Lingjiuyan Temple
Lingjiu rock is located in Jiuxian mountain, northwest of Dehua County. It was first built in 716, the fourth year of Kaiyuan in Tang Dynasty. Up to now, it has a history of 1300 years. It was founded by the eminent monk Wu Wu and his apprentice Pu Hui in the Tang Dynasty. Later, Wu Wu Wu was transformed into lingjiu mountain top, and Pu Hui died. Believers worshipped the two monks' body statues in the back hall of the temple as the founder. It is said that before the end of the reign of matchless Buddha, he went on a hunger strike at Shuotai for seven to forty-nine days. During this period, vultures often came to worship. After matchless death, the name of "lingjiuyan Temple" came from this.
brief introduction
Lingjiuyan Temple flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and once became one of the Buddhist centers in Fujian Province. According to the record of jiuxianshan Linfeng Pu compiled by Yuan Rui, the abbot of lingjiuyan in 1767, during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the 18 disciples of the virtuous monks were divided into 18 Fang sects, namely, the abbots or temples in Kaiji Dehua, Youxi, Datian, Shaxian, Anxi, Yongchun, Quanzhou and Tong'an, and there were more than 900 monks in each sect during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty Many eminent monks were distributed in 89 monasteries as abbots.
Architecture
Lingjiuyan temple is divided into two halls. The former hall was originally dedicated to 15 stone Buddhas, while the latter hall was dedicated to the founder of the mountain. In the early years, there were pine trees and bamboo trees around the temple, and the clouds and haze floated around the temple day and night. In front of the court, a square stone pool was built, and a stone bridge was built on the pool. In the pool, there were noon lotus flowers, which bloomed in the afternoon and filled the eyes in the afternoon. There was a poem chanting its scenery: "in autumn, the Pearl tree cages the clouds, and in the afternoon, the lotus reflects the sun." Li Daotai, a Jinshi of the Qing Dynasty, wrote a poem: "the earth is connected with the Tianhe River, the clouds are misty, and the stars are bright; the flowers on the immortal's head are falling, and the cool fragrance is floating and the jade is light."
There is a big "sweet spring" in front of the temple. For thousands of years, there has been a constant flow of fresh water. It is said that there was no rain for one hundred days in a year, water was cut off from the whole mountain, and pestilence was rampant at the foot of the mountain. Since then, the "sweet spring" has not dried up. In the winter of 1999, there was no rain for more than 50 consecutive days in Jiuxian mountain, and water was cut off successively in other parts of the mountain, but the "sweet spring" kept flowing.
During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Seng Yingyang dug a pool at the corner of the ancient road, leading the water in the pool to the release pool in front of lingjiu rock. Because the back of the pool faces east and West, it is called "huizhao" pool. There is a huge stone standing at the edge of the pool. It is not far from the mountain gate, so it is called "expanding general" stone. Li Chen, a Dagong, chants his view: "the wall is lifted up into the sky and half into the clouds, and the spirit rock only needs the king to protect."
There is also a huge stone called Chumi stone beside the ancient road. It is said that if a hungry person passes by the stone, the stone will flow out rice for him to eat. Later, a greedy man passed by chumishi and wanted to ask for more. He used a stick to poke the small hole of chumishi. The immortal got angry, and from then on, the stone did not produce any more rice.
For thousands of years, lingjiuyan temple has gone through many vicissitudes. During this period, many poets inscribed plaques for the temple and created many poems and couplets praising lingjiuyan. Up to now, there are plaques of "Fayun Zhenji" inscribed by Lai Xun and plaques of "lingjiuyan Temple" inscribed by Zhao Puchu, former president of Chinese Buddhist Association. The existing temple was rebuilt in the autumn of 2003 by master Shi kuanjing, the permanent advisor and vice president of the American Buddhist Association, who is known as the "living Buddha" in the United States.
The original scale of the reconstructed lingjiu rock is basically maintained, and the historical sites are preserved, and many sculptures of dragons, phoenixes, lions, flowers and birds are added. Three jade Buddhas from Myanmar and three golden bronze Buddhas from Thailand. The three Burmese jade Buddhas are carved with white marble by famous artists in wacheng, northern Myanmar. Among them, the statue of Sakyamuni is 1.93 meters high and the base is 1.30 meters wide; the statue of pharmacist is 1.80 meters high and the base is 1.15 meters wide; the statue of Amitabha is 1.80 meters high and the base is 1.30 meters wide; each one weighs about 2 tons. There are three gold and copper Buddhas in Thailand, including one gold and copper Tathagata Buddha and two gilded four sided Buddhas. The head of the golden and copper Tathagata Buddha is shining with its spiral shell. It has two earlobes and shoulders, two feet on the lotus stand, right hand as the chest and left hand flat on the legs. It has Thai style. The four faced Buddha, also known as the great Brahman king, has four faces, eight ears and eight arms. The four faces symbolize compassion, benevolence, fraternity, and justice, which Buddhism calls Brahman's four dharmas; the eight hands cling to eight magic weapons: Books represent wisdom, beads represent reincarnation, spear sticks represent supreme achievement, vases represent thirst quenching and responding to requests, spiral shells represent blessing, pressing chest fingerprints represent protection, flywheels represent disaster elimination and Demons destruction, and ruyibao represents omnipotent magic power. Near the temple is Maitreya cave, in which there is Maitreya stone Buddha, 2.7 meters high, 3 meters wide and 8.9 meters in circumference. There are also "Ganquan", "Shuotai", "huizhaochi" and other scenic spots.
