Shuangguitang Temple in liangping county, Sichuan

First, liangping county, Chongqing, not Sichuan. Chongqing is already a municipality directly under the central government, understand?

Shuangguitang is located in Wanzhu Mountain, southwest of Liangping County, Chongqing 13km. It is a national key Buddhist temple in the Han nationality area identified by the State Council.

Shuangguitang was built in the 18th year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty (166 1). Its founder is Poshan, a famous Buddhist monk in Qing Dynasty. The temple was named "Shuangguitang" because Master Poshan planted two osmanthus trees in the temple. The legal system of Shuangguitang is Zen, and breaking mountains is a method passed down by Miyun Zen master of Tiantong Temple in Ningbo, which is known as "authentic Lin Ji of the 36th generation".

Zen master Poshan was born in the 25th year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty (1597). I have studied hard since I was a child, and I am also smart. I know calligraphy and painting, and I am good at chess, calligraphy and painting. /kloc-became a monk at the age of 0/9, traveled to famous mountains and browsed Buddhist scriptures. In the forty-seventh year of Wanli (16 19), I lived in Potou Mountain, Huangmei County, Hubei Province, and participated in meditation for three years, which gained a lot. After that, I studied Buddhism with Miyun Zen master in Tiantong Temple all the year round.

According to folklore, the two osmanthus trees in Shuangguitang were cultivated by Chang 'e in the Moon Palace. Chang 'e watered them with pure bottles of Guanyin water, and sent Shen Yan to Tianhe to cover the soil with rich mud and trim them with the cloud scissors of the Empress Dowager. Under the careful care of Chang 'e, these two osmanthus trees are flourishing and full of vitality. On a Mid-Autumn Festival night, Chang 'e sent them to the world. These two osmanthus trees are full of fragrance and landed in Tiantong Temple in Ningbo. Master Miyun gave these two osmanthus trees to disciple Poshan and asked him to take them back to Shu to build a Buddhist temple and spread Buddhism. He said that the place where osmanthus trees take root is where you live.

Breaking the mountain and respecting the teacher's life, I trudged for months and entered the middle of Shu. One day, he settled in Wanzhu Mountain. In the middle of the night, the mountains are full of sunshine, bells and drums are ringing, and the surrounding villagers hear the sound. I saw the broken mountain monk meditating. The two osmanthus trees on his back have taken root and sprouted, and the fragrance is overflowing. Since then, the monk who broke the mountain has established a Buddhist temple in the place where Shuanggui landed, and named it "Shuanggui Hall". Sweet-scented osmanthus trees still exist today, with lush foliage and thick green clouds. Every autumn, sweet-scented osmanthus is covered with branches, and its fragrance floats in Wan Li, and people are scrambling to watch it.

Zen master Broken Mountain is proficient in poetry and calligraphy. His works "Shuangguicao" and "Broken Mountain God" have been handed down from generation to generation, and the ink left behind has also been treasured by future generations. His poems are good at humor and humor. For example, in his "self-praise poem", he wrote: "There is nothing strange about this old Sichuan and this Sichuan. I don't know what Zen is, but I'm not familiar with teaching. After thirty years of laziness, people suddenly started. Holding a short stick, fighting Buddha and fighting ancestors. " His disciples are many, all over Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and other provinces, and some of them go to Southeast Asia to preach the Dharma. Therefore, Shuangguitang also has a certain influence in Southeast Asia. After the establishment of Shuangguitang, with the support of the Qing emperor, it has been built continuously for more than 200 years. From 1653- 1926, Shuangguitang was built into seven halls, eight halls and eight courtyards after seven generations of ancestors, covering an area of 120 mu (the temple was last renovated as 1926). During the Republic of China, Shuangguitang was famous for its grand scale and solemnity.

1983, the State Council identified Shuangguitang as the national key Buddhist temple in the Han area. The whole temple covers an area of about 70,000 square meters. 1986, 27 officials and monks. The jungle system was restored in the temple, and the management Committee of Shuangguitang Temple was established, with Master Shi Miaotan as the director.

Shuangguitang Temple is east-west, and the temple is of wood and stone structure. There are seven major buildings, such as Dashanmen, Maitreya Hall, Daxiong Hall, Tang Jie, Broken Mountain Pagoda, Great Compassion Hall and Tibetan Classics Building. In recent years, it has been completely renovated, and 500 new arhat halls have been built to reproduce its majestic posture. There are more than 300 rooms and temples on both sides, which are connected by long corridors. There are 42 patios and sea views, which are exquisite and simple, surrounded by white lotus pond, back pond, garden and other landscapes, making the whole temple environment quiet, just like a fairyland on earth. Daxiong Hall is the most magnificent building in Shuanggui Hall. It is a three-story palace-style building. There are stone lion elephants on the ground floor and celebrity inscriptions on the middle floor. There are dragon and phoenix reliefs on the third floor. In the middle of the roof, there is a carved treasure top. The ridge is 16 meters high, and it goes straight into the sky. The main hall was expanded in Guangxu period and completed in five years. The 52 stone pillars supporting the exhibition are three feet long and three feet in diameter, each weighing more than 20,000 kilograms. They are all transported from hundreds of miles by manpower, which shows its difficulty.

After vicissitudes of life, Shuangguitang still preserves 237 cultural relics, including celebrity calligraphy and painting 6 1, Buddha statue 1 10, and 66 other Buddhist cultural relics, among which the most famous are bronze Buddha, bamboo Zen painting and jade Buddha, all of which are listed as national second-and third-class cultural relics. During the Cultural Revolution, local religious cadres and monks sealed the Buddha statues and cultural relics with wooden boards and pasted quotations from Chairman Mao, which cleverly protected the Buddha statues and cultural relics in the temple. At present, temples have made cultural relics cabinets to display and protect cultural relics. There are also precious cultural relics in the temple: a Tibetan scripture given by Yong Zhengdi in the Qing Dynasty, including four kinds of deaf-mutes, gongs and drums, and more than 720 stone carvings and inscriptions. In addition, there are pages 1 106 of Bayleaf Sutra written in Sanskrit in the 20th century, and more than 7,000 other Buddhist scriptures.

1990 On May 2 (the eighth day of the fourth lunar month), the opening ceremony of the Jade Buddha was held in Shuanggui Hall. This jade Buddha, carved from white jade in Myanmar, weighs 1.3 tons and is 1.6 meters high, which is exquisite and solemn. Master Shi Miaotan presided over the ceremony, and thousands of believers attended the opening ceremony of the Jade Buddha. There are also four pagodas, a gold belt and a relic in the temple, which were invited by Zhu Chan, a Buddhist monk in Wutai Mountain, and regarded as the treasure of the town temple.

Under the careful management and maintenance of monks, Shuanggui Hall is resplendent, the Buddha statue is solemn and the environment is clean and tidy. People say: outside the temple, there is a clear stream, cranes and birds are singing all the year round, and the flowers of eight laurels are fragrant, and tourists are in an endless stream.

77-year-old monk from Shuangguitang, fengjie county, Chongqing, 1930, became a monk, studied under Master Yan Xi, graduated from China Sino-Tibetan Education College, and concurrently served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Eighth CPPCC in liangping county, Chongqing, the Standing Committee of the Twelfth National People's Congress in liangping county and the Wanzhou District of CPPCC. At present, the deputy director of the Temple Management Committee is Master Shen Zhen, a native of Dianjiang, Chongqing. 1989 became a monk, 1997 graduated from China Buddhist College, and was elected as Deputy Secretary-General of Chongqing Buddhist Association in the same year. 1998 was elected as a member of liangping county CPPCC.