Zhongchun Suzhou and Hangzhou Travel Chronicles No. 19 Lingyin Temple (2)

The original Tianya Muqiu took away a cloud

Lingyin Temple

Lingyin Temple was founded in the first year of Xianhe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (326 AD), has a history of about 1,700 years, is the earliest famous temple in Hangzhou, and is one of the ten ancient temples of Zen Buddhism in China. Backed by the north peak, facing the Feilai peak, the two peaks are facing each other, the forest is towering, the ancient temple in the deep mountains, the clouds and smoke are all in shape. The peaks and peaks are shining, the temple is hidden in the deep mountains, the clouds and smoke are misty in it, it is very charming.

The founding patriarch of Lingyin Temple was a West Indian monk Huili monk. At the beginning of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, he traveled from the Central Plains into Zhejiang, to Wulin (now Hangzhou), saw a peak and sighed: "This is a small ridge in the Eagle Mountain of the Middle Tianzhu Kingdom, I don't know where to fly?" When the Buddha is alive, most of them are hidden by fairies. Then the temple was built in front of the peak, and the name was Lingyin.

But there is a saying among the common people that the temple was called "Lingying Temple" at the beginning. It was founded in the early Tang Dynasty. Legend has it that more than 1,400 years ago, in front of the gate of Qinling Bay, there was a Beacon Mountain, and on the left side of Beacon Mountain, it was a phoenix sunrise land. Originally, this place was full of thorns and deserted. Later, there was a monk surnamed Wu who lived behind the mountain and made a living by collecting firewood and farming. One day, the monk was collecting firewood in the jungle of Beacon Mountain, and because of the hot weather, he took off his robe, hung it on the branches, and went to work again. Suddenly, a wild goose volleyed down into the air, took the robe away, flew south, and landed at Lingyin Temple. Wu Seng Wangkong chased all the way to the south, but saw that the green trees here were forested, and the green willows were shady. The green shadow is swaying, and the south head and north end of a ridge mound are whirling; Drink the green lotus in the clear water in the front, and hand over the floating Lingqing Lake in the back; Two wing-shaped mounds are raised on the left and right sides; The whole landscape is like a giant eagle lying on the ground. Wu monks feel that the gods point out, so they burn incense and pray here, build a tent and build a temple, so it is called "Lingying Temple".

Since then, the incense of Lingying Temple has flourished, and the temple has begun to take shape. When it was passed to the Bibo monk, there were more than 100 monks in the temple, more than 200 acres of cultivated land, more than 10 cattle, and more than 10 wells, which affected the upper five prefectures and the lower eight counties. During the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, one day, the master of the blue bowl said in the temple, the general Wei Chi Gong was appointed by the imperial court to come to quell the rebellion and suppress the bandits, passing by this temple, seeing the temple majestic and solemn, in good order, especially into the temple to worship the sacred, pray that if this can calm the demon and suppress the bandits, the emperor will be appointed to rebuild the temple. Wei Chigong really quelled the rebellion in one fell swoop. After the class teacher returned to the court, Marshal Wei Chigong immediately played the emperor. Li Shimin, the son of heaven of the Tang Dynasty, played on the spot, and ordered Lingying Temple to be changed to Lingyin Temple.

Regardless of which legend prevails, the history of Lingyin Temple is very deep anyway.

In the sixth year of the Tang Dynasty (771 AD), the Lingyin Temple was completely renovated, and the incense was vigorous. However, at the end of the Tang Dynasty, "Huichang Law is difficult", Lingyin suffered from the disaster of pond fish, and the temple was destroyed and the monks were scattered. Until the fifth generation of Wuyue King Qian Biao, ordered to invite the master of Yongming longevity to rebuild and develop, and build a new stone building, Buddha Pavilion, Dharma Hall and 100-foot Maitreya Pavilion, and give the name Lingyin New Temple.

