Zen Temple is located at the southern foot of West Tianmu Mountain in Lin 'an City, Zhejiang Province, under the two peaks of Zhaoming and Xuri, and it is one of the famous temples in Zhejiang Province. Surrounded by mountains, the scenery is extremely elegant. Monks have come forth in large numbers throughout the ages, and the legal system belongs to Lin Ji, which spread far and wide in Japan. During the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, it was the seat of Zhejiang No.1 Middle School, and Zhejiang University moved in and temporarily stayed here. 194 1 April 15 was bombed by Japanese planes, and the buildings of the Ursa Major Hall and the East Wing were reduced to ashes, making the Zen Temple desolate. A piece of "floating jade" on Tianmu Mountain, also known as "Eye of the Sky", is called "Longyuan" because there are two lakes on the mountain. Taiping Universe said, "Tianmu Mountain is 3,900 feet high and 550 miles wide." Tianmu Mountain Buddhism was first founded by Zhu Fakuang, a master in Jin Dynasty, and Xie An, a famous scholar in Eastern Jin Dynasty, came to "worship" when he was the satrap of Xing Wu. Jian Wendi sent the prefect of Tangyi to ask about daily life; Emperor Xiao Wu "invited to Beijing, and learned from the teacher". Hui Lin, a famous monk in the Tang Dynasty, spent more than 20 years in Tianmu, giving lectures to Bai Juyi, a famous monk and poet. After the difficulty of making peace in the Tang Dynasty, Zen master Hongluan "returned to the monk's costume in the early Middle Ages". When King Qian Liu of wuyue was young, Hongmao once said to him, "Take care of yourself, he is extremely expensive, and he should give priority to Buddhism." When Qian Liu was a herdsman in Hangzhou, "worshipping Buddha when he saw it" had a lot to do with wuyue's worship of Buddha after the founding of the People's Republic of China. In the Song Dynasty, there was a Zen master who was stationed at the foot of Tianmu Lotus Peak.
In the spring of the 16th year of Yuan Dynasty (1279), there was a monk with a peak in the Yuan Dynasty. "The west peak of Tianmu is built straight, and there are lion rocks stretching for thousands of miles, so there are many rocks." Therefore, "the rock-making end is stone, and the small room is like a boat" is simply called "Death Pass". He has the language of "three customs" to test scholars. As the saying goes, "if you come, you will not enter the death barrier, but you will not leave the death barrier." The iron snake went into the sea and hit Mount Sumi. "Its poetic style is high and ancient, and the poem" Yong Guan Shan "says:" One mountain is high and abrupt, and a hundred miles belong to the city. The old jade hangs dawn and the flowers accumulate in Fuchun. The tides of the river and the air are even, and the clouds break the moon mark. How many people in the forest are indifferent to this? "Its necklaces are" the river is hollow "and" the cloud is interrupted ",which has a lasting appeal. Followed by the Zen master, the common surname Sun, Qiantang people. The youngest son read The Analects of Confucius and Mencius, became a monk at the age of fifteen, and went to the lion's house for a haircut from the peak. Gao Feng praised him for "new achievements on the pole, and success is not easy to measure". During the Dade period, the famous calligrapher worshipped Li as his teacher and named him "Fa Hui Zen Master". At the end of Yuan Dynasty, it was destroyed by soldiers. In the first year of Hongxi in Ming Dynasty (1425), monk Zhiao rebuilt and became his first disciple. Later, according to Congo, a monk, he established a meditation hall. In the tenth year of Xuande (1435), Daxiong Hall was built. In the first year of orthodoxy (1436), Huicheng and monks carved buddhas and painted screen walls. The bronze statues of Guanyin, Three Buddhas and Lohan, the founders of Galand, were newly built, and the gates, the monk hall and the top of the Seventh Hall were resplendent and magnificent. Destroyed by soldiers in the late Ming Dynasty. In the 4th