Yuanrong Temple

Harmony without hindrance

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Yuanrong Temple generally refers to Yuanrong unimpeded Zen temple

Yuanrong Wuhang temple is located in Dangyangyu village, Xicun Township, Xiuwu County, Jiaozuo City, Henan Province. It was built in 351 A.D. in the seventh year of Yonghe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It is one of the 893 temples founded by fotucheng, the Buddhist monk of Western Jin Dynasty and later Zhao Dynasty (231-351) "Yuanrong international meditation center" and "500 Rohan cave" are under construction. They are the ancestral hall of Yuanrong sect in South Korea.

Yuanrong unhindered temple is a national AAAA tourist attraction and the residence of Jiaozuo Buddhist Association. It is the core part of Yuanrong temple cultural tourism park.

In February 2020, in order to express gratitude and respect to medical workers, all medical workers in China can visit the scenic spot free of charge with their own valid certificates (doctors with their own doctor's license and ID card, nurses with their own nurse's license and ID card, etc.) from the date of resumption of operation to December 31, 2020.

Brief introduction to temples

Yuanrong Wuhai Temple (hereinafter referred to as Yuanrong Temple) is the only Millennium ancient temple in China named after the Buddhist idea of Yuanrong; the ancestral hall of Yuanrong Zong in South Korea; and the national AAAA tourist attraction.

Yuanrong unhindered Zen temple is located in the northwest of Dangyangyu ancient porcelain kiln site in Xiuwu County, Jiaozuo City, Henan Province, which is a state-level cultural relic protection unit "porcelain capital of the Northern Song Dynasty". Lvjian mountain is the afterblood of the southern Taihang, with a unique geographical location. In the old days, the valley was quiet and deep, with luxuriant vegetation, streams flowing through, flowers everywhere, and birds competing for green. In front of the temple, there were mountains and rivers in the interior, relying on the golden back and facing the natural screen of Jiulian Mountain. Around the green dragon, white tiger, before and after the rosefinch, Xuanwu four elephant all appear, spring clear and strong, battle tin can be obtained, has shown 17 Guardian Tianlong offered sweet spring, is actually the world's blessed land, holy land of Lingshan.

Ancient and modern status

The sound of the ancient temple's morning bell and evening drum encircling the mountains adds a bit of charm to the world's blessed land. Therefore, it is called "Taihang Lingshan" by the ancients. Driven by the mountains, Yuanrong temple is also the only ancient temple in the Central Plains, which sits in the West and is surrounded by mountains in the East. The so-called "Yuanrong" means "breaking paranoia and achieving harmony"; and "unhindered" means "unhindered in mind and unhindered in action".

Yuanrong Wuhai temple is composed of nineteen halls, two pagodas, seven halls, two courtyards, one hall and seventeen springs. The "Yuanrong international meditation center" and "500 Luohan cave" are under construction.

The total construction area of Dangyangyu Porcelain Kiln Museum is 4300 square meters, including the exhibition hall project, which is used to display 52 kiln mouth precious porcelain and specimen kilns in Jiaozuo area in song and Jin Dynasties; the song kiln workshop technology exhibition hall project, which is used to show the Song Dynasty porcelain production process; the kiln Temple project, which fully reflects the cultural life of the people in Dangyangyu during the song and Jin Dynasties, in order to reproduce the porcelain craftsman's worship of the kiln The museum will also set up song porcelain Research Association and Dangyangyu kiln research center.

architectural composition

The Ming and Qing Dynasties ancient residential Museum and modern urban architecture museum project are located in the landscape belt of South to North Water Diversion, with a total area of 10000 square meters and a construction area of 4000 square meters. Modern urban architecture museum is mainly composed of modern British architecture, including Zhongyuan Li British architecture which was relocated in 1918 due to urban construction, student road British architecture which was built in 1909, and the original British architecture in the courtyard of the Municipal Housing Authority which was built in the same period.

According to the plan of the cultural relics department, the British architecture in Jiaozuo City will be concentrated here to form a modern urban architecture museum. The Museum of Ming and Qing Dynasties mainly focuses on the Ming and Qing Dynasty residential buildings in the main canal of Jiaozuo City section of the south to North Water Diversion Project. Ten Qing Dynasty buildings and two Qing Dynasty residential courtyards are under construction, including the former residence of Wang Languang, which was originally located in the West wangchu village of wangchu street in the liberated area.

Buddhist relics

At the same time, Yuanrong Temple Scenic Area Management Bureau plans to build Buddhist art exhibition hall and Han culture museum. The exhibition hall of Buddhist art is used to display Buddhist statues, ritual objects, calligraphy, painting, sculpture and other Buddhist cultural relics. Han culture museum is a historical and cultural museum with the theme of Han Xiandi shanyanggong. It mainly displays the farming culture of the late Han Dynasty with Han Xiandi as the main line, and reproduces the glory of the late Han culture.

Main attractions

Yuanrong temple has eleven courtyards, including 19 halls, two pagodas, seven halls, two courtyards, one hall and 17 springs. Visitors can see many historical relics in the temple, including the 250 cm high Shashi Lushena sitting Buddha of Sui Dynasty, the white jade Pizhi sitting Buddha of Ming Dynasty, the seven level White Jade Pagoda of Han Dynasty of Tang Dynasty, the lion tiger beast, stone tiger and stone statue of Tang Dynasty, the white jade horse, offering table, Manjusri roar of Ming Dynasty, and the water playing beast of Qing Dynasty.