When Lingyin Temple was in its heyday, there were nine floors, eighteen pavilions, seventy-two halls, 1,300 monks' rooms, and more than 3,000 monks. The Southern Song Dynasty built the capital of Hangzhou, and Gaozong and Xiaozong were often fortunate to drive Lingyin, take charge of temple affairs, and sway Hanmo. During the Jiading period of Song Ning Sect, Lingyin Temple was known as one of the "five mountains" of Zen Buddhism in the south of the Yangtze River. During the reign of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, the Zen master Gude monk abbot Lingyin, determined to rebuild, raise funds, and only built the palace for 18 years. The temple is solemn, the ancient style is revitalized, and the grandeur of its scale leaps to the "crown of the southeast". In the twenty-eighth year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty (1689 AD), when Kangxi toured south, he was given the name "Yunlin Temple".

There is also a story here: legend has it that in the 28th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, the emperor toured south to Hangzhou. Be enchanted by the view and drink to your heart's content. I don't want to get drunk. The abbot of the temple wanted to revitalize the temple with the help of the emperor's imperial pen, so he asked Kangxi to re-inscribe the temple. Unexpectedly, the wine was high and the pen was too heavy, and the prefix of "rain" in the upper half of the traditional "spirit" character was too large, and the three "mouths" and one "witch" in the lower half could not be written anymore. Kangxi was in a hurry, and the wine woke up. When he was in a dilemma, there was a scholar named Gao Jiangcun next to him, who was in a hurry to become wise, and wrote the word "Yunlin" on the palm of his hand, and then pretended to grind ink and hinted to the emperor that Kangxi also improvisedly wrote the word "Ling" into the word "Yun", so "Lingyin Temple" became "Yunlin Temple". I think this must be another example of making fun of the emperor.

Since its establishment, Lingyin has gathered eminent monks, gathered literati, blended Confucianism and Buddhism, talked about Zen and Taoism, and chanted and chanted it has already become a cultural spectacle. In addition, there are still a lot of ancient Buddha statues, ritual vessels, scriptures, stone towers, imperial tablets, calligraphy and paintings and other historical relics in the temple, these precious Buddhist cultural heritage makes Lingyin Temple is included in the national key cultural relics protection unit.

The time sequence has entered the new century, Lingyin Temple with its unique Buddhist culture, magnificent palace architecture and beautiful and elegant natural scenery, attracting tourists at home and abroad. Lingyin Temple, it has long become a Buddhist resort for people to learn Buddhism, sightseeing, praying for blessings and leisure.

Lingyin Temple is indeed deeply interested in the word "hidden", and the whole majestic temple is hidden in the dense forest and clear spring of the West Lake peaks. Generally, temples pay attention to the opening of the mountain gate to show off the momentum of the method. The magnificent Lingyin Temple, but hidden in the mountains and dense forests, even in front of the temple, can not find the name "Lingyin Temple".

The couplet at the door, "the lake and the mountain cast the famous place, the famous temple hides the deep mountain" is very imposing. At first, the amount of Shanmen Temple, the title of "Jue Shengjue Field", to the Northern Song Dynasty Jingde four years changed the title to "Jingde Lingyin Temple", after the Ming Dynasty, named "Lingyin Temple", has been used so far, the ticket to enter the scenic spot is 45 yuan, from 2014 onwards, Hangzhou City put forward the advocacy of "civilized incense", Lingyin Temple no longer sells open flame incense candles, but instead gives three incense, but this incense is not cheap, ten yuan each, so enter the temple, but also pay 30 yuan incense money.

Walking on the silent stone steps, touching the soul of the gardening art of Lingyin Temple, admiring the ancients with the word "hidden", the tranquility and depth of the overview of Lingyin Temple.

Lingyin Temple design is very ingenious, the central axis of the whole temple building is the Tianwang Palace, the Daxiong Treasure Palace, the Medicine Master Palace, the Tibetan Scripture Building (the next management hall), the Huayan Palace, at the same time to the two wings of the layout, has built the line carved five hundred Arhat Hall, Daoji Hall (now called Jigong Palace), guest hall (Liuhe Hall), ancestral hall, Great Compassion Pavilion, Dragon Palace Haizang (collection display); And in the original Arhat Hall site to rebuild the 500 Arhat Hall, display the average height of 1.7 meters of 500 bronze Arhats, in the center of the hall to build another 12.6 meters high four famous mountain bronze hall (has been listed in the Guinness Book of Records).

