Kangwu Temple

Kangwu Temple

Kangwu temple, known in Tibetan, is located in the pastoral area of the plateau. It is the second largest temple in Muli, more than 30 kilometers away from the county seat.

brief introduction

Kangwu temple, more than 3060 meters above sea level, is located on the hillside like an eagle landing between two mountains and streams. Surrounded by dense virgin forest, ancient trees block the sky. The high snow peak is like a Silver Pagoda, stretching its branches and leaves, and you can't see the sky when you go into the forest; on the grassland with flowers in full bloom, a trickle of clear water flows from the grass slope, overflowing from the trees, and converges into a stream, which is bright blue and twinkling like jade ribbon, dividing the grassland into gorgeous and colorful; the small lakes dotted with stars are natural; birds and animals pass through it, and the rare medicinal herbs are fragrant and simple; especially the mountains are everywhere The wild azaleas are intoxicating. One spring in 1604 ad, Yanding · Cicheng Rongbu Lama, who came to Muli from Ando to preach, came to this poetic beauty and built the second largest temple in Muli, Kangwu dewajin sorangdaji ridge. Desheng is the pure land of Buddhism. "Devajin" is the pure land of Amitabha Buddha in the paradise. It is said that it is named after the beautiful natural environment. Flocks of cattle and sheep, melodious pastoral songs, accompanied by the morning and evening drums, the ancient temple is towering, the treasure phase is solemn, the Brahma heaven, the fragrant sea, the famous mountains and the holy land bring visitors to the mythical world. It is really "the world's most famous mountain monks, the world's best Buddha".

Grandmaster

The founder of the mountain, yandingsichengrongbu Lama, is an Anduo native. He is a high disciple of qujiesangjijiacuo. He is a great good knowledge who is proficient in Sanzang and achieves Sanxue. After the third Dalai Lama sent qujiesangjijiacuo to Muli to preach, Yan dingci came to Muli from Lhasa. He continued to study with his master, and helped his master spread the Dharma to all living beings. Under the guidance of the guru, he built a temple on Kangwu mountain to attract many believers, Shaolong Buddha species, and Huiju is always bright. He respected the teacher and the way, followed the religion, devoted himself to the spirit of loving the religion, profound Buddhist knowledge, strict practice of Taoism, and devoted himself to the Bodhisattva who forgot his body. All the Dharma's eternal inheritance of respecting the master won the respect and protection of the four disciples. After the death of master sangjijiacuo, he was in charge of the two major monasteries of waerzhai and Kangwu. He was turning to Falun, paying equal attention to learning and practicing, teaching by words and deeds, gathering monks and flourishing Buddhism, which promoted Buddhism to take root and develop in Muli. In particular, the second living Buddha Lama of Muli was trained to be a Dharma general who passed down the lamp. As a result, Buddhism flourished in Muli. There were many eminent monks, Buddha's day increased, Falun's great turn, Puli people, heaven, Taoism, wind and Dharma. It had a long history, and the religious tradition spread far and wide. There were more than 500 monks in Muli.

According to the records of the history of politics and religion in Muli, when he passed away, there was a rare auspicious appearance. After he died, he sat down for three days, and the sky was full of rainbows, flowers, rain, music and music. The fire offering of the Dharma body is popular to open the bony lid. Jumping off and falling in front of the central flannelette of the disciple Lama, there is a very clear statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva in the bony cap, which shows that he is the second person of Guanyin Bodhisattva to protect all living beings.

Architecture

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A temple building has experienced a long and hard time from development to perfection. The architecture of the temple perfectly embodies the connotation of Tibetan Buddhist culture and embodies the psychological consciousness and values of the Tibetan people. It contains the deep connotation of human and nature, history and culture, religion and legend.

Kangwu temple, after the construction and expansion of the past dynasties, has gradually formed a main hall hall, with Yanding Lacan, sichaokang, Qula, monks' houses all around and King's palace of Muli chieftain. The whole temple covers an area of more than 100 mu. There are more than 300 halls and monasteries. Similar to many monasteries in Tibetan areas, the temple is built according to the situation of the mountain, the halls are stacked in layers, the pagodas are numerous, the monks' houses are lined with each other, the white walls are covered with golden roofs, and the lunfan building is painted as a sacred, solemn and mysterious natural Buddhist temple landscape.

On the first floor of the second floor of the Sutra hall, there are 80 capitals, which can hold 500 people chanting and listening to sutras at the same time.

Sculpture art

Sculpture art plays a very important role in temple architecture art. It not only enhances the artistic effect of architecture, but also provides people with valuable information of architecture art. Temple carving art is divided into architectural carving art and arts and crafts carving. Wood carving is widely used in architectural carving art.

