Dadian wrote many works in his life, including Interpretation of Prajna Heart Sutra and Interpretation of Diamond Sutra. He wrote 1500 volumes of Diamond Sutra, 30 copies of Beijing Sutra and 30 copies of Vimalakīrti Sutra, which were collected in the temple. However, the classics are all dead, but the Anno Boromido Heart Sutra has a copy of Japanese classics and a photocopy of the Commercial Press, which is very famous.
In the fourth year of Tang Changqing (824), the tomb tower was built on the left side of the temple. According to Lin Ming Da Chun's Records of Chaoyang County, Qin Long, "At the end of the Tang Dynasty, there were people who repaired the bones, but the bottom of the tongue still existed and re-stained, so it was called tongue burial. In the Song Dynasty to Daozhong (995-997), villagers found it again, but the ancient mirror was round. It's just that the stacked stones are still hidden as before ... "Later generations called Dadian Zushi Tower" Tongue Mirror Tower ".
Tongue mirror tower is 2.8m high, and the maximum diameter of the tower body is1.8m.. It consists of 78 pieces of granite with specific specifications. There are dragon, forest, lion, bear, exotic flowers and other relief patterns in Taki, which is simple and elegant and is a key protected cultural relic in Guangdong Province.
Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, emperors, officials, gentry and Li Shu have protected and repaired the ancient temples. All over the world, come to North Korea to go to school; Poets from the North and the South meet here, chanting poems and splashing ink, which have accumulated into a wonderful flower of Chaoshan history and culture, making ancient Chaozhou known as "Zou Lu on the seashore".
According to local records, in the second year of Tang Changqing (822), Mu Zong awarded the title of "Hall for Protecting the Country"; In the fifth year of Song Dynasty (10 12), Zhenzong made a new translation of Tibetan scriptures. Master abbot Jueran rebuilt the ancient temple; In the seventh year of Song Tiansheng (1029), Renzong gave him the "Kaishan Temple"; In the Song and Yuan Dynasties (1034), Xu Shen, a scholar in the imperial court, wrote a Record of Giving Lingshan a Good Temple, which recorded that the temple won and the inscription still existed. Song Gaozong Qin approved the famous Chaoyi Wang Dabao to change Lingshan into "Zhu Sheng Wanshou Mountain"; In the third year of King Tai (1326), the temple was rebuilt and a giant bell was cast. The inscription reads: "At the top of Lingshan, there is Cui Weiting. The moon is clear, and the sea is quiet and thunder. " In the Ming Dynasty, the giant bell was moved and hung in Chenlou, Chaozhou County. In the second year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1369), the abbot monk Kongshan rebuilt the temple; During the Ming Dynasty (1436- 1487), villagers helped the abbot to repair the temple. In the late Ming dynasty, the temple was abandoned; In the 23rd year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1595), Xu Yiwei, a magistrate of a county, built a Buddhist temple. In the sixth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty (1633), Yang Zhuo, a magistrate of a county, continued to repair and then abandoned it; During the reign of Emperor Kangxi (170 1- 1706) in the Qing Dynasty, Peng Xiangsheng, the magistrate of Chaoyang County, invited Xinru, a monk, to preside over the revival of the ancient temple, transforming it into a pattern of three halls, six hospitals and nine wells, which has been passed down to this day.
Faith is like a monk planting a plant of Egeland by his own hands at the ancestral temple of the ceremony, without touching mud. When the weather is favorable, it is convenient for flowers to bloom in the Qingming period and the fragrance is overflowing. Monks in the temple call it the "orchid of faith" which can foretell good luck. 1February 22, 986, an old layman from Zhaopu first day went to Lingshan Temple to worship Buddha, and changed the Abbot Hall to "Lanxin Hall". A poem was passed down as a much-told story.
1949 or so, the ancient temple was deserted. 1952, Master Kuanjian and Master Youzong went to various temples and monasteries in Chaoshan, organized more than 20 surviving monks, boarded Lingshan Temple to build the "Sangha Experimental Farm", paid equal attention to agriculture and Zen, and produced Buddhism, painstakingly managed and maintained the ancient temple. However, the "Cultural Revolution", which began in the summer of 1966, burned all the scriptures and calligraphy in the temple, forcing the monks to return to the secular world and turn the ancient temple into a farm. Until after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, a religious policy was implemented to allow monks to return to the temple; Since 198 1, the four abbots of Oil City, Dinggen, Xinxi and Mingguang have been revived and expanded one after another, and they have been rebuilt and expanded on the basis of the Qing Dynasty, covering an area of more than 5,000 square meters, and the ancient temple has taken on a new look.
On April 1998, 1 1, Master Yin Xin was appointed as the abbot, and he planned to build a magnificent memorial hall for the founding fathers of the Tang Dynasty, which contained a plaque inscribed by Shao Huaze, president of People's Daily and a famous calligrapher.
Lingshan Temple, Tongue Mirror Tower, Shouyi Pavilion, Muwu, Scripture Writing Platform, Imperial Monument, Kaishan Tibetan, Baishicao and Chiba Fruit are also called "Eight Scenes of Lingshan", which have been completely restored in stages in recent years. In addition, in 199 1 year, a thousand pagodas were built behind the temple.