"Ancient trees have no path, deep mountains where the clock", Huzhou's Buddhist famous brakes through the smoke and rain of time, standing in the dust, hidden in the countryside. They are not only the carriers of The inheritance of Buddhist culture in Huzhou, but also the spiritual sustenance of many believers. Thousands of years of ups and downs, in the morning bell and twilight drum, there are too many diluted stories...
▎Tosho-ji Temple
▼Located in Changzhao Mountain, Qingshan Township, Wuxing District. During the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1130), it was founded by the famous monk Fan Long, and was originally named Wuzhu Lanruo. In the twelfth year of Shaoxing (1142), Emperor Gaozong of Song gave the imperial letter "Silence and Constant Illumination, And Constant Silence". After Emperor Xiaozong of Song succeeded to the throne, he gave silver to expand into a permanent temple, and awarded a number of imperial ink treasures. In the fourth year of Jiatai (1204), Emperor Ningzong of Song ordered it to be renamed Zen Temple. The famous Southern Song Dynasty literary scholar Lu You specially wrote the "Record of Huzhou Changzhaoyuan" to record the history of the grace of the three pilgrimages.
▼ It was abandoned at the end of the Qing Dynasty and rebuilt in 1996. On the vertical axis of the temple, there are the Hall of the Heavenly King, the Hall of the Great Treasure, the Hall of Guanyin, and the four guest halls and monks' houses on both sides. Often follow the mountain to repair the bamboo fence. The forest at the top of the mountain is verdant and lush. The name "West Rock" on the right side of the ridge is the place where The Brahma Retreat is for meditation. There are two springs, the water is clear, and it does not dry up all year round.
▎ Riji Temple
▼ Shengshe in Wuxing District. It was founded in the Southern Dynasty Song And Yuanjia period (424-453), initially named Huiming Temple, ming Xuande sixth year (1431) changed its name to Liji Zen Temple, still in use, is one of the famous temples of Zen Buddhism in Jiangnan. In the eleventh year of Qing Xianfeng (1861), it was destroyed by soldiers, rebuilt from the seventh year of Tongzhi to the sixteenth year of Guangxu (1868-1890), and Empress Dowager Cixi personally wrote the "Tibetan Scripture Cabinet" plaque. Rebuilt in 1997, it has built the Hall of the Heavenly King, the Bell Tower, the Drum Tower, the Daxiong Treasure Hall, the Monk's House, etc., covering an area of 3 hectares, the scale of the temple is magnificent, the red wall green tiles, the small bridge flowing water, the green trees, and the Bujin Temple across the water, the bells and drums smell.
▎ Bukin Temple
▼Located in Shengshe Village, Zhili Town, Wuxing District. It was founded in the seventh year of the Five Dynasties Xiande (960), named Guanyin Temple, and the temple site is in Yangxi Qiao. In the second year of the Northern Song Dynasty (1065), the Ebujin Temple was given. The Bujin Temple of the Song Dynasty is grand in scale, with thousands of temple buildings and incense sticks. The Qing Xianfeng Decade (1860) was destroyed by war, and has since been restored. In 1995, Bujin Temple was relocated to Shengshe Village, and buildings such as the Hall of the Heavenly King, the Hall of DaxiongBao, the Monk's House, the Buddhist Hall, the Drum Tower, and the Bell Tower were built, covering an area of 3.4 hectares. Inside the temple is the largest iron cast reclining Buddha in the country, which is 18.45 meters long, 3.9 meters high and weighs 22.5 tons.
▎ Lingfeng Temple
▼ Located in Lingfeng Village, Anji County, Lingfeng Mountain Daxiong Peak is a famous thousand-year-old temple. The temple was founded in the first year of Liang Kaiping (907) after five generations, initially named Lingfeng Temple, renamed Baifuyuan in the Song Dynasty, and renamed Lingfeng Lecture Temple during the Qianlong Dynasty, commonly known as Lingfeng Temple. In its heyday, there were five halls, six halls, the second floor, three rooms, fourteen towers, and more than 500 monks. After the Qing Dynasty, the temple was destroyed a lot, and only monuments such as the "Ming Dao Ren Zhi Xu Monument" and some monks' houses remained. Since 1993, it has been restored one after another.
▼ At present, Lingfeng Temple is about 37,000 square meters wide, sitting north to south, built according to the mountain, showing a central axis upwards, for the mountain gate, the Hall of the Heavenly King, the Hall of daxiong Treasure, the Three Holy Temples; the west side is the Guanyin Hall, the Thousand Buddhas Pagoda, the Nianfo Hall, etc. The red walls and yellow tiles, the cornices and the corners are surrounded by peaks, and the ancient trees are tilted in the sky, which is majestic.
Lingfeng Temple has been full of senior monks in the past, among which the late Ming Dynasty Master Huiyi is the most famous. Hui Yi (蕅益), courtesy name Zhixu (智旭), was one of the "Four Great Monks of the Ming Dynasty" and was revered as the ninth ancestor of the Pure Land Sect. Julingfeng Temple for decades, authored the "Lingfeng Sect" and other Buddhist classics, and later died here.
▎Shousheng Temple
▼Located in Shuikou, Changxing County. It was built during the Tang Dynasty (627-649) and has a history of more than 1300 years. Rebuilt in 1997, there are Daxiong Treasure Hall, Three Holy Temples, etc., And the Van Yu is towering and the cornices are curved. There is Guzhu Mountain nearby, and the clear spring flows. There are ancient ginkgo biloba on the side of the temple, more than 20 meters high, and 8 ginkgo trees of different ages sprout around its roots, so people call it "five generations in the same hall", which is a spectacle.
▎ Qingyun Temple
▼Located at the top of Qiaopan Mountain in Nanyuan Village, Daixi Town, Wuxing District. Originally built in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, it was destroyed due to war, and some carved stone components are still scattered around the ancient road and temples on the mountain. It was gradually rebuilt in 1983 and completed in 1999. Around Qingyun Temple, there are bamboo hedges, gushing springs and flowing water, and there are stone ancient roads winding through the forest, and the scenery is quiet.
▎Kyaw Hai Temple
▼ Located in the north of Siqian Bridge, Xinshi Town, Deqing County. It was founded in the 10th year of Tang Yuanhe (815), initially named Xingshan Temple, and renamed Juehai Temple in the second year of Song Zhiping (1065). Song Huangtingjian has a poem "Title Juehai Temple": "The furnace smoke is lush and the water is heavy, the wood is around the Zen bed and the bamboo is around the stream; a section of autumn cicadas think of high willows, and the sunset is originally in the west of the bamboo shadow." "The current temple was rebuilt by Zhong Dingwen and monk Weifu in the twenty-fourth year of the Qing Dynasty (1898). There are still three mountain gates, single eaves to the top of the mountain; three rooms of the Vajra Hall, three rooms of the Heavy Eaves Toss; five rooms of the Guanyin Hall, and the top of the hard mountain. Inside the temple, there is a lingquan pond, and a single-hole stone arch bridge is set up on the pool.
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