Ying Ci (1872- 1965) was born in Shexian County, Anhui Province. 26 years old, became a monk in Putuo Mountain. At the age of 28, he was ordained at Tiantong Temple in Ningbo, and then went to Jinshan, Yin Gao, Tianning and other monasteries to study. He was inspired and sent to Zen, Dading, Lang Yue and other places.
Hua Yanzong took Hua Yan Jing as the main sutra, and was named "Xianshou" by Wu Zetian because of the actual founder Fazang, also known as the first. Hua Yanzong believes that the world is the representation of the Buddha in Piluzena, and a grain of dust reflects the world and contains eternity in an instant, which promotes the world outlook of "the origin of Buddhism" and the idea of "entering the Buddha".
Master Ying Ci and Master Xia Yue taught Huayan Jing at Huayan University and Huayan Lecture Hall at Guangfu Temple in Yushan. 1922, I went to Bordet, West Lake, Hangzhou, and devoted myself to the Huayan Classic. In the following decades, Master Ying Ci spread the teachings of Huayan Sect to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanxi, Shanghai and other places, and established Huayan Academy in Changzhou and Shanghai to train monks. 1948, presided over the affairs of Huayan Law Society. Master Yingci lived in Sean Temple in his later years and continued to give lectures. His self-discipline is that "all the four-walled scriptures can be read, and he will not participate in meditation four days a year."
Master Ying Ci is a representative of Buddhism who loves his country and religion. After its founding, People's Republic of China (PRC) supported the policies and laws of the people's government led by the Chinese Production Party and the policy of freedom of religious belief. 1954 was elected as the representative of the first Shanghai People's Congress and honorary president of the Shanghai Buddhist Association; 1957 was elected vice president of Chinese Buddhist Association and vice president of China Buddhist College; 1962 was elected honorary president of Chinese Buddhist Association.
1985, master Ming wrote an inscription to commemorate the 20th anniversary of master Ying Ci's death:
Buddhism should be respected by the public, and morality should be respected by all.
Kindness loves the motherland, and great compassion is willing to protect Zen.
After talking about Prajna's vacuum theory, he also taught Hua Yan's occult technique.
I left my hand twenty years ago, and now I have six magical powers.
During the "Cultural Revolution", Sean Temple was occupied by factories. In order to implement the religious policy, the municipal government made great efforts to coordinate all aspects, relocated the factory and handed over the Sean Temple to Buddhist organizations for management and use. At present, Sean Temple also has a memorial hall for Master Ying Ci, and many believers and tourists from home and abroad come to pay their respects and visit every day. 1989 implements a religious policy, while repairing and opening. After research by the Shanghai Buddhist Association and the municipal cultural management department, it was decided to restore Sean Temple according to the pattern of ancient buildings in Ming and Qing Dynasties. After five years of renovation, Sean Temple has reappeared its old appearance in Ming and Qing Dynasties. The mountain gate with four pillars, three rooms and three archways basically retains the original stone pillars and some components; The Tianwang Temple is in the middle of Maitreya Buddha, Wei Tuo and Four donkey kong in Fengtian. There are Lushenafo, Manjusri, Pu Xian, Brahma King and Earth Stone in the Hall of Ursa Major, with eighteen arhats on both sides and Guanyin Island behind the fan wall. The back hall is Guanyin Tower, which is the main building of the whole temple "Sean Temple". There are three entrances at the front and back, and the wings on both sides are attached halls and temples, with complete structure and compact layout.
At present, on the central axis of Sean Temple, the first building is a restored stone tablet building of Ming Dynasty, with eaves and arches, on which is hung the plaque of "Sean Temple" inscribed by the famous calligrapher Sha Menghai. The second entrance is Tianwang Temple. The four statues of Maitreya, Wei Tuo and Tianwang are newly decorated with plastic and gold. In the King Temple, there are generally four heavenly kings, so it is called the King Temple. After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the statues of the four kings have basically become a stereotype, that is, the East holds the monarch with a white face and a pipa in his hand; Southern growth king, black face, holding a sword; Western kings have big eyes and red faces, holding a dragon or snake in their hands; There are many famous heavenly kings in the north with green faces and a big treasure building (umbrella) in their hands.
Buddhism believes that the four heavenly kings can protect the Buddha, the land and all beings. The magic weapon held by Buddhist believers from the four heavenly kings (sword holding "wind", pipa "tune", treasure house metaphor "rain" and dragon and snake metaphor "following people's wishes") can bless the abundant crops, the prosperity of six livestock and the good weather every year.
