Baima Temple has a history of 1900 years. Most of the existing sites and historical sites are left over from the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, and there are a large number of dry lacquer statues in the temple. 196 1 was announced by the people of China and the State Council as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units. 1972, the temple was completely restored, which lasted for ten years, making the Millennium temple look brand-new. 1March, 1987, the mountain gate, the Giant Buddha Hall and the Tianwang Hall of this temple were repaired and strengthened. 1990, Yun Qi Tower is expanded, and the expanded Baima Temple has a total area of about 200 mu. 1983 was identified as the key temple of Chinese Buddhism in the State Council. 200 1, 1, was listed as the first batch of national AAAA-level tourist attractions by the National Tourism Administration.
According to legend, in the seventh year of Yongping in the Eastern Han Dynasty (64), Ming Di heard that there were different gods in the west, and sent a doctor Cai Cheng and a doctoral disciple Qin Jing to Tianzhu to seek the Dharma. According to Ghost Stories and Biography of Eminent Monks, in the tenth year of Yongping, they went back to Luoyang with the eminent monks of Zhongtianzhu, and photographed Zhu Falan's Buddhist scriptures and Buddha statues. He first lived in crack hon temple, and later became a museum that crack hon temple didn't live in for a long time. The following year, he was ordered to build a house on the outskirts of Yong Men.
Because monks are guests for Tianzhu, they still respect guests. Therefore, the residential name continues to be "Temple". The name "White Horse" comes from two sources: 1. According to Biography of Monks, "foreign kings tried to destroy the temple, but Zhao Ti Temple was not destroyed. At night, a white horse wailed around the tower, that is, the king stopped destroying the temple because Zhao Ti thought it was a white horse. 2. According to "Luoyang Galand Ji", Emperor Hanming sent envoys to seek the Dharma, and "the White Horse came with the scriptures at its own expense", and later thought that the temple was named. It is said that the architectural form at that time was modeled after the refined house of the Indian Garden, with a tower in the middle and murals in the hall. The translation of Forty-two Chapters Sutra, shot by Morten and Zhu Falan, here is the beginning of China's Chinese translation of Buddhist Sutras. At the same time, there are ten broken knots, Buddha's life, pale, Buddha's shore and so on. , has been lost, not passed down. Most Buddhist scriptures in the Eastern Han Dynasty were translated in Luoyang, and this temple is the most important translation hall.
According to the records of Kaiyuan Buddhism, during the Three Kingdoms Wei Dynasty, four people translated the scriptures. In addition to An Faxian, Tan Kejia Luo, Tan Wudi all translated scriptures in the temple. For example, in the second year of Jiaping (250), Tan Kejia Luo translated Beware of Monks, which was preached by local Brahma monks who were ordained by karma, and was called the beginning of China's precepts.
Zhu Fahu, An Faqin, Fa Li and Fa Ju in the Western Jin Dynasty. Those who have translated the scriptures and passed the Dharma in the temple are all masters of Buddhism and have made great achievements. The White Horse Temple in the Tang Dynasty developed greatly compared with that in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. After Wu Zetian came to power, the White Horse Temple was presided over by his confidant Xue Huaiyi and became an important temple in the imperial court. Thousands of years have passed, with ups and downs. There are Tianwang Temple, Daxiong Hall, Jieyin Temple, Piluge Hall and Ancient Cool Terrace Site in the temple. Buildings, sculptures and inscriptions are mostly relics of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. On the east and west sides of the mountain gate, it is said that there are tombs built by Morten and Zhu Falan, all of which are piled with earth, ancient trees and forests. There is a dense-eaves relic brick pagoda in the southeast of the temple, named Yun Qi Pagoda, which was built in the 15th year of Jin Dading (1 175), and its style is similar to that of the Little Wild Goose Pagoda in Anjianfu Temple.