Hello, everyone. Welcome to the ancient city of Xi'an. Today, I'd like toshow you the big wild goose pagoda, the landmark of Xi'an.
When it comes to the big wild goose pagoda, I think your first impressionmust be related to the story of Monk Tang in Pilgrimage to the West. In history,Monk Tang is a real person, and it's also true. The bronze statue we see now isthe Tang monk. His common surname is Chen. He was born in Yanshi, Henan Provincetoday. His parents died early. When he was 13, he converted to Buddhism. At theage of 20, he was given a full precept in Chengdu. He had traveled all over theworld and visited famous teachers. In the process of his hard study of Buddhism,he felt that there were many different opinions about Buddhism and there was noway to understand it. So he came up with the idea of seeking Dharma in India. Inthe early Tang Dynasty, he came to India with a large number of businessmen. Ittook him 20__ years to travel more than 100000 miles through more than 100countries and regions. It can be said that he had passed the Gobi desert where"there are no birds on