Buddhism is one of the three major religions in the world known as Christianity and Islam. Our destination today is Kaifu Temple, Changsha, Hunan, one of the key open temples in China. The Buddhist temple is located in the Beixin River, the city of Changsha City, Hunan Province,

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Buddhism is one of the three major religions in the world known as Christianity and Islam . Our destination today is Kaifu Temple, Changsha, Hunan, one of the key open temples of Chinese Buddhism. The Buddhist temple is located in the Beixin River, the city of Changsha City, Hunan Province, near the Xiangjiang River. It is a temple of Buddhist Zen Buddhism 1 Linji School. Linji Sect is one of the five main schools of Zen Southern Sect, and is the most representative sect of Zen and Han Buddhism. Kaifu Temple was built during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period and has a history of more than a thousand years. At that time, Ma Yin separatisted Hunan and established Chu State , known in history as "Ma Chu ".

Ma family uses Changsha as their capital and builds an palace in the north of the city, and builds Huichun Garden as a place to escape the summer heat. In the second year of Tiancheng in the Later Tang Dynasty (that is, in AD 927), Ma Yin's son Ma Xifan gave part of the spring garden to the monk Baoning and created Kaifu Temple. After Ma Xifan succeeded to the throne, he built a large-scale construction nearby, building Ziwei Mountain next to it and Bilang Lake north, making the Kaifu Temple a famous scenic spot with 16 views inside and outside. Li Mian, a literati of the Ming Dynasty, once wrote a poem called "Kaifu Temple" and praised it: "I love to bring up the scenery and naturally enter the painting screen. The water light contains the mirror and the mountains are green, and the mountains are covered with snails. I hug my son and the ape return to the cave, and I rush to the clouds and cranes. I sit calmly for a long time, and the flowers fall in the leisurely courtyard."

The temple pioneer Baoning (another saying is Zhenyan) preached the scriptures here, and received strong support from the Ma father and son, and there were 1,000 monks living there. After the fall of the country, temples and temples have been preserved as Buddhist activities, and have been developed to this day through the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. Kaifu Temple covers an area of 48,000 square meters and has a construction area of 16,000 square meters. The main building faces north and south. The existing buildings are mainly rebuilt during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. The entire temple is mainly based on the palace-style architectural styles of Ming and Qing dynasties.

There is a mountain gate in front of the temple, and the Buddhist temple is divided into three directions on the central axis. The front is the Three Holy Temples (i.e. Maitreya Hall), the middle is the Great Buddha Hall (i.e., the Great Buddha Hall), and the back is the Vila Hall; the east wing room is from front to back, there are living halls, vegetarian halls, warehouses, abbots, and Sutra Towers; the west wing room has lecture halls, Zen halls, and old wools, and many other annexes. The temple has Qing Kangxi and one stone tablet during the Guangxu period. It is now listed as a provincial key cultural relics protection unit in Hunan. The Hunan Buddhist Association and the Changsha Buddhist Association are both located in the temple.