Lingyan Temple is located in Wande Street, Changqing District, Jinan City, Shandong Province. Located in the northwest of Mount Tai, it is now an important part of Mount Tai's world natural and cultural heritage. Lingyan Temple was built in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Xiao Ming in the Northern Wei Dynasty was rebuilt in the first year of Zhengxing, and reached its peak in the Tang Dynasty. There are pagodas and thousands of Buddhist temples.
Lingyan Temple is rich in Buddhism. Since the Tang Dynasty, it has been known as the "Four Famous Temples" in the world together with qixia temple in Nanjing, Congress Temple in Tiantai, Zhejiang, and dangyang yuquan temple, Hubei. Tang Xuanzang once lived in a temple to translate scriptures. Since Tang Gaozong, emperors of all dynasties have visited Mount Tai for meditation, and many of them have also visited this temple. 1982 the State Council announced Lingyan Temple as the second batch of national key cultural relics protection units. It is an AAAA-level scenic spot.
Lingyan Temple has a long history. It was built 1600 years ago. "Fujian Yongxing Middle School" (357) in the pre-Qin period, "Monks live here, and dozens of areas are built in refined houses". The temple founded by Langgong flourished for less than a hundred years. In the seventh year of the Northern Wei Dynasty (Tuoba Road), the Taiping Zhenjun destroyed the Buddha and all the temples were destroyed.
During the reign of Emperor Xiaoming of the Northern Wei Dynasty (520 ~ 525), the legal Zen master came here to rebuild the temple in the shadow of Fangshan (the only remaining site in the south of Xiaosi Village), and then built the temple in the sun of Fangshan (next to the Ganlu Spring in the northeast of the temple site).
inscription on a tablet
Lingyan Temple Monument is located in Luban Cave of Lingyan Temple. It was written by Li Yong, a great calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, in the first year of Tianbao (742). The font is running script ***2 1 line, full of 4 1 word. The tablet was first seen in Zhao Mingcheng's Jin Shi Lu in the Song Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Qianlong of Qing Dynasty, when Ruan Yuan wrote The Stone of Zuoshan, this monument was unknown.
In the sixth year of Xianfeng (1856), the calligrapher He visited Ji and got this tablet, which was broken into two stones and the characters were incomplete. Shifang Lingyan Temple Pastoral Monument, in the Tianwang Hall of Lingyan Temple, is engraved with the "Shifang Lingyan Temple Pastoral Monument" inscribed by Zhou Chi, a rural migrant worker.