The ancestor of the temple is monk Huili from west India. When he
roamed from central plains to Wulin (current Hangzhou) of Zhejiang
province, he saw a peak and said: “this is a small mountain
on Linjiu Mountain of Middle India, when did it fly here? It seems
that some Buddhas are reclusive here.” then a temple was
built before the peak, named as Lingyin. At the beginning, the
temple was very small. In 771 AC, it was repaired all-sided.
However, in the late Tang dynasty, Lingyin Temple was destroyed and
all monks in it were dispersed away. Till to the Five Dynasties,
King of Yue Qianmiu assigned Master Yanshou to rebuild the temple
with stone pagoda , Buddhist Hall, Ceremony Hall, and very high
Maitreya Hall and favored the name “New lingyin
Temple”. In the period of great prosperity, Lingyin Temple
had nine floors, 18 halls, 72 palaces, 1300 monk rooms and over
3000 monks. In South Song Dynasty, since Hangzhou was the capital,
kings of Gaozong and Xiaozhong often went to Lingyin Temple for
religious observance. Lingyin was honored as top one of the
“five mounts” in the south Zen Sect in Jiading time of
Song dynasty. In Shunzhi time of Qing dynasty, great Zen Master
Jude was the abbot of Lingyin Temple. He made great efforts to
rebuild the temple. The size of the temple at that time was the
No.1 in Southeast. In 1689 A.D., when Kangxi King patrolled in the
south, he named Lingyin as “Yunling Temple”. Lingyin
has been repaired many times after P. R. China was founded. Now
Lingyin temple covers an area of over 100 mu which is composed of
tianwang hall, daxiong hall, apothecary hall, Buddhist hall, huayan
hall, Arhat hall, Master Daoji hall, liandeng room, dabei building,
abbot room, east & west scripture room and east & west
stele rooms etc. There is a statue of Sakyamuni Buddha in daxiong
hall, with 24.8 meters in height, which imitates the Buddha statue
of Zen in the Tang Dynasty. Lingyin temple has been a famous place
attracting great number of hierarchs and literators for Buddhist
and cultural communications.Furthermore, there are a lot of
timehonored figures of Buddha, Buddhist tools, stone towers,
steles, calligraphies and paintings and other historical cultural
treasures. Lingyin Temple is listed as the national key cultural
treasure protection unit for those costful Buddhist cultural
treasures. Now with the world entering a new century, Lingyin
Temple is attracting vast visitors both at home and abroad to learn
Buddhism, look around, pray for blessings, and relax there with
it’s rich Buddhist culture, magnificent hall buildings, and
beautiful natural scene.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingyin_Temple
http://www.lingyinsi.org/
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