The Shuilian Temple, built in the 1960s, has been lost. Although there are records of inscriptions in past dynasties, they were rebuilt in the third year of Song Yuanyou (1088), the twenty-seventh year of Ming Jiajing (1548) and the eighth year of Qing Qianlong (1743). For thousands of years, Shuilian Temple has suffered from military disasters and the decline of bandits. According to the records of Baiyun genealogy, in the forty-ninth year of Qianlong (1784), the elder of Zong Lin Temple, who was a Taoist in Sichuan, returned to Wutai, passed by the foot of Tongbai Mountain, saw the peaks of Yunlin, and stayed in this mountain, where he accepted his disciples to preach the Dharma and gave lectures. Before 1949, the temple was abandoned. After 1949, monks settled here again. Until the Cultural Revolution, the monks dispersed, and this ancient temple with a thousand-year history was buried in dead wood and grass.
From 65438 to 0983, under the auspices of Master Xu Chuan, Yin Gong and Miao Xia, Shuilian Temple began a large-scale reconstruction and restoration work. During the period from 1983 to 1993, there were Daxiong Hall, Jade Buddha Hall, Pilu Hall, Tianwang Hall, Shanmen, Monastery, Gongde Hall, Guanyin Zen Forest, Luohantang, Bamboo Forest, Sino-Tibetan Library, Buddhist Hotel, Vegetarian Restaurant and various houses in Shuilian Temple/kloc-0. There are more than 2000 cubic meters of inclined walls, a barrage and more than 800 cubic meters of river protection. There are 128 statues of buddhas and bodhisattvas, large-scale woodcut Diamond Sutra 12 faces, five bronze buddhas of Thailand size, a big clock weighing 1.2 tons, a big drum diameter of 1.3 meters, a Baoding building 3.6 meters high, more than 200 pieces of various ritual vessels, and a stone tablet/kloc. The abbot of Kannonji, Taiwan Province Province, saw the master pay for a jade Buddha, a string of jade beads from Taiwan Province Province and a top-class red ancestral dress. At this point, a magnificent Brahma Buddhist temple was completed.
1October 28th 1993, 10, a ceremony was held in Shuilian Temple to open the Buddha statue, welcome the Tibetan scriptures and ascend the abbot's throne. Four Buddhist disciples from 19 provinces and cities and representatives of Buddhist groups from the United States, Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan attended the grand ceremony, which was unprecedented.
There is water curtain cave near Shuilian Temple, which is an ideal place for tourists to gather for summer vacation. Water curtain cave is about 20 meters above the ground, and there is a clay statue of a macaque in it. The monkey's water came out and the wine jingled in the stone bowl. The mouth of the cave is covered with waterfalls pouring down from the top of the mountain, like a curtain of beads hanging down. There are steps and chains along the stone wall to climb up and enter the cave. Although the heat is still cool.
For 200 years, the lamp of Buddhist wisdom in Tongbai Mountain has been on, and there are many people from generation to generation. Famous mages include Ma He, a monk, a master, a master Liao Gui, a master of Taoism, a master of vacuum, a master of preaching precepts, a master of Yin Gong and so on. Xu Wei monks, Master Yin Gong and Master Miao Xia have made great contributions to the reconstruction and development of Shuilian Temple. Master Xu Chuan was born in Xinxiang, Henan Province in the winter of 1908 and died in the spring of 1986. Master Yin Gong 1930 was born in Suizhou, Hubei Province, and 1993 died.