Description of Fuzhou Kaiyuan Temple (Tiefo Temple) Attractions:
Kaiyuan Temple is located at No.78 Kaiyuan Road, Gu Lou District, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province. It was built in the third year of Liang Taiqing in the Southern Dynasty (549) and is an old temple in this province. This temple was originally called Lingshan Temple, later changed to Dayun Temple, also known as Longxing Temple in the early Tang Dynasty, and changed to its present name in the twenty-third year of Tang Kaiyuan (735). Temple forehead Kaiyuan Temple, written by Ou Yangxun, a famous calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, has a strong brushwork and a tight knot, which still exists today. Kaiyuan Temple used to be the largest temple in Fuzhou's history. According to the current place names, its scope starts from Jingda Road in the east, reaches Shangbin Road in the west, reaches Sanmufang in the south, and spans Longshan and Zhishan in the north, accounting for about one tenth of the urban area in that year. In the fifth year of Huichang (845), put in order was the world's Buddhist temple, and only one temple was allowed to be kept in one state. At that time, Kaiyuan Temple was the largest in Fuzhou and was preserved.
Kaiyuan Temple suffered several fires in history, and the temple foundation was gradually occupied. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, the main hall also burned the temple, with less than one tenth of the temple buildings. In 28 years (1939), the temple was bombed by enemy planes again. In the thirty years of the Republic of China (1941) and thirty-three years (1944), Fuzhou fell twice and the temple was destroyed. Fortunately, monk Bao Song of Xuefeng Temple went down the mountain and entered the abbot of the temple, so he saved several rafters in the temple. In November of the thirty-fifth year of the Republic of China (1946), it was already one year after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. The masses and overseas Chinese in Nanyang donated money to rebuild the Iron Buddha Hall and set up a Buddhist hospital and a Buddhist library. Buddhist Hospital is the predecessor of Fuzhou People's Hospital, and its site is the former Pharmacist Hall. There is an iron Buddha in the Iron Buddha Hall, called Amitabha Buddha, sitting on the lotus platform with folded hands and covered with mud, which is solemn. The iron Buddha is 5.3 meters high, with a solid head and a hollow body. People stand on their shoulders and can't reach the top of their heads. It is estimated that it weighs more than 1, Jin. During the reign of Emperor Qianlong in Qing Dynasty, Chen Yuncheng recorded in "A Tribute in the Middle of Fujian" that the couplets written by Zeng Yi, a juren in the late Ming Dynasty, were engraved on both sides of the front pillar of the Tiefo Hall: the ancient Buddha originated in man of iron, but ordinary people said it was a golden body.
The iron age of the iron Buddha is not recorded, and people often mistake it for the 3, Jin bronze Buddha cast by Wang Shenzhi in the later Tang Dynasty (in fact, Wang Shenzhi cast a group of three Buddha statues). There is an article in "Notes on Rongcheng" written by overseas scattered people in the early Qing Dynasty: On the first day of April in the 16th year of Shunzhi (1659), the Iron Buddha Hall was rebuilt, and a silver tower was opened under the Buddha's seat, with the title: Song Yuanfeng was in Hitachi on the first day of the first month, and Liu Jin was the secretariat. Accordingly, the Iron Buddha was cast before the sixth year of Yuanfeng in the Northern Song Dynasty (183).
The iron Buddha in Kaiyuan Temple is the largest iron Buddha in the province. According to research, the iron Buddha was cast by wax casting method, which was not easy at that time. It provided a valuable material for studying the smelting technology in ancient China, which fully demonstrated the intelligence and intelligence of the ancient Chinese people. In 1961, Tiefo was listed as a municipal protected cultural relic, and it is still intact. In 198, the Tiefo Temple was rebuilt.
In the small pavilion on the east side of the back of Lingyuan in Kaiyuan Temple, stands a bronze statue of the empty sea. I saw the master dressed in cloth, holding a Zen battle in his left hand, a rosary in his left hand, sandals on his feet, a straw hat on his back, his eyes looking straight up, and a long journey and a travel-stained look. The bronze statue is 3.5 meters high, of which the height is 2.8 meters and the weight is 1.3 tons. It was cast by Nanjing Chenguang Machine Factory, a subsidiary of China Aerospace Industry Department, at the expense of Japanese Shinrikyo believers. In 1993, Japan's Japan-China Friendship Air Sea Statue established a delegation of more than 12 people, who made a special trip to Kaiyuan Temple to attend the installation ceremony of the bronze statue of Air Sea.
The Baosong Zen Master Memorial Hall in the temple was built in 1982 to commemorate the reconstruction of the Iron Buddha Hall in the 35th year of the Republic of China (1946) and the founding of Buddhist hospitals and libraries. Kaiyuan Temple is also a famous Buddhist scripture engraving place in history. The Brahma Book of the Song Dynasty (Pilu Tripitaka) has 1,451 volumes and 6,132 volumes, which, together with Tozenji's Chongning Wanshou Tripitaka, is called Fuzhou Collection.
The existing buildings in Kaiyuan Temple include Tiefo Hall, Lingyuan Pavilion and Baosong Memorial Hall, as well as Pilu Pavilion and Dizang Hall. The monks in the whole temple go to the temple in accordance with the Buddhist rituals of China, do morning and evening classes, practice convenient attendance, recite scriptures in a unified way, and live a religious life like a law. Kaiyuan Temple is currently the abbot's native mage and the wonderful dharma mage in the prison.