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Almost all Buddhist temples will have a main hall, that is, the Daxiong Treasure Hall, and some places are called the Dahong Treasure Hall, which is the center of a temple, dedicated to the founder of Buddhism, Shakyamuni, but a temple in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, there will be two Daxiong Treasure Halls, why is this?
This temple is the Guangyan Zen Temple in Chongzhou Street, Chengdu, this temple was built in the Jin Dynasty, formerly known as Changle Nunnery, jin Wen Emperor built Qingcheng 36 Nunnery, which is the largest one, and later in the Ming Dynasty was renamed Guangyan Zen Temple by Zhu Yuanzhang, and also specially inscribed for the temple, spending a lot of money for the temple to repair, is recognized as a royal temple, incense is very prosperous.
The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang valued this temple so much was that Zhu Yuanzhang's uncle had been ordained here, Zhu Yuanzhang said that the emperor came to ask his uncle to enjoy the customs, but he was not moved, Zhu Yuanzhang admired his spirit and gave him four big characters, pure and uncompromising, although this statement may have some wild history meaning, but no matter which dynasty, the emperor always needs a temple as a royal temple, which is beyond doubt.
The reason for this affirmation is that Zhu Yuanzhang did give the temple a copy of the Hongwu Nanzang and a copy of the Huayan Classic, both of which are stored in the Sichuan Provincial Library and are both historically recorded.
However, this temple has two Daxiong treasure halls but has nothing to do with Zhu Yuanzhang, but another emperor, the Kangxi Emperor, if you have been to the Guangyan Zen Temple friends will find that this temple is composed of two parts, one side is the Ancient Temple, the other is the Lower Ancient Temple, the original Qing Dynasty here was expanded.
At that time, the Kangxi Emperor also wanted to nominate this ancient temple, but zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty had already mentioned it here, so the Kangxi Emperor suddenly wanted to build another hall, so he could justifiably nominate it, and also called the area repaired by the Qing Dynasty as the Ancient Temple, which was higher than the Lower Ancient Temple repaired by the Ming Dynasty before.
As the only temple in the country with two great treasure halls, you may wish to take advantage of the holidays to have time to take a look.
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