Xuanzang, a famous monk in the Tang Dynasty, was the first abbot in Jionji. Xuanzang traveled westward from Chang 'an in 628 AD, and after going through difficulties and obstacles, he arrived in India and was carefully guided by Master Jie Xian. He returned to the motherland in 645 AD. The imperial court held an unprecedented grand welcoming ceremony in Jionji, and dispatched 1500 vehicles, 200 embroidered Buddha statues and 500 prayer flags embroidered with gold thread. The monks who entered the temple to see me off sat in 500 seats.
Xuanzang brought back 657 Buddhist scriptures and translated 74 Buddhist scriptures in Hongfu Temple, Jionji and Yuhua Temple, with a total volume of 1335. Among the four major Buddhist translators in China, he translated the most books and translated them accurately.
At the request of Tang Gaozong, Xuanzang also recorded his travels in 16 and 5438+07, including the history, mountain and river traffic, folk customs, product climate, political culture and religious beliefs of 28 rumored cities and regions, and compiled them into 6544.
The Value Significance of Big Wild Goose Pagoda
At first, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda was an imitation western architecture, with brick surface and soil core, which could not be climbed. There are relics on each floor, and Master Xuanzang personally presided over the construction. Later, after several generations of reconstruction and repair, it gradually evolved from the original western regions to brick-wood structures with architectural characteristics of the Central Plains, becoming pavilions and pavilions that can be boarded.
This process vividly reflects the process that ancient Indian Buddhist architectural art was introduced into China and gradually China. The Wild Goose Pagoda is one of the symbols preserved in Chang 'an City in Tang Dynasty. Its stone tablets "Preface to Tang Sanzang" and "Preface to Tang Sanzang" further prove the history of Buddhism spreading on the Big Wild Goose Pagoda and the Silk Road. The Bayeux sutra collected by Wild Goose Pagoda is also a precious Buddhist cultural relic.