The ancient temple houses the world's largest indoor golden Buddha, and the mysterious sound of the sea waves coming from the rock wall is a mystery.
The Tongnan Grand Buddhist Temple, founded during the Xiantong period of the Tang Dynasty, is located at the foot of Dingming Mountain in Tongnan County, Chongqing. It was originally named Nanchan Temple. At that time, the monks took 13 years to carve the head of a giant Buddha in the rock next to the temple. 300 years later, during the Jingkang period of the Southern Song Dynasty (1126), with the joint efforts of Buddhism and Taoism, it took another 26 years of hard work to carve out the Buddha body, and the temple was renamed the Great Buddha Temple.
The Tongnan Giant Buddha is 18.43 meters high, with a head length of 4.3 meters and an ear length of 2.74 meters. It is the seventh largest Buddha in the world and the largest interior golden Buddha. What is incredible is that the Buddha's head and body were carved nearly 300 years apart, and yet they are so natural and lifelike that it is breathtaking. The Big Buddha is also called the "Eight Zhang Golden Immortal" because it was carved by Buddha and Taoism.
The "Eight Zhang Golden Immortal" faces south to north, leaning on the rock and facing the river, with its head level with the mountain and its bare feet on the ground. It is majestic and majestic. Since the Buddha statue was first decorated with gold in the Renshen year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1152), it has been decorated with gold three times in the seventh year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (1802), the ninth year of Tongzhi (1870), and the tenth year of the Republic of China (1921). In 2012, the statue cost Decorated with gold for the fifth time, your face will look brand new.
The Big Buddha is enshrined in a majestic seven-eaves Xieshan-style building. The roof is paved with three-color glazed tiles. The roof trusses are made of logs as pillars, with canopies placed on the posts and stacked posts on top of the posts. There are four layers of shelves stacked on top of each other. The outer corners of the wings of the Buddhist pavilion are turned up, like feathers spread out. Such a tall building is all built with mortise and tenon structure without using a single iron nail.
The Big Buddha is enshrined in a majestic seven-eaves Xieshan-style building. The roof is paved with three-color glazed tiles. The roof trusses are made of logs as pillars, with canopies placed on the posts and stacked posts on top of the posts. There are four layers of shelves stacked on top of each other. The outer corners of the wings of the Buddhist pavilion are turned up, like feathers spread out lightly. Such a tall building is all built with mortise and tenon structure without using a single iron nail.
There is a strange rock that looks like an eagle on the top of the rock. Standing under the rock, visitors can hear the sound of the ocean tide coming from the depths of the rock wall, as if they are standing on the shore of a big seashore with surging waves. The most peculiar thing is: tourists must stand in the invisible gap 2 meters away from the rock wall and 1 meter wide, and choose a point within this range according to each person's individual differences in order to hear the sound of the ocean tide. The reason remains to this day Become a mystery.
On the thirteenth day of the fifth lunar month in the tenth year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty (1860), a rock suddenly fell from the cliff behind the Great Buddha Temple. It was shaped like Guan Yu's Qinglong Yanyue Sword, and was called "Guandao Stone". Because that day was the day when Guan Yu sharpened his swords in folklore, people thought that Guan Sheng had appeared, so they carved a statue of Guan Emperor to worship him.
Among the cliff statues in the Great Buddha Temple, there is also the largest "Buddha" character in the country, which is 8.85 meters high, 5.75 meters wide, with a stroke thickness of 1.25 meters and an area of ??more than 50 square meters. It is known as the largest cliff statue in my country. The crown of Buddha characters is also a calligraphy treasure among stone carvings.