Introduction to Xinghua Zen Temple

Xinghua Zen Temple is a very famous ancient temple in northern Jiangsu, located at the eastern foot of Yunlong Mountain in Xuzhou City. The temple was built with a large stone Buddha in the Northern Wei Dynasty and has a history of nearly a thousand years. During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, the abbot of Tiantong Temple in Ningbo, Zhejiang, Miyun, the old monk, passed by Yunlong Mountain. He saw the beauty of the mountain and it was a treasure land of geomantic omen, so he appointed Fasun Gu'an to station here to promote Buddhism and became the first abbot of Xinghua Temple. Later, Xinghua Zen Temple experienced several wars. It was renovated and renovated, and now it has a six-entry courtyard consisting of the Main Hall, the Great Buddha Hall, the Heavenly King Hall, the Three Holy Temples, the Sutra Library, the Ancestral Hall, the Dharma Hall, the Abbot's Room, the Guest Hall, the Zhaitang, the Storehouse and the Monk's House.