Where is Santai Zunsheng Temple?

Santai Zunsheng Temple is a national key cultural relic protection unit.

Zunsheng Temple is located in Zhengshengba, Zhengsheng Township, Santai County, on the east bank of Fujiang River. Zhengshengba has developed transportation. You can go north to Mianyang and south to Santai via the Mianyang-Taiwan Highway. The Mian (Yang) Sui (Ning) Expressway passes through Bashang, which will create unprecedented opportunities for the development and utilization of Zunsheng Temple's cultural relics and tourism resources.

It is said that Zunsheng Temple was built in the Southern Song Dynasty by the descendants of the Yangshan School of Zen Buddhism. The Main Hall was rebuilt in the 13th year of Yongle (1415) in the Ming Dynasty. In the 28th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1689), the abbot of the Linji sect, Seng Ruiyan, built an additional Buddhist scripture building. In the fifth year of Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1740), the Jialan Hall was rebuilt. In the 18th year of the Republic of China (1929), the warlord Tian Songyao raised funds for the construction of "Tongbao Road" and forcibly expropriated "more than 60 acres" of fertile land from the "temple industry" of Zunsheng Temple, leaving only "78 acres of ridge soil surrounding the temple". "The temple has", Zunsheng Temple has never recovered since then.

The "Santai County Chronicles of the Republic of China" stated that Ruiyan, the monk of Zunsheng Temple, was an outstanding monk in Santai Buddhism in the early Qing Dynasty who "took carrying on the past and forging ahead as his own responsibility." From this, we can know the important status and importance of Zunsheng Temple at that time. Influence. In October 1999, the Mianyang People's Government announced Zunsheng Temple as a cultural relic protection unit.

Protected area: 17 meters from Guansheng Temple to the east, 6 meters from the Sutra Pavilion to the ditch, 10 meters from the main hall to the south, and 10 meters from the main hall to the north.

Construction control zone: The protection scope extends 20 meters, extending to the playground of Zhengsheng Township Nursing Home in the east, to the self-cultivated land of Zunsheng Temple in the west, to the ditch outside the nursing home in the south, and to the six groups of cultivated land in Qingpi Village in the north.

The existing ancient buildings of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Zunsheng Temple occupy an area of ??3605m2, with a construction area of ??934.255m2. From south to north, the main buildings are Jialan Hall, Daxiong Hall, and Sutra Library.

Jialan Hall is commonly known as Guansheng Temple among the people. The wooden structure has a single eaves hanging from the top of the mountain. It has 8 columns and 7 bays in width and 4 pillars and 3 bays in depth. The inscriptions on the bottom of the gold purlin such as "Rebuilt in the mid-winter of the fifth year of Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty" and the inscriptions such as "Yangshan Patriarch Dharma Sect" are clearly identifiable. "Yangshan" is in the south of Yichun County, Jiangxi. Huiji, an eminent monk from the Tang Dynasty, founded a Buddhist temple here. Later generations established it as the Yangshan Sect. The Yangshan Sect is a branch of the Nanyue Zen Buddhism, and is descended from the same lineage of the Sixth Patriarchs Huineng, Huairang, Mazu and Baizhang as the Linji Sect. The first 20 characters of the 40-character "Yangshan Clan" written on the golden purlin of Jialan Palace are slightly different from the 20 characters of "Pseudo-Yang Clan" recorded in the "Buddhist Handbook", but the last 20 characters are not recorded. The information stored therein is extremely precious. Facing south in the Ming Dynasty, there is a painted statue of Emperor Guan Sheng sitting reading the Spring and Autumn Classic at night with a candle burning. Guan Ping on the right is holding a seal, and Zhou Cang on the left is standing with a sword. Between the left and right ends, there are sculptures of Guan Gong's mount, a black horse and a red horse. In the northeast and northwest corners between the left heart tip and the left heart tip, there is a seated statue of Yaowang to the east and a seated statue of Wenchang to the other. Since Guan Gong was listed as a god, many Buddhist temples have used Guan Gong as the main deity of the front hall, and its name has also been changed from Tianwang Hall to Jialan Hall.

