Jing'an Temple Overview Travel Route (3) Comments (0) Opening Hours
Opening hours: 7:30-17:00, open from 4:30-17:00 during the incense period.
Tickets
Tickets are free
Transportation
Address: No. 1686, Nanjing West Road, Jing'an District. Jing'an Temple Station of Metro Line 2, the terminus of Lines 21 and 825 (Jiaozhou Road), the terminus of Lines 37, 62, 562, and 838 (Meiliyuan), the terminus of Line 40 (International Equatorial Hotel), and the terminus of Line 57 (Anyi Road), passing through Jing'an Temple are 15, 20, 45, 71, 76, 93, 94, 113, 138, 506, 824, 830, 831, 921, 927, 925, 939 and Airport Line 6.
Introduction
Jing'an Temple is a famous ancient Shingon sect temple in Shanghai. Jing'an District is famous for Jing'an Temple. In 1999 the temple underwent extensive renovations. The temple houses the Shingon Sect altar and the memorial hall of Master Chisong, the great master of the Shingon Sect. There are still cultural relics such as the stone tablet inscribed by Guangzong of the Song Dynasty and the bell from the second year of Hongwu. Every year on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, a three-day temple fair is held here, which is very lively. According to legend, the temple was first built in the 10th year of Chiwu in the Eastern Wu Dynasty (AD 247) during the Three Kingdoms period, and moved to its current location in the ninth year of Jiading in the Southern Song Dynasty (AD 1216). It was built many times after the Yuan Dynasty, but was eventually destroyed by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Only the Great Buddha Hall remained. In 1921, three additional temples were built. At present, the two side halls of Jing'an Temple have been repaired.
National key temples. Jing'an Temple was originally called "Hudu Chongyuan Temple" and was founded in the year of Chiwushi (247) in the Eastern Wu Dynasty during the Three Kingdoms period. It has a history of more than 1,700 years. In the Tang Dynasty, it was renamed "Yongtai Zen Temple", and it was not until the first year of Song Zhenzong's Dazhong Zenfu (1008) that it was called Jing'an Temple. The original site of Jing'an Temple is in Beiyan, Wusong River. Because it is close to the river, the house is in danger of toppling due to the impact of the river water. In the ninth year of Jiading of Ningzong in the Southern Song Dynasty (1216), the temple was moved to the edge of Lupu Feijing Bang in Fahua Town, which is where Jing'an Temple is now. During the Yuan and Ming dynasties, Jing'an Temple had a certain scale. In the sixth year of Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1741), Mai Huan, the Minister of Rites, rebuilt the main hall. In the forty-third year of Qianlong's reign (1778), She's Sun Siwang also initiated a donation to rebuild the temple. The monks used the ginkgo trees in the temple to carve the Eighteen Arhats and other Buddha statues. It was destroyed by war in the late Qing Dynasty. During the Guangxu period, Abbot Hefeng donated money for the reconstruction, and held a Buddha Bathing Ceremony on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month in 1881. All the people in the world go to watch the Buddha and visit the temple." This is the origin of the Jing’an Temple Fair. This thousand-year-old temple has gone through vicissitudes of life. By 1984, the Main Hall no longer existed and other halls were in dilapidated condition. With the gradual implementation of the policy of freedom of religious belief, the Shanghai Buddhist community is determined to restore the oldest temple in Shanghai. In February 1984, the "Jing'an Temple Restoration Committee" was established, headed by Abbot Zhenzen and layman Jia Jinsong of Jing'an Temple. With the support of the government's religious and other relevant departments, it adopted the policy of receiving pilgrims and tourists from home and abroad while repairing. Raise funds to gradually restore the temple. Now it has become a Buddhist temple in Shanghai with majestic halls and solemn statues. The abbot of Jing'an Temple is Master Zhenchan, the governor is Master Dewu, and the Linyuan is Master Jinghua. Since 1984, the Jing'an Committee has gradually improved and improved the temple management system and jungle system. On May 12, 1991, Jing'an Temple held a consecration ceremony for the Main Hall and the Jade Buddha Statue of Sakyamuni. This marked the restoration of Jing'an Temple to its original historical appearance and basically restored it to the scale of the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Entering the temple from Chiwushan Station, the main buildings are the Tianwang Hall, the Great Nanbao Hall and the Three Holy Halls. In addition, there are merit hall, abbot's room, Buddhist cultural relics exhibition hall, Xiangjizhai, monk dormitory, wing room and other buildings. . The Maitreya Buddha statue is enshrined in the Heavenly King Hall. I saw him with his chest exposed, his smile always open, and his face kind. According to Buddhist legend, Maitreya was predicted by the Buddha to succeed Sakyamuni Buddha and become a Buddha, so he was called Maitreya Buddha. It is said that Maitreya is the image of the monk Qixi from Yuelin Temple in Fenghua during the Five Dynasties of China. He usually speaks erratically and acts as if he is crazy. He often goes around begging with a cloth bag on his back. When he was dying, he uttered a verse: "Maitreya, the true Maitreya, has tens of billions of clones, showing himself to people all the time, but people don't know it." Later generations believed that he was the incarnation of Maitreya Buddha, and worshiped his image as Maitreya Buddha. This is also a phenomenon of the Sinicization of Buddhism. On both sides of the Heavenly King Hall, there are statues of the four Heavenly Kings. The common name for the Four King Kong is a joke in "The Romance of the Gods". In fact, King Kong and the King of Heaven should not be confused.
