Manjusri. The statues of the second Dharma King Zong Kaba, four arm Guanyin, Lvdu Buddha mother and yunyin Buddha mother are all in Tibetan style. In 2000, the Kaiguang Dharma meeting was held on September 15 of the lunar calendar, and was presided over by the great monks longhui, Jidu and Puzheng.

Manjusri tower

The foundation of Wufang Manjusri tower was laid in the winter of 2003 and completed on September 15, 2004. The pagoda is a stone structure of Tibetan style. The height of xumizuo is 2.7 meters, and the height of the pagoda is 15.6 meters. Xumizuo is the whole carving method. It is carved with Baoxiang flower, lotus flower, peony flower, etc. the upper wall of xumizuo is surrounded by balustrade, carved flowers and plants, and the pillar for lion.

In the center is a small octagonal xumizuo, which is also known as the tower base. The octagonal octagonal octagonal octagonal octagonal octagonal octagonal octagonal octagonal octagonal octagonal octagonal octagonal octagonal octagonal octagonal octagonal octagonal octagonal octagonal octagonal octagonal octagonal octagonal octagonal octagonal octagonal octa. There are five statues of Manjusri in the tower. Another high platform in the room, for an underground palace, which for 24 days as, turn the tube. The Manjusri tower is magnificent, unique and unique.

The East and west side halls of Manjusri pagoda occupy 542 square meters respectively, and the middle part of them are Jialan hall and zushi hall respectively. It is worth mentioning that the three statues of Dharma, Huiyuan and nenghaishi are worshipped in the ancestral hall of Baima temple, representing Zen, pure land and dabanruo respectively.

Sarita

On the west side of the square in front of the temple is the relic tower built by the abbot longhui for the monks after their death at the request of the four monks. The tower is also a stone structure. Construction started in the early winter of 2005 and the completion ceremony was held on September 15 of 2006. The tower in the center of xumizuo's high platform is a five story dense eaves type. The middle tower is 9.9 meters high, and the towers on both sides are 7.9 meters high. There are statues of Bodhisattva and arhat carved on the tower, and scriptures are engraved on it. The tower base is surrounded by stone lamps, stone lions and stone statues. Xumizuo's high platform is 18 meters wide and 23.6 meters deep. It is also an exquisite carving method. It is surrounded by the ancient fence pillar, and there is a stone archway outside the high platform, which is more solemn and solemn.

Other buildings

In the center of the square, there is a dragon wall, 20 meters long and 18 meters wide, with two-sided sculptures, which are of xumiju style. The top is tile ridge bucket arch style.

On the mountain to the south of the square is the only remaining ancient building "Jinggong tower" of Baima temple. It is said that in the third year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, in the third month of Jiachen, there was an official named Jing Wenkui who used his salary to repair the Baima Temple Pagoda which had been destroyed earlier, and it was more prosperous than before, so it was called "Jinggong pagoda". It is confirmed from the inscriptions of Jinggong tower that the original tower was built in Ming Dynasty.

In 1999, it was planned by the Planning Bureau of Jincheng Municipal Party committee and approved by the land bureau to allocate 138.367 mu of religious land.

Address: five kilometers north of Jincheng City, on the top of Baima Temple (in Baima Temple Forest Park)

Longitude: 112.854137

Latitude: 35.552004

Ticket information: free.

Chinese PinYin : Bai Ma Chan Si