year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (1665), Yulin fellow practitioners revived the Dojo and became a jungle again. In the 11th year of Yongzheng (1733), the imperial book Zen Temple of Emperor Sejong was hung in the Temple of the King of Heaven. At that time, the entrance of the mountain gate was the Temple of the King of Heaven and the Temple of Wei Tuo. To the east are the guest room and the guest building; To the west, there is Yunshui Mansion and distinguished guest rooms. In the middle is the Hall of Heroes, in the east is the Hall of Pharmacists, and in the west are Tang Jie and Neck Hall. Behind the Hall of the Great Heroes are the Dharma Hall, the Imperial Book Building and the Hanhui Building. On the east side of the main hall are the abbot's room, Zhuiyuan Hall, Compassion Pavilion and Dizang Hall. In the west, there are Xi Zhangshi, Zen Hall, Tang Meng and Tang Jie. Original 16 branch, fully immersed in Zen source temple. Qianlong fifty-eight years (1793), rebuilt the Wei Tuo Temple. During the Jiaqing period (1796- 1820), the international border prevented monk Zhou from rebuilding the temple. In the fifteenth year of Xianfeng (1860), the temple was destroyed by soldiers, leaving only Yakushiji (1865). In suspension, he ordered a visit and invited the monks in Wuzhen to live in the Buddhist temple. Rebuild the hall in twelve years. In the fifth year of Guangxu (1879), a meditation hall rose; In seven years, Dinghui monk raised funds to build a dharma hall; Ten years to rebuild the abbot. In fifteen years, Wei Tuo Buddha prayed for rain spirit, and Emperor Dezong granted "Fu You Hidden City" to hang in the temple.
The founder of Zen Temple is a Buddhist in Yulin. Yulin Jushi (16 14- 1675) was born in Jiangyin, Jiangsu. Minhui/kloc-became a monk at the age of 0/9, and was fully disciplined. It was only when I heard Mazu's Zen saying "suck up the Xijiang River in one gulp" that I suddenly realized that the teacher called it "come again" and there was a saying that "the dragon will cover the sky and cover the earth, and the next year will spread to Linji Sect". After the judicial transfer, Lin Jizong lived in Hongji, Huzhou, and Sifang passed away. At that time, it was called "Ergan Road Gate" in parallel with Tiantong Miyun's enlightenment. The emperor shunzhi in Qing Dynasty: "Sound Virtue", fifteen years (1658), sent envoys to seek imperial edicts. The emperor summoned him to the inner garden to "ask calmly and meet each other late" and named him "Dajue Zen Master". The teacher "talked about the Tao vertically and horizontally", and the emperor was very happy and gave him a name and a vestment. In the autumn of the seventeenth year of Shunzhi (1660), he was called to the capital again, and was awarded the title of "Shenda Puji can serve as a stone country", giving him purple clothes and gold seals and opening an imperial altar. On the day of Buddha's enlightenment, in the tower of Cishou Temple outside Fucheng 1500 people said the Great precept of Bodhisattva. The Wulin gentleman asked the abbot of Tianmu Mountain. I learned it in the Zuta of Tianmu Mountain. Tianmu Mountain is the birthplace of Wulin, with towering old trees and the most beautiful. But due to the war, hooligans hacked and the forest was destroyed. Yulin Buddhists take Gude's motto "A thousand bamboos are all loose, nothing more than touching their ancestors" as their training, and it is forbidden to cut stones. A few years later, I returned to my old point of view. He rebuilt the temple and changed the "Shuangqing Village" at the foot of the mountain into a Zen Temple, forming the scale of the former site of Zen Source Temple. In the spring of the 14th year of Kangxi (1675), Buddhists wanted to visit Wutai Mountain and drifted north. Because of the hot weather, he crossed the river and stopped at Ciyun Temple in Qingjiangpu (now Huai 'an, Jiangsu). "He sat in the bathtub and said he was dead." Ji Yun: "No life, no death today. This is a fact. " At the age of sixty-two, the disciple welcomed Xiaosheng to death.
