Dharma, the 28th disciple of Sakyamuni Buddha, came to Shaolin Temple in 527, the third year of Xiaoming Xiaochang in the Northern Wei Dynasty. On the basis of his pioneering work, he gathered followers and taught Zen.
At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, thirteen monks of Shaolin Temple were rewarded by Emperor Taizong for their contributions to the Tang Dynasty, and they were given a thousand hectares of land and a water mill, which was called Shaolin Temple monks and soldiers.
At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, the ancestor appointed monk Fuyu as Shaolin abbot, in charge of all monasteries in Song and Yue areas. During the period of Shaolin abbot, monk Fuyu founded the bell tower and drum tower, and built a gallery and kitchen.
During Jiajing period, the Japanese pirates harassed the coast of China, and Shaolin monks made great contributions to the fight against the Japanese pirates. As a result, the government renovated the temple on a large scale, and Shaolin Temple also enjoyed the privileges of free food granted by the government. Since then, Shaolin monks have been recruited by the Ming government at least six times, participated in the war and made meritorious deeds.
In the first year of the Republic of China (19 12), Yun Song Henglin, a monk in Dengfeng County, was elected as the general manager of Shaolin peace preservation corps by local gentry. He bought a gun and organized a security team.
After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), especially since the government promulgated the new religious policy in 1980s, with the country's opening to the outside world and the arrival of the global multicultural era, Shaolin Temple has inherited and carried forward its unique fine tradition, successively restored meditation halls, and held intensive Zen Seven every year.
2065438+On February 23rd, 2005, the abbot of Shaolin Temple, Shi Yongxin, paid a cheque of about 4 162000 Australian dollars (about 20.405 million RMB) to the mayor of Shorhaven, New South Wales, and settled all the land purchase funds.
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The cultural value of Shaolin Temple;
Songyang Academy is a state-level cultural relic of world historic buildings, one of the four major academies in Song Dynasty, and also the center for the spread and development of Luopai Neo-Confucianism. Many famous scholars come here to give lectures, which plays an important role in the history of education in China. Known as "rare treasures", the Hanfeng general cypress and the Datang monument of Songyang Academy have attracted many tourists and become symbols of Songshan's rich historical and cultural accumulation.
There are many inscriptions inside and outside Shaolin Temple, among which the Yuan Dynasty inscriptions are not only considerable, but also of precious cultural value. It is a rare physical document for studying religion, politics, history, calligraphy art and Chinese-foreign exchanges in the Yuan Dynasty. There are many strange stone tablets and precious inscriptions in the "Ciyuntang" stele gallery on the right side of Shaolin Temple. Among them, there are two big monuments, which live in the south and stand tall. The one in the west is "Da Yuan gave Da Sikong a blessing instrument, and the third division chased and sealed Gong Yu, the great Zen master of Jin Gong and Shaolin".
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