1, Introduction of Lingyin Temple
Lingyin Temple, an ancient Buddhist temple in China, also known as Yunlin Temple, is located in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, with its back to Beifeng and facing Feilai Peak. Built in the first year of Xianhe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (326), it covers an area of about 87,000 square meters. The founder of Lingyin Temple is West Indian monk Huili. In the Southern Dynasties, Liang Wudi granted land and expanded it.
Qian Liu, King of wuyue in the Five Dynasties, asked Master Yongming to give him the name Lingyin New Temple. During the Jiading period in Song Ningzong, Lingyin Temple was known as one of the "Five Mountains" in the south of Zen. During the reign of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, the Buddhist monk Lingyin raised funds for reconstruction. It took 18 years to build the temple, and its scale jumped to the top of the southeast.
2. Historical evolution
Lingyin Temple was built in the first year of Xianhe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (326). According to legend, the Indian monk Huili came here and thought that Feilaifeng was a place to hide immortals and ghosts, so he built a temple on the mountain and named it Lingyin. After three years in Tian Jian, Liang Wudi, Xiao Yan wrote "Abandoning Taoism and Returning to Buddhism" and took Buddhism as the state religion. Then, he built a large-scale building, built a temple and erected a tower. Lingyin Temple was favored by Liang Wudi, and its field expanded, taking shape, and incense gradually flourished.
Main attractions of Lingyin Temple:
1, Feilaifeng
As the head of Zen Five Mountains, the stone carving of Feilaifeng is an important work in China Southern Grottoes. These statues carved on limestone went from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the Ming Dynasty. Of the more than 470 statues, 335 are well preserved and precious.
Among them, the earliest three Buddha statues, Amitabha, Guanyin and Dazhizhi, were made in 95 1 year (four years of Northern Han Dynasty).
2. Tianwang Temple
Tianwang Temple is about 24m long and15m wide. The statue of Maitreya is enshrined in the middle of the shrine facing the mountain gate, sitting on the futon with a bare chest and abdomen, smiling. The statue of Wei Tuo, the protector of Buddhism, is enshrined in the niche with his back to the mountain gate. It is two and a half meters high, wearing a golden helmet and armor, and looks radiant. This statue carved with camphor wood is a precious cultural relic of the Southern Song Dynasty, with a history of more than 700 years.