Brief introduction of Fuzhou Jingtang scenic spot:
Located in the southeast of the Bell Tower, the Sutra Pavilion was built in the 16th year of Qing Shunzhi. It contains all kinds of scriptures given by emperors since the Song Dynasty, plus 20,346 volumes of scriptures carved in this hall, which are put in twelve big cabinets. Among them, there are thousands of books such as Southern Tibet in the Ming Dynasty, Northern Tibet in the Ming Dynasty, Fanben in the Qing Dynasty, Collection of Books, Japanese Tales, Imperial Pen and Pharmacologist Classic.
And 557 books written in blood. This is one of the "three treasures" of Yongquan Temple. These blood sutras were written by Wang Gu, a believer, in the regular script Mahayana Prajna Sutra, and the Forty-two Chapters of Buddhism written by Master Ding Hui. It takes a long time and a lot of blood to write hundreds of Buddhist scriptures with blood, which requires people who have pricked blood not to eat salt for a long time, so that the blood will not solidify quickly when writing. Some of these Buddhist scriptures are bright red, because cinnabar is mixed in the blood; Part of it is dark red, but it is not turned into vermilion. Hundreds of Buddhist scriptures in bloody books express the great piety and extraordinary perseverance of the people.
The editor of the book Hua Yan Shu Lun *** 120 was Daopei, the abbot of Yongquan Temple in the seventh year of Qing Emperor Kangxi. It took ten years to re-abridge and revise Hua Yan Shu Chao and Hua Yan Jing Lun, which is one of the representative works of Buddhism in China and a rare treasure. Later, Master Hongyi reprinted and published 12 of them and distributed them to major Buddhist temples in Japan. Yongquan Temple used to be the publishing house of China's Buddhist works, and still holds 1 1375 works, Buddha statues and calligraphy, which are carefully carved. Therefore, the Tibetan temple here is called "the treasure house of ancient Buddhist scriptures" by the world. Engraving and blood classics are also treasures of the town temple. The Buddhist beads and spiritual teeth of the relics are kept in the stupa in the Buddhist sutra hall.