Wood carvings are mainly reflected in various kinds of objectified buildings, such as column decorations, beams, brackets, door decorations, niche, throne, platform, Buddha statue, backlight, cornice, window lattice, corridor fence, interior decoration, etc. There are four pillars in the hall. The pillars in the hall are square pillars. Among them, there are six pillars. The stigma part is treated with wood carving, and its carving pattern is basically similar, which is divided into three parts and five sections. There are three parts: on the square column or lengbaling column head, there are Lianzhu, Lianban, shawl and hoop waist Buddha bead in the middle; five sections: one is Yuntou shawl, which is divided into three layers; two is Lianzhu, which is decorated by round beads with a diameter of about one inch carved from one inch around the concave cylinder surface; three is Lianban, which turns Lianban from the concave arc of the bead; four is paper flower circle supporting the square head; five is palm It is decorated by stepping on the cloud head or central convex niche with lanzha characters or Buddha statues and pagodas. There are also certain requirements for woodcut coloring: big red column, alternating blue or blue red shawl, golden or white beads, golden blue or green lotus petals, blue and white paper flower circles, palm tread as red face, cyan cirrus, white or gold inlay.

Liang Fang wood carving. Liang Shu is supported by the palm step and fish palm on the beam and column head. From bottom to top, it is composed of at least three layers and at most seven layers of wood carving and painting Fang. The order is as follows: lower cover plate, middle square, upper cover plate, lotus petal square, diamond pestle square, small cover plate, quzashu (honeycomb Square). This kind of architectural style of beam and column is often used in Tibetan Buddhist temples. The appendix and flat plate are large and square. The head end face is decorated with Sanskrit painting. The whole front porch is carved with exquisite patterns such as curly grass, curly flowers, cloud patterns, water patterns, and dragon and Phoenix, birds, Sanskrit incantations, etc. From the pillar to the door and window, the carving and painting form a colorful and splendid art world. Liang Fang structure uses a variety of techniques, so that the simple square wood has a good shape. The carving of several layers of Fang, even if the square wood produces artistic effect for people to watch, also plays the role of bearing the beam Fang structure. On the broad door frame, there are wood carved Duji Fang, Lianzhu Fang, Lianban Fang and quza Fang. The upper part of the lintel is also equipped with several layers of wood carving, one layer wider than the other, which makes the doors and windows of the hall gorgeous, beautiful and solemn, and sets off the characteristics of Tibetan Buddhist temples.

Main hall scripture hall

The main hall is not only an important building of a temple, but also a main activity center of the temple. Its structure design, carving technology, painting, color picture, modeling theme all have the significance of expression. The whole hall is resplendent, solemn and solemn, showing the holiness of Buddhism. It has three layers on the outside and three layers on the inside. It means that if you can really enter Buddhism and follow Buddhism, you can transcend the three realms and six cycles of life and death, mountains, rivers, earth, trees, flowers and plants. It reminds you not to forget to report the kindness of the land. The flowers and fruits show the fate, the rainbow, the changeable, the dragon and Phoenix Xibao, teaching people not to compete for fame and fortune, harmony four auspicious picture, is a symbol of unity and harmony, forbearance, mutual respect, mutual cooperation, the painting of reincarnation of life and death on the side wall outside the main hall. The significance of this picture is particularly profound, drawing a picture of all living beings in the cycle of six reincarnations. Remind all people in and out of the palace at any time. It is recorded that this picture comes from the era of Buddha Sakyamuni and is a pattern of samsara drawn by the Buddha himself. The whole picture is a round wheel, which is divided into three layers: the inner and outer. The God of death is turning the wheel of life and death, which shows impermanence. There are three representative creations in the central layer, which are the three symbols of human being's main faults (greed, anger and infatuation). The three poisons are called in Buddhist scriptures. Pigeon (symbol of greed), snake (anger), pig (chi). Buddha said: "when human beings are exhausted due to greed, angry due to anger, ignorant of right and wrong, and in trouble and despair, they will think about their own destruction, the destruction of others, and the destruction of themselves and others.". The middle layer is divided into six parts, which are six kinds of beings (humanity, heaven, Asura, animal, hungry ghost and hell). The first three are called three good ways, and the last three are called three evil ways. The way of heaven: all living beings in the way of heaven are less bitter and more happy. They are intoxicated in the happy state of Zen. They are complacent and do not seek to be enterprising and detached. The upper world is colorless. Heaven feels numb and insensitive. They have weak consciousness and do not have good and evil thoughts. However, this world is transient and impermanent. The white Buddha who plays the lute reminds the heaven and man that if they have all the good news, they have to leave this path and fall into reincarnation. Humanity: the pain of humanity is life, old age, disease and death. Suffering comes from self attachment, ignorance and greed. These will make life, old age and death go round and round. But Buddhism is the most important of the six ways. Because all human beings can control themselves and choose the way of happiness consciousness. In the picture, the Buddha is talking about the merits of Bodhi Heart, through which people can find the way of enlightenment and liberation. Asura said: all living beings in this world suffer from endless wars, which are caused by endless jealousy. They often fight for the fruits of Ruyi tree. The green Buddha hand, holding the sword of wisdom, declared the merits of keeping precepts and ordered Asura to stop the fierce competition. Animal Road: animals include all kinds of animals, insects and microorganisms. It is ignorant, dull, instinctive and unable to practice.

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