Sakya Temple

Sakya Temple

Sakya temple, located in the southeast corner of Sicheng, Sixian County, Anhui Province, is a county-level cultural relics protection unit in Sixian County, Anhui Province. The main hall is of brick and wood structure, 16 meters long and 15.5 meters wide, covering an area of 248 square meters. It was built in Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) and Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).

Sakya temple was listed as the first batch of cultural relics protection units in 1981. It has been demolished and built.

Historical origin

Most of the main buildings of Sakya temple in Sixian County, Anhui Province are distributed on the central axis. From south to north, they are Tianwang hall, Daxiong hall, and reclining Buddha Hall. In addition, there are East-West hall and some Zen rooms. Daxiong hall is built on a 0.9-high brick platform. The reclining Buddha hall and Daxiong hall echo each other, forming a feature of temple space processing. Daxiong hall is ornate in decoration and exquisite in parts production Its style is similar to the caisson of Lingyan temple in Ming Dynasty.

According to the inscriptions on the wall of Shidi, the Sutra building of Shidi, and Sihong Hezhi, which are embedded in the back wall of the main hall, the main hall of the Sakya temple was built in the Yingzong period of the Northern Song Dynasty. It was originally named Shousheng temple. Later Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang changed it into Sakya temple. It is the only temple named after Sakyamuni in China.

Layout structure

The original Hall of the Sakyamuni temple has two entries, followed by the Sutra building. There are silver and trees in the temple, Luo Hanshi, nine pine pine, Bi bar well, perfume bridge, transparent monument, saponin tree and so on. Now there is only one hall and one Gleditsia sinensis tree. Liu Mingchuan, the first governor of Taiwan, spent the night here and left his poems

one

In my dream, I was ordered by an immortal to blame me for not becoming a monk.

Two eyes still cover children's tears, this life self-knowledge fruit margin is poor.

When you visit the Zen temple, you will think about your body and the world.

What's on your mind? The river looks to the East and the waves wash away the sand.

two

If you have leisure, you are immortal.

If I have no rest in the Long March, I won't sleep all night.

After a long journey, I suddenly want to stay for a day.

I'd like to go back to seclusion after clarification, so that I can come to the abbot for Zen.

Demolition incident

Shijia Temple turned into commercial housing

Sakya temple was built in the Northern Song Dynasty, more than 900 years ago. It is one of the few temples named after Sakya in China. According to local county records, Liu Mingchuan, Taiwan's first governor, once stayed in the temple and left poems. He is a historical and cultural site that people in Sixian county are proud of. As early as 1981, he was listed as one of the first cultural relics protection units in the county.

In August 2010, it was found in the Sakya Temple of Sixian county that the ancient temple was no longer there, but replaced by the commercial housing under construction. Local people pointed to a wrapped stone tablet at the entrance of the construction site and told reporters that now the only stone tablet left is engraved with the cultural protection unit of Sakya temple, and other objects have been removed.

At the sales office next to the construction site, the sales staff said that due to its superior location, complete supporting facilities such as primary and secondary schools, squares and vegetable markets, the building under construction is selling well, with a price of 2700 yuan / square meter. It is one of the local high price buildings. At present, there is only one type of house to choose from.

Folklore

Many people in Sixian county are deeply distressed. Min Lin, a retired cultural cadre in Sixian County, who had been enthusiastic about the protection of Sakya temple, said.

As early as 2008, when he learned that the county had sold the cultural security unit for real estate development, he and some veteran cadres actively ran. Many people in the county also wrote to the relevant departments, asking them to pay for the repair of the ancient temple and keep the cultural relics and historic sites, but the local leaders ignored it and failed to prevent the ancient temple from being demolished in the end. "It's a great irony that this kind of thing happened in the so-called cultural advanced county!"

Conclusion: the world's communication is for profit, and there is no existence in my Buddha's heart;

Poor Millennium Sakya temple, now Lun is a commercial house.

How to return to heaven without skill? Only because of worldly fame and wealth;

The vast land is similar to each other.

Textual research

Located on the west side of Nanguan, Yuxian County, Hebei Province, Sakya temple was built in Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) and Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Sakya temple is located in Yuxian City South Pass, commonly known as Wofo temple. The scale of the temple is magnificent. There are heavenly king hall, middle hall, reclining Buddha Hall, etc. According to the research of the State Bureau of cultural relics, the Provincial Bureau of cultural relics and the Provincial Institute of ancient architecture, it is believed that the central hall of Sakya temple has the architectural characteristics of the Yuan Dynasty. The central hall is 3 rooms wide, and the architectural form is a single eaves with a roof. The building area is 141.05 square meters, the roof is quite flat, the eaves and four wing corners are tilted, which is more obvious from the side. The eaves of the hall is 1.5 meters, and the proportion and shape of the external eaves are handled very skillfully, which makes the middle hall more solemn and solemn, and it is a national cultural relics protection unit.

Most of the main buildings of the temple are distributed on the central axis. From south to north, they are Tianwang hall, Daxiong hall, reclining Buddha Hall, east-west hall and some Zen houses. The main hall was built on a 0.9-meter-high brick platform. The hall of reclining Buddha and the hall of Mahavira echo each other, forming a feature of temple space processing. The main hall is ornate and its components are exquisitely made. Its style is similar to that of the caisson in the back hall of Lingyan Temple of Ming Dynasty in Yuxian city.

