Where is the Maitreya Dojo?
Xuedou Temple is located on Xuedou Mountain, 7.5 kilometers west of Xikou Town, Fenghua City, Zhejiang Province. Founded in the Jin Dynasty, it flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties. It has always been known as one of the top ten Zen temples in the world.
According to records, a nun lived in a building on the top of Xuedou Mountain, which was called "Waterfall Courtyard", which was the creation of Xuedou Temple.
In the first year of Huichang in the Tang Dynasty (84 1), it moved to the foothills. Since then, the temple site has continued for several generations and has not been moved. In the last year of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (859), the temple was destroyed by war, and it was rebuilt in Xian Tong in the eighth year (867), and it was named "Waterfall Kannonji". During the reign of Tang Jingde (892-893), the Zen master of Wuchang Tong in South Vietnam was appointed as the abbot of Xuedou Temple to repair the temple and was awarded 1300 mu of farmland. Later generations respected Xuedou Temple as the ancestor of the mountain. Since then, Xuedou Temple has been regarded as a Zen jungle, and there have been schools of Zen, such as Fayan School, Yunmen School, Cao Dongzong School and Lin Ji School.
During the Five Dynasties, a cloth bag monk appeared in Fenghua. A 9 16), claiming to be named after it, often carries a bag to educate the masses, which is very popular among the masses. On his deathbed, he said a poem: "Maitreya Buddha is really Maitreya Buddha, divided into hundreds of billions;" Always show people, the world does not know. " Therefore, people think that the cloth-bag monk is the incarnation of Maitreya, and his image was shaped in the middle of Tianwang Temple.
According to the records of the Hindu Buddhists, The Upper Sutra of Maitreya, The Lower Sutra of Maitreya and Zengyi Agama, Maitreya was named Aydo, a disciple of Sakyamuni, and a native of Southern Tianzhu. The first Buddha went into extinction, born in one of the six desires of Buddhism, and led the inner court to educate the Bodhisattva. After he was born at the age of four thousand, he became a Buddha under the China tree in Hualin Garden, spreading Buddhism widely. Therefore, Maitreya Buddha is the future Buddha predicted by Buddhism to inherit the Buddha position of Sakyamuni. However, when Indian Buddhism was introduced into China and spread widely in China, Maitreya Buddha was portrayed as a smiling monk's cloth bag in China, which was worshipped by believers in China in past dynasties. This is the embodiment of the integration of China's traditional beliefs and foreign cultures.
The story of the monk in the cloth bag is recorded in Biography of the Eminent Monks in Song Dynasty, Zhejiang Celebrities and Fenghua County Records. When I came to Changting, Fenghua at the age of seven or eight, I often carried a cloth bag into the market. When he saw anything, he begged for it. Everything he offered was packed in a bag, claiming that "I have a cloth bag, which is empty and unobstructed, covering more than ten places and comfortable in fashion." Let him out as a cloth bag monk. Legend has it that the monk in the cloth bag is uncertain, deceiving people everywhere and looking like a madman. "Show people good or bad luck, there is no special time to respond."
The contract is natural and harmonious, always smiling and pleasing, and is called "happy monk". He lives in Lin Yue Temple in Fenghua and travels around. He once collected wood from Fujian and rebuilt Lin Yue Temple, with three halls, four pavilions, three compartments and one hall. Zhen Ming died in Lin Yue Temple in the second year of the Five Dynasties (9 16). After the Song Dynasty, temples in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces began to mold Maitreya Buddha in his image, which gradually spread to all parts of the country.
According to 1934 Dictionary of Buddhism, Xuedou Temple is a Maitreya Dojo, and it is listed as one of the five famous Buddhist mountains in China along with Putuo Guanyin, Wutai Manjusri, Emei Pu Xian and Jiuhua Dizang. In the center of the newly-built Hall of Ursa Major in recent years, there is a solemn statue of Maitreya.
The government of Song Dynasty attached great importance to Xuedou Temple and issued many books and materials, which made Xuedou Temple reach its peak. In the third year of Chunhua in Song Taizong (992), he sent an envoy to give lectures and build a sutra depository. The next year, he gave two stone carvings and imperial books. In the second year of Song Zhenzong Xianping (999), it was named "Xueduzi Holy Temple" and inscribed with the words "Zisheng Temple". Song Renzong sleepwalked here in four years (1037), and sent Zhang Ci, a chamberlain, to give aloes (woodcarving rockery), platinum, robes and tea, hence the name "Meng Ying Dojo". In the first year of Xiaozong Road in the Southern Song Dynasty (1 165), a big clock was cast. The fifth year of Song Lizong's reign (1245), Yu Shu; Meng Ying Mingshan Temple still exists today.
The monks of Xuedou Temple, the abbot of the Song Dynasty, came forth in large numbers. For example, in the first year of Song Ganxing (1022), the fourth Zen Yunmen Sect reappeared (980- 1052), and the abbot of Shengsi Temple in Bucket, Ren Xue, which lasted for 3 1 year, expanded the temple and opened Yunmen Sect in Daxing.
In the twenty-seventh year of Shaoxing (1 157), Xuedou Temple was destroyed again. From Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (113l-1162) to Longxing (1163-1/64), Lin Jizong was thirteen. Shao Xi period of Southern Song Dynasty (1190-L193); Cao Dongzong's 12th Zen master Zhijian was appointed as the abbot of Xuedou Temple. He, like Jing Zen master, is a gifted child and a student of Daoyuan Zen master, the founder of the Sect. Therefore, Japanese Cao Dong also respected Xue as his ancestral home. During the Song Lizong Chunyou period (124l- 1252), the Zen master of Linjizong Normal School served as the abbot. Li Zongzhao, a teacher, built a political hall, gave him a robe, listened to his statement, and gave him the Buddhist name as a Zen master. From the Yuan Dynasty to the seventeenth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1280), Lin Xianshan came to Zen Master and was appointed as the abbot of Xuedou Temple. In the 25th year of Zhiyuan (1288), the temple was destroyed by fire, and the Zen master from Shanlai rebuilt it. It took three years to rebuild all the temples and pavilions, and the scale was even more magnificent.
In the 16th year of Ming Dynasty (1643), Xuedou Temple was burnt down by fire for the fourth time. In the second year, it was restored by Zen master Shi Qi of 3 1 Shilin Jizong, which lasted for 18 years. After hard work, the old ideas have been restored.
The Qing government also paid more attention to Xuedu Temple. During the light years of the Qing Dynasty (182 1- 1850), with the support of the Qing government, the wise mage rebuilt temples, mountain gates, pavilions and ponds. In the thirty-second year of Guangxu (1906), Emperor Guangxu gave hundreds of seals, jade buddhas, cassocks, dragon bowls and scriptures to welcome the abbot, Monk Guo, in Beijing, and the temple was ready to go down the mountain to welcome him back with etiquette. The newly-built Buddhist temple and the Buddhist scripture building in the temple collect these cultural relics. These cultural relics have been preserved to this day and become the treasures of Xuedu Temple.
Since modern times, Chiang Kai-shek's family has also forged a karma with Xuedu Temple. Si Qian, Chiang Kai-shek's grandfather, was a devout Buddhist who devoted himself to practice after middle age. Wang Caiyu, Chiang Kai-shek's biological mother, was a vegetarian all her life. She is familiar with the classics and often walks to Xuedu Temple to burn incense and worship. When Chiang Kai-shek lived in Xikou Town, his hometown, he often took his mother to Jingxiang. In his later years, Wang Caiyu converted to Xuedu Temple as a monk. After his death, a statue was hung in the temple to show his worship. Chiang Kai-shek returned to his hometown and often visited and rested in the temple. Master Taixu was appointed abbot in 1932. Chiang Kai-shek asked him to explain the Heart Sutra to his wife Mao and set up a quiet room in the temple for chanting. Jiang Jingguo and Jiang Weiguo brothers often come to Xuedou Temple since childhood. In a sense, Xuedou Temple once became the home temple of the Chiang family.
1968, Xuedou Temple was demolished, leaving only the East Wing. After 1978, the government implemented the policy of religion and freedom of belief, and the monks returned to Xuedu Temple. From 65438 to 0985, the preparatory committee for the restoration of Xuedou Temple was established, and Master Guangde, the executive vice president of Ningbo Buddhist Association, was elected as the director, and the abbot of Xuedou Temple presided over the preparatory and educational affairs.
With the support of governments at all levels and Buddhist circles at home and abroad,1In August, 987, the Hall of Great Heroes and the West Wing were completed. The newly-built Maitreya Temple is located between the Hall of the Great Hero and the mountain gate, and it was destroyed in the former site of Tianwang Temple in front of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. It adopts traditional brick-wood structure, and the roof of the hall is covered with glazed tiles. In the center of the hall, there is a statue of Maitreya Bodhisattva who smiles forever, and thousands of buddhas surrounded by camphor trees express the difference of "one Buddha is born and ten thousand buddhas protect you". This is also the uniqueness of Xuedou Temple, which is an agreed Dojo. After that, Xuedou Temple gradually restored other halls and pavilions.
The existing cultural relics of Xuedou Temple were given the imperial seal by the emperor in the 23rd year of Guangxu reign (1897). The inscription reads: "To build a longevity, learn to fight against imperial seals, and you should dream of the name of a Buddhist temple", with a Han engraving on the left and a seal script on the right. There is a jade Buddha given by Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, sitting on a white marble Buddha statue, 80 cm high, beautifully carved, with a perfect white jade and smooth and natural lines. There are still 5,760 books of "Long Zang" given by Emperor Guangxu, which are also very precious. In addition, there are dragon bowls, robes and cassocks given by Emperor Guangxu, all of which are exquisite.
Master Guangde, abbot of Xuedou Temple in Fenghua, Zhejiang Province, worked day and night and fell ill. In order to renew the wisdom of the Buddha, I respectfully invite Master Yue Zhao to be the supervisor and acting abbot of Xitang. Master Moon Photo was admitted to the hospital on February 23rd. 1993. The bell and drum of Xuedu Temple rang and two groups of people lined up to meet him. Master Yuezhao is now 27 years old and graduated from Minnan Buddhist College. After being admitted to the hospital, Master Yuezhao was determined to inherit the long-cherished wish of the old Master Guangde and turn Xuedou Temple into a Dojo where learning and traveling go hand in hand, Buddhist culture and education, and contact with Buddhists at home and abroad. Observe the Buddhist system, and hold a summer festival every year from April 15 to July 15 of the lunar calendar. Master Yue Zhao will teach the Lotus Sutra, the four precepts of Buddhism and meditation.
From September 23rd, 65438 to September 29th, 0994, Xuedou Temple held a grand opening ceremony for Maitreya Hall, Maitreya and its miniature statues, and invited abbots and mages from all over the country to build a large-scale amphibious Dojo, which was a great success.
1In August, 987, the abbot Master Guangde presided over the construction of the Ursa Major Hall, the Maitreya Hall, the East-West Wing and the Abbot Building. 1993, after the death of Master Guangde, Master Yue Zhao, the current director of the Chinese Buddhist Association and the director of the Fenghua Buddhist Association, was awarded the abbot of Xuedou Temple and continued to preside over the restoration project. Over the past year or so, under the auspices of the abbot of Moonlight, temple buildings such as Shanmen, Tianwang Hall, Sutra Pavilion, Fatang, Bell and Drum Tower, Release Pond, Hongfa Building, Vegetarian Restaurant, bonsai garden, Guangde Mage Tower and Shangketang Hotel have mushroomed, and the ancient temple has been repaired. At 9: 00 a.m. on the 23rd, two groups of people from Xuedou Temple lined up in the Maitreya Hall, and the guard of honor welcomed twelve masters from the abbot's room, including Mingyun, Miao Zhan, Wu Dao and Dao Sheng. Thousands of Maitreya Buddhas incarnate in the temple, with different postures and lifelike. Outside the temple, colorful balls and doves of peace danced, and the Fa Conference presented a peaceful atmosphere amid firecrackers. The four disciples prayed for peace and happiness. Master Yue Zhao, abbot of Xuedou Temple, delivered a welcome speech, while Si Duanlun, deputy mayor of Fenghua City, delivered a congratulatory message on behalf of the municipal government, and Master Mingzuo delivered a speech on behalf of the Chinese Buddhist Association. Then, twelve elders from various mountains presided over the Dharma meeting to open the Maitreya Buddha statue and the miniature Maitreya Buddha statue respectively. The vast number of believers are immersed in the joy of Buddhism, chanting the praises of Maitreya Buddha and returning to the dharma world with affection. In the afternoon, a large-scale sacred fasting ceremony on land, water and air began construction. There are eight branches, such as the Great Altar, the Inner Altar, the Lengyan Altar, the Pure Land Altar and the Hidden Secret Altar. Every day, nearly 200 monks recite sutras and rituals at the altar mouth. At night, five masters of yoga are released. When the ceremony was successful, the flame mouths of the nine masters were released. During the period of Buddhism, three conversions, five precepts and bodhisattva precepts were granted, and a release ceremony was held. In addition, the foundation stone laying ceremony of Amitabha Temple and Yamatonokusushi Temple was held, and four people shared the same method. More than 3,000 believers attended the Dharma, including more than 200 laymen from Hongkong and Taiwan Province. This is the first land and water dharma meeting held in Xuedu Temple since the founding of the People's Republic of China.