Dashan Temple

Dashan Temple

Dashan temple is located in the North Branch Street of Nanyue ancient town. Built in the northern and Southern Dynasties, the temple was the site of Chan Master Chen Huisi's singing. Reconstruction in the early Tang Dynasty, song and Yuan Dynasties, the situation is unknown. It was destroyed by fire in 1644. In the early Qing Dynasty, the temple site and vegetable land became civilian property. In the winter of 1895, mo'an, Danyun monk, Wang Zhetang and Rao Shaofu donated money to redeem them. In 1897, they were rebuilt and expanded.

Introduction to Dashan Temple

After reconstruction, there are more than 40 large and small houses, such as Shanmen, Tianwang hall, piandian, Daxiong hall, sutra Pavilion, Abbot's room, Squatter room, warehouse, Zhaitang, etc., with a construction area of more than 3000 square meters. Donate and buy Incense fields and rent 108 Dan. It is one of the Buddhist shrines in Nanyue in Qing Dynasty.

In the temple, there was a big bronze bell and a collection of scriptures. In the 26th year of Guangxu reign of the Qing Dynasty (1900), a jade Buddha was excavated in caidi, and all of them were lost. There is still a long stone water tank in the reign of song Baoqing (1225-1227) with the word "Guchun" engraved on it. It is 2.9 meters long, 0.6 meters wide and 0.66 meters high.

After the founding of the people's Republic of China, the temple was occupied by Nanyue government as office space and cadre dormitory. Monks moved to other temples, and Buddhist statues and tools were transferred to Huayan Temple. During the cultural revolution, Buddhist statues and tools disappeared. In the 1980s, it was a library and martial arts school, which made a jungle look completely different. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the temple was returned to Nanyue Buddhist Association for management. After many discussions and studies, the leaders of Nanyue Buddhist Association decided to completely repair the temple, and determined that the vice president, master Ciqi, was in charge of the temple. After three years of maintenance and two years of expansion, the temple now has Tianwang hall, dizang Hall (partial Hall), Weituo hall, Daxiong hall, Zen hall and Zhaitang There are more than 100 houses in total, such as, guest hall, Squatter room, Abbot's room, sutra collection building, Xiangji kitchen, boiler room, toilet, jungle house, etc., with a construction area of more than 4000 square meters. The jungle system has been restored, and Dashan temple is one of the five largest jungles in Nanyue. Now, Dashan temple has surpassed the scale of the heyday in history and become one of the most important temples in Nanyue.

History of Dashan Temple

Introduction Nanyue, known as "the most beautiful of the five mountains", is a famous ancient mountain with a history of more than two years. She is powerful and broad, beautiful and lofty. From a distance, the mountains are covered with clouds; from a close view, the trees are growing, and everything is beautiful. At the foot of Jixian peak, the 72nd peak of Nanyue, there is a thousand year old temple. It was founded by master Huisi, a famous monk of our country, who came to Nanyue from Dasu mountain in Henan province more than 1400 years ago during the southern and Northern Dynasties, and was presided over by his disciple, Zen master Dashan. According to the inscriptions on Yilin of the central Dashan temple in the Qing Dynasty, it is said that if you Temple acted as a teacher abroad, you would not be replaced by the current wind. “

Although Nanyue has a long history, 1400 years ago, the mountain was still wild, with wild animals and few people. Due to the arrival and popularization of master Huisi, he gradually became a Buddhist resort. Therefore, he is known as the founder of Nanyue Buddhism. Today, there are still anecdotes that Huisi raised a piece of cassock from Yueshen. It is said that monk Huisi came to zhurong peak to play chess with Yueshen on that day and asked to give a piece of cassock for residence. Yueshen did not expect Huisi to raise the cassock and turn it into a floating cloud, covering the whole mountain of Nanyue. God Yue was very surprised and said, "if you take all the mountains in front of me, I can't get down. How can I settle down?" Huisi then picked up the stone mound, which was playing chess. He saw the stone mound rolling down the mountain. He didn't stop until it was flat. The monk immediately got up and congratulated him: "under the CHIDI peak, the foundation of victory. Eighty thousand worships, the holy virtue is equal to heaven. " So the God of Yue had the great temple of Nanyue, which is still prosperous and has been burning incense all the time. Huisi (513-577), commonly known as Li, was born in Xiangcheng, Henan Province. After he became a monk, he lived in a small quiet nunnery and recited the Dharma Sutra every day. Later, from Xi Ding, the Huiwen venerable of the Northern Qi Dynasty, he was proved to be samadhi of France and China, and was well-known. As a result, he was envied by different sects. He had no choice but to lead his disciples to travel from Songshan to Guangzhou in the first year of Tianbao (551). Due to the blockage of the road before the war, he stopped in Dasu mountain for a while. In the first year of emperor Chen's Guangda (567), he finally led more than 40 disciples to Nanyue "The source of Tao is not far away, and the sea of nature is not far away. But if you ask yourself, don't look for it from others. If you can't find it, you can't get it." So that scholars understand their own heart, and earnestly admonish the disciples, diligent repair boat chanting Buddha Samadhi. Master Huisi's life works include forty two character gate, samadhi gate, Dharma Sutra, Dharma Sutra, sutra, sanzhiguanmen, Mahayana Dharma gate, vows, etc. According to the biography of eminent monks of the Song Dynasty, Samantha Xuanguang and Yue cangming of the Republic of Silla, who sought the Zen Buddhism of the middle land, participated in rites and meditated on their ancestors in Nanyue, and was granted the Dharma and the samadhi of the Dharma and the Chinese. After Huisi died, it is said that Tuosheng went to Japan and became the prince of Shengde. The Japanese real man Yuankai recorded in the biography of the great monk of Tang Dynasty: "after hearing that the emperor Sizu was returned, Tuosheng became the prince of Japan, prospered Buddhism and helped all living beings." Nowadays, Japanese monks often come to Nanyue to observe the "Sansheng Zuta".

