Jue Nang Temple

Jue Nang Temple

Jue Nang temple is located in the hillside of oubuqiong mountain, Razi County, Shigatse, with an altitude of 4600 meters. It was first built in the 12th century and was built under the leadership of Gongba tujie Zunzhu. There used to be more than 20000 monks in the temple. There were more than 2000 practice caves and meditation rooms on the aubuqiong mountain. A "Ten Thousand Buddhas can see and understand tower" was built. The tower is about 27 meters high. The tower is shaped like a "time wheel Mandala", with 108 doors and 108 halls. The main offering to Buddha is xiraojian, praising three Buddhas. Every year, on April 15 of the Tibetan calendar, the temple holds the activity of "time turns to God".

Brief introduction of Jue Nang Temple

Jue Nang temple is the ancestral temple of Jue Nang sect of Tibetan Buddhism. It is located on the South Bank of the Yarlung Zangbo River. It was built by gunbang Tuji zunzhui (1243-1313) in the 13th century. Jue Nang temple is located in the hillside of oubuqiong mountain, Razi County, Shigatse, with an altitude of 4600 meters. It was first built in the 12th century and was built under the leadership of Gongba tujie Zunzhu. There were more than 20000 monks in Jue Nang temple. There were more than 2000 practice caves and meditation rooms on the aubuqiong mountain, and a "Ten Thousand Buddhas can see and understand tower" was built. The tower is about 27 meters high. The tower is shaped like a "time wheel Mandala", with 108 doors and 108 halls. The main offering to Buddha is xiraojian, praising three Buddhas. Every year, on April 15 of the Tibetan calendar, the temple holds the activity of "time turns to God".

Architecture of Jue Nang Temple

Jue Nang temple has a two-story hall with 36 columns and a stone wood structure. There are four storeys of Tibetan flat roofed larang (living Buddha's room), one dewajianxinkang (blissful Temple), one LAKANG (Buddha's Hall) Dharma hall, monk's house and so on, forming a large-scale temple. There were more than 20000 monks. Unfortunately, it was destroyed in the "ten-year catastrophe" and the precious cultural relics in the temple were lost. In 1981, the party and the government allocated special funds for the restoration of the temple. After the restoration, juenong Temple resumed and inherited the juenong sect. At present, there are three statues of Tu buba xiraojenzan and his disciples in the temple. There are 18 monks living in the temple and living a normal religious life. Today, juenag temple has become an important place of worship for Buddhists in this area, Qinghai, Sichuan and other places.

The most famous one in juenag temple is the tongzhuoqinmo pagoda (also known as the "Qulang pagoda"), which is said to be built according to the style of the pagoda. The Great Buddha pagoda of tongzhuoyue Qinmo (meaning "see dry and get free") was built under the leadership of tububa xilaojianzan. Tuxibuba xiraojianzan was born in 1292 in jiayuri City, tububancang, Ali Prefecture. His father's name is yixiwangqiu, and his daughter's name is ramchuchenjian. In his childhood, he studied Ningma sect teaching method and zhongguanliju liulun with Lama dangba and other teachers, and was proficient in technology; when he was 11 years old, he received Shami commandment from Chu Minister Ning of Cambodian, and learned spelling and classical annotation; when he was 21 years old, he studied xianguan Zhenglun, Chushe Lun, zhuxinglun and more than 70 kinds of guanding commandments, and was proficient in essence and personal name“ Gengchin (meaning "omniscient"), 31 years old to Jue Nang Di, learned stretching and stretching from kezun Yundan Gyatso (1260-1327), specialized in six yoga, and gave birth to the unique practice of "Ta Kong Jian". At the age of 35, he became the abbot of juenong temple and presided over the temple for 17 years, during which the Tongzhuo Qinmo pagoda was built, which has a history of more than 600 years. The pagoda was destroyed during the "Cultural Revolution". In 1987, with the strong support of Zhu Renqin, the local people raised more than 220000 yuan to rebuild the pagoda. The tower covers an area of more than 1000 square meters. It faces east from the West and is constructed of rammed layer structure. Tongzhuoyue Qinmo pagoda has 11 floors, 27 meters high, 20 columns, 20 corners, 108 doors and 108 small Buddha halls. There is a circle of corridor and guardrail outside each floor, circling up.

From the front of tongzhuochinmo pagoda, there are five clay statues of tububa xiraojenzan and five Zunsheng pagodas made of Xiangtong copper on the first floor of laconne. There are a set of one hundred thousand sutras and many other sutras on the Sutra shelf. There are murals of Sakyamuni Buddha on the wall. On the second floor, there are clay statues of Maitreya Buddha and master lianhuasheng. There are 11 murals of Guanyin Bodhisattva and dengdeng Buddha on the wall. On the third floor, there are five statues of Avalokitesvara with four arms made of gilded copper unearthed from the ground during the construction of the tower; on the wall, there are murals of sixteen Arhats and the ninth Panchen chachinima (1883-1937). On the 11th floor, there is a temple of Shi Lun, with an area of 4 columns. On the wall, 336 statues of Shi Lun are painted. These murals are early works with obvious Indian style. The whole pagoda is big at the bottom and small at the top. It is divided layer by layer. It is magnificent and magnificent. It is integrated with the architecture of the temple. There are pagodas in the temple and there are temples in the pagoda, forming the architectural style of the perfect combination of the pagodas.

There are not many Mani stone carvings around the Tongjiu Qinmo pagoda. Some are engraved with "six character mantra" and some Buddhist classics with fluent and standard font. Some are carved with dragon, fish, sun, moon, bird head and animal head, which are strange and vivid. Some are engraved with Sakyamuni, thousand handed Avalokitesvara and Miaoyin goddess, which are vivid and powerful. Some are engraved with fearsome King Kong and six armed Yihu Auspicious heavenly daughter, ready to move, lifelike. In addition, the walls of the pagoda are inlaid with exquisite Z "rub" (small moulded clay sculpture) which has been fired, and there are gurus, gods, Bodhisattvas and Buddhas. These stone carvings and "rubbings" are rare works of art. Like murals, they are valuable materials for the study of Jue Nang culture.

Ouqiong mountain, where Jue Nang temple is located, had two kinds of practice caves in the heyday of Jue Nang school, and now there are five more. Among them, there are two practice caves of tububa sirajianzan, namely "Vajra seat" and "lotus seat"; there are the practice caves of doronatha (1575-1634), namely "Gibb hole"; there are also the practice caves of master lianhuasheng.

Changes of juenong Temple

Jue Nang temple was originally believed in Jue Nang sect. The fifth Dalai Lama changed his religion to Lu sect in the period of awan rosanggyatso and now he believes in Jue Nang sect. Every year, on April 15 of the Tibetan calendar, the temple holds religious activities of "shiluntiaoshen" festival.

Address: oubuqiongshan, Pengcuolin Township, Razi County, Shigatse City

Longitude: 88.006305217743

Latitude: 29.362220809582

Ticket information: free.

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