In the middle of the Heavenly King Hall, Maitreya Buddha is carved in the south. In Buddhism, Maitreya Bodhisattva is a future Buddha endowed by the Buddha to educate all beings in the world after the Buddha, so it is also called Maitreya Buddha. In Sean Temple, the statue of Maitreya and the crown of Buddha were carved when Maitreya was still in the inner court of Tian Zi. At present, most temples have plastic statues of cloth-bag monks, who are always smiling. According to legend, in the Five Dynasties, there was a monk named Qi Ben in Fenghua, Zhejiang. He is often untidy and begging in the street with a cloth bag in his hand. People call him a "cloth bag monk". On the third day of the third lunar month, before sitting quietly, he said a song: "Maitreya Buddha is really Maitreya Buddha, incarnating hundreds of millions." Always show it to the world, and the world often doesn't know it. "Buddhists think that he is the incarnation of Mifo, and he is kind-hearted and makes people happy, so he is shaped into a cloth bag monk in a general Buddhist temple.
Behind Maitreya is a statue of Wei Tuo, a heavenly soldier and general. According to Buddhists, he often cruises three continents, east, west, north and south, facing the Buddha statue and guarding Buddhism, which is called "three continents induction". He is the patron saint of temples, and people also call him Wei Tuo Bodhisattva. The common image of Wei Tuo is a statue. One is to put your hands together and put the magic pestle across your arm. The other is to hold the pestle with both hands, or to hold the pestle with the left hand and the right hand rested on her hips, facing the Hall of Heroes and watching the people coming in and out. Some monasteries also shaped Wei Tuo into a sitting statue. For example, a statue of Wei Tuo was shaped and erected in Dinghui Temple in Rugao, Jiangsu. The third entrance is Mahayana Hall, with a pair of couplets facing the gate, presented by Singaporean Buddhist Wu, and inscribed by Master Long Lian, vice president of the Chinese Buddhist Association and abbot of Tiexiang Temple and Aidaotang in Chengdu, Sichuan:
The fallen people are all in the same boat with the three thousand buddhas.
The sea of perfume is boundless, and billions of French kings are on stage.
In the center of the main hall, on the seat of Sumeru, on both sides, there are the reported Buddha Lushenafo, Manjusri, Pu Xian, Brahma and Indra. On the top of the well, there are 348 small gilded Buddha statues around the Lushena Buddha, which symbolizes this solemn Bhikuni Dojo and strictly abides by the 348 precepts of Bhikuni in Sanskrit Buddhism. The table in front of the Buddha and the five utensils on the table are all configured according to the Ming Dynasty style. On both sides of the hall are eighteen-year-old Han Chinese full of gold. At the southern end of Ursa major, the east bell and the west drum, and the morning bell and the evening drum practice chanting. After entering the spacious courtyard of the main hall, there is a three-story bronze tripod and a pair of stone lampstands on the open space. The buildings around the square are two-story pavilions, and the east and west hatchbacks are four sets of rooms specially designed for overseas female guests to come to the temple. According to the characteristics of spring, summer, autumn and winter, Ming-style bed and bedroom furniture are arranged, but equipped with modern sanitary equipment. The West Building is the squatter house of Sean Temple, where monks often live. Downstairs are the living room, the Goddess of Mercy Hall and the Galatians Hall, where there are wood carvings of Guan Yu, the Galatians God in Amin's time. Xi 'an Temple is an ancestral temple, which contains the lotus seat of Sean Temple (Ciyun Temple) and the lotus seat of Master Ying Ci, who has been here since 1943 and has been promoting the Huayan Classics all his life.
The building on the front of the patio is unique in China. Looking up from the courtyard, four pillars in the middle set up double cornices, with hanging pavilions on the eaves and French windows in the southeast and west. This is a famous pavilion in Sean Temple, and the title of Zhao Puchu layman is "Nanhai Du Fei Agarwood and Big Stone Pavilion". Climb the stairs on both sides, and you can smell the fragrance immediately. This is the real Sean Temple. Although the name is Pavilion, in fact, the Pavilion is just a small square pavilion protruding outward, several Ming-style single-backed chairs and several stilts. Behind the pavilion is the Guanyin Hall, with Kuimen and wind banners hanging on it. In front of a big Buddhist shrine, there is a big altar of Ming-style nanmu and five offerings of bright yellow porcelain, which are properly displayed on the altar. In a two-foot-high hollow incense burner, the smell of sandalwood floated out. On both sides of the shrine are bronze statues of Garfield and two boys. After the Buddha's sacrifice, it is the agarwood Guanyin. This agarwood Guanyin, also known as Ruyi Guanyin. Guanyin is a sitting statue, which was originally three feet high. Carved with precious agarwood, hence the name. Bend your right foot on the seat, rest your right elbow on your right knee, rest your left hand on the seat, and lean your head slightly on the right side, making a thoughtful look, covered by a corolla, solemn and kind. According to legend, according to Sui Shu's records, in the fourth year of Sui Dynasty (608), Emperor Yang Di sent his minister Chang Jun to the southern countries to give China handicrafts and other gifts, and the red soil countries returned a statue of Aquilaria sinensis and Guanyin. Chang Jun returned to Chang 'an, while Yang Di was touring Yangzhou, Chang Jun and others came to Yangzhou by boat from Huaihe River. On the way, they were overturned by the strong wind and sank into the Huaihe River. It was not until Pan Yunduan discovered it in the Ming Dynasty that he returned to Shanghai and built a pavilion here. It is said that when it rains, the sound is fragrant. Unfortunately, I didn't know where to go during the Cultural Revolution.