Daxiongjeon is a wooden structure with a single eaves on the top of the mountain. It has 4 columns and 3 rooms in width, 4 columns and 3 rooms in depth, and a kissing beast on the main spine. Center-mounted crown. The roof is covered with gray tube tiles, with soft and beautiful curves. The wings are high and ready to fly. The ridges of the two mountains are decorated with glazed animal heads. The cornices are decorated with dragon patterns, lotus pattern tiles and dripping water. There are 32 brackets under the eaves. Liang Fang mostly painted. The inscription on the bottom cover of the purlin is "rebuilt on the seventh day of Yichou and Shuo in the 13th year of Yongle's reign in the Ming Dynasty." In the bright room of Daxiong Hall, there is a painted three-body seated Buddha statue of Sakyamuni in the southwest. The three bodies are Dharmakaya, Sambhogakaya, and Yingshen. The Dharmakaya Buddha is called Vairocana Buddha and is in the middle. The Sambhogakaya Buddha is called Lushana Buddha and is on the left. The Yingshen Buddha is called Sakyamuni Buddha and is on the right. On the east and west sides of the main hall, there are colorful statues of Eighteen Arhats. On the back side of the main hall, facing north, there is a statue of Wei Tuo. The Main Hall is the earliest existing ancient wooden building in the county and one of the best-preserved early Ming Dynasty buildings in the province. It is an example of the transition from Song and Yuan architecture to Ming and Qing architecture, and is of great research value.

The Buddhist scripture building has a wooden structure with double eaves on the top of the mountain. It has a width of 5 columns, a depth of 4 columns, a corridor width of 3m, and a construction area of ??275.97m2. There are a large number of inscriptions written in ink on the bottom skin of purlins and beams in the open space and between the tips. The stored historical materials have many research values. The inscription on the bottom of the golden purlin at the foot of the front slope in the Ming Dynasty reads: "On October 7th, the 208th year of Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty, a Buddhist scripture building was built. The thirty-seventh generation of the Linji Zongzong was passed down by Nanyue. , Enlightenment, Faith, Disciple Sun Deyun, Ling, Benefit, ancient sincerity to help Yuanyuan extend Mingxin." The inscription on the golden purlin on the front slope reads: "The governor-general Hedao, the right-hand minister of military affairs and the right-deputy censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, plus the first-level Shi Zangjing, the great meritorious master and the family members of the Yamen, etc." The inscription on the bottom of the spine purlin reads: "Long live the current emperor! Long live the prince! The prince and prince are blessed and live forever! The civil and military ministers of the entire dynasty, and the ministers of the country, are always responsible for protecting the throne, protecting the Buddha, protecting the emperor, and protecting the monks." The inscription on the golden purlin on the back slope reads: "Acting for Tongchuan Mengzhou Zhengtang, Li Mu, Tian and Xu taught Confucianism, Jiang acted as the governor, and General Xue Qian, inscribed on the golden purlin under the back slope of Xining, Shaanxi, as: "Guarding Shaanxi Xining, Lintong and other places." The place is in charge of the general military officers of Han, Tubo and Hui, and the left governor adds a third-level Li Taotie."

The Sutra Pavilion is a palace that houses the Buddhist Tripitaka. The Tripitaka is composed of the Tripitaka of Sutras, Vinaya, and Commentaries. It is a collection of theories used by Sakyamuni and his descendants to guide their disciples in their practice. The Chinese Tripitaka was first engraved in Chengdu during the Kaibao period of the Northern Song Dynasty. The Tripitaka collected in Zunsheng Temple was "given by King Tongchuan on the first day of the seventh month of Wuchen, the twenty-seventh year of Emperor Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty". The bright room on the second floor of the Tibetan Sutra Building is where the Tibetan Sutra is stored. More than a thousand volumes of scriptures are stored in six cabinets.

In the 1950s, most of the scriptures were transferred to the Sichuan Provincial Library for collection, and a small number of scriptures were handed over to the county cultural management office for safekeeping. The Sutra Collection Building is a historical testimony of the Xinming, the sage king of Santai Township, who paid attention to the cultural construction of his hometown in the Qing Dynasty. The pavilion is located on a river beach with a high groundwater level. The stability of the column foundation and the load-bearing and moisture-proof requirements of the columns are relatively high. Therefore, the column foundation is tall and the column diameter is thickened, which is rare among ancient wooden buildings in the province. After more than 300 years of construction, the Sutra Building has not tilted or sunk in its beams and columns, and has always maintained its majestic appearance when it was first built.