The temple is large in scale and complete in layout. It is divided into three axes: Tianwang Hall, Wei Tuo Hall, Daxiong Hall, Fatang Hall (the Royal Pavilion upstairs) and Zutang Hall (the Hanhui Building upstairs). On the east axis are the guest room (also known as the fifth floor), the guest room, the Yakushido (the building is Pure Land Pavilion), the abbot (the building is Daxie Pavilion), Zhuiyuan Hall (the Great Compassion Building upstairs) and the Dizang Hall on the east side of Zhuiyuan Hall (the Guanyin Pavilion upstairs). On the west axis, there are the Official Guest House (also known as the VIP House, the second floor), the West Guest House (Yunshui House), Tang Jie (the Zhu Yi House upstairs and the Inner Guest House in the east), Zen Hall and Louyunxuan (the Evening Fragrant Pavilion upstairs and Tang Meng in the east). There are other ancillary buildings, such as baking tea room, Tang Qi and storage room. At present, the building east of the Hall of the Great Hero was bombed by the Japanese army, but the site still exists. The building on the west axis is still basically complete, but the official guest room has been converted into "Tianmu Mountain Hotel", and the rest of the original buildings still exist.
During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, XiTianmu was the linkage center of anti-Japanese and national salvation in western Zhejiang. 1February, 938, the capital office of the first district of Zhejiang Province was moved to XiTianmu Temple for the first time to hold a national training course for cadres of the Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Forces. Then various anti-Japanese organizations moved in. 1939, 1 year, the administrative office of western Zhejiang moved to the Buddhist temple again. In July of the same year, West Zhejiang Daily and National Daily were founded one after another, and Zhejiang Special Committee of Zhejiang Provincial Committee sent a group of party member patriots to West Tianmu to publicize the anti-Japanese national salvation movement. In particular, in March of 1939, Zhou Enlai also arrived at the Zen Source Temple in West Tianmu Mountain in the public capacity of the Deputy Political Department of the Military Commission of the National Government to publicize the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China's anti-Japanese policy, analyze the anti-Japanese situation, and point out the bright future of anti-Japanese, which greatly inspired the anti-Japanese morale. Zhou Enlai's trip had a great influence on the Party's work in Zhejiang and the development of the United Front and the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Movement. Since then, the Buddhist temple has become a base for resisting Japan and saving the country, and it has been regarded as a thorn in the side of the Japanese invaders. 1941April 15, the traitors released Yamakaji's guiding target, and seven Japanese planes flew low over the Buddhist temple without scruple, dropping more than 30 bombs in turn, bombing the administrative office in western Zhejiang, and the whole temple was destroyed by fire.
Zen Temple has a special position in the history of Buddhism in China and Zhejiang. Japanese Buddhist Lin Jizong regards it as one of the ancestral halls and has visited Zhejiang many times. West Tianmu Mountain, with lush trees and elegant scenery, is the birthplace of the whole mountain system and water system in Hangzhou. Its water flows from Daxi to Tiaoxi in the east, and tends to be submerged as Zixi in the west, and the hydration with Lujia is Zhejiang. "Notes on Water Classics" says: "Zhejiang water leaves Xing Wu County and hangs in the North Tianmu Mountain. The mountain is extremely steep and the cliffs are stacked. There is a cave in the west, and there are frost trees on the mountain, all of which are hundreds of years old and called Xiangfenglin. There are waterfalls in the east and west, and a few acres of deep marshes are bet, called Jiaochi ... There are mountains and waters in the southeast, and the two peaks intersect and often defend each other. More than ten miles, Shi Lei mound was built, and they helped each other. The white sand and fine stones under the cave are like frost and snow, which are in contrast with Shui Mu, and the spring stones are gorgeous, hence the name Loulin. " Tourism resources are extremely rich. At present, the relevant departments are vigorously developing the Tianmu Tourism Line, which is of great benefit to the preservation of Buddhist cultural sites and the promotion of traditional culture in wuyue. In recent years, the local government has decided to take the ruins of the Zen Temple as the scope of restoration, formulate plans and raise funds through fundraising. First, the Hall of the Great Hero was restored, and the original appearance of the official guest hall was restored. Later, buildings such as the Pharmacist Hall on the west side were built one after another.