Apart from the cliff carvings, the only monuments of lingjiuyan temple are the statues of the ancestors of the mountain gate and the back hall in front of the temple, as well as some carved stone pillars of the Tang Dynasty. But these are very precious relics of the Tang Dynasty, especially the mountain gates and stone pillars. They can also give people a taste of the Millennium heritage of the Tang Dynasty. Now it is very difficult to find such Tang style buildings in our province.
history
In the early Tang Dynasty, Zou matchless, a Meilie monk in Shaxian County, Fujian Province, herded cattle and planted vegetables in Jiuxian mountain. He practiced Buddhism for a long time. In the fourth year of Kaiyuan (716), the believers worshipped the statue and worshipped it as the "patriarch of Zou Gong", and built lingjiu rock with stone pillars and beams.
The walls and columns of the temple are made of stone, and 15 Buddha statues such as Sakyamuni are also carved in stone. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the pillar foundation was rebuilt, and the Shanmen stone square was newly built. The plaque of "a pure land" by Yang Wenzheng, the magistrate of Dehua, and the plaque of "the restoration of famous sites" by xiazhong, the magistrate of Yongchun, are hanging on the square. The inscriptions of Zhang ruitu, a bachelor, Ding Qirui, a eunuch minister, Zhuang Jichang, a number one scholar, Zheng Pei, the head of the Jinshi household department, and Gan Tianxun, a yisixun, are hung on both sides of the main hall. In the early Qing Dynasty, the two halls were renovated and the rock fields were added.
In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the temple once became one of the centers of Buddhist activities in the province, especially in Southern Fujian. According to the Qianlong edition of the Qing Dynasty's Jiuxian Linfeng genealogy, Daosheng, the fourth disciple of the esoteric sect of Gushan (Zen sect) in Fuzhou, came to Dehua to preside over dabaiyan during the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty (1488-1504) and taught 18 disciples. During the Wanli period, he went to jiuxianshan lingjiujiuyan and formed his own Jiuxian sect. Its monks developed to more than 900 people, divided into 18 branches, and successively went to Youxi, Datian, Yongchun, Tong'an, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Shaxian and other places to spread the Dharma. They lived or presided over 89 temples in the whole province.
Jiuxianshan lingjiuyan temple was destroyed during the cultural revolution. At the beginning of 1988, master Shi kuanjing, the former abbot of lingjiuyan and now the permanent consultant and vice president of American Buddhist Association, proposed the reconstruction, which was funded by the Chinese believers of banyan Xiude hall in Monterey Park. After two years, the main hall, Guanyin hall, Zen house, bell drum tower and waishanmen of the temple were completed. Zhao Puchu, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference and President of the Buddhist Association, personally wrote the plaque. On February 17, 1990, Quanzhou Municipal People's Government approved the opening of the temple as a place for Buddhist activities. The completion and opening ceremony of the reconstruction was held on November 3, 1990.
Cultural Relic
1. Historical Relics: zougong Buddha, stone carvings of Tang Dynasty (stone pillars, stone lions), etc;
2. Modern cultural relics: three jade Buddhas in Miandian and two golden and bronze Buddhas in Thailand (one of the four Buddhas is managed by the County Cultural Bureau, and the four Buddhas in the temple are copies); two plaques inscribed by Zhao Puchu and one inscription by Hu Ping, the former governor of Fujian Province, "nine Immortals culture, eight Buddhas add blessings".
anecdote
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the temple set up a "nine immortals society school" to recruit students from surrounding areas to further their studies in the temple and cultivate talents. For example, Lai Xun, a Jinshi in the Ming Dynasty (from Qiongxi, edited by Hanlin Academy), and Lin Mo, a Jinshi in the Qing Dynasty (from Xiyang, county magistrate), once studied in the society and became famous.
Address: Jiuxian mountain, Chijiu section, Dehua County
Longitude: 118.11279440136
Latitude: 25.709240972463
Chinese PinYin : Ling Jiu Yan Si
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