Donglin Temple was built since the Jin Dynasty and has been repaired in the past generations. It was built by Xiaoyuan of Nanliang Dynasty. It has a heavy pavilion and a solemn temple with towering clouds. At the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, Master Zhizhe of the Tiantai Sect stopped in Donglin, and under the orders of Jin Wang Yang Guang, he became the Tanyue Temple. In the twelfth year of Emperor Kaihuang's reign, Taoist Master Donglin built a large monk's hall, a meandering flying pavilion, showing off the sky, and a pavilion stretching up to the pavilion, overlooking the ground. On April 26, the 11th year of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty (AD 857), after the Huichang disaster, Seng Zhengyan spent 14 years rebuilding it. Cui An, the governor of Jiangzhou, wrote "Restore the Donglin Temple", a great calligrapher. Liu Gongquan's handwriting, Cui Wen's beautiful writing, Liu's writing powerful, and the combination of dictionaries are called Donglin's masterpieces. In the Tang Dynasty, Donglin reached its peak, with "more than 310 halls, chambers, pagodas and verandas, and a grand scale that could be called the residence of thousands of monks". It had thousands of disciples and collected more than 10,000 volumes of scriptures. Ranked first among the monasteries in the country. In the Tang Dynasty, there were many poetry steles in Donglin, and the poets had rich inscriptions and reputations. Li Bai, Du Fu, Meng Haoran, Bai Juyi, Han Yu, Li Qi, Wang Changling, Li Duan, Wei Yingwu, Zhang Jiuling, Zhang Qiao, Du Xunhe, etc. left poems, and there were "ten thousand poems chanted all over the temple". As the saying goes, "one step will startle one's heart", it can be regarded as the best poetry temple in the world. The Jinlu Altar was built in Jin Dynasty to continue the Buddha's wisdom and propagate the Dharma, making it an important ordination altar for Chinese Buddhism. Precious cultural relics such as the Dharani sutra banner carved in the Tang Dynasty, the stone guardian warrior, and the remnant stele of Liu Gongquan have been preserved to this day. In the ninth year of Tianbao, before Master Jianzhen made his sixth journey eastward, he came to Donglin to pay homage and spread the teachings of Pure Land religion to Japan, making an important contribution to the friendly exchanges between China and Japan. The Japanese Pure Land Sect and the Chinese Pure Land Sect are in the same line. The "Japanese National Lushan Master Huiyuan Praise Society" has been specially established to pay homage to the ancestor at the temple regularly.