Yunyan Temple

Yunyan Temple Yunyan Temple is located in Hejiaqiao Town, Liling City, Hunan Province. It is as famous as Lushan Nanyue. Its famous mountain is located under Mingyue Peak, one of the seventy-two peaks of Hengshan Mountain in Nanyue. It is known as Huiyan Peak and Mingyue Peak. It is said to be the belly and the foot of Yuelu. It is famous for its beautiful and beautiful Chifeng. It originated in the Tang Dynasty, Ji Yu Yunzu, the direct descendant of the nine generations of Shaoshi, and the ancestor of the Xinfeng lineage. Yunyan Temple is a Zen sect. The original Daxiong Hall, Guanyin Hall, Luohan Hall, Abbot's Room, Monks and Nuns, Qitang, Ten Ancestor Temple and other buildings occupy more than 100 acres of land. Many eminent monks at home and abroad have visited in the past dynasties. They wandered here, preached scriptures, opened altars and received precepts. At their peak, there were more than a thousand monks and nuns. On the stone wall on the left side of the entrance to the temple, there was a stone carving, which said: "The ancient temple is Yunyan, the nine peaks and the famous mountains. Tansheng treasure house, the first Zen pass." In the year of Li Yimao, it was established by monk Ye Fubin, the abbot." Yunyan Temple was built by the Wuzhu Zen master Tan Sheng. Chan Master Tan Sheng, whose common surname is Wang, is a newcomer in Jiangxi Province. The teenage monk has been serving Chan Master Huihai from Baizhang Mountain for twenty years. Due to unfavorable circumstances, they traveled from Baizhang Mountain in Jiangxi to the foot of Jiufeng Mountain in Hejiaqiao, Liling. Seeing that the mountains and rocks are steep and the clouds are steaming, it is like a Buddha realm, that is, sitting near the rock. Later, he went to the door of Zen Master Weiyan on Yaoshan Mountain in Fengzhou, obtained the law, and returned to Liling during the reign of Emperor Wenzong of Tang Dynasty (827), and built a temple on the original Jiufeng Mountain beside the Zen Rock, which was originally a Mao Nunnery. After the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the scale gradually increased, and then it was destroyed in the late Ming Dynasty and rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty. The original temple sits in the north and faces the south. There are historical sites such as "Thousand People's Pot", "10,000 Beds" and "Flying Bell" in the temple. There are also thousands of volumes of Caodong Tibetan scriptures introduced by Tang Zhenguan. There are Caodong factions of Yunyan Temple. Wuzhu Patriarch has experienced many dynasties, and Yunyan Temple has been revived and destroyed several times, and it has been restored several times. When Tansheng presided over Yunyan Temple in the past, there were four disciples, who were Fuzhou Dongshan Liangjie, Zhuozhou Xingshan Jianhong, Tanzhou Shenshan Monk Mi and Youxi Monk. When the good price of Dongshan was passed on to Cao Shan Benji, he especially emphasized the "Bao Jing Samadhi Song" written under the guidance of Zen Master Tan Sheng of Yunyan Temple and the koan composed of the dialogue between the master and the apprentice, and compiled them as Zen religious materials. The style of Caodongzong was created from this, and the subsequent Caodongzong was formed. It started at a good price in Dongshan, and was perfected by Caoshan, with Chan Master Tansheng as the patriarch. During the Huichang reign of Emperor Wuzong of Tang Dynasty (841), Fenning Temple and Yunyan Temple in Jiangxi shared Tansheng relics equally, and built pagodas in two places respectively, posthumously titled "Wuzhu Zen Master Relic Pagoda". Today Yunyan Temple does not live in the patriarch pagoda surviving. In the third year of Baoqing, Lizong of the Southern Song Dynasty (1227), the Japanese monk Yongping Daoyuan came to China to study Buddhism. , In 1983 and 1991, he made a special trip to Liling Yunyan Temple to pay tribute to the ancestors to inspect the relics of Caodong Sect, especially the "Bao Jing Samadhi Song". According to the book "Chinese Buddhism", Tan Sheng proposed the "Precious Mirror Samadhi Dharma", which means that one should look at all things as if facing a precious mirror. The shadow in the mirror is the appearance of the mirror's appearance. It is your shape." The so-called "what is the matter and the truth" and "reciprocal reciprocation of directors" and other ideas all originated from this, and the treasure is the purpose of the secret transmission of Caodong School. After Dongshan Liangqian returned to Jiangxi, he founded Caodong Sect, so Yunyan Temple was called Caodong Ancestral Court. The ancient trees around the Yunyan Temple in the past were towering, shaded by the sun, and the sounds of birds were loud and clear. The water of the old Longjing in the temple, which is warm in winter and cool in summer, contains more than 20 kinds of minerals, and is a good natural mineral spring. After testing, the old Longjing directly leads to the underground spring river, and its water is inexhaustible and has a long history. As a thousand-year-old temple, in the vicissitudes of history and culture, Yunyan Temple has also been devastated by wind and rain several times. In 1986, the municipal government allocated more than 40,000 yuan to renovate the Guanyin Hall. In recent years, with the support of various philanthropists, monks and nuns dormitories, release pools, and Mahavira Hall have been built one after another. By August 1997, the construction of the Daxiong Palace was completed, with a construction area of more than 800 square meters, a 17-meter-high three-story glazed tile covered with claws, supported by 40 columns, and its construction cost was a huge sum of 1.5 million. The main cultural relics in Yunyan Temple are two monks tomb towers, one is the tomb tower of Zen Master Fagang; the other is the pagoda of Wuzhu Tansheng Patriarch, in which 70 particles of Zen Master Tansheng are enshrined. Both the Wuzhu Pagoda and the relics are the treasures of the temple. There is an ancient pine of the Tang Dynasty in the temple. There are also three stele inscriptions in the temple, namely the Zen Guan Stele, the Patriarch Stele and the Zazen Stele.