The main hall of Huiji Temple-Daxiong Hall is dedicated to Sakyamuni and his two disciples Ananda and Ye Jia. It is different from other temples in Putuo Mountain to offer sacrifices to Guanyin Bodhisattva. It turns out that offering sacrifices to Buddha instead of Guanyin Bodhisattva at the top of the mountain implies the supreme status of Buddha, even in the Dojo of Guanyin Bodhisattva. In the wing rooms on both sides of the main hall, there are "Twenty Immortals". Simply put, they are the protectors of Buddhism. Buddhism believes that when the Buddha helped the world spread Buddhism, if there were no effective protectors, Buddhism would decline, so there were many protectors in the country. They all have extraordinary magic. They can help the Buddha spread Buddhism, and they can also deter those who endanger Buddhism. However, the protector of Buddhism is not just the twenty celestial bodies, but a huge team. The name of this team is "Tianlong Babu", representing eight troops, of which Tianbu and Longbu are the most important, and the twenty days in front of us belong to Tianbu. In order to show respect for the Buddha, the gods leaned forward 15 degrees. Besides Huiji Temple in Putuo Mountain, there are Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou, Dahui Temple in Beijing and Huayan Temple in Datong.
Of course, as one of the three temples of Putuo Mountain in Guanyin Bodhisattva Dojo, Huiji Temple also has a hall dedicated to Guanyin Bodhisattva, which is called "Guanyin Hall". Different from the Guanyin Temple in other temples, there is a 2.7-meter-high statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva, and the wall is inlaid with more than 100 line carved Guanyin statues, which bring together the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.
At the back door of Huiji Temple, there is a "Putuo Goose Ear". It is said that it was first brought by an ancient Burmese monk when he came to Putuo Mountain to worship. This tree is 13 meters high. It is divided into two branches from the surface and divided into two parts. Very regular, monoecious. It blooms in May every year, and the fruit ripens in the middle of 10. However, due to the extremely low reproduction rate, Myanmar, its origin, has long been extinct, which is rare in the world. Therefore, it became the symbol of Putuo and the Bodhi of Buddhism. If you are interested in other precious plants in Putuo Mountain, you may wish to visit the new litsea under the back slope of the temple. This is a rare tree species only found in Zhejiang, and it is known as the "Buddha's Light Tree". Whenever Guanyin's birthday falls on the 19th day of the second lunar month in spring, its tender branches and leaves are covered with golden fluff, shining in the sun, like an emissary heralding the arrival of spring, adding luster to Haitian Buddhism.
From Huiji Temple, you can stand on Foding Mountain at an altitude of more than 300 meters, overlooking the magnificent sea view. If the weather is fine, you can see the large and small islands of Zhoushan Archipelago dotted like lotus flowers in the East China Sea of China. Among these islands, the most famous one is Luojiashan nearby. Do you think Luojiashan is like a kind-hearted Guanyin bodhisattva lying peacefully on the sea? If you carefully identify her, you can also distinguish her head, neck, chest, feet and other parts, so it is also called "Sleeping Guanyin" or "Sleeping Buddha at Sea". It is said that Guanyin traveled across the ocean to Putuo Mountain to open a Dojo after practicing Taoism in Luojiashan, so many devout believers who came to Putuo Mountain would take a boat to worship in Luojiashan.
Well, Huiji Temple on Foding Mountain is just for you. If you go down the mountain to Fayu Temple in the south, you can enjoy many stone carvings on the way. Among them, the four characters "Haitian Buddha Country" carved on a boulder are the most famous. Legend has it that it was written by Hou, a famous anti-Japanese scholar in Ming Dynasty, and now it has become a representative landscape of Putuo Mountain. If you are interested, you may wish to take photos as a souvenir.
We are now in the largest temple in Putuo Mountain-Fosaiji. Fusang Temple is also called "Si Qian". Its predecessor was the famous "refusing to go to Kannonji". In the seventh year of Jiading in Song Dynasty, the emperor inscribed "Tong Yuan Treasure Hall" and designated it as a temple dedicated to Guanyin. It was later destroyed many times. In the thirty-third year of Wanli in Ming Shenzong, the court sent eunuch Zhang Qian to expand Baotuo Kannonji and endowed it with "Long live Putuo Temple to protect the country". This temple is very large, and it was located in the southeast for a while. In the thirty-eighth year of Kangxi, the amount of "giving to the masses" basically formed the present scale during Yongzheng. Today, Fosaki has ***23 1 rooms, including ten halls, twelve floors, seven halls and seven pavilions. There is a stone archway about 20 meters high in front of Fu Sergey, with four columns and three doors, and exquisite clouds and stone gourds carved on the columns. There is a stone tablet in the tree on the north side of the square, which reads: "Civil and military officials, soldiers and civilians are waiting to dismount here." It is said that this is an imperial decree issued by the emperor. In the past, officials came here, civil servants got off the sedan chair and military attache dismounted to show their respect for Guanyin Bodhisattva.
