Life always gives people some unexpected things, these things are good, bad, beautiful, ugly, but no matter what, he has appeared in his own way, how we change, the only change is our heart, only the heart changes, can make happiness lasting, can be sad to transform, may as well be as an earthly you, to a journey of self-redemption.
Everyone has their own dreams, more want to complete their own sky color, but under the pursuit of materials, always can not forget the pursuit of the soul, our ancestors have long hidden some truths in ancient buildings, ancient ruins, ancient culture, may wish to let us open a little bit, find the context of our own culture, the spiritual home of our own soul.
Today, the ancient culture of the Central Plains spreads into The Donglin Temple in Zhengzhou, feels the ancient temple under the ancient ruins, feels the place full of historical stories, and lets the peace of the heart be expanded here.
Donglin Temple is located 18 kilometers southwest of Zhengzhou City in Donglin Village, Jiayu Town, Xingyang City. Because most of the monks in the early temple did Buddhist deeds in the cave, it was called Donglin Temple, according to the "Xingyang Land Chronicle": "Donglin Temple was built in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and Jin Dading rebuilt it in three years." It has a history of more than 1800 years.
Donglin Temple is a famous Buddhist treasure temple in China, and is one of the "three forests in heaven" (Donglin, Shaolin, and bamboo forest) left behind by Dharma's ancestors when he preached to the Eastern Soil. The construction area is more than 40 acres, and the various buildings are majestic and tall, and the scale is spectacular. In front of it are the imposing three mountain gates, followed by: the Hall of the Heavenly King, the Hall of the Middle Ancestors, the Hall of Guanyin, the Hall of the Great Treasure, the Apse Hall, the Hall of Garan, the Great Ancestral Hall, and the monks' houses, meditation halls, martial arts training grounds, and Jinglou Tallinn. There are many stele in the temple, and there are countless single-carved and even-carved stone tablets.
To the northwest of the temple, there is a bottle-shaped pagoda, called the "Uncle Pagoda", which belongs to the Indian style of the Ming Pagoda. Built in the seventeenth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, the tower is about 10 meters high and has nine floors. It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang lived in his uncle's house as a child to avoid disasters and famine, not far from the cave temple, and at the age of seven, he went to the temple to work as a monk, leaving many interesting legends here. Therefore, after Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he gave this pagoda to the emperor.
With the development of the times, some buildings will become the past, but the sense of history and spirit it has left behind has been preserved for a long time, in order to reproduce the style of Donglin Temple, it is reported that the current Abbot of Shaolin Temple, Yongxin Grand Monk, with relevant departments to raise funds to rebuild Donglin Temple, the new Fangding-shaped mountain gate and the Daxiong Treasure Hall have been completed.
With the improvement of national strength, ancient culture will usher in the spring, when we are bathed in the spring breeze of culture, spiritually inherit the wisdom of our ancestors, material pursuit of plain, elegant, life is full of beauty, I think such a time will come in the near future.
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