Langduo Township, dege County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province

Langduo Township

Langduo township is a township level administrative unit under the jurisdiction of dege County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, the people's Republic of China.

history

Dingqing Temple belongs to the original Benbo religion reform and belongs to the Ming religion. It is located in zhako Township, dege county. It was founded in 587 a.d. by the great Lama danbaqinrao. It has a history of 1416 years ago and is the center of Benbo religion temple in Kangqu district. It is also the highest school and the ancestral temple of Benbo religion in Kangqu district. In 1983, it was approved by the people's Government of Ganzi Prefecture as the first batch of open temples. There are 10 temples in Benbo County, with nearly 600 monks, including 5 living Buddhas and 7 zoujue. Among the 10 temples, Dingqing temple has the longest history. Riban temple in yueba Township, jizharezhe temple in zhongzake Township and cuotong temple in langduo township have a history of more than 1000 years. In terms of the temple scale and the number of monks, Dingqing temple is the largest, which is known as the ancestral temple of Benbo religion in Kangkang district; manjin temple in wentuo township is second only to Dingqing temple in terms of temple scale, monks and sect reputation.

Religion

As an ancient and primitive religion in Tibetan areas, Benbo religion existed in dege area as early as Sui and Tang Dynasties. In the 7th century, Benbo religion was still the only religion in dege area; at the end of the 7th century and the beginning of the 8th century, there were Dingqing temple, Rongge temple, zhongsa temple and other Benbo temples in the county. The first nine generations of the dege family, who fled to Kangbei in the early 8th century, were all believers of Benbo. They passed on Bon religion in Dengke and dege. After the 11th century, the Ningma sect (the old sect) of Tibetan Buddhism was introduced into dege, Kadang, Gaju and Sakya sect, and they were also introduced into dege and rapidly expanded their influence, which greatly weakened the strength of the Benbo sect. At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, Qinghai Mongolian Heshuote tribe and dege chieftain formed a military alliance to eliminate the armed forces of ganzibaili chieftain, who respected Bon only. In this war, the Bon power in dege area was also devastated. In order to survive and develop, the remaining temples of Benbo surrendered to the rapidly expanding dege chieftain and came under the jurisdiction of dege Fawang. Since then, the successive dege chieftains have pursued a more flexible religious policy of coercion regardless of denomination. Benbo temple in the county also absorbed and integrated with various Tibetan sects in its survival and development, gradually evolved into a faction of Tibetan Buddhism, and has always maintained its sectarian power, which is second only to Ningma, Sakya, Kaju and slightly stronger than Gelug.

present situation

Dingqing temple is located in an open area surrounded by three mountains in zhongzake Township, dege county. The building complex includes main hall, reception hall, safekeeping room, etc. The temple covers an area of 13300 square meters, with an actual construction area of 1966 square meters. Among them, the main hall is 751 square meters, the reception hall and safekeeping room are 1125 square meters, the kitchen is 90 square meters, the Tibetan Opera dam is 822 square meters, and ZhaKong is 10512 square meters. It is the 36th generation of reincarnated Living Buddhas. It is the first batch of reincarnated Living Buddhas approved by the state people's government. Due to the conflict with the Gelug Sect during the period of "the struggle between Buddha and benzene", the building scale of the temple was destroyed, and the building scale was not as grand as before.