Behind the stone archway is a lotus pond of about 15 mu, named "Hai Yin pond", also called "release pond", which was built in the Ming Dynasty. "Hai Yin" means that Buddha's wisdom can print all dharmas like the sea, while "interpretation" is a universal Buddhist activity that combines Buddhist teachings such as "compassion" and "not killing". There are three bridges on the pond in Hai Yin. Walking through the middle room, you arrive at the Imperial Monument Pavilion, which was built during the Yongzheng period. The inscription on the imperial tablet records the history of Mount Putuo. The carved dragons on the tablet are lifelike, and the calligraphy is vigorous and powerful, which can be described as two unique skills. Of course, if you are interested, you can also go to the "Guanzi Bodhisattva" wall in the east. According to legend, Guanyin Bodhisattva not only has a compassionate heart, but also has broad wisdom, so she is sometimes called "Guanyin", which means that she can hear people's sufferings, and sometimes it is called "tube", which means that she can observe everything in the world.
When you come to the temple, you will ask strangely, "The main entrance of the temple is closed. How do you get in?" This is another story. According to legend, Emperor Qianlong forgot to go back when he visited Mount Putuo at night. When he returned to Fusai Temple, the temple gate had been closed, but his request to open the door was rejected. The young monk at the door said, "The state has laws, and the temple has temple rules." Gan Long had no choice but to enter the temple from Dongshanmen. After returning to the palace, Qianlong was extremely angry about this and made an imperial edict: from now on, this door shall not be opened. This has continued until now, and only the head of state, the bodhisattva of the temple or the abbot can open it for the first time. Usually visitors can only enter through the side door next to them.
After passing the Heavenly King Hall dedicated to Maitreya, you can come to Dayuantong Hall, which is the main hall dedicated to Guanyin Bodhisattva by Fossett. There are seven and six halls, which can accommodate thousands of people. There is a saying that "one hundred people don't feel wide when they enter, and one thousand people don't feel crowded when they board", so it is also called "Life Museum". Walking into the Hall of Ursa Major, you can see a statue of Guanyin of Pilu, about nine meters high, wearing a crown of Pilu, with a statue of Amitabha on it, with kind eyes and a kind smile, and an auspicious dragon lady standing beside her with an innocent and lively expression.
In China, Guanyin Bodhisattva is a household name, and is well known to all women and children. Buddhist scriptures say that when in danger, as long as the name is read, the bodhisattva can hear it, save herself and free herself, so it is called "Guanyin". In the Tang Dynasty, in order to avoid taboo, Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong, omitted the word "tianxia" for short, which is still in use today. For most ordinary people, they don't necessarily know that the founder of Buddhism should be Muny Buddha, but few people don't know Guanyin Bodhisattva. Guanyin has actually become the core figure of folk Buddhism and even the whole folk religious belief.
Why is this Guanyin Hall in front of us called "Tongyuan Hall"? In fact, it is precisely because Guanyin can see with her eyes as long as she hears the cry for help from suffering, indicating that "the ears are connected, that is, the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and heart are connected." So "Tong Yuan" became a synonym for Guanyin, meaning "impartial, unimpeded" and fully accessible.
There are also 16 Guanyin bodhisattvas with different costumes and shapes on both sides of the Guanyin in Pilu, which are called "Thirty-two Clothes of Guanyin". These are all images of Guanyin appearing in different identities to educate the world. The 32-year-old Guanyin can only be offered as a whole, not alone. In addition, the Guanyin Buddha statue enshrined in the middle is unique in Guanyin Dojo.
There is also an annex hall on both sides of the main hall. The East Attached Hall is dedicated to Manjusri Bodhisattva and the West Attached Hall is dedicated to Samantabhadra Bodhisattva. In addition, there is a Tibetan temple in the Dharma Hall to worship Tibetan Bodhisattvas. After visiting the halls of Fusang Temple, you can also visit the "Duo Pagoda" located in the southeast. Many pagodas were built in the Yuan Dynasty. It is formed by the accumulation of Taihu stone brought back from Jiangnan by Putuo Mountain monks. It gets its name from the meaning of "many pagodas" on Beijing Island. The appearance of the tower is simple, steady and dignified, unlike the traditional tower in China. There are carved niches around each tower, which are dedicated to the sitting Buddha. It belongs to the Buddhist tantric style believed by the ancient Mongolian rulers and is very rich in Yuanqu style. According to the survey, there are only two such pagodas in China, and the other one is in Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang, so it also has high cultural relics value. To the east of Duobao Pagoda is Baibu Sand, a famous bathing beach in Putuo Mountain. The sand here is pure, the beach shape is beautiful, and the waves are endless. If you have enough time, you might as well feel it.
Fayu Temple is the second largest temple in Putuo Mountain, and it is also called "Housi" because it is located behind the mountain of Fosaiji, the largest temple. Buddhists believe that Buddhism nourishes all beings, just like rain covers all things, so it is called "Fayu Temple", which was built in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty and has experienced many disasters. In the thirty-eighth year of Kangxi, the emperor gave the name "Tianhua Fayu Temple", so it was named "Fayu Temple". Yong Zhengdi was expanded on a large scale, and Fayu Temple became a famous temple in southeast China because of its grand halls and pavilions.