Cultural relics protection

On June 25, 2001, the State Council announced that Sakya temple is a national key cultural relics protection unit.

tourist attraction

Zhangjiakou has a continental climate, characterized by four distinct seasons, hot and rainy seasons, large temperature difference between day and night, cold winter and cool summer. Bashang area in the north of Zhangjiakou is at the junction of Inner Mongolia grassland. Saihanba is a famous tourist attraction. August to September is the best time to enjoy grassland scenery. Bashang ski resort in winter is a natural skating place with beautiful scenery and low price, which is suitable for the public!

Sakya temple was built in the late Tang Dynasty, according to the history of about 1100 years. According to the annals of Nanping County, the scale of the temple is the first of all the major temples in Yanping. It is said that in order to welcome the Buddha Sakyamuni relic into the dynasty, several temples were built at the place where the relic passed, so that the eminent monks and believers could live and practice Buddhism. The Sakyamuni temple in Yanping is one of them.

Since its completion, the temple has enjoyed great popularity. It's a beautiful scenery on the post road to Beijing, and it's also a praying place for the common people and students nearby in the past dynasties. The majestic Mahatma hall and its ancillary buildings once appeared in the British newspaper "Tai Wu Shi Bao". During the Anti Japanese War, Liu heding Department of the national army set up a temporary command post here, and the troops in the famous Baisha battle and baihuting battle also set up a base camp here. To the Japanese aggressors, Sakya Temple embodies the indomitable spirit of the Chinese nation to resist foreign enemies.

Extant relics

Over the past 1000 years, the Sakya temple has been repaired several times. Judging from the existing relics, the stone bridge leading to the temple was built in the autumn of 1879 in the fifth year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, the stone pool and trough were built in 1772 in the Renchen year of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, and the stone basin for monks to wash their faces was built in 1578 in the sixth year of Emperor Zhu Yijun of the Ming Dynasty.

Unfortunately, the temple was damaged during the "Cultural Revolution". Recently, though local believers have raised funds to rebuild simple statues, it is not enough to raise huge funds for reconstruction only by private forces. The performance of the temple site left only the broken walls and some stone utensils, some of which may be buried in the ground, and the folk forces can not excavate them scientifically. However, we can fully appreciate the magnificent momentum of the past from the only remaining palace wall foundations, stone bridges, stone platform columns, stone water tanks, stone steles, stone basins and release pools. It is full of infinite Zen to be here. Just a mountain away from the Sakya temple, Wuliang temple, which is located near the inpatient department of skin disease prevention, has been basically restored and can be used for praying and sightseeing.

Expansion period

Sakya temple is located in the east of the south section of Donglu Lane in Quanzhou City, worshipping Sakya Buddha. The salary is handed down from lingjizong of mitoyan in Qingyuan mountain. In the Qing Dynasty, it was divided into Hui'an Sakya temple, Quanzhou Suyan temple, Jinjiang Fu'an temple and Qinglian temple. In the Republic of China, it was divided into Jinjiang DUOLIAN temple, Quanzhou TIANLIAN hall and Philippines Suyan temple. The former site of Sakya temple is a corner of Pu shougeng's study in the Yuan Dynasty. In the yuan and Ming Dynasties, it was created as a small nunnery.

During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty (1573-1620), Li tingji, a bachelor, died of his son-in-law because of his daughter-in-law's chastity. He was determined to become a monk, so he built a Buddhist temple and expanded the Buddhist hall and Zhaitang. The Sakya Temple began to take shape.

During the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (1736-1795), the master of Tonghua, the founder of midoyan, sent his disciples to carry out the work again, and set up a Taoist temple to spread the Dharma, connecting the monks at home. Therefore, its regulation is similar to that of the modern hermit forest.

Chen Qingyong, the imperial historian of the Qing Dynasty, the governor and the magistrate successively erected plaques and wrote couplets for the temple.

Sakya temple was rebuilt in 1989. The vestibule, front hall and main hall are Xieshan style buildings, the back hall, the north side of the two halls are Gongde hall and wing room, and the north side of the back hall is Fuyuan. The front of the temple is 14.3 meters wide, the back is 20 meters, the depth is 44.75 meters, and the area is about 760 square meters.

There is a sitting statue of Sakyamuni Buddha in the temple. It is 10 cm high and made of bronze in the Five Dynasties. The temple also has a collection of "ten thousand characters" Tripitaka, and a copy of "Dayun Sutra" printed in the Song Dynasty (all deposited in the Tripitaka Pavilion of Kaiyuan Temple in Quanzhou); there were four stereotyped Tripitaka in the Qing Dynasty, four in each Tripitaka, which were lost during the cultural revolution. Among the contracts for the property of Sakya temple, there are two contracts for shijimei, a descendant of Prince Ceylon of Ming Dynasty, to purchase houses, lands, fields and pools in the Yongzheng period of Qing Dynasty (1723-1735).

historical significance

Sakya temple is located in Jingu Town, Anxi County, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province

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