Master Shandao, a distinguished monk in the Tang Dynasty, was the founder of Jingzong and the master of Jingzong. Highly intelligent and outstanding in learning and morality
Jin Qiaojue was a prince of the ancient Silla Kingdom (now South Korea). According to Buddhist legend, he was the incarnation of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva 1,200 years after the death of Sakyamuni. He was kind-hearted but evil-looking. If you lose your hair, you will become a Samana. In the seventh year of Kaiyuan of the Tang Dynasty (719), he sailed to Jiuhua Mountain and begged the local gentry Min Rang for a place on the east cliff to live there. Min Rang, his father and his son admired his magic and became monks one after another to serve him. In the early years of Zhide, Shanren Zhugejie and others respected his asceticism and built a temple for him. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhang Yan, the governor of Chizhou, asked the imperial court to grant him the title of "Huacheng Temple". On the night of July 30th in the tenth year of Zhenyuan (794), when he was ninety-nine years old, he called everyone to say goodbye and showed silence in lotus position. Three years later, the pagoda was built. Today's Jiuhua Mountain Flesh Hall is said to be the place where he attained enlightenment. Since then, people from all over the world have continued to pay homage, and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's monastery has become increasingly prosperous. Jiuhua Mountain has become one of the four famous mountains of Chinese Buddhism.
Shengyu Tang Monk, a disciple of Jin Ji Zang. From the Tang Dynasty to the early days of Dechu, he assisted his master to dig mountains, build platform halls, set up Buddha statues, erect Zhudai, hang Pulao, open up wasteland, create rice fields, and dig mountain ponds into life-release ponds, making Huacheng Temple its first scale.
Daoming was the son of Min Gong Ranghe of Jiuhua Mountain in the Tang Dynasty. He worshiped Jin Ksitigarbha as his teacher, and his Buddhist name was Daoming. Later Min Gong also converted to Jin Ksitigarbha from his son. The statues standing on the left and right of the Ksitigarbha statue in Mount Jiuhua, the elder is Mr. Min, and the younger is Monk Daoming.
Jingzang Silla monk. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, he came to Jiuhua and built Shuangfeng Nunnery.