Pu Xian Tower in Xiangshan Scenic Area

Pu Xian Tower, built in the Ming Dynasty, is a Lama-style solid brick tower with a history of more than 400 years. Tower height13.6m. Because there is a Bodhisattva statue carved on the bluestone line in the north of the tower, there are six true scriptures on the top of the statue, so it is named Pu Xian Tower. The stupa dedicated to bodhisattvas in China is the Elephant Trunk Mountain in Guilin except Emei Mountain in Sichuan! Samantabhadra is one of the four great Buddhists in China: Pu Xian means universality, and Pu Xian means Miao Shan. Pu Xian is famous for his virtue, and he is the right-hand man of Sakyamuni Buddha, specializing in "reason" and morality. He made ten vows: to do his best to promote Buddhism, hence the name "Great Pu Xian". As for Pu Xian's life experience, The Chinese Sorrow and Music Sutra says that he is the eighth son of Amitabha and Guanyin, the Buddhist hierarch, and Manjusri is his own brother. Pu Xian learned to do things, but he was careful. Therefore, it seems that Pu Xian's mount is a six-toothed white elephant, which symbolizes that he is willing to do a wide range of things and his merits are complete.

Pu Xian Tower was built at the top of Xiangshan Mountain, which vividly embodies the Buddhist saying that Pu Xian rode an elephant. The whole tower looks like Aquarius, also known as Aquarius Tower. In many Asian countries, the elephant is a symbol of good luck, while the elephant with the Aquarius symbolizes peace, beauty and happiness.

Songzi Guanyin statue

On the cliff behind Yunfeng Temple at the southern foot of Elephant Trunk Mountain, there is a "Songzi Guanyin" niche in Tang Dynasty, which has a history of 1000 years and is the only colorful cliff statue in Guilin. More precisely, it is called "the statue of the great mother". The main image is the great mother Li Di, dressed in fine clothes and wearing a crown, holding a child in her hands on her lap, sitting on the lotus table with a flame and headlights behind her. On both sides of the main statue, there is a waitress wearing a bun and a long-sleeved robe. Two children stood on the left and right outside the niche, bowing.

It is said that there was a beautiful cowherd girl in Shecheng, the king of ancient India, who could sing and dance well. When a grand gathering was held to celebrate the birth of Du Juefo, 500 people at the meeting knew that Niulang was pregnant, but forced her to dance. It caused her fetus to fall to the ground and die, and was later abandoned by her husband. Full of grief, she vowed to be reincarnated in the next life, ate all the children in the city and committed suicide. Later, she was reincarnated as the king's Shecheng, the daughter of the fork medicine god, a begging woman named "Big Mother". She married Gaja, the devil's half-son, and gave birth to 500 sons. Holiday's mother was originally an evil god, the mother of 500 demons, commonly known as "ghost mother". She never forgets to eat other people's children's vows every day, so she is also called "evil mother".

This incident alarmed Sakyamuni. In order to save the innocent children in Wang Shecheng, he decided to educate Gui Mu with compassion. Sakyamuni hurriedly advised her, but she didn't listen at all and didn't want to change from evil to good. Seeing that persuasion failed, Sakyamuni had a plan. When she went out to eat other people's children, she hid her favorite one of her 500 sons. When the ghost mother came back, she found a child missing, and she missed it very much. She cried all day. Sakyamuni took the opportunity to educate her and said, "You should take care of your heart. You have 500 children, and it is so sad to lose only one. You eat other people's children every day. Can parents stand it? "Ghost mother wakes up like a dream, repents, and never eats other people's children again. From then on, she changed from evil to good, and also protected the growth of all children in the world. She later converted to Buddhism and became a protector. People respected her ability to repent and built a memorial hall for her. As a prolific mother, China people often regard Gui Mu as the goddess of mercy to protect their children, so they often worship Gui Mu as the "goddess of farewell" or "goddess of mercy".

Master Jian Zhen and Elephant Trunk Hill

Master Jian Zhen, who gave lectures in Japan for six times, has an indissoluble bond with Elephant Trunk Mountain. The cliff on the edge of Elephant Trunk Rock is said to be a statue of the master Jian Zhen. Jian Zhen (688-763) was a legalist monk in daming temple, Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty. His common surname is Chunyu, and he was born in Jiangyin County, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province. /kloc-became a monk at the age of 0/4. At the invitation of Rong Rui and Pu Zhao, Japanese monks who came to China to study, he tried to give lectures in Japan five times and spread precepts and Buddhism. His first five trips to Japan failed because of sabotage or bad weather. At that time, he was over 60 years old, suffering from diseases and his vision was declining. But he was full of courage, so he came to Guilin from Fujian and lived in Yunfeng Temple at the foot of Elephant Trunk Mountain for more than a year. Hundreds of diplomatic envoys from Lingnan 14 States, officials from various states and examiners below the prefect level gathered in Guilin, all of whom were taught by the then master Jian Zhen. A year later, monk Jian Zhen boarded a boat at Elephant Trunk Hill and went to Japan for the sixth time, which finally succeeded. The appearance of true monks in this yearbook in Guilin has become a major event in the history of Buddhism in Guilin.

In the history of Buddhism and Sino-Japanese cultural exchange, Master Jian Zhen is a respected figure. Jing Shangjing, a famous contemporary Japanese writer, took the story of Jian Zhen's monk crossing to Japan as the theme, wrote his masterpiece Dream of Yin Meng and made it into a movie. /kloc-in the autumn of 0/980, a Japanese film crew went to Guilin to shoot the location, and put 1200 years ago's trip to Guilin, Jian Zhen, on the screen to let people relive this unforgettable history.