As we all know, Jiuhua Mountain is one of the four famous Buddhist mountains in China. According to Jiuhuashan and other documents, Buddhism was introduced into Jiuhuashan in the early 5th century. In 40 1 year, a monk named Beidu in Tianzhu came to Jiuhua Mountain to establish Mao 'an and preach scriptures. 100 years later, in 503, a monk named Khufu came to Jiuhua Mountain and established Khufu 'an as a Dojo. However, before the Sui Dynasty, Jiuhua Mountain was remote and there were few monks, so Buddhism had no influence here. It was not until the formation of the Tibetan Dojo in the middle Tang Dynasty that the incense of Jiuhua Mountain really flourished.
The formation of Jiuhuashan underground Dojo is directly related to Jiuhuashan Daoism of Silla Prince Jin Qiaojue. In the history of Buddhism in China, there are two "Bodhisattvas", one is the "King of the Earth" and the other is the "King of the Earth". The former is the Tibetan king described in Buddhist scriptures and the belief idol shaped by Buddhism; The latter is a real person. He is the Silla Prince Jin Qiaojue during the Three Kingdoms period in South Korea. Buddhism reached its peak during the Three Kingdoms period in South Korea, and it was especially common for the upper rulers to believe in Buddhism. Jin Qiaojue believed in Buddhism since childhood, and later became a monk. At the end of Kaiyuan in the Tang Dynasty, he came to China. After searching everywhere, he lived in Jiuhua Mountain. There is a sunny place on Jiuhua Mountain with a cave on the top. After Jin Qiaojue went up the mountain, he took this cave as a meditation place and began a long and arduous spiritual career, which lasted for 75 years. In 794, he sat on this mountain at the age of 99. After Jin Qiaojue's death, he was honored as a "Tibetan Bodhisattva" by his disciples. Later, China Buddhism called the Jiuhuashan Tibetan Bodhisattva Jin Qiaojue. He was revered as a bodhisattva for several reasons: First, Jin Qiaojue's appearance is very similar to the description of bodhisattva in Buddhist scriptures. Secondly, Jin Qiaojue's way of practice also conforms to the inherent characteristics of Tibetan Bodhisattva. According to the Ten Classics of the Bodhisattva Diksitigarbha, the Bodhisattva Diksitigarbha is characterized by "patience as the earth and tranquility as the secret", so it is called "Diksitigarbha". Jin Qiaojue's "iron plate footnotes" are characterized by "patience" and "meditation". Third, Jin Qiaojue, like the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, is full of the spirit of sacrifice. Fourthly, after Jin Qiaojue's death, his disciples put him in a vat and buried him in Shenguangling according to Buddhist regulations. Three years later, when he was buried, he found that Master Qiao Jue was in good health and his appearance was lifelike. Shaking his joints is like shaking a golden lock, making a crisp sound. These signs just fulfilled the words of "one bodhisattva hooks and locks, and a hundred skeletons sing" in Buddhist scriptures. Because of the above reasons, Jin Qiaojue's disciples thought that he was the reincarnation of the Bodhisattva Diksitigarbha, so they respectfully called him "the Bodhisattva Diksitigarbha", so Jin Qiaojue was also called "the Bodhisattva Diksitigarbha", and Jiuhua Mountain became the Dojo of the Bodhisattva Diksitigarbha.