In addition, there is a spacious platform built in each hall to beautify the environment of the ancient temple. Successively built a large "Heart Sutra" wall, a hundred lions group carving, etc., and in the northwest of the five hundred Arhat Hall to build a spring, by the rockery stacked stones to form a natural waterfall into the Ananda Pond, the pond side is built with "Gude Pavilion", to commemorate the early Qing Dynasty with virtue in the revival of the Lingyin merit. Fanyu increases the brilliance, the weather is more thousands, and the southeast famous temple is reappeared.

In 2015, Lingyin Temple installed electronic counters at the entrance and exit, which can monitor the number of temple visitors in real time, and once the temple exceeds 50,000 people, it will slow down the sale of tickets to ensure normal tour order. There is also a "Hui" shaped entrance outside the main hall of the temple to control the number of tourists in the major halls.

Hall of the Heavenly King

The moment I stepped into the temple, I knew that I was not a person who was related to the Buddha, but I wanted to find a trace of detachment in the chaos of the world. So, I walked in with a body full of mundane people, and I couldn't shoot the dust outside the temple, because I knew that the Buddha had penetrating powers. I see a lot of elderly people praying for longevity and good health, or praying for a full house of children and grandchildren. What about me? Pray for what? I don't know. I really ask the Buddha to bless me, and I hope that I will be safe all my life.

In this way, I still worship the Buddha with a purpose, but I don't reveal it to the Buddha, and I believe in his sharp eyes. Actually, contentment and happiness are happiness, am I right?

The first temple of Lingyin Temple was the Tianwang Hall. It is about 24 meters long, about 15 meters wide, and two horizontal plaques are hung under the heavy eaves of the palace house, one is "the vulture flies here", and the gold plaque is the inscription of Huang Yuanxiu. There is also a piece of "Yunlin Zen Temple", which is the handwriting of Emperor Kangxi. In fact, he quoted Du Fu's title of "Jiang Han is the end of my age, and the Ercao of Yunlin".

The scriptures are all engraved in the second year of Kaibao in the Northern Song Dynasty, and they are the relics of Fengxian Temple, the family temple of King Wuyue. In the Song Dynasty, the Yinshan Zen master moved here, the prayer building is also called the stone building, it is a kind of stone pillar engraved with the name of the Buddha or the mantra, it is the symbol of ancient Buddhism, and it is used as a blessing to suppress evil spirits. The two scripture buildings have the inscription of "King Wu Yue, the Generalissimo of the World's Soldiers and Horses, and the second year of Kaibao of the Great Song Dynasty has been in leap May".

Since its establishment, Lingyin Temple has been destroyed 14 times. Repeatedly suffered from natural disasters and man-made disasters, serious damage, especially during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, most of the buildings were reduced to ashes, after the founding of New China, the government carried out three large-scale repairs to the Lingyin Temple.

The palace of the king of heaven hangs the plaque of "Weizhen Sanzhou". Ancient mythology believed that Mount Meru was the center of the world. There are four states in the four directions, namely Shenzhou in the east, Zhanbu in the south, Niuhe in the west, and Luzhou in the north. The north is the Pure Land, so Vedic only needs to shock the eastern, western, and southern continents.

The Buddha shrine facing the mountain gate in the middle of the Tianwang Palace, enshrines the statue of Maitreya Buddha, bare the chest and abdomen, sit on the futon, he greets the tourists from all walks of life with a smile, accepts the first pillar of incense from the pilgrims, seems to be teaching a kind of wisdom of life, broad-minded, everything can be tolerated, contentment and happiness, health and longevity.

On both sides of the hall are the four heavenly kings, each eight meters high, each wearing heavy armor. Two of them are mighty and two have kind looks, commonly known as the Four King Kongs. It is a relic of the Southern Song Dynasty and has a history of more than 730 years.

