Articles about visiting Xinchang Buddhist Temple

Xinchang Buddhist Temple is located in the southwest of Xinchang County, Zhejiang Province, in the valley between Nanming Mountain and Shicheng Mountain. There is a large Maitreya Buddha stone statue inside the temple. Outside the temple, there are Yinhe Cave, Saw Rock, Zhuoying Pavilion, Junmao Stone, Shiqi Ping, Free Life Pond and some cliff carvings and other scenic spots. The temple was built in the Yonghe period of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (345-350). It has a history of more than 1,600 years and is one of the key temples in the country.

Overview

The Great Buddha Temple

The temple is built on the mountain, with a five-story front facade. The temple is tall and majestic, with a huge Maitreya Buddha sitting in the middle of the hall. This huge stone statue was carved into the cliff and took about 30 years to complete. It is a representative work of early grotto statues in Jiangnan. The Buddha statue is tall, majestic and majestic. It has been measured that the stone Buddha seat is 2.4 meters high, the seated figure in front is 13.2 meters high and 15.9 meters wide. The distance between the knees is 10.6 meters. The ears are 2.7 meters long. The palms of the hands are placed between the knees with the palms of the hands upward. More than 10 people. There is also a small temple called "Thousand Buddha Temple" about 300 meters northwest of the Great Buddha Temple. There are thousands of Buddhas in the courtyard, each of which is about 7 inches long and nearly 5 inches wide. They are neatly arranged and each one is elegant, which fully reflects the ancient Chinese craftsmen. His infinite wisdom and high artistic level.

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The Great Buddha Temple is located in Shicheng Mountain in Xinchang, which has "thousands of walls standing on the wall, craggy and strange rocks, and is surrounded by a city." The Great Buddha Temple has a long history of building temples and enjoys a high status in the Buddhist community. It was once one of the centers for Buddhist research and dissemination in my country. Xinchang Buddhist Temple was founded in the early Yonghe years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and has a history of more than 1,600 years. According to the "Biography of Eminent Monks", in 345 AD, the eminent monk Tan Guang came to Shicheng Mountain in order to appreciate the strange mountains and rivers in eastern Zhejiang. He was especially influenced by Zhu Daoqian and Zhi, an outstanding eminent monk at that time, who retired to eastern Zhejiang. Tan Guang lived in the stone chamber and built the "Yinyue Temple". This was the beginning of the Xinchang Buddhist Temple.

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The Great Buddha Temple is very famous as a grotto art sculpture, but its historical contribution to the research and dissemination of Buddhism has not been valued by people for a long time. Nowadays, when people re-understand the status of Xinchang and Xinchang Buddhist Temple in the religious world, we have to mention the eminent monks Zhu Daoqian and Zhidun again. Zhu and Zhi were already well-known in the Buddhist circles at that time. After they settled in the Xinchang area in eastern Zhejiang, Yu Falan, Yu Fakai, and Yu Daosui among the eighteen eminent monks of the Eastern Jin Dynasty came one after another, so they attracted more At that time, a large number of celebrities came here to discuss Buddhism together. Yu Falan also built the "Yuanhua Temple", the predecessor of the "Thousand Buddha Temple", outside the mountain gate of the Great Buddha Temple. According to historical records and discussions among scholars, when Tan Guang arrived in Xinchang Shicheng, Buddhism had been introduced to China only 150 years ago. Because many eminent monks studied and spread Buddhism here, the Xinchang Great Buddha Temple at that time became the national Buddhist research center. base, and thus the "Six Schools and Seven Sects" in the history of Chinese Buddhism appeared in eastern Zhejiang. The activities of many eminent monks and celebrities in Xinchang have pushed the research on Buddhism in China to a climax, and based on the research results obtained, they have gradually spread and penetrated into the Yangtze River Basin and the Yellow River Basin. This has naturally become the Buddhist community's guide to the Xinchang Grand Buddha Temple. The main reason for being a Buddhist holy place.