Although Jiuhuashan Dizang Dojo was formed in the middle of Tang Dynasty, it did not immediately become the center of spreading Buddhist culture, because the opening of Dizang Dojo soon caught up with the difficulties in Huichang. During Huichang, Tang Wuzong wrote a letter to destroy Buddhism, a large number of temples and Buddha statues were destroyed, monks and nuns were forced to return to the secular world, and Buddhism in Jiuhuashan immediately entered a trough. In the Song Dynasty, Buddhism in Jiuhuashan developed. Song Taizu and Zhao Kuangyin rebelled against the previous government's policy of rejecting Buddhism and began to revive Buddhism. Under this favorable condition, Buddhism in Jiuhua Mountain has developed, and the number of temples has doubled from more than 20 in the Five Dynasties to more than 40. Several of these temples have the scale of a jungle. The underground Dojo and the body hall of Huacheng Temple have become places of worship for Buddhists and pilgrims, and the Buddha clock of Tiantai Temple has become a sacred object praised by believers. Zong Guo, a famous Zen monk in the Southern Song Dynasty, wrote a poem "Visiting Tiantai". In the poem, the Japanese "silently walked all over the rooftop and bells rang all over Shan Ye", which showed the scene at that time. Gaozong is a descendant of Lin Ji School, one of the five schools of Zen. He came to Jiuhua Mountain to spread Lin Ji Zen and was honored as "Dingguang Buddha" after his death. However, during the Song Dynasty, Jiuhua Mountain still failed to form a national center for spreading Buddhist culture, because after the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, the rulers worshipped Lamaism and exercised strict control over Buddhism in the Han Dynasty. Especially at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Red Scarf Army Uprising broke out in all parts of the south, and three peasant insurgents, Zhu Yuanzhang, Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng, were formed in the south of the Yangtze River. In order to expand their territory, they launched a protracted battle, and the whole territory of Chizhou, where Jiuhuashan is located, became one of the main battlefields. The war not only severely damaged Jiuhuashan Buddhism, but also blocked the way for pilgrims to worship in Jiuhuashan, so the monks lost their economic resources and Jiuhuashan Buddhism once again entered a trough.
Jiuhuashan Buddhist Communication Center was formed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The Ming and Qing Dynasties were the "golden age" of Buddhism in Jiuhuashan. /kloc-at the age of 0/7, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, became a monk in Huang Jue Temple in his hometown. In the first year of the Buddha's accession to the throne, he called a meeting of eminent monks in Yingtianfu (now Nanjing), selected abbots for the major temples, held dharma meetings and prayed for the country. For Chizhou and Jiuhuashan, which have been struggling for more than ten years, Zhu Yuanzhang has deep feelings, calling it "the land of prospering kings", giving Chizhou many preferential policies to recuperate, and Jiuhuashan Buddhism has also been supported by the court in many ways. In the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang paid for the repair of Huacheng Temple. Since then, the Ming emperor pursued the policy of respecting, protecting and promoting Buddhism, and Jiuhuashan Buddhism has been rapidly restored and developed. Zhu Youjian, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, also allocated funds for the innocent monk who had lived in Jiuhua Mountain for more than 100 years to build the Wannian Temple (the Centennial Palace) and named him a "Bodhisattva". In addition, Wang Yangming, a famous thinker in Ming Dynasty, visited Jiuhua Mountain twice, leaving more than 50 poems praising Jiuhua Mountain. He also learned to meditate on the East Cliff in Jindizang, which was later called "Sitting on the East Cliff" and was listed as one of the "Ten Scenes of Jiuhua" in ancient times, which made Jiuhua Mountain famous. Buddhism also regarded "Taibai Lian Yin" and "Yangming Xin Xue" as the glory of Jiuhua. After Wang Yangming's death, his disciples and Qingyang county magistrate built a memorial hall in the west of Huacheng Temple, known as Yangming Academy in the world, also known as Yangming Temple, with the inscription "Mianzhi" in the main hall and "Yangzhiting" in the back hall. In short, throughout the Ming Dynasty, the Buddhism in Jiuhua Mountain got unprecedented development, and the incense was very prosperous, so it was called "the first mountain in the southeast". That is, during this period, Jiuhua Mountain, Wutai Mountain, Putuo Mountain and Emei Mountain were listed as the four famous Buddhist mountains in China, making them famous all over the world. The Qing dynasty inherited almost all the policies of the Ming dynasty towards Buddhism. Although the emperor of the Qing Dynasty admired Lamaism, he also admired Buddhism in the Han Dynasty. The emperor shunzhi often said, "I am a Buddhist in the west. Why did I fall into the royal family?" It shows that he believes in Buddhism deeply. During Kangxi's reign, he wrote more than a thousand inscriptions and couplets for temples all over the country, and sent court officials to Jiuhua Mountain for pilgrimages three times, giving them a lot of money. In the forty-fourth year of Kangxi, when Emperor Kangxi visited jiangning house, he also gave the imperial book "Jiuhua Holy Land" four characters.