Lianchi Temple is located in Jinxi Town, Kunshan City. During Song Jiatai, the youngest son Chen concubine was buried here, so this hospital was built and the monks were ordered to keep incense. There is a release pond to the east of the temple. In the 13th year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1656), Tong Yu, a Buddhist monk, flew from Nanjing Shuangzhong Temple to Lianchi Courtyard of Chen Xi's Tomb, becoming the first mountain in the temple. The villager Sun donated $5,000 for innovation. The hall and corridor were completed for the second time. Build long dams and open up huge swamps. Before and after Yushu _ graceful. The name is "Alu Temple", which is for Maitreya III.
Next to the Great Compassion Hall, there are altars, abbots, three official halls and crane houses. Ben _ (word Dayuan, word fishing for snow) was shaved by Tong Yu and ordained by Tao _ in Tiantong Temple. In the 16th year of Shunzhi (AD 1659), he entered Beijing with Dao _, and became attached to Yu Han on the way, that is, he returned to Alu Temple in Chen's tomb. In the 9th year of Kangxi (A.D. 1670), Ben disappeared in Zhaoputa, Sheshan, Songjiang. Touben _, Zhuo's teacher (Tang) is at Ruiguang Temple in Songjiang.
In the forty-fourth year of Kangxi (AD 1705), Emperor Kangxi made a southern tour, passing through Kunshan and Songjiang. Long Yuan went to Huaigong to meet him and presented Ode to Longevity and Longevity Map to the emperor, which was greatly appreciated by the emperor. Along the way, I told the emperor about Yu Zushi's pioneering work in the lotus pond of Chen's tomb. The emperor was very interested and asked for a long time. The emperor gave a seat, tea and a royal fan with a handle, and the poem "Climbing the Jade Peak" by Emperor Kangxi was engraved on the fan. After arriving in Songjiang, the emperor met Long Yuan again and ordered thirteen princes to burn incense in the temple. He also gave Long Yuan a plaque with the words "Prajna" written on it and a couplet: "All Buddhas are born constant, and people cannot live without them". Classic: King Kong, Pharmacist and Heart Sutra are all gold. When the emperor went to Zhejiang, Long Yuan took a bus in Jiaxing _ Qiao Lin and presented "Shangtang French" and "Thanksgiving Poems", and presented poems to the thirteen princes of the Crown Prince. The emperor gave him a box of cakes and an arrow and let him go in and out at will. The emperor returned to Beijing and sent Long Yuan to Huguan, then to Yangzhou, then to Qingshui Lake in Yangzhou and Long Yuan to Beijing. Long Yuan was rewarded after he went to Beijing. After Long Yuan returned to Songjiang in his later years, Enbukuji, the former abbot of Thousand Lights, went to Lianchi Hospital to spend his later years because he missed his ancestor Tong Yu. Yongzheng five years (AD 1727), died in Lianchi Temple.
When the temple was maintained in the 1930s, there were seven monks and abbot Zhu Bu. 1952 Temple changed to Mu Chen Middle School. 199 1, middle school reconstruction. Lianchi Temple was also rebuilt on the original site, and the direction of the mountain gate is the same as that of the original mountain gate, that is, north. To the south of the temple is the vast Wubao Lake, in which there is the water tomb of Chen Fei. To the north of the temple is Tang Ling Bay.
The book beside the mountain gate is Lianchi Temple. There is Wenchang Pavilion in the courtyard, and the word "Gulianchi" was written by calligrapher Lu Jiaheng. In the south of the main hall, there is a withered cypress, which records the vicissitudes of life for more than 800 years. In 2000, Kunshan Buddhist Association applied for approval to rebuild the temple, and the 200 1 project was completed, which basically restored the original features of the temple. In June 2009, Lianchi Temple was incorporated into the management of Buddhist Association. The Lotus Pond Buddhist Temple, which lives by the water, is graceful and graceful, leaning against the blue waves, with beautiful scenery like a fairyland, adding luster to Jinxi, the hometown of China museums, and becoming a good place for tourists to explore the past and find seclusion.
Address: Jinxi Ancient Town Scenic Area, Kunshan, Suzhou.
Type: Temple
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