Brief introduction to the scenic spots of Raoping Leiyin Temple;
Lei Yin Temple is located halfway up Huanggang Town, Raoping County, Guangdong Province, with a huge natural stone wall behind it, which is like a relief painting screen embedded halfway up the mountain, so it is also called Lei Yin Temple as a stone wall temple. Now it is the site of the county Buddhist Association and a key cultural relic protection unit in the county.
Shibi Mountain (also called _ Cloud Gate) has beautiful scenery. The mountain is rugged and steep, and Lei Yin Zen Temple is dotted with it, which is like icing on the cake. Lian Jian Hanlin and Raoping County Lingguo wrote poems praising: Far away, my friends led me into the clouds. The natural stone wall smoke cage is black, and the Vatican Palace in Rizhao is as red as fire. ......
There is Shuyuquan several hundred steps east of Lei Yin Zen Temple, and the spring water gushes from the cave, which is pure and sweet all the year round, such as Wolong spitting water. The ceiling of the cave is covered with boulders, which are more than ten meters long and wide, and the wall at the bottom of the cave is composed of boulders. Maitreya Buddha is enshrined in the cave, sitting half-sitting, smiling, and the sentence of who sits half-sitting is engraved at the mouth of the cave, which is deeply Zen. There are three Chinese characters inscribed in the cave, Shu Yuquan, to pay for the rest of the stone wall in the third year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty. There is a hole in the hole and the ditch is deep.
According to the stone carving records of Guanjian Cave (formerly known as Shenchang Cave) in the temple, Lei Yin Zen Temple was built in the 28th year of Jiajing, and it was abolished after several revivals (according to the records of Raoping County in Qing Dynasty). In the fifth year of Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty (1850), monk Tong Zhen presided over the temple, revived Lei Yin, and engraved the stone tablet of Lei Yin Zen Temple on the temple gate, which still exists today. During the Qianlong period, Cai Xin, a native of Zhangpu and a prime minister, made great friends with Tong Zhen, a monk, and admired his character. Special book for him: the French chair links the past with the future, and the tongs hammered down the copper head and iron forehead, which made him chilling.
Leiyin Temple was rebuilt in 1923. 1939, the abbot ordered Master Ding Fan to build Guanyin Pavilion, which was built with donations from ten good people. 1952, the abbot rebuilt in spring. It was abandoned during the Cultural Revolution. 1980, Master Ding Yi entered the temple. 1984, Sanxue Temple and Yuanming lecture hall donated RMB 120000 to the master, and decided that the master should be in charge of the affairs, and successively built the Hall of the Great Hero, the wing, the kitchen, the living room, the monk's room and the common tower. 1987, Master Ding Yin once again proposed that Hong Kong compatriots such as Mr. Zheng Jinsong, Ms. Yan Qiaorou and Su Jushi donate net capital to build Mercy Pavilion, Guanyin Pavilion and Feihongqiao to add luster to the Buddhist country. 1938, Hong Kong compatriot Mr. Wu Xutai donated money to build a pavilion at the foot of the mountain.
1989, Master Hongche entered the temple, carefully planned and won the full support of all parties. 199 1 year, two double-decker monasteries were expanded from the inside to the east and west sides, and a three-decker pavilion was built on the steep hillside in front of the temple. The first floor is the foundation, and the second floor is the corridor outside. It is spacious enough to accommodate more than 100 devout believers. In the middle is a wide courtyard, which can accommodate hundreds of people to burn incense and worship Buddha. Standing in the distance and looking up at the three-story Gaoshu Hall I, it is very magnificent. This project is the largest expansion project since Lei Yin Zen Temple, costing more than RMB/kloc-0.00 million and taking two years to complete. In the second year of Yue King, Master Hongche expanded the old site of Guanyin Pavilion abandoned for many years behind the temple into a Buddhist temple. This building is 0/00 meters away from the main hall/kloc. Breaking ground and chopping stones, cutting thorns and thorns, shaping according to the ground, building in sections, winding stone steps, high and low in order, resembling terraces, trying to keep the original towering giant trees and strange stones, planting flowers, and integrating natural scenery with artificial scenery. The Tibetan scriptures are divided into two layers, which are built in the style of a garden palace and stand tall. There are monasteries on both sides, which are solemn and solemn. The project took another two years and cost nearly two million yuan. The total area of the project has expanded from 600 square meters to 3,800 square meters now, which has increased more than five times, and it has become a jungle that has begun to take shape.
Lei Yin Zen Temple is located in the traffic hub of Fujian and Guangdong, with Zhangzhou and Xiamen in the east and Shantou and Shenzhen in the west. Convenient transportation, belonging to foreign-related special zones. So overseas believers come to the temple to worship Buddha and meditate. The ancient trees in the north of the temple are towering, with beautiful scenery and pleasant scenery. There are scarabs facing Beidou in the east, stone immortals on turtle beds in the west, and natural caves behind Daxiong Hall, called _ Yundong in ancient times, are dedicated to Guanyin Bodhisattva and Dragon Maiden who are good at money. Now it's called Guanyin Cave. The whole temple is surrounded by mountains and seas, which makes people feel relaxed and happy.
Zhao Puchu, president of the Buddhist Association of China, named this mountain Yuedong Wall, which is characterized by eight characters, and has now been established as the memorial arch of the mountain gate. All the poets who came to the temple never forget to splash ink, and they are still in the temple today, including a pair of Yu Xilian, the magistrate of Guiyang in Ming Dynasty, a poem by the Golden Lion, the minister of rites in Nanming Dynasty, an inscription by Yu Youren, the supervisor of the Republic of China, two pairs of famous monks who visited Hong Kong, two pairs of famous mountain masters, the vice-president of the Chinese Buddhist Association, the memorial tablet of the Scripture Tower, and modern famous dramatists Cao Yu, Guo Qihong and famous painters.
Lei Yin Zen Temple belongs to the Huangbaizong legal system, and its famous abbots include Tong Zhen monk, Yijing master and Chunyi master. The current abbot, Master Hongche, is from Jieyang City, Guangdong Province. He is 665,438+0 years old. He graduated from Nanjing _ Xiashan Buddhist College in 1980s, and was once the abbot of Guochan Temple in Kaiyuan Town, Chaozhou, and the dean of 1997 Lingdong Buddhist College. At present, Zhao Da, the master of the prison, is from Raoping, Guangdong, and is respected by everyone.