Introduction of Tiantai Temple

National key temples. That is, Dizang Temple, also known as Dizang Zen Forest. Located between Jiuhuashan Tiantai and Yuping Peak. According to legend, during the Tang Dynasty, Silla monks hid in this retreat, leaving behind the remains of Jinxian Cave. Gao Zong, a monk in the Song Dynasty, wrote a poem "Visit Jiuhua Mountain and talk about the height of the rooftop": "Walking around the rooftop is silent, and the bells ring." Explain that there were temples in the Song Dynasty. In the first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1368), the Buddha array donated money to Thailand, and the abbot Zhaolian rebuilt it and became a jungle. According to legend, during the Jiajing period, monks in the Western Regions lived in the mountains to protect forests, and their buddhas were noble and clean all the year round 1 10. In the fifty-ninth year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (1720), monk Chen walked to Tiantai Mountain and lived there. The temple was named "buried alive". According to Qianlong's Qingyang County Records, "Chen, whose name is Tudor, can write poetry and calligraphy. Seventy years old, still sitting on a futon in winter, wearing a light coat. Six years after my death, I sat in a squat, and my flesh and blood were like life. " Later monks built a stupa for buddhist nun. In the middle of Qing Dynasty, 48 temples around Tiantai Mountain had formed "Eight Temples", all of which belonged to Tiantai Temple. When it comes to light, it's deserted. According to "Jiuhua Jisheng" in the 14th year, "Under the Yunxia, there is an old Tiantai Temple next to Yangyi Middle School. There is a gold and copper thousand-Buddha pagoda on the side of Tiantai Temple. " During the Xianfeng period, the temple was destroyed by fire. Guangxu 16th year (1890) reconstruction. 1920, Monk Che De, the abbot, raised funds to build a Buddhist temple with a "rooftop" in front of it. 192 1 year, abbot Lantian rebuilt Tiantai stone road. From 1936 to 1949, abbot Fang Yi monk reorganized his ceremony, which greatly inspired Samoans. 1953 Qingyang county people's government rebuilt the temple. 1983, Tiantai Temple was approved by the State Council as a national key Buddhist temple in Han area. In the same year, Jiuhuashan Management Office rebuilt the temple and painted and gilded the Buddha statue. 1949 ~ 1970 abbot and monk puquan. 1970 ~ 1974 abbot Xiao Wu. 1975 ~ 1985 Puguang Abbot. From 1985 to 1993, the abbots and monks were wise, wise, sincere and enlightened. 1995 Up to now, the abbot and monk Hong Xue. The original Tiantai Temple is located on the concave ground between Tiantai and Yuping Peak, facing south, with stone and wood structures and hard tops. It is a three-story residential temple. Depending on the situation, the layout is ingenious, concise and harmonious, and integrated. In the east, the peak ridge (Qinglongbei) is the barrier, in the south, Yupingtai is the city wall, and in the west and north, the abrupt boulder is the connection point. Build an 8-meter-high stone platform foundation on the sunken ground to form a plane. The bottom of the temple is overhead, and there is a water storage well below. The whole building is hidden under the towering cliff, which is both cold-proof and very strong. Its gate is in the south of the gable of the main hall, and it is a rolling arch hole with a diameter of 3.4 meters and a depth of 4.2 meters. There are two stone carvings on the mountain gate: "Zhongtian World" and "Inhumane". Enter the mountain gate, pass the Maitreya Buddha statue, and the three halls are interconnected. There are overhanging rocks on the east and north sides, which can go straight into the Hall of the Great Hero and the Hall of the Earth Treasure on the second floor. Turn east from here, go up the steps on the rock, then turn north, and enter the three-story Wanfo Hall. The temple is 10 m long and 13 m wide, and there are small wooden Buddha statues with different shapes everywhere, hanging from beams and columns. There is a slant door at the back of the building leading to guanyin temple, the guest room and the Yunshui Hall. The total area of the original building is1540m2. 1May 1997 to1May 1998, a new shack house was built on the east side of Qinglongbei, facing west, facing the observation deck and Wangfeng in the south, with 6 floors, frame structure, roof height 18m, length 28m, width 19m and construction area of 65438. The original main hall of Tiantai Temple was demolished in June1998+1October 65438 due to wind and rain erosion, and the main hall was rebuilt on the original site. Palace style, 3 floors, frame structure, double eaves, iron tile roof, cornices upturned. The ridge is17m high, 2 1 m long and 20m wide. The building area is 1456 m2. The internal structure keeps the original appearance of the main hall. The top floor is the Ten Thousand Buddha Hall, the middle floor is the Dizang Hall, and the bottom floor is the basement. The gate of the cave remains the same. Behind the main hall, there are wings on the east and west sides; There is a small yard in the middle; There is a Kannonji in the north, which is a residence, with a length of 13m and a width of 8m, and a construction area of 104m. Wei Tuo Hall is planned to be built on the downhill side of the main hall entrance. There are many scenic spots around Tiantai Temple: there is a hexagonal stone pavilion on the head of Qinglong in the south of the temple, which is 3 meters high and is called "Baori Pavilion". There are stone Buddha statues in the pavilion. There is a rooftop next to the pavilion, surrounded by cliffs and iron columns. Pengri Pavilion was built by Li Yuqing, the magistrate of Chizhou, in the third year of Qianlong (1738), and inscribed "Pengri Pavilion Zan" to commemorate its victory. There are two huge stones standing at the top of the north temple, facing each other like doors, and only one person is allowed to pass through. On the right side of the rock, the word "Xia Yun" is vertically engraved, and on the left side of the rock, the word "looking up to heaven" is horizontally engraved. Between Tiantai Temple and Wang Feng, there is a bluestone with a length of100m, a height of nearly 30m and a width of10m, which is called "Qinglongbei". It is also called "Yuping Peak" because it passes through the eastern sky like a screen. There are cliff stone carvings such as "Longhua Sanhui", "Reaching the Peak", "Oriental Blissfulness" and "I will meet the sky and broaden my mind" on the west stone wall of Qinglongbei.