One-day tour of Guanyin Temple in Zhongnanshan

Guanyin Temple in Zhongnanshan is located in Xi 'an, where you can feel a very strong cultural shock and visual shock, so that your body and mind can be extended to the maximum, and everyone can start a brand-new journey mode. Here, I will share with you the specific strategy guide.

Zhongnanshan is a section of the Qinling Mountains, with thousands of peaks and beautiful scenery. It is known as the "fairy capital", "the crown of caves" and "the first blessed land in the world". The main peak is located in zhouzhi county, with an altitude of 264 meters. In the couplet: "Happiness is like flowing water in the East China Sea, longevity is better than that in Nanshan"

, Nanshan refers to this mountain.

on August 23rd, 29, when I was working in Beijing, I went to Xi' an on business. After finishing my official business, I had breakfast with a few friends from Xi' an and drove off to Zhongnanshan, located in Qinling Mountains, to meet Master Guo Xuan of Guanyin Temple.

The car is speeding on the road, looking out the window at the magnificent scenery of Qinling Mountains, but I feel quite calm. About Zhongnanshan, the impression only exists in Jin Yong's profound writing, the poet's ethereal quip, and a few words from his friends. I have always wanted to have a chance to really explore and appreciate it.

along the way, there are mountains and mountains, and birds and flowers are singing. The eyes are green and the streams are crystal clear. The car went over one mountain after another, and the mountains were connected with each other with no end in sight. The mountain road was very steep, and few other vehicles were seen along the road. I was a little scared to get lost in the mountains.

"There is a Buddhist temple in the mountains, and Guanyin is surrounded by three buddhas. It's quiet and quiet, and you can also see people in the world of mortals." Guanyin Temple in Zhongnanshan is located 3 kilometers into the mountain at Fengyukou, close to the mountain and beside the water.

The location of Guanyin Temple has been inhabited by practitioners in the past dynasties. Han Xiangzi, one of the famous "Eight Immortals" in history, once practiced immortals here, adding a sense of culture to the temple.

The Zen Temple is composed of the main buildings such as Tianwang Temple, Bell and Drum Tower, Daxiong Hall, Dizang Hall, Gongde Hall, Guanyin Pavilion, Caishen Temple, Songzi Hall, Mountain Temple, Release Pool, Zen Room, Circulation Office, Gallery, Vegetarian Hall, Ganlu Pool, Jingxinyuan, etc. The whole building is magnificent and magnificent, giving people a sense of cultural beauty.

The Buddhist temple integrates pilgrimage, culture and education, tourism, health meditation, summer vacation and vegetarian tea ceremony.

The Buddhist temple is surrounded by peaks like eight petals of lotus flowers. The Buddhist temple is located on the central lotus platform. Looking around, there are many strange peaks and beautiful stones, green mountains and green waters, which makes people feel relaxed and relaxed.

On Guanyin Mountain behind the Buddhist Temple, there is a 16-meter-high three-sided Guanyin statue of white marble, which looks holy and solemn, and looks down on all sentient beings with kind eyes, which makes people worship! It has become the symbol of Buddhism in Zhongnanshan. The ten thousand Guanyin statues enshrined in Guanyin Pavilion are rare in China because of their different expressions, holiness and solemnity.

At about 9: a.m., I arrived at the Buddhist temple and met the long-admired Master Guo Xuan.

Master Guo Xuan, the dharma name is blessed. Han nationality, born in 1951, has a college education and is originally from Yichun County, Jiangxi Province. He is a director of Chinese Buddhist Association, vice president of Shaanxi Buddhist Association, president of Xianyang Buddhist Association, and member of the Standing Committee of the Fifth CPPCC in Xianyang.

The master once attended the school according to Shaanxi Shangjing Xiatian Master, Shangdao Xiaqing Master, Shanghui Xialian Master, Shangzheng Xianeng Master, Sichuan Shangbian Xiapei Master, Jilin Shangshu Xiapei Master, Shangjue Xiawu Master, Hong Kong Shangjue Xiaguang Master, Shangyong Xiaxing Master and Guangdong Shangzong Xiade Master.