The abbot of Dashan has many disciples, among which the wise and Dashan are the most outstanding. The wise man Honghua Tiantai Mountain in Zhejiang province became the founder of Tiantai Sect, the earliest sect of Buddhism in China. Dashan lives in Nanyue. He adheres to the teachings of master Si, practices samadhi frequently, recites Dharma sutras daily, and practices the repentance of the sages. He sympathized with all living beings, influenced the hunters, and rescued the deer trapped on the mountain because of his involvement in compassion Samadhi. Later, Emperor Chen Xuan respected him as the national teacher. His deeds are recorded in the second volume of biography of fahua and biography of samadhi teachers of fahua. There are 2.9-meter-long, 0.6-meter-wide, 0.66-meter-high stone water tanks and tomb inscriptions in the first year of Daguan (1107) in the temple. You can see the prosperity of Dashan temple in the past.

Zhongxing in late Qing Dynasty

Although Dashan temple has a glorious history, it has been abandoned repeatedly in the vicissitudes of history. The Yuan Dynasty was in decline. In 1664, it was destroyed by war. In the Qing Dynasty, the temples were gradually destroyed and became residential and vegetable land. It was not until the 21st year of Guangxu (1895) in the late Qing Dynasty that the old Dashan temple was revitalized. Master mo'an, a famous member of Tiantai Sect in China, redeemed the site of the temple together with his good friend, elder Danyun. After two years of reconstruction and expansion, he purchased incense fields and rented 108 Dan (Dan), making Dashan temple still one of the five great jungles, along with Shangfeng temple, Fuyan temple, Nantai temple and Zhusheng temple. Mo'an, a native of Hengyang, was born in 1838 in Daoguang of the Qing Dynasty. In 1857, he went to Nanyue to become a monk. In the following year, he received a gift from Cuiting of Fuyan temple and lived in Jigongyan in the middle of the mountain. In the first year of tongzhi (1862), he went back to Fuyan temple in Nanyue to read. In 1876, he moved to Zhusheng temple and preached Buddhist scriptures. His disciple, master Daojie, was a leading figure in the Buddhist circle in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. He was as famous as jichan monk, the first president of the Chinese Buddhist Association. In his later years, master mo'an began to recite the name of Amitabha 60000 times a day from 1896 to 1902. In the winter of this year, in the seventh year of the last Buddhist Chanting, he drank water and died peacefully on the 13th of December.

Danyun, born in Qingquan, Hengyang, in 1844, was born to Xie's family. In 1860, he visited Luohan temple in Hengyang, where he saw solemn Buddha statues and noble monks. So he had the idea of becoming a monk, but his family did not allow him. In 1863, he got a haircut and received it under the seat of Miaoshan monk of Zhusheng temple in Nanyue. He was very close to master mo'an, so he lived in Jigongyan on the mountain and practiced Buddhism. All his life, he took Zhongxing ancient road field as his duty. He would assist Hengzhi Zen master in Zhongxing Qishan Renrui temple, restore Zhusheng temple's back mountain Hall (it is said that it was Chengyuan's patriarch mitotai) and Zhongxing Hengshan Qingliang temple. He presented it with a plaque titled "chunman Bodhi" by Peng Yulin, then Minister of the Ministry of war. The Nantai temple and the qianzu pagoda of qianzu Daochang have been submerged for hundreds of years. He and his disciple miaojian cut through the thorns and thorns. After five years of hard work, they were finally revived and highly praised by the Japanese Buddhist community. Therefore, there was a grand event of "giving sutras by Mei Xiao". Monk Danyun returned to the pure land. He carried forward the pure land when he restored the temple. He redeemed baiyun temple in his old age and ordered it to be a Buddhist hall. He said that the end of the corporate more slack, only to read the Dharma, relying on the power of Buddha, easy to achieve.

Inherit the pure land

The Zen style of Nanyue is famous all over the world. The lotus sect of Nanyue has a long history. According to Volume 26 of the book, Nanyue bangzhouchengyuan is the third ancestor of the Pure Land Sect. Cheng Yuan's disciple FA Zhao started in the middle of April of summer in the first year of Dali (766). In Nanyue, he wrote the "five meeting Buddha chanting method" according to wuliangshou Sutra. Later, he transformed the capital and spread the five meeting Buddha chanting method, which demonstrated and magnified his great merits and virtues. In the Tang Dynasty, Zong Li Yu was the national teacher, and later generations respected him as the fourth ancestor of China's Pure Land Sect. Since its resurgence in the late Qing Dynasty, Dashan temple, under the guidance of mo'an and tanyun, inherited the Buddhist samadhi of Dashan Zen master and the Buddhist dharma of the third and fourth ancestors of lianzong, lived in many pure land of Minxin, and took chanting Buddhism as a daily lesson all the year round. As mentioned above, in the 1920s and 1940s, there was a master who was willing to cultivate. He was from Xiangtan, Hunan Province. He took chanting Buddha as his constant lesson. He lived in the old taao under Tianzhu peak all the year round and dug the earth

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