Anxiputuo Temple

Putuo Temple Putuo Temple is located in Fengshan, Anxi County, Fujian Province. It was built in the second year of Jianlong in the Song Dynasty (961 AD). It was originally named "Long'an" and later renamed "Shanhui". It has been established for more than a thousand years since its establishment. History. The name of the temple was personally inscribed by Master Jie Nin, the abbot of Putuo Mountain in the South China Sea, and was invited to "South China Sea Guanyin" from Putuo Mountain in Zhejiang Province for permanent worship. In the past, there have been many elders and great virtues here who have diligently worshipped the Buddha, practiced meditation, promoted the Dharma, and saved all sentient beings. The building adopts the style of the Tang Dynasty. In the completed Yuantong Hall, there is a bronze statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva with thousands of hands and thousands of eyes, 8.68 meters high and 16 tons in weight. There is also a piece of stone carving on the cliff of persuading agriculture in the temple, which is a cultural relics protection unit in Anxi County. The stone carvings are engraved in regular script: "To live in the mountains to publish affairs, to persuade farmers to post in autumn, to declare and to Xin Chouchu, to Maeda Wu Gongquan, and to dragons to be Huang Zongzhi." Persuading farmers is a unique phenomenon in the Tang and Song Dynasties. The relationship between the monks on the mountain and the persuasion of farmers is recorded in the Song Dynasty officials who came to the temple to persuade farmers.