Master Guo Xuan is a legendary monk with a low profile and high profile.

Since becoming a monk, Master Guo Xuan has paid attention to personal practice, regardless of fame and fortune, lived a simple life, paid equal attention to agriculture and Zen, purged temple affairs in an orderly way, and took the lead in everything.

based on the bodhisattva feeling of "unable to bear the decline of the holy religion and the sufferings of all beings", the master developed bodhicitta, practiced the "human Buddhist thought" actively, explored and promoted Buddhist culture, made contributions to the construction of a harmonious society, and was deeply loved by the four disciples.

under the leadership of the abbot, Master Guo Xuan, Guanyin Temple carries forward the fine Buddhist tradition of loving the country and teaching, paying equal attention to agriculture and Zen, and actively carries forward the Buddhist culture of Zhongnanshan with the temple as the carrier.

The Buddhist monastery has established the tenet of "promoting Buddhism through culture, cultivating talents through education, repaying the society through charity, and purifying people's hearts through * * * practice", holding various * * * practice meetings all the year round, and persisting in normal religious life such as morning and evening recitation, using fasting in class, reciting precepts at Shuowang, and attending school in winter and summer.

Zhao Puchu, the former president of the Buddhist Association, once hoped that people in the Buddhist community would show great love and "build a paradise on earth first." Master Guo Xuan remembered and actively practiced this sentence. She and her disciples founded an orphan school called "Ci 'ai" next to Mituo Temple in Ganxian County, which provided an environment for nearly 4 children who lost their parents to learn and grow up healthily.

She has helped countless lonely old people. After busy Buddhist activities, she has treated more than 2, people. Over the past few years, she has raised dozens of tons of poverty alleviation clothes for poverty-stricken areas and disaster areas and sent more than one million yuan in poverty alleviation funds.

She led her disciples to change the tradition that monks in temples depended on state funds and almsgiving income to make a living. They went out of the temple gate, filled ditches and cultivated fields, grew grain and vegetables, developed orchards and supported themselves.

In the master's study, we tasted snacks, dried fruits and corn made by the temple, talked about life with Master Guo Xuan, enlightened ourselves, consciously felt him, and listened to the philosophy and wisdom of life.

When chatting until noon, go to the mountain with the master to check the construction situation of the Buddhist temple project, enjoy the beautiful scenery in the south, Guanyin Buddhist temple and cultivate sentiment while wandering around the mountains, so as to cultivate one's feelings and cultivate one's health among the flowers and trees in the elegant Buddhist temple.

Master Guo Xuan personally cooked six dishes, cooked noodles and homemade pickles for us, put a small table in the courtyard and experienced Buddhist vegetarian food, which was quite envied by tourists and pilgrims around.

The food here is all green food cultivated by the disciples in the temple and refined by the natural mountain spring in Zhongnanshan.

Master Guo Xuan is profound and elegant, and his speech is extraordinary and humorous. The master shows meditation and his understanding of life everywhere in his speech, which makes us feel the true meaning of life and the understanding and perception of life by Buddhism in a relaxed and happy atmosphere.

Master Guo Xuan told us to read and write quietly, instead of paying attention to personal right and wrong. She told me in particular that "yes" is the tongue that runs around on her feet; No, it is a rootless leek, so there is no point in listening to rootless words, let alone disturbing your mind.

Master Guo Xuan also told us that to master the present is to master life. She said that life is a one-way ticket, and there is no turning back, so we should cherish every day. She wants us to love our parents, our motherland, our society and everything around us.

When we were reluctant to say goodbye to Master Guo Xuan when he went down the mountain, I couldn't help staring back. I couldn't help remembering the Zen words of the master, and my heart didn't feel relaxed.