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History of Jingju Temple
Jingju Temple is the ancestor of Tiantai Sect of Buddhism. In the fifth year of Tianbao in the Northern Qi Dynasty (AD 554), the monk Huisi came to Jie 'an of Dasu Mountain in Gwangju (now Guangshan County) and opened the altar and said, "In a few years, I will return to the city." During the period of 14, he produced 27 volumes of golden Prajna Sutra and Fahua Glass Letter, preached Hokkekyo and Prajna Sutra to monks, and completed Fahua's works such as Walking in Peace and Vow. In addition to spreading Buddhism, he also led his disciples to cultivate Su Shan, plant tea and lotus in the pond, and carved the words "On March 25th, when I lived in Su Shan Hui, JOE" on a natural stone wall in Yangshan of Da Su Shan to commemorate his wish to practice in the deep mountains. There is also a story circulating here, saying that the mountain god enlightened Whistler to stay here. According to legend, when Whistler came to Dasu Mountain, it was a beautiful spring, with a hundred flowers blooming and thousands of trees winning glory. I saw the surrounding mountains, and the peaks rose, and one peak was the only one. What a beautiful place on earth! While thinking carefully, I suddenly saw a white-haired old man passing by and asked his last name. He answered "Su Jia" and got the name of North-South University and Xiaoer Sushan. I remember before I left, Master once said to him, "If you meet three sous", so I decided to settle here. When the old man was found again, he had disappeared without a trace, so he thought it was a mountain god. Nowadays, teaching Huisi in Dasu Mountain is a beautiful talk known to all ages. In 560 AD, Shi braved the war and traveled thousands of miles to Dashu Mountain. After studying under Huisi for seven years, he painstakingly studied "Fa Hua San Mo Fa" and intensively studied "Hokkekyo". One day, he was suddenly enlightened and his mind was suddenly enlightened. This is the famous "Great Su Wu" in the history of Buddhism. In Dasushan, Zhiyi made great progress in learning, practiced wisdom and practice, and founded a systematic Buddhist theory of Tiantai Sect, such as "harmony of three truths" and "one thought and three views". In 567 AD, he was appointed by his teacher Whist to lead 27 people, including Fa, to preach in Jiankang (now Nanjing). Later, in 575 AD, he entered Tiantai Mountain, Zhejiang Province, and established a kokuseiji and a sect. Zhiyi wrote a lot in his life, and Buddha's works were first introduced to South Korea and Japan. Japanese Tiantai Buddhists praised him as "China's Sakyamuni" and "Tiantai wise master", and led many delegations to Jingju Temple to find their roots and ancestors. In the second year of Tang Zhongzong Shenlong (AD 706), Master Law Zong returned to his hometown of Gwangju from Chang 'an, led by his disciple Jian Zhen (a native of Gwangju, who was filial to Emperor Shun in Chang 'an and the builder of Jianfu Hall), and built a magnificent temple in Dasu Mountain to commemorate the "two saints" (Hui Si and Zhi Ai) on the rooftop and repay his hometown. When the temple was built on the roadside, the tower was built on the top of the mountain. According to legend, there is a purple cloud at the top of the tower, like a canopy, but it has remained for a long time. Xiangyun sees it as auspicious, hence the name Ziyunlou, and the tower is basically preserved. At the beginning of the temple's construction, it showed "graceful charm, general Buddha statue, majestic and majestic wind".

There are three temples, one into the Heavenly King Hall, one into the Guanyin Hall, and three into the Daxiong Hall. East House and Westinghouse are symmetrically distributed with the center line of the temple. The architectural system is complete and the style is simple and elegant. In its heyday (Tang and Song Dynasties), there were more than 0/000 monks/kloc and more than 0/000 rooms/kloc, and there were many ancient buildings such as temples, halls, buildings, pavilions, platforms, towers and corridors. Due to historical reasons, the temple was destroyed by fire during the Gengzi Rebellion in the Bright Tang Dynasty (AD 880). Song Ganxing (A.D. 1022) was rebuilt, and Zhenzong gave the forehead "Brahma Hall", so it was also called Brahma Hall. Destroyed in Yuan Dynasty, repaired in early Ming Dynasty. In the twenty-fourth year of Wanli (A.D. 1596), the Tibetan scriptures were given to the temple. In the seventeenth year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty (AD 1660), Shihuimen initiated it.

In the first year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1662), the inscription "Rebuilding the Great Su and the Small Su" was awarded, and the Jingju Temple was protected. Forty years after Qianlong (AD 1755), Guangci returned to the right site of the Buddhist temple and built five temples, gradually recovering from the old jungle. During the Republic of China (A.D. 1930- 1948), temples and Buddha statues were severely damaged by the war. There are more than 80 existing houses, of which 5 are well preserved and built in the late Ming Dynasty. Other wings were built in the Republic of China, but they were seriously damaged. After Daoan's death, his disciple Jian Zhen took Jingju Temple as the main Dojo, spread the Nanshan Method in Jianghuai area, then went to Yangzhou, braved difficulties and obstacles to cross the East China Sea to reach Japan, and became a pioneer of cultural exchanges between China and Japan. Therefore, Jingju Temple is also one of the ancestral halls of Famen.

According to the book China Temples and Bodhisattvas, in chronological order, Jingju Temple ranks 15 among the main Buddhist temples in China. It is precisely because of the heavy position of Jingju Temple in China's ideological and cultural history, philosophical history and Buddhist history that Ji Xianlin and Ren, masters of Chinese studies, Huang Xinchuan and Yang, members of Honorary Department of China Academy of Social Sciences, famous philosophers and professors of Wuhan University, Duan Dezhi, Ma Tianxiang and Sun Changwu came to inspect and write inscriptions, or called for the reconstruction and revival of Jingju Temple.