At present, Immortal Guanyin made a special trip to Thailand from the abbot of Sean Temple 1990, and collected a very precious Daphne family from Thailand, worth more than 10,000 US dollars. Shipped back to Shanghai, with first-class sandalwood, enlarged and re-carved as it is, with a look and craftsmanship no less than the original picture. Below the pavilion is Ciyun Hall, with simple decoration and layout. There is a long table, an eighteen immortals table, two armchairs, four armchairs on each side, a round table and four drum-shaped round stools in the middle of the north wall. All made of Ming mahogany, no desk and chair covers, elegant and bearing; All the decorations are just a yellow pear screen on the left and right, a marble screen and a pair of vases on mahogany. On the front wall, there is a painted Guanyin nave and two couplets, which were inscribed by Zhao Puchu lay man and Zen master respectively:
Zhao Puchu wrote:
Huahai meditates on self-nature;
Sandalwood wind always wins everyone's heart.
Written by a real Zen master:
Without me, no one is comfortable;
Non-color is not empty, see Buddha.
To the west of Ciyuntang is the VIP reception room. To the east is the abbot's room. Now the abbot of Sean Temple is a Taoist. The 85-year-old Star-gazing Master is currently the executive director of the Chinese Buddhist Association and the vice president of the Shanghai Buddhist Association. He used to be a representative of the people in Shinan District, a member of the District Political Consultative Conference and a Tzu Chi resident. She led 60 or 70 monks and nuns from these two Buddhist monasteries and more than 20 Buddhist colleges to learn meditation.
In the northeast of Sean Temple, a small Ming-style building was rebuilt, which is now the "Memorial Hall of Master Ying Ci" with the title of Zhao Puchu lay man. The ground floor is a small dharma hall, and the second and third floors display precious photos, works, handwriting and relics reflecting Master Ying Ci's life of spreading dharma and benefiting life before his death.
On both sides of the portrait of Master Ying Ci in the lobby on the second floor, Master Zhen Chan inscribed couplets for the pro-teacher:
The wind of Xia Yuezong does not fall into the Buddha Sea. Rong Yuan once said that Hua Yan is the first of the three translations;
With selfless wisdom, I am glad that the Lingshan ceremony of my teacher is still a real dharma circle.
To the east of Sean Temple, there is a comprehensive building. Downstairs is a vegetarian restaurant for two or three hundred people. Provide vegetarian restaurants with Cantonese flavor for Buddhist believers during Buddhist festivals and incense. There is also a small and exquisite restaurant on the second floor, antique and decorated with gold-plated patterns of precious flowers. In particular, a beautiful wall sculpture, based on the original stone carving in Gongxian County, Henan Province, the Northern Wei Dynasty's "Emperor's Buddha Ceremony" is even more antique and solemn. This restaurant is first-class in Buddhist temples and even large guest houses in Shanghai. Upstairs is the student classroom and student case room of Shanghai Buddhist College. Each temple has more than 20 students from all over the country. Now the fourth class students have signed up. Before graduation, all the students got the precepts and were assigned to various buddhist nun or Buddhist colleges in this city to serve as important deacons and teachers, becoming the descendants of a new generation of monks.
Sean Temple is famous at home and abroad for its quaint agarwood Guanyin. It is also a tourist attraction in the center of Shanghai, adjacent to the Old Town God Temple and Yu Garden, attracting countless Buddhist believers and tourists at home and abroad and making due contributions to the prosperity of Shanghai.
The restored Sean Temple is the largest bhikshuni jungle in Shanghai. The abbot of Sean Temple is a Taoist priest. 199265438+1October 15, the Sean temple was renovated, and the ceremony of opening the Guanyin statue and the Taoist ascension was held grandly. On the morning of August 1994 and 14, Master Yang Ming, Vice President of the Chinese Buddhist Association and abbot of Longhua Ancient Temple, was invited to preside over and solemnly hold the opening ceremony of the whole Buddha statue. More than 800 Buddhist believers in Shanghai and elders from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong attended the unveiling ceremony of the Buddha statue. Mages and believers from Singapore, Hongkong and Taiwan Province Province came to Shanghai to celebrate the opening ceremony. President Zhao Puchu of the Chinese Buddhist Association sent a congratulatory message to the event. 1992, Sean Temple was listed as the key cultural relics protection unit in Shanghai, and 1994, it was listed as the national key cultural relics protection unit.