Xuanzang Temple

Xuanzang Temple

Xuanzang temple, located in Jiuhuashan Park, Beijing East Road, Xuanwu District, Nanjing, is adjacent to Xuanwu Lake in the north, Taipingmen in the East and Taicheng in the West.

Jiuhua Mountain, also known as Fuzhou mountain, has a long and narrow shape with parallel top. According to the records of the world, it is three miles around, thirty feet high, Qingxi River in the East and Zhenwu Lake in the north. It looks like a fallen boat, so it is called Jiuhua Mountain. Later, because there was a small Jiuhua temple at the foot of the south mountain, it was also called the small Jiuhua Mountain. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, China's first royal building, Beijiao altar, was built in the south of Fuzhou mountain.

Xuanzang temple was built by Liu Yilong, Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty, during the yuan and Jia dynasties. It merged yaoyuanlei, Xichi and beijiaotan into Yueyou garden, which became the Royal Garden of the Six Dynasties.

Historical evolution

Xuanzang temple, located in Jiuhuashan Park, Beijing East Road, Xuanwu District, Nanjing, is adjacent to Xuanwu Lake in the north, Taipingmen in the East and Taicheng in the West.

In the early winter of 1942, the Japanese invaders excavated a stone letter at the Sanzang pagoda site of Dabaoen temple in Yuhuatai. The letter contains the parietal bone relic of master Xuanzang, and records the process of the Tang Dynasty monk Xuanzang's parietal bone relic coming to Nanjing for burial. Under the protest of Nanjing people, the Japanese army returned part of master Xuanzang's parietal bones to Nanjing people.

At the beginning of 1943, Wang feizheng built a brick pagoda on Jiuhua Mountain, which was dedicated to the parietal bone relic of master Xuanzang, hence the name of Sanzang pagoda. In 2003, Xuanzang temple was rebuilt in xiaojiuhua mountain by Xuanwu District government and Construction Bureau of Nanjing city. It was managed by the abbot of Qixia ancient temple.

geographical environment

Xuanzang temple is surrounded by green trees. Walking into Jiuhua Mountain and paying homage to Xuanzang temple, it is like entering the urban mountain forest with green trees, Sanskrit sound and Buddha shadow. The environment is elegant and the artistic conception is profound. Due to its profound cultural heritage and good ecological environment, Jiuhua Mountain scenic spot has been selected as one of the new 40 scenic spots in Nanjing.

Xuanzang temple, with the restoration of Ming city wall, Zhongshan scenery extends to Xuanzang temple. Ming city wall is like a jade belt, connecting Taicheng, Jiming temple, Xuanwu Lake, Jiuhua Mountain, Xuanzang temple, Zhongshan scenic spot and other places of interest along the line, forming a golden tourism line with profound cultural heritage, focusing on the Six Dynasties culture of Nanjing, Ming Dynasty culture and the culture of the Republic of China.

Abbot of the temple

The abbot of Xuanzang temple is the fax master. Fax master, Anhui Yingshang people, commonly known as Li Yijiang, legal name Zhenghong. In 1987, he became a monk in Qixia Temple and was ordained in Tianning Temple in Changzhou. After entering Nanjing University, he was the first monk to go to university after the reform and opening up of new China. Elder benhuan thought that he was a rare monk in a hundred years. He personally taught him Dharma and asked him to carry forward the good Dharma. Master Xingyun has repeatedly invited master fax to Foguang mountain for Buddhist cultural exchange.

Master fax has a high influence in the Chinese Buddhist circles. He is good at integrating Buddhist culture and modern knowledge together to explain, and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people through simple methods.

He became a lecturer for national leaders to understand the culture of Nanjing Buddhist capital, and won the recognition of Li Ruihuan, Li Lanqing, Wei Jianxing, Wu Yi, Jia Qinglin, Liu Yandong, Li Yuanchao, Luo Zhijun and other leaders.

Master fax is diligent in calligraphy and loves literary creation. His works include: Qixia Temple 1937, Sanzang tower 1942, chief editor's journey to the holy land, Buddha's regimen, Xuanzang and Xuanzang temple in Nanjing, from the heart, green window chanting poems, etc. Master fax also held some social positions: member of the two sessions of the Nanjing Municipal Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, vice president of the Nanjing Buddhist Association, member of the Standing Committee of the Nanjing Youth Federation, director of the Jiangsu Provincial Buddhist Association, member of the Lishui County Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, member of the Siyang County Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, etc.

Religious administration

In November 2005, he was hired by the ethnic and Religious Bureau of the United Front Work Department of Siyang County Party committee as the abbot of Siyang County's Tianhou palace and became the legal person in charge of Siyang County's Tianhou palace.

Address: No.1 qinglonggang, shuishe village, Yuchi Township, Nantou County

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Tel: 886-49-2850220

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