The first statue of the Eastern King of Dharma is white, holding a pipa; the second statue of the Southern King of Growth is blue, holding a sword; the third statue of the Western King of Guangmu, whose body is in Jing'an Temple, has been restored to the Shingon Sect altar. *** is divided into five altars. Among them, the Peacock Altar enshrines the image of King Peacock Ming, and the Mysterious Vajra images are hung on the left and right walls; the Homo Altar enshrines the image of Vajra Bodhisattva; the Holy Heaven Altar enshrines the image of Mahavadhisattva Mahavadhisattva, flanked by the statues of Fudo Ming King and Ailiang Ming King; The Temple of Heaven is dedicated to the image of Ruyilun Guanyin; the Temple of Heaven is dedicated to the image of Mahakala and the Mother of Hari, with the twelve heavenly images hanging on the left and right. There are also statues of the Eight Patriarchs hanging on the two walls. In each altar, all kinds of magic tools of Shingon Sect are available. In order to commemorate Master Chisong's life of promoting Buddhism, traveling eastward three times to seek Dharma, and being patriotic and religious, there is a "Memorial Hall of Master Chisong" in Jing'an Temple. Displayed here are Master Chisong’s utensils and ink writings during his lifetime, as well as 26 kinds of books brought back from Japan, including "Secret Esoteric Passage", "Vajra Realm Practice Notes", "Womb Treasure Realm Practice Notes", and "The Beginning and End of Huayan Religion Teachings". Shingon sect classics, tantric rituals used in practicing Dharma, photos and souvenirs of exchanges with Japan, Nepal, Indonesia, Cambodia, etc. In order to protect Buddhist cultural relics, Jing'an Temple has opened a "Buddhist Cultural Relics Exhibition Hall", which now collects hundreds of cultural relics, including the monument to the reconstruction of Jing'an Temple erected in the ninth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1833), the monument to Zhaohui Pavilion in Yunhan, and the monument to Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty. Big clocks, calligraphy and paintings of famous people from past dynasties, various Buddha statues, Buddhist instruments, bronzes, porcelain, etc. Jing'an Temple also houses many famous calligraphy and paintings. There are the "Heart Sutra" scrolls by Su Shi of the Song Dynasty, the running script of the Ming Dynasty calligrapher Zhu Zhishan, the "Single Paradise Picture" by the Ming Dynasty painter Wen Zhengming, the "Flower and Fruit Scroll" by Huang Shen, one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou in the Qing Dynasty, and the modern painter Wu Changshuo's The "Flower Scroll" is a scroll of Buddhist paintings painted by King Il-Ting of the Buddhist realm. Dojeong Temple also collects stone Buddha statues from the Southern and Northern Dynasties, bronze and silver silk Bodhidharma statues from the Ming Dynasty, Amitabha Buddha and Manjusri statues from the Qing Dynasty, as well as Japanese colorful paintings. Various Buddha statues such as enamel white porcelain and gilt Guanyin. The Buddhist classics stored in the temple include the Tripitaka of Pinga Jingshe (Published by Pinga Jingshe in Shanghai from 1909 to 1913, the first Tripitaka printed with type in modern China). Sand Version of the Tripitaka", Japan's "Taisho Newly Revised Tripitaka". In order to inherit and carry forward the traditional vegetarian cooking skills of Buddhist temples, Jing'an Temple built Xiangji Zhai to provide various grades of vegetarian food to believers and Chinese and foreign guests. The vegetarian food here carefully selects ingredients and pays attention to seasonal freshness, such as raw lentil sprouts, dragon loofah, jade bamboo shoots and other dishes. The ingredients are freshly in season and purchased directly from the vegetable farmers. The dishes cooked are not only delicious, tender and nutritious, but also have therapeutic effects. Distinctive high-end dishes include "Fire-roasted Red Cliff", bridge-shaped cold dishes, persimmon straw mushrooms, dragon boat abalone, etc.
Tips: Jing’an Park is just opposite Jing’an Temple. It is an open park.