Fanjing Mountain is located in Tongren, Guizhou. It means Brahma Pure Land , also known as Sanshan Valley, Jiulong Mountain, Dafoshan, HTML January Jingshan , etc. It is a cultural mountain with a long history in the southwest of . Fanjing Mountain is said to be the temple of Maitreya Bodhisattva . There are hundreds of temples including Huguo Zen Temple, Cheng'en Temple, , Tianqing Temple, Chaotian Temple, Xiyan Temple, Tianma Temple, etc., and the four Great Emperor Temples and Forty-eight-legged temples were granted. The Sakyamuni Hall and the Maitreya Hall are built on the golden top, spanning two peaks, hanging over two thousand meters in the air, connected by a stone bridge, looking into the distance, it is like coming to the clouds.
Fanjing Mountain Gate
Fanjing Mountain Golden Summit Sakyamuni Hall and Maitreya Hall, the stone bridge is built on Jindao Gorge and connect to
Beautiful scenery of Fanjing Mountain
The beautiful scenery of Fanjing Mountain
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Maitreya Buddha , Tocharism transliteration, starting in Sanskrit, meaning Ci, Brahman surname, Maitreya Buddha is named Ayido , meaning incompetence, Mahayana Buddhist scriptures are often called Ayido Bodhisattva Mahasattva. Maitreya Buddha was born in the Brahman family of the Southern Heavenly Kingdom. Later, he became a monk with Shakyamuni Buddha and became a Buddhist disciple. Before Shakyamuni entered the extinction, he first entered the extinction to serve as a Bodhisattva for the restoration of his life. Before the Buddha passed away, he said that after he died of 5.6 billion years, he would be reborn in the human world and become a Buddha, and no one would become a Buddha during this period. Maitreya Buddha is the successor of the World-Honored One Shakyamuni Buddha. In the future, he will be born in the Saha world and practice Taoism and become a future Buddha.
In the Chinese Buddhist temple, the image of Maitreya Buddha with his chest exposed and a smile is based on the prototype of cloth bag monk . It is a teaching of Buddhism, which means great fortune and great blessings, reminding the world to learn to be tolerant, that is, a big belly can tolerate things that are difficult to tolerate in the world, and always smile at ridiculous people in the world when they speak.
is different from the image of the big belly Maitreya in Han temples. The real image of Maitreya Bodhisattva is the ancient Indian heavenly crown Maitreya or the crown Maitreya Buddha statue . The image of Maitreya Buddha in the sky crown is generally good at sitting cross-legged on the throne in all directions, wearing a five-way Buddha crown, with large earrings, wearing a robes and revealing his small arms, and making a seal on his hands and chest.
Han Buddhist statue of Maitreya Buddha
Daily crown Maitreya Bodhisattva statue
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Fanjing Mountain opened the mountain to build the Maitreya Temple roughly in Southern Song period, inheritance was mainly based on Maitreya Pure Land. The name of Maitreya Temple should be in Ming Dynasty , when Buddhism began to flourish.
Fanjing Mountain Buddhist development has begun since the early Tang Dynasty. During the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty (627-649), Tianqing Temple in the northern part of Fanjing Mountain was completed. In the third year of Qiande in the Song Dynasty (967), Xiyan Temple was built on the western foot of Fanjing Mountain. During the 2nd year of Jianyan HTML (1127-1130), Tianchi Temple was built on the western mountainside (now Huguo Temple ). During the Dade period of Yuan Dynasty (1297-1307), the King of Shan was built at the junction of Bodaoling and Mianxuling in the western half of the mountain.
In the early Ming Dynasty, Fanjing Mountain flourished due to its magical scenery and Buddhism, and became the Brahma Pure Land that monks yearned for, and was officially named Fanjing Mountain. The Ming Dynasty government repeatedly ordered the construction of Fanjingshan Buddhist temples and promoted the development of Buddhism, and granted the Four Great Emperor Temples 48-legged Temples. Xiyan Temple was rebuilt during the Jiajing period. At this time, the four words "wonders and wonders of mountains and rivers" were engraved on the stone wall. Tianma Temple is located on the eastern foot of the Jinding Hall, which is a material supply place for monks and nuns and a residence for winter and cold relief. On the way, there is Baiyun Temple to guide the pilgrims to worship Buddha.
Huguo Temple is one of the four great emperor temples, the largest temple in Fanjing Mountain. The temple covers more than 30 miles around. The Sakyamuni Hall and the Maitreya Hall are built on two peaks on the New Golden Summit. The Sakyamuni Hall on the left is the Sakyamuni Hall, the Maitreya Hall on the right is the Golden Knife Gorge in the middle. The overpass spans it and connects the two halls. There is a huge stone behind each of the halls, called the Shunshu Stone and the Sacrifice Platform.
The full name of the stele of the imperial gift is "Preface to the Reconstruction of the Golden Summit of the Imperial Gift of Fanjing Mountain". It was granted by Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty. It is located under the old golden summit of Fanjing Mountain. The stele is 2.9 meters high and 1.5 meters wide. The stele is decorated with a dragon arch on the left and right, and the colorful clouds are covered with. The inscriptions are all in regular script, with 1,349 characters.
Xiyan Temple in the western foot of Fanjing Mountain was built in the Song Dynasty
Fanjing Mountain Huguo Zen Master, built in the Song Dynasty
Imperial monument, and the Wanli Emperor gave the title to establish it, recording the historical legend of Fanjing Mountain, the rise and fall of Buddhism
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Fanjing Mountain Maitreya Temple has a magical natural landscape verified. Near the new and old golden summits, wonderful Buddha light and phantoms can often be seen. The ancients believed that Buddha light and Buddha shadow were the images of Maitreya Bodhisattva. From the Buddha worship platform on the ancient road to the west, looking at Fanjing Mountain from a distance, there is a scene of three statues of Maitreya side by side. The old golden peak is a seated statue of Maitreya, the new golden peak is a seated statue of Maitreya worshipping Maitreya, and the three main peaks are connected by a seated statue of Maitreya that is 10,000 meters long.
In 1986, Fanjing Mountain was listed as a national nature reserve, UNESCO International "Human and Biosphere" protection zone network.
In 2018, it was listed on the World Heritage List and won the title of a national 5A-level tourist attraction.
Fanjing Mountain Old Golden Summit Maitreya Sitting Image
Fanjing Mountain New Golden Summit Golden Monkey Belief Maitreya Sitting Image
Fanjing Mountain Three main peaks are connected to present Maitreya Reclining Buddha statue
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