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Famous monk creates a temple

Yuanrong ancient temple is one of the 893 temples founded by fotucheng (231-351), a Buddhist monk in Western Jin Dynasty and later Zhao Dynasty, who is known as "the first monk of Folk Buddhism spreading to the East".

Yuanrong temple has a history of 1660 years, 1670 years earlier than the Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang built in the 20th year of Taihe reign of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty (496 AD). It can be inferred that Yuanrong temple is the first ancient Buddhist temple in Northern Henan.

Standing in troubled times

Yuanrong temple was founded in the troubled times of the Sixteen Kingdoms of Wuhu and went through the wars in the northern and Southern Dynasties. Although it was only built for about a hundred years in the Northern Qi Dynasty, it had been devastated by the war. Later, the imperial monk Cho Guoshi of the Northern Qi Dynasty (4800-5600 A.D.) issued an imperial edict to build it.

Because Zen master Seng Chou was not only known as "the first person of Buddhism in Lingdong" at that time, but also the founder of "official Zen" in Chinese Buddhism, all the good believers from all walks of life devoted all their efforts to help the Zen master restore his former ancestral temple. Therefore, it took only more than ten years to make the ancient temple shine again. After the completion of the ancient temple, the walls are covered with golden tiles, the temples are towering, the courtyards are reset, and the number of permanent monks has reached more than 1000. At that time, it was called "the north of the river, the head of the Buddhist jungle in the Central Plains".

According to historical records, monk Cong passed away in 560 A.D. even though 560 A.D. was taken as the time mark for the rebirth of Yuanrong temple, it has been 1450 A.D. It seems that Yuanrong temple is a thousand year old temple, which is worthy of its name!

Millennium harmony

During the northern and Southern Dynasties, the power of the Dynasty changed, and the situation was changeable. Lingshan ancient temple was not immune from the disaster of war. During the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, because of the special historical position of Yuanrong temple and the public's admiration and nostalgia for monk Chou, the emperor of Tang Dynasty, who worshipped Buddhism, appropriated a large sum of money from the imperial treasury and ordered Zen master Su Bao to rebuild the ancestral court and revive Jialan. The emperor of the Tang Dynasty also specially ordered the Zen master Su Bao to set up a treasure Pavilion at the place where the Zen master started the ancient temple to learn Zen Buddhism, so as to support the Zen master and other statues to show his respect. From the remains of the White Jade Pagoda of the Tang Dynasty and the precious cultural relics of the Tang Dynasty, such as lions and tigers, stone tigers and stone statues, we can infer the prosperity and prosperity of this millennium old temple in the Tang Dynasty.

From the Tang Dynasty to the Northern Song Dynasty, the rich history of the ancient temples added a heavy stroke. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the ancient Temple (Dangyangyu) was located in a kiln that provided folk porcelain for millions of people in Kaifeng, the capital of the Song Dynasty. The kiln mouth here was prosperous for hundreds of miles. Therefore, for the religious needs of the kiln workers, the ancient temple once again reflected her harmony.

It is not only the compassion of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas that protects the people, but also the holy land of Kalan that contains the professional spirit of these craftsmen. This is the historical reason why Yuanrong temple, the ancestral court of Buddhist "official Zen", has a Dharma protection hall for gods of many folk beliefs, such as Mountain God, land God, fire god, etc. The Shuangta site in Song Dynasty and the legends about lubanjing and shengguquan also seem to confirm the coexistence of Buddhism and Taoism. It is this period of history that has left us many wonderful stories that have been praised for thousands of years. During the reconstruction of Yuanrong temple, ancient porcelain pieces of Song Dynasty and copper coins of Chongning period of Song Dynasty often appeared.

Later, because of the invasion of the Northern Song Dynasty by the Jin and Liao dynasties, the Zen Master Kong Bei, who was the head of the ancestral court at that time, was enraged by the generals of the Jin and Liao dynasties because he often sheltered refugees in the temple, which once again destroyed the millennium old temple in the war of the change of court power.

Prosperous scene

For more than a thousand years, Yuanrong temple has been full of war and has been revived and abandoned several times. During the Yongle period of Ming Dynasty, the king of Zhou Dynasty in bianzhou city made pilgrimage to the mountain. Seeing that the famous temple in the past was deserted, there were only a few bricks and tiles, and the grass was setting in the sun. With a sigh in his heart, he asked Zen master zongyou, a famous monk in Northern Henan Province at that time, to take charge of the temple and help it with ten thousand taels of money, so as to make the ancient temple shine again. When the builders were digging the mountain for earth, they unexpectedly found an ancient natural cave behind the temple. The cave is wide and flat, and can accommodate hundreds of people.

What's more amazing is that the stalactite in this cave looks like the inner abdomen of a person, with complete liver, gallbladder, heart and lung. Therefore, the king of Zhou specially ordered the jade craftsman to make a sitting statue of Bizhi Buddha with top-grade white jade for use in the cave. Since then, the people who came to Chaoshan to watch the cave have never ceased. Later, in the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Kangxi and Emperor Qianlong also visited Chaoshan cave in the name of Buddhist monk Chou.

Emperor Kangxi and Emperor Qianlong left the imperial calligraphy of "Lingshan Baoxiang" and "Lvjian LINGJI" respectively for the ancient temple. Since then, due to the unpredictable times, the heroes have been chased

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