When I was in Tang Wuzong, there were about 50,000 monasteries in China, and too many monks had to support people without paying taxes. This is a huge economic loss. In July, the fifth year of Huichang (845), a decree was issued to implement the policy of exterminating Buddhism throughout the country, demolishing monasteries within a time limit, forcing monks and nuns to return to the customs, and sending four censors to born to die, longxing temple Branch of Pengzhou. In March of the following year, Wu Zong died, and Xuanzong Li Chen succeeded to the throne in May, and then he resumed his belief in Buddhism. In May of the first year of Dazhong (847), Buddhism was ordered to be restored, and two temples were built in each state, and axes were heard everywhere. Longxing temple was also rebuilt by the Prophet Zen Master. Temples and temple walls have been restored one by one, fitted with golden Buddha statues and painted with murals of heaven and hell, which is a "temporary cure" for good and evil on earth. Pagoda is also made, with geometric tomb bricks of the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties and treasure-patterned bricks of the Sui Dynasty, exquisite dense eaves of 17 grade and 4 1 height were built. Dozens of stone carvings with different sizes, gorgeous costumes, exquisite carvings and vivid images smashed in "Huichang Fanan" were placed in a square cellar with a width of 2.6 meters and a depth of 3 meters under the tower foundation. When temples and pagodas are built together, * * * plays the role of "promoting Buddhism". Chen Hui, the secretariat of Pengzhou at that time, specially wrote "Rebuilding longxing temple Monument in Jiulong County, Pengzhou" for this purpose, so as to record it in the history books.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, a monk named Pingrun often talked about Jing. Longxing temple was once called Yuanjue Temple, and disciple Bao Cong asked the writer Su Xun to write about Pengzhou Yuanjue Temple. In the seventeenth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1384), Zhirun monk rebuilt, and Jincheng Zhangben inscribed a tablet beside the tower. The temple was destroyed by the war in the late Ming Dynasty. After the construction in the early Qing Dynasty, by the time Daoguang arrived, longxing temple was in a disorderly state with sparse trees. At the beginning of Tongzhi, Fu Peimei, the county magistrate, began to build five new halls, 24 in two stages, 2 in bell and drum towers, 3 in Tianwang Hall, 65,438+000 feet of new city walls and gates, and 2 in mountain gates, and to repair tower seats.
Longxing temple has gone through a thousand years of vicissitudes, ups and downs, and changed its name five times. By the1940s, * * * covered an area of more than 80 mu, with a vast territory and a large scale, with more than 0/00 monks/kloc. The main buildings are Tianwang, Giant Buddha, Daxiong Hall and Buddhist Scripture Building, all of which are arranged on the north-south central axis, with regular layout and simple style. Together with more than 50 living rooms, ancestral halls, Buddhist temples and Wuguantang/kloc-0, it is a complete Buddhist temple complex. The corridor connects the hall with the house to shelter people from the wind and rain. It is solemn, beautiful, exquisite and practical. It is a "ten-square jungle" on the plain of western Sichuan, and is known as the "Holy Land of seven buddha".
The mountain gate is a memorial archway building, located at the southern end of the whole central axis, with the "longxing temple" plaque hanging high. On the red walls on both sides outside, there are four characters inscribed by poet and calligrapher Li, which are bold in brushwork and dignified in posture. The name of the east mountain gate is "Juelu" and the west is "Jingmen".
As soon as you enter the mountain gate, there is Longxing Tower, and then there is the three-room Tianwang Hall. In the middle is a Maitreya statue with a rosary in hand, sitting on his feet, showing his chest and abdomen and smiling. According to legend, he is a cloth bag monk. Behind it is a 4-meter-high Buddha statue. On both sides are painted statues of the four great kings. They are heavily armored, tall and dignified, each with a look, and the two sides look at each other. Buddhism is called "Four donkey kong", which symbolizes the gods who guard Buddhism. The king of the East, dressed in white, holding a pipa; The king of growth in the south, wearing blue and holding a sword; The king of the west opened his eyes wide and wrapped his red body and hands around Elon. The famous heavenly king Qing in the north holds a silver mouse in his left hand and an umbrella in his right. In the center of the hall, the original "Tian Peng Shengjing" plaque was replaced by the "longxing temple" plaque inscribed by Lin Sen. ..
The Great Buddha Hall, also known as the China Buddha Hall or the Three Masters Hall, has a 3-meter-high Guanyin in the middle, Manjusri on the left and Pu Xian statue on the right. Behind it is Wei Tuo, also known as General Wei Tian. He is brave and handsome, dressed in a samurai uniform and holding a diamond pestle in his hand, guarding the Buddha Sakyamuni in the hall opposite Ursa Mahayana.
The main hall, the Hall of the Great Hero, is the most important and largest building, which is 1 m above the ground. The eaves of the main hall are upturned, towering and spectacular. Raft Tuomo is Sanskrit, a free translation of Mahapiro, that is to say, he is as fearless as Hercules. It is the honorific title of ancient Indian Buddhists to Sakyamuni, the ancestor of Buddhism.
The Hall of Great Heroes faces south, with five rooms wide and three rooms deep. During the reign of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty, it was built with mulberry trees as wooden pillars and rebuilt in Tongzhi for four years (1865). In the middle is the Buddha of Sakyamuni, followed by the panoramic image of Guanyin, with eighteen arhats painted by Yi painter Zhao hanging on both sides. In front of the main hall, there is an all-gold plaque "Daxiong Treasure Hall", which was presented by the extraordinary abbot who presided over the temple affairs in the 13th year of the Republic of China (1924). In front of the Buddha statue, there were plaques such as "Flower Picking Seats", "True as Destroying the Truth" and "Hongzong Performing Teaching" which were funded by monks in the 13th year of the Republic of China (1944). In addition, bells, drums, wooden fish and other utensils are arranged according to Buddhist rituals, which is the place where monks worship Buddha in the morning and evening.
Buddhist scripture building is a combination of architecture and temple. It was built by Yin Zhen Zen Master of Baoguang Temple in Xindu during Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty. It has a first floor and a bottom, double eaves and a mountain rest roof. It has 7 rooms with a width of 29.4m, 4 rooms with a depth of19.4m and a height of13m. There are seven Tathagata statues in front of the building, with Guanyin in the middle.
Here are important Buddhist classics, such as Zhai Sha Cang, Ba Ga Cang presented by Japan, Tripitaka Sutra published in the early Qing Dynasty, Buddhist relic presented by the King of Sri Lanka and Baye Sutra. There is also a jade Buddha brought back from Myanmar by Qingfu monks in the late Qing Dynasty, which is a precious Buddhist cultural relic.
There are many famous calligraphy and paintings and poems in the temple. In the abbot's room, there is an inscription by an extraordinary monk, "Beyond but not beyond, ordinary and extraordinary". There are six characters of "Longxing stupa" written by Yu Youren on rice paper in the guest room. The plaques of "Guest Hall" and "Five Hall Hall" were written by Li Suo in Wenjiang County in the late Qing Dynasty. In the Republic of China, when Youziming (Jun) of Changzhou (now Yongchuan) was appointed as the county magistrate here, there was a woodcut poem on the corridor wall entering the Erdao Mountain Gate. In today's poem "Breaking the Tower to Support the Hero's Corner, Buddhism left him to work, let him wind and rain, saying that mountains and rivers are in harmony", there is also a judge from Sichuan Province, Huang Yungu (18 19).