The one who holds the sword of the blue blade is the guardian of the southern growth king, "feng" and "wind" have the same sound, "growth" can make sentient beings grow good roots, and the stone sword protects the Dharma from infringement. The person who plays the pipa is the king of the Oriental country, and the pipa has no strings that need to be tuned, and it is necessary to use music to influence sentient beings and make people take refuge in Buddhism. The Duowen Heavenly King, who guards the north, holds an umbrella-like treasure building, which is both the protector god and the god of wealth of the Buddha country, and uses the treasure to subdue the demons and protect the property of all living beings. The Western Wide-Eyed Heavenly King, who has a golden dragon in his hand, observes the world at any time with the eyes of the pure sky, protects all living beings, and is the leader of the dragons, these four mighty and awe-inspiring Four Heavenly Kings are not only the guardians of Buddhism, but also the spokesmen of the good wishes of the mortal world. The wind and rain are smooth, and the country and the people are safe.

On the back of Maitreya is the Vedic Bodhisattva holding the demon pestle, one of the eight great gods and generals of the Southern Growth Heavenly King. Ranked first among the 32 gods. Vedic statue is 2 years high. 5 meters, it was carved from a whole piece of camphor wood in the early Southern Song Dynasty. It has a history of 800 years and is the oldest Buddha statue in the temple. Sinicization Veda Bodhisattva, in Chinese temples, there are two postures of holding the demon pestle, one is to put the hands together and put the pestle on the wrist, and the other is to hold the pestle in one hand. If Veda holds the pestle with both hands together, it means that it is a reception temple, and the monks can eat and stay for free. If Veda holds the pestle, it means that this place is a non-reception temple, and judging from the posture of Veda of Lingyin Temple, this is a non-reception temple.

Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra

Behind the palace of the king of heaven, divide the two sides by the white jade ladder, go up to the hall of the great majesty, its base is very high, the slope is very steep. The pedestal of the main hall is facing the Heavenly King Hall, and there is a huge plaque carved with the "Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra", and many people can't help but touch it.

"Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra", originally a Mahayana Buddhism expounds the emptiness of the 600 volumes of the "Great Prajna Sutra", first from Yao Qinlu Morosh abridged and translated into the "Maha Prajnaparamita Daming Mantra", and then after the Tang Dynasty Master Xuanzang selected its essence and gist, concise its meaning, into two hundred and six cross scriptures, more concise, catchy, then widely circulated in Middle-earth.

The Sanskrit word "prajna" translates to "wisdom," and Buddhism refers to the wisdom of understanding everything truthfully. The Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra is the center of the idea of "Prajna", and Buddhists believe that by studying the Dharma deeply and understanding the meaning of "emptiness", one can get rid of troubles and be at ease.

A "Heart Sutra", in terms of the amount of words, is only two hundred and six crosses. However, the meaning it contains is very broad. A slight one can collect a 600-volume "Great Prajna Sutra", and a wide one can collect the teachings of the generation as mentioned in the past. Although the meaning of the text is as vast as the sea, the actual study is nothing more than to break all lifelong attachments. This Heart Sutra can be said to be the essence of breaking attachment, the essence of a large part of the Prajna Sutra, the center of the Three Tibets, and the key to re-sustaining the Sutra.

Historically, there are many people who carve the heart of the seal carver, Huang Mufu, Fang Jiekan and other famous artists have excellent works to circulate, Xiling seal society, Tan Zhenfei, president of the Feilai Seal Society, with exquisite seal carving skills and unique insights into Buddhism, carved this carved platform screen, and became attached to Hangzhou Lingyin Temple.

The predecessor Zeng Yun: "The carved Zhu Wen must be fluent, so that it is like a spring flower dancing style; The carved white text must be condensed, so that it is like snow in a cold mountain. "In the printing of Tan Zhenfei, both can be combined.

Tera

The yellow wall and Zhu Dong surround the smoke, and the floating eaves of the spine beast read the cliff.

Slowly look at the statue through the hall, climb the stairs and worship Qionghua silently.

The dragon tail is waged in the Yunzang Temple, and the moon is stationed in the pine to reflect the Shakya.

Luohan greets the past, and he has not met day and night.