Looking far away at Fayu Temple, you will find that in the architectural layout, it adopts the way of standing by the mountain and climbing in groups, and several halls are rising step by step on the pedestal, with extraordinary momentum. The whole temple is covered with glazed tiles of sky blue, light green, goose yellow, purple and other colors, which reflect thousands of colorful lights under the sunlight, forming a wonderful scene of "Buddha's light shining", giving people a sense of palace from afar. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Kang Youwei once wrote, "Facing the waves with peace, Fayu flies into the sky" to describe the scenery of mountains and seas in Fayu Temple.
If you want to enter the Buddhist temple of Fayu Temple, you must first pass the lotus pond in front of the temple, with an area of about 1.800 square meters. Founded in the 18th year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty, the lotus seeds produced here have been presented to the court as a tribute by Hangzhou Weaving Institute in history. There is a single-hole stone arch bridge on Lianchi, which is called Haihui Bridge. "Sea meeting" means that all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas get together, and its virtues are as vast as the deep sea, which is countless. Haihui Bridge divides the pond into east and west ponds. There are more than 50 patterns such as various drama stories, birds and animals on the double-sided reliefs of the railings on both sides, which are beautifully carved and are the most exquisite stone carvings in Putuo Mountain.
Walking through Lianchi, let's take a look at 1987, a newly-built scenic spot, Zhaoqiang, Kowloon. This nine-dragon wall is two meters high and has a total length of 12 meters. The footwall is sumeru, with cornices on all sides and the top. There are 17 dragons carved between Liang Shi and Shi Zhuan above, and nine dragons on the slate in the middle hold their heads high, fighting for the dragon balls, which is lifelike. At first glance, it seems to be carved from a whole piece of bluestone, but if you are careful enough, you will find that it is actually carved and spliced from 60 pieces of high-quality bluestones with a square of 70 cm. The splicing place is seamless and does not reveal traces, which has to make people admire its exquisite craftsmanship.
After enjoying the Nine Dragon Wall, we went to the Jade Buddha Hall on the second floor of Fayu Temple via the Heavenly King Hall. It was named after a white jade statue of Sakyamuni invited from Myanmar in the late Qing Dynasty, but it was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. The Buddha statue now enshrined was invited by 1985 from Yongle Palace in Beijing. On the platform railing behind the Jade Buddha Hall, there is a picture of Twenty-four Filial Pieties, which was carved during the Yongzheng period. The 24 dutiful sons in the picture, from the emperor to the people, embody the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation to respect the elderly, and also witness the integration of Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism and Taoism.
Next, let's take a look at the most famous "Kowloon Hall" in Fayu Temple. According to the records of Putuo Mountain, in March of the 38th year of Kangxi, the emperor visited Hangzhou in the south, met with the host of Fayu Temple, and issued the imperial edict of "demolishing Jinling Old Temple to give it", so he took 6,543,800+0.2 million glazed tiles out of Nanjing Ming Palace Museum and sent them to Putuo Mountain to build the Kowloon Hall with royal style. There are no beams or nails in the Kowloon Hall, which are necessary for ancient buildings. Among them, the most distinctive is the Kowloon Color Classic, which is a cultural relic preserved in the Ming Dynasty. Looking up, you can see a big ball hanging from the Caijing well, with Yi Long on the top and eight pillars around it, as if robbing this treasure ball, which constitutes the pattern of "Dragon Playing with Beads", which is vivid and ingenious. It is said that this Kowloon algae well also has the function of fire prevention, because the dragon can spit water and the shape of the algae well can collect water, so if the prayer flags in front of the Buddha are accidentally lit by incense, Kowloon in the temple will spit water to put out the fire. So this Kowloon algae well has become the treasure of Putuo Mountain.
The temple is dedicated to the Guanyin statue of Pilu 10 meter high, so it is also called "Kowloon Guanyin Hall". On both sides of Guanyin statue, there are eighteen arhats in asceticism, and on the other side of the hall, there is a spectacular "Island Guanyin Map". In the middle of the picture, the kind-hearted Guanyin Bodhisattva stands on the back of a huge rock fish, with a net bottle in one hand and Yang Liuzhi in the other. The Pure Bottle and Yang Liuzhi in the hands of the Bodhisattva were originally intended to spread the Dharma Rain and promote the Dharma, which later evolved into various meanings. People believe that Yang Liuzhi can eliminate disasters and diseases, and the nectar in a clean bottle spreads all over the world with Yang Liuzhi, which means that the merciful Guanyin helps all beings get rid of suffering with clean water and reach the other side of the paradise. There are buildings such as heaven and dragon palace in this painting. The layout of the whole picture is reasonable, and the characters are full and lifelike. If you are interested, you may wish to take a closer look.