Sutra giving Pavilion

Sutra giving Pavilion

The Sutra giving Pavilion is located on the top of a hill behind the Huanglong Temple at the foot of Mount Lu's Yuping peak. In the 15th year of the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty, in order to commemorate the empress dowager, mingshenzong ordered the Ministry of work to print 41 additional Tibetan scriptures and 637 old Tibetan scriptures, which were issued to Huanglong Temple. Shichikong, the abbot of the temple, built a pavilion because of this. In the Pavilion, there is a stone tablet engraved with mingshenzong's "protecting the collection" and "the Virgin Mary's seal of Buddhist scriptures".

geographical position

Huangshan Huanglong Temple is located at the foot of Yuping peak. It is located in Lushan Mountain, facing Tianwang peak in the front, Yuping peak in the back, sutra giving Pavilion in the West and Daxi River in the lower. The temple is "surrounded by mountains and surrounded by pines and fir trees". It is built with bamboo trees to block out the sun. The scenery is strange and quiet. It is "a wonderful resort". Huangshan Huanglong Temple was built in the Wanli period (1573-1620) by Shi chikong, a monk of Ming Dynasty. The Sutra giving Pavilion is located on the top of a hill behind Huanglong Temple.

Source of Sutra giving Pavilion

In 1587, Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty ordered the Ministry of industry to print 41 additional letters to the Tibetan scriptures in memory of his mother, Empress Dowager Su of the Ming Dynasty. Issued to Huanglong Temple.

In the following year, the abbot Shi Chekong built a sutra giving Pavilion in the back half of the temple to commemorate the grand ceremony of the imperial court. Shichekong specially built a sutra pavilion to worship the Sutra. A picture of Shi Che Kong worshiping empress dowager CI Sheng in the left niche of the Sutra Pavilion shows that "worshipping the Empress Dowager at dawn and dusk is not a reward for worshiping the Buddha.". This image is a woodcut, "as big as Zhuo Muqi, dark and swarthy, deep and slightly white", with a huge seal on the right.

Sutra giving Pavilion

The pavilion is a square with a side width of 3.8 meters and a height of 6 meters. It has a stone structure on the top of the mountain. The pavilion has a stone tablet in the middle. It is engraved with the Ming Shenzong's "protecting the collection of imperial edicts" and "the Virgin Mary's seal of Buddhist scriptures". The selection of the whole building is simple and the atmosphere is solemn

Abbot of the temple

In 1996, master Guoyan became the abbot of Huanglong Temple. He was born in 1965 and became a monk in Jiuhua Mountain in 1986. He was the grandson of the late elder Ren De. He is now the president of Lushan Buddhist Association.

Address: Lushan District, Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province

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