The peak of Phoenix Mountain in yilixu, west of the county seat of Shanxi Province, is a Buddhist Zen monastery founded by the Ming Dynasty Eastern Ming Zen master in the second year of Ming Chongzhen. Initially named because there are thousands of Buddha statues in the Daxiong Treasure Hall, it was later renamed "Xiaoxitian" to distinguish another Ming Dynasty temple in the south of the city, "Great Western Heaven". According to the Kangxi "Records of the Thousand Buddhas" written by Li Chengxiang in the twenty-four volumes of the Kangxi "Records of the Thousand Buddhas", the Xiaoxitian Project "began with his own year and handed over from Jiashen", and according to the Qing Guangxu "Shanxi Tongzhi" "Thousand Buddhas' Nunnery, built by Chongzhen Jishu Nian Shi Daoliang", the year of His Shu was 1629 (the second year of Ming Chongzhen).
According to the "Monument to the Thousand Buddhas": "The Yan monk Dao liang lived on this mountain and changed its name to Phoenix, taking its appearance as well." It is a gradual shoveling of danger,...... "To the effect that during the Ming Dynasty, the monk Dongming of wutai mountain fire temple traveled to Yuxian County, and saw that the earth mountain in the northwest of the county was shaped like a phoenix, and the trees on the mountain were dense, the environment was quiet, and it was suitable for building a temple, so there was a strong desire to build a thousand Buddha nunnery on this mountain, looking forward to the prosperity of the temple Buddha statues in the future.
After that, the Eastern Ming Zen master went around and raised funds. The Thousand Buddhas Nunnery was built between the 40th and 20th year of the Ming Dynasty. The initial construction project lasted 15 years from the second to the seventeenth year of Chongzhen. The Daxiong Treasure Hall in the upper court of the nunnery was founded in the 16th to 17th years of Chongzhen, and the hall was full of painted sculptures from the 8th to 13th years of Qing Shunzhi, which lasted about 5 years. This temple, divided into two courtyards, is known for its novel layout, exquisite and exquisite style. Most of the famous mountain temples are won by their tall and magnificent, but Xiao Xitian is unique and unique in its small and exquisite appearance.
Although the construction area of the whole temple is only more than 1,100 square meters, in an extremely limited space, there are many halls such as the Daxiong Treasure Hall, the Manjushri Hall, the Puxian Hall, the Wuliang Hall, the Heavenly King Hall, the Wei Dao Hall, the Jizo Hall, the Bell Tower, the Drum Tower, etc., which are integrated and the cave is the door, dividing the upper courtyard, the middle courtyard and the front courtyard. In fact, two-thirds of the temple halls are double-storey architectural structures, layered, tortuous, winding paths, both the pattern of the general temple, but also the fun of garden architecture. Xiao Xi Tian, also known as the Thousand Buddha Nunnery in Shanxi Province, is a Buddhist Zen monastery founded by the Ming Dynasty Eastern Ming Zen master in the second year of Ming Chongzhen. Initially named because there are thousands of Buddha statues in the Daxiong Treasure Hall, it was later renamed "Xiaoxitian" to distinguish another Ming Dynasty temple in the south of the city, "Great Western Heaven". According to the Kangxi "Records of the Thousand Buddhas" written by Li Chengxiang in the twenty-four volumes of the Kangxi "Records of the Thousand Buddhas", the Xiaoxitian Project "began with his own year and handed over from Jiashen", and according to the Qing Guangxu "Shanxi Tongzhi" "Thousand Buddhas' Nunnery, built by Chongzhen Jishu Nian Shi Daoliang", the year of His Shu was 1629 (the second year of Ming Chongzhen).
According to the "Monument to the Thousand Buddhas": "The Yan monk Dao liang lived on this mountain and changed its name to Phoenix, taking its appearance as well." It is a gradual shoveling of danger,...... "To the effect that during the Ming Dynasty, the monk Dongming of wutai mountain fire temple traveled to Yuxian County, and saw that the earth mountain in the northwest of the county was shaped like a phoenix, and the trees on the mountain were dense, the environment was quiet, and it was suitable for building a temple, so there was a strong desire to build a thousand Buddha nunnery on this mountain, looking forward to the prosperity of the temple Buddha statues in the future. After that, the Eastern Ming Zen master went around and raised funds. The Thousand Buddhas Nunnery was built between the 40th and 20th year of the Ming Dynasty. The initial construction project lasted 15 years from the second to the seventeenth year of Chongzhen. The Daxiong Treasure Hall in the upper court of the nunnery was founded in the 16th to 17th years of Chongzhen, and the hall was full of painted sculptures from the 8th to 13th years of Qing Shunzhi, which lasted about 5 years.
This temple, divided into two courtyards, is known for its novel layout, exquisite and exquisite style. Most of the famous mountain temples are won by their tall and magnificent, but Xiao Xitian is unique and unique in its small and exquisite appearance. Although the construction area of the whole temple is only more than 1,100 square meters, in an extremely limited space, there are many halls such as the Daxiong Treasure Hall, the Manjushri Hall, the Puxian Hall, the Wuliang Hall, the Heavenly King Hall, the Wei Dao Hall, the Jizo Hall, the Bell Tower, the Drum Tower, etc., which are integrated and the cave is the door, dividing the upper courtyard, the middle courtyard and the front courtyard. In fact, two-thirds of the temple halls are double-storey architectural structures, layered, tortuous, winding paths, both the pattern of the general temple, but also the fun of garden architecture. Xiaoxi Heavenly Courtyard, facing the east center is the Daxiong Treasure Hall with 5 wide single eaves on the top of the mountain, and the hanging sculpture is preserved in the Daxiong Treasure Hall. The front of the Daxiong Treasure Hall is lined with 5 interconnected shrines. The Buddhas of The Chinese Medicine Master, Midas, Shakya, Pilu, and Maitreya were handsome in appearance and peaceful in their manners, sitting on the lotus platform, their whole bodies shining with golden light.
Under the lotus platform, the eight meritorious waters in the Seven Treasures Lotus Pond ripple in the microwave, and the boats and cranes swim in between, like a fairyland. The ten disciples of the five holy Buddhas who are separated on both sides are beautifully shaped, vivid and vivid, and their expressions are subtle, and they are exquisite, like life-size. On the south wall of the temple, there are Buddhist stories such as "Four Directions and Three Saints" and "Four Heavenly Kings". On the north gable of the hall is depicted the Buddhist story of the 33rd floor of Mount Meru and the bunsen story of Shakyamuni Shakyamuni. On the girder, the eight king kongs are majestic and mighty. In the lower court, Banyun Xuan treasures a well-preserved Han Chinese Great Collection of Classics Ming Yongle North Collection, according to qing Kangxi's "Records of Kuizhou". The Chronicle of the Ancestor Temple of the Re-cultivation of the Tibetan Scripture Temple, Guanyin Hall, records that "its interpretation was issued during the Ming Dynasty, with a total of 678 letters, and was specially granted for protection." Originally hidden in the Sacred Realm Temple, commonly known as the "Great Western Heaven" (later destroyed during the Republic of China), after the founding of New China, it was stored in the Xiaoxi Tianbanyunxuan.
Ming Yongle Beizang is an inscription of the Ming Court, and in 1412 (the tenth year of Ming Yongle), Zhu Di, the ancestor of Ming Cheng, began carving in Beijing in 1412 (the tenth year of Ming Yongle), and was completed in 1440 (the fifth year of Ming Orthodoxy). Because it is different from another large Tibetan scripture engraved in Nanjing in the tenth year of Yongle, "Yongle South Tibet", it is called "Ming Yongle North Tibet". The whole collection is from the Mahayana Prajnaparamita Sutra to the Three Tibetan Dharma Numbers of the Great Ming Dynasty, with a total of 636 letters, 6361 volumes, 1621 parts, and a thousand characters compiled from "heaven" to "stone". In 1584 (the twelfth year of the Ming Dynasty), Emperor Mingshen continued to carve and continue the Tibetan Scriptures, and continued to enter the Tibetan Scriptures according to the new publications of the Imperial System of the Divine Sect, from the "Huayan Suspense Talks on the Xuanji" to the "First Xi you Great Meritorious Sutra", a total of 36 books, 41 letters, and 410 volumes of each sect's writings, and a thousand-character text was compiled from "Ju" to "History". This is carved for the wish of Empress Dowager Su of the Divine Sect's mother Cisheng Xuanwen, so it is added to the Divine Sect Mother's seal shi Buddha's Tibetan scriptures, praise, and attached to the "Yongle Nanzang" four kinds of scriptures and catalogs, counting 5 parts, 16 letters, 153 volumes, a thousand words of text letters from "heaven" to "jian". Xiao Xitian now preserves the Great Tibetan Classics slightly missing, a total of 1657 parts, 677 letters, 6770 volumes, thousand characters from "heaven" to "fish"
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