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Tourists can learn about the glorious history of the Great Buddha Temple and its position in the development of Buddhism through specialized books and oral descriptions by tour guides. The harmony between sculpture art, architecture and environment is difficult to fully express in any words or language. Only when you are immersed in the scene can you understand the mystery. The Big Buddha statue is located in a grotto in Xianji Rock in Shicheng Mountain. Outside the grotto is the magnificent Mahavira Hall. The water is flowing outside the hall and the fragrance and mist are lingering inside the hall. It is the core area of ??the Great Buddha Temple. No matter what the purpose of visiting the Golden Buddha is, no matter whether you are fully mentally prepared or not, as soon as you step through the door of the main hall, everyone will feel an invisible shock. The statue is solemn, with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, and even stares at every "common man" with a smile, but no one can avoid this feeling. The base of the Buddha statue is 2 meters high, the height is 13.74 meters, the head is 4.8 meters high, the ears are 2.8 meters long, and the nose is 1.48 meters long. The proportions of the entire statue are coordinated and people's viewing angles are fully considered. It is called "the largest Buddha in Jiangnan" by academic circles. Speaking of the origin of the Buddha, we must also explain the process of creating the statue. According to records, in the fourth year of Yongming in the Southern Qi Dynasty (486), a monk named Seng Hu came to Shicheng Mountain. According to legend, Monk Hu often saw the light of Buddha appearing on the cliff of Xianji Rock, so he vowed to carve a giant statue of Maitreya Buddha on this rock wall. However, he only became the face of the statue during his lifetime. Before his death, he still vowed to "re-create this Buddha in the next life." Later, Seng Shu continued to chisel, but without success. It was not until the sixth year of Liang Tianjian (507) that Wang Suwei of Liang Jian'an sent the most famous monk Sengyou here to continue the construction work. Under Sengyou's calculation and command, it was finally completed in the fifteenth year of Tianjian (516) and became famous all over the world. From then on, the history of the real great Buddhist temple began. Due to the legendary story of carving the Giant Buddha, people also call the Giant Buddha the "Three Lives Holy Miracle". The construction age and scale of the Giant Buddha Temple are similar to those in Yungang, Shanxi and Longmen, Henan, and are more than 200 years earlier than the Giant Buddha in Leshan, Sichuan.

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Thousand Buddha Temple

Thousand Buddha Temple is located about 300 meters northwest of the Great Buddha Temple, close to the outer gate of the Great Buddha Temple. Another stone kiln statue outside. Because the total number of Buddha statues in the grotto exceeds one thousand, it is named Thousand Buddha Temple, commonly known as Thousand Buddha Rock.

There are indeed more than a thousand Buddha statues in Thousand Buddha Rock. According to statistics, there are 1,075 Buddha statues in the stone kiln. The big ones are as long as 1 meter and the small ones are only a few inches. The predecessor of Thousand Buddhas Temple is the Yuanhua Temple founded by eminent monks in France. The temple was established in AD 345-356. It can be seen that the statues of Thousand Buddhas Rock predate the Giant Buddha. During the Southern Dynasties, there were very few stone kiln statues in the south, so Thousand Buddha Rocks located in Shicheng Mountain in Xinchang were extremely precious. Thousand Buddhas Temple was damaged during the Cultural Revolution, but most of it has been preserved. It is an ancient grotto sculpture art building with great research value.

The Life-Release Pond

The Life-Release Pond is located inside the mountain gate outside the Great Buddha Temple. The release pool of the Grand Buddha Temple is not only an inherent building in ordinary Buddhist temples, but also has a wonderful function of adding to the scenery in the Xinchang Grand Buddha Temple. Whether you are a pilgrim or a tourist, as soon as you enter the outer gate, you will be attracted by the two clear pools. The water reflects the green mountains on two sides and the green trees on all sides, giving you the feeling of a Buddhist pure land. The words "Namo Amitabha" on the rock wall south of the Free Life Pond are written by Master Hongyi, and the three characters "Free Life Pond" are written by Qian Silian. The Zhizhe Master Memorial Tower is built on the hillside between the two release pools. It was built in memory of Zhiyi, the Wise Master. Zhiyi was the founder of the Tiantai Sect, a great Chinese Buddhist sect during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. In the seventeenth year of Emperor Kaihuang's reign in the Sui Dynasty (597), at the invitation of Jin Wang Yang Guang, he went from Tiantai to Yangzhou and passed by Shicheng Temple. He passed away here on November 24 due to illness and was later buried in Tatou Temple on Tiantai Mountain. A memorial tower for the mantle was built at the place where he passed away. Because the Tiantai Sect is widely spread in Japan, the Xinchang Buddhist Temple has become a place where Japanese tourists often visit and worship.

Saw Rock

Saw Rock, commonly known as Saw Rock, is a huge boulder more than 4 meters high on the right side of the road outside the mountain gate. You can see it with a little attention. There is a crack in the middle of the rock, like a knife cutting it. According to legend, two immortals sawed it open with straw ropes to inspire the people who were digging the Buddha to persevere. Visitors can see the petrified wood next to the release pond, which is from the same place as the petrified wood displayed in the petrified wood garden in the scenic area, namely Anxi Village in Jingling Town, Xinchang. The petrified wood garden was moved here from Anxi Village in recent years by the management department of Xinchang Tourism Big Buddha Temple

for the convenience of tourists. It has scientific value for studying geological changes. The petrified wood, which was generated 150 million years ago, is high or low, thick or thin, and arranged in an orderly manner within the scenic area, adding a historical and scientific atmosphere to the Great Buddha Temple. Prajna Valley Prajna Valley was built using a quarry in a valley in Shicheng Mountain. The designer took advantage of the topography of the site to cleverly arrange a display of the history of the development of Buddhism. The flowing waterfall form is used to increase the dynamics within the Grand Buddha Temple, and the Buddhist world is used to emphasize the atmosphere of Buddhist culture in the Grand Buddha Temple. In a valley near the petrified wood garden is the Five Hundred Arhat Hall recently added to the Great Buddha Temple. Arhats are sitting or standing in a cave on the mountainside. Opposite the cave, there is a pot-bellied Arhat that looks like the entire mountaintop. It is lifelike in appearance and vivid in expression. It is also one of the places that tourists must visit. The Big Buddha Temple is already a large-scale temple, but it is scattered and scattered in a small valley in a very orderly manner. Without the rendering of the Big Buddha City at the entrance of the scenic spot, and the Big Buddha Temple next to the bustling city, people would hardly feel its presence. exist. Prosperity and tranquility, hugeness and smallness are all cleverly unified in the valley of Shicheng Mountain. History, culture and natural scenery are both harmonious. This may be the secret to maintaining the strong popularity of the Great Buddha Temple. If you have enough time to visit the Great Buddha Temple, it is recommended to take a short tour around the surrounding mountain tops of the Great Buddha Temple. It is a completely different feeling than walking between temples and immersing yourself in the Buddhist atmosphere. Not only can you see looming buildings with cornices and horns in different colors such as red, yellow, and black, the passage walls are winding, and the pool water reflects the green mountains with rich layers like a mirror, but the mountains where you are are full of ancient trees and wild flowers. . Especially in autumn, the maple leaves turn red and the wild chrysanthemums turn yellow, creating an autumn and spring scene.

The Condor Village

The three words "Condor Village" are the handwriting of Mr. Jin Yong. Walking through a section of stone road, you will reach "Niujia Village". The bronze statue of the archery hero at the entrance of the village was designed by the China Academy of Art. It weighs 3 tons and has a granite base. This statue does not refer to anyone in particular. It is a statue from the drama "Shooting". The hero Guo Jing? Is he Genghis Khan who only knows how to bend a bow and shoot at eagles? Or is it the hero beside us? ...The pavilion built with earthen walls in front is a lookout. In the late Song Dynasty, the war was in chaos and the people were in dire straits. When the Jin soldiers and officers and soldiers came to harass, the villagers boarded the pavilion and could see it from a distance and call the police. Walking on the streets of Niujia Village, there is Qu San Hotel on the left and street shops on the right. Two characters from Niujia Village, Guo Xiaotian and Yang Tiexin, often go to this hotel to drink. The owner of the hotel, Qu San, is a lame man and a disciple of Medicine Master Dongxie Huang. . Walking across the small stone bridge is a large waterwheel with a diameter of six meters. It is driven by the water flow to rotate. Inside the house is the disappeared water mill in Jiangnan, where rice cakes are processed. If you are interested, you can do it now Mix a pack of halva and other stuffing into it as filling, and slowly taste this folk delicacy - cake flower. In the open space in front there are often folk acrobatic performances such as sedan chairs, blockbusters, and cockfights. Further ahead is the home of Guo Xiaotian and Yang Tiexin. The blue-tiled house is the main house, with a connecting door in the wall. Now it is a farm restaurant, where you can enjoy a Xinchang-style farm meal. Turning around Niujia Village, the building in front of everyone is Guiyun Village Bagua Bookstore. The owner of the village is Lu Chengfeng, who was also a disciple of Huang Yaoshi. After being expelled from the master, he returned to his hometown in Taihu Lake and inherited the essence of his master's school. Guiyunzhuang was built in the direction of hexagram sixty-four. On display inside are stills from CCTV's "Shoot" filmed in Xinchang in 2001.

This was also chosen as the scene for "Dragon Movie", where scenes about the lives of Shaolin monks were filmed. After bypassing Guiyunzhuang Bagua Bookstore, we entered the territory of Medicine Master Dongxiehuang. The double-eaves pavilion with octagonal eaves in front of us is called Dongxie Bagua Hall. It is Huang Yaoshi's living room. It is built with the styling elements of the Bagua of the Book of Changes. It is ventilated from eight sides and faces the sky. It looks like a pavilion but not a pavilion, and it looks like a hall but not a hall. It reflects Huang Yaoshi's style. "evil". The Bagua Pavilion and the pagoda on the right were used as part of the Shaolin Temple in "The Eight Tribes of the Dragon", where earth-shattering fighting scenes took place. On the mountain col to the left of the pavilion is the Big Buddha Temple

Huang Rongxiu Tower and Huang Yaoshi's main house. Everyone has to pass through the Bagua array arranged by Huang Yaoshi. Now Huang Yaoshi's main house has been converted into the God of Wealth Pavilion. High in front is the Xuanyuan Terrace of the Beggar Clan, which is the sacred platform where the Beggar Clan gathers every July 15th. The lake in front of Xuanyuan Terrace is in the shape of half a Yin-Yang figure, and the half of the Yin-Yang figure on the land on the terrace forms a Yin-Yang Tai Chi pattern. There are several self-funded entertainment activities next to Xuanyuan Terrace, such as Xiao Li flying knives, bow bending and archery, etc. Walking in front of Wenjun Restaurant, you will arrive at Fenglin Inn. The pond opposite the inn happens to be the swamp required in the drama "Shoot". The plum blossom piles on the ground are full of traps, but it is the only one that leads to Yingguyuan. aisle. The main house of Yingguyuan is suspended and supported by wooden pillars. The round bamboo house is where Yinggu performs the Five Elements of Qimen. There is a Bagua-shaped stage set up in the middle, and the corridor pillars connecting the main house and the bamboo house. The shape is like the Big Dipper in the sky.

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Take buses No. 2, 6, 7, and 8 in the city to the "Big Buddha City" stop and enter the gate of the Big Buddha Temple Scenic Area Afterwards, the battery car costs 2 yuan per person