Hello, everyone. Welcome to Jiuhua Mountain, the lotus Buddha kingdom. NowI'd like to introduce the general situation of Jiuhua Mountain
Jiuhua Mountain, located in Qingyang County, Anhui Province, is a keyscenic spot in China and a national 5A scenic spot. It is also known as China'sfour famous Buddhist mountains along with Mount Wutai in Shanxi, Mount Emei inSichuan and Mount Putuo in Zhejiang. Do you understand that Mount Wutai is theashram of Manjusri Bodhisattva, Mount Emei is the ashram of Puxian Bodhisattva,Mount Putuo is the ashram of Guanyin Bodhisattva, and Mount Jiuhua is the ashramof dizang Bodhisattva. Jiuhua Mountain was originally called Jiuzi mountain.Because Jiuhua Mountain is big and small, there are 99 peaks, nine of which arevery prominent, so it is called Jiuzi mountain. Later, Li Bai, a poet, came toJiuhua Mountain to visit, saw the emerald peaks, and wrote the poem "wonderfulis divided into two, Lingshan opens Jiuhua". Later, people renamed Jiuzimountain Jiuhua Mountain. During the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, Jinqiaojue, Prince of Silla, practiced in Jiuhua Mountain, and finally died at theage of 99. Buddhist circles think that his ascetic life and his body after hisdeath are very similar to the Bodhisattva in the Buddhist scriptures, so theythink that he is the incarnation of the Bodhisattva. Buddhists call himjindizang. Therefore, Jiuhua Mountain is regarded as the Taoist center of dizangBodhisattva. At present, there are more than 90 temples and more than 600 monks.It is a Buddhist holy land with distinctive characteristics and importantinfluence.
Now that we have arrived, we must feel the immortal spirit of Buddha whenwe come to this holy land of Buddhism. Today, let's start from the Jiuhua Streetscenic spot, which has the largest number of temples. When we enter the JiuhuaStreet scenic spot, we can see a Shimen square. It's carved from marble. It'snine meters high. Please look up and have a look. The banner is engraved withthe words "Jiuhua Holy Land". This is written by Emperor Kangxi. After passingmenfang, you can see Yingxian bridge. This bridge was built in Qianlong period.Let's step on this ancient bridge with me. Let's step into the fairylandtogether!
You see, after crossing the bridge, the one facing us is the only GardenTemple. He is a national key temple, the only palace temple in Jiuhua Mountain,and the largest in the four jungles of Jiuhua Mountain. It is composed of morethan ten single buildings, such as the mountain gate, the heavenly king hall,the main hall, the guest hall, the lecture hall and the Sutra collectionbuilding. Ladies and gentlemen, please take a look at this mountain gate. Haveyou found that it deviates from the central axis of the main hall? Do youunderstand why? Because ah! There are some special things about skewing themountain gate, one is to avoid evil spirits, the other is to face kaishanzutemple and Huacheng Temple. Before you enter the temple, you should payattention to the following points: first, when you enter the temple, you shouldstep across the threshold. The threshold of the temple is the shoulder of theBuddha, so you must not step on it. Second, you should not make a loud noise orbring the jokes of the red world into the temple. Third, please do not touch themonks' magic weapons at will.
Let's walk into the temple with me to appreciate its unique charm. We arenow in the temple of heavenly kings. On both sides of the hall, there are fourstatues of heavenly kings. They are the four heavenly kings of the East, thesouth, the west, and the north. They are also called the four heavenly kings ofgood weather and good weather. Please look at the center of the hall. Thesmiling Maitreya Buddha is worshipped there. Behind Maitreya is BodhisattvaWeituo, who is the God General guarding Sakyamuni.
OK, dear tourists, please follow Xiao Wang closely and pay attention toyour feet. You will come to the main hall from the heavenly king hall. There arethree 12 meter tall Buddhas, Sakyamuni in the middle, Amitabha Buddha andpharmacist Buddha on both sides. On both sides of the hall, you must haveguessed, right! The statue of the eighteen Arhats. You follow me back. At theback of the hall, there are statues of Manjusri and Bodhisattva. Thislarge-scale three-dimensional relief of "island Guanyin" is carved behind thestatue of Sakyamuni. This is a complete picture of all Buddhas and Bodhisattvasof Chinese Buddhism.
Please follow up, follow our team, out of the only Garden Temple, we cameto the Huacheng temple, Huacheng temple is the kaishanzu Temple of JiuhuaMountain. You can see that there is a stone platform outside Huacheng temple, onwhich there is a Niangniang tower and a well. Because it was destroyed duringthe cultural revolution, there is only one platform left. It is said that Jinqiaojue was practicing here at that time. His mother missed him very much, soshe came to him. Because of the feeling of missing, she cried for three days andthree nights, and her eyes were blind. Jin qiaojue used this platform Jinghelped her wash her eyes, and then his mother came back to see. So this well iscalled Mingyan spring, and later generations built Niangniang tower beside it inmemory of his mother.
Stepping on the 99 lotus steps, we are now at the body hall. Please take alook at the words on the plaque: the body Hall of the moon! Why is it called thebody Hall of the moon? Because the moon and the flesh are interlinked in thepast, many words describing human body organs now have a month next to it. Thebuilding of the body hall is very distinctive. There is a tower in the hall anda stone tower in the tower. Under the stone tower is jindizang's body. July 30of the lunar calendar is his birthday and the day of his death. On that day,thousands of people will come to worship him. Walking into the hall of the body,you can see the vows of the Bodhisattva dizang hanging on the door: all livingbeings will be saved, and Bodhi will be proved; hell is not empty. Vow not tobecome a Buddha. Therefore, the Bodhisattva of Tibet is also known as the greatwish Bodhisattva. I believe that with the blessing of the Bodhisattva of greatwish, you must always be with me in the future.
Next, we go to the centenary palace, which was built in the Ming Dynasty toworship the body of the flawless monk. It is said that when the monk waspracticing, he mainly ate wild plants such as Polygonatum and Salviamiltiorrhiza, and wrote a Buddhist Scripture with blood and gold powder. It tookhim more than 20 years to finish the Scripture, and he was 110 years old. In thebody Hall of the centenary palace, you can see the golden body Buddha statue ofthe flawless monk, wearing a monk's hat and cassock, sitting on a lotus standand enjoying the eternal incense. Fourteen flesh bodies have been found inJiuhua Mountain. Most of them are left by monks and nuns about 100 years old,which may be related to the fact that they have been vegetarian for a long time,less water in their bodies when they passed away, and the good sealing ofsitting porcelain jar.
Please keep up with your friends. Next, we are going to Tiantai scenicarea. As the saying goes, "if you don't go to Tiantai, you're not here." itmeans that Jiuhua is in Tiantai. Tiantai peak is the main peak of JiuhuaMountain, with an altitude of more than 1300 meters. Standing on Tiantai peak,you can see the panoramic view of Jiuhua street. The main scenic spots ofTiantai scenic spot are Guanyin stone, Dapeng listening stone and other strangestones, as well as the dizang cave where jindizang just came to Jiuhua Mountainto practice, the ancient Sutra worship platform with the miracles of dizangBodhisattva, and Tiantai temple, the main place for dizang Bodhisattva topreach. OK, let's take the cable car to Tiantai scenic spot!