The ancient temple is quiet and serene, and the Buddha statue is kind and peaceful. Surrounded by verdant bamboos and lush ancient trees, the sky is covered; The mountains are towering, the clouds are misty and the flowers are beautiful. In front of the temple, the mountains rise and fall, and the water bends back and forth; The mountain behind the temple is like a dragon, and the strange rock springs flow out. The springs are shaped like hanging bats, formerly known as "bats as walls". "Bat" is homophonic with "Buddha" and "blessing", so ten believers worship "Buddha" to pray for disaster relief. Once had the reputation of "the first temple in Southeast China".
According to Fourteen Volumes of Ancestor Sacrifice in Yongding County, Fujian Province, "South Huashan Mountain is under the bitter bamboo Yao, with strange peaks and rocks, and there are monks offering incense at the top of the mountain ..." It is said that during the Tang and Song Dynasties, a group of monks went to South Huashan Mountain, where the mountains were steep, the clouds were lingering, the scenery was beautiful and the forest was deep.
Dig another "longevity well". The temple has been repaired in the past dynasties, and the inscriptions contain: in the seventeenth year of Guangxu, it was repaired by ten believers, and in the hundred days of Guangxu, the ancestors donated and expanded; Later, it was repaired many times by the great monks Changqing, Longquan, Daoshou, Jinan, Yong Cheng, Yongrui, Wei Xiao, Quanzhou and Quansuni. The temple is magnificent in scale and exquisitely carved, which is breathtaking. Later abandoned, many stone carvings were destroyed, and most of the antiquities were lost. 1978, with the help of three nuns, namely Shi Quanzhou (Huang Shengzhou), Shi Mingying (Su Mingying) and Shi (Jiang Asu), Wei Xiao's disciples, rebuilt the Nanhuashan Temple for the third time. In the meantime, Zhang Yuecong, who was three years old, was accepted as a disciple and given the dharma name-Zhang Congcong; When Zen master Shi Quanzhou rebuilt the temple, he dreamed of the "New Huashan Mountain" in the pagoda, and preserved the redundant couplets of "Nanshan Buddha Fruit, Kazuki Watanabe musician Yin Zen Heart", which are now floating on the gate of Nanhua Temple. Before Quanzhou died, 1993 was passed to the abbot, Zhang Ning and Zhang Cong.
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? Abbot Suning (20 1 1), who worshiped Buddha Sakyamuni as a teacher in front of Guanyin Dojo in Nanhai, Nanhua Mountain, followed Shi Daoning's legacy of learning from Quanzhou, sincerely became attached to all sentient beings, made a vow to contribute to Nanhua Mountain Temple, and assumed the responsibility of raising, releasing and providing education for his disciples Zong 'an, Zong Ren and Zong Yi in Quanzhou. 1993, abbot of Suning became attached to ten disciples. It took five years to build an arch bridge and open the first highway from Xiayao Village to Nanhuashan Temple. In 2005, the second Nanhuashan Highway (existing highway) was opened within six years, which completely improved the problem of inconvenient transportation in Nanhuashan. He also presided over the reconstruction of the monastery, kitchen, the temple of God of Wealth, the Guandi Temple and the Nine Immortals Pagoda. Rebuild the roof, lighting circuit, etc. Completed in 2006 1000m? Release pool; In 2009, the construction of the living area in the temple was completed;
Since the abbot of Suning, Nanhuashan Temple has developed into a large-scale temple, with eight famous scenic spots: the beautiful peak of the pen, the majestic hall, the overlooking of the fairy pagoda, the precipice ancient poetry, the fragrance of the clear spring, the jumping of the pond, listening to the waves in the forest and dancing with bamboo shadows. The Hall of Daxiong in the temple is mainly dedicated to Sambo Buddha, Guanyin Bodhisattva, Earth Treasure Bodhisattva, Galand Bodhisattva, Eighteen Arhats, Maitreya Buddha and Wei Tuo Bodhisattva. There are thousands of avalokitesvara bodhisattvas in Guanyin Pavilion. In addition, the Nine Immortals Pagoda, Star Pagoda, Land Temple, Guandi Temple, God of Wealth Temple and Star Pagoda stand tall. The existing cultural relics of Nanhuashan Temple include: the woodcarving plaque of "the hero who became a Buddha" given by Su Daren, then governor of Yongding, to Zen master Ji Nan; Ancient ancestors copied the classic work "Gao Jian Du Mu" by hand, which contained different seals, thus recording the abbots and monks in different periods; Stone carvings of celebrities in Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties; Mountain man reading stone room, five stone pagodas, ancient monk's tomb; The couplets of the ancient temple are "Nanshan participates in Buddha's fruit, Huayue prints Zen", "Planting Bodhi, sweeping away dust and protecting relics", and "There is great compassion in the purple bamboo forest, and there is boundless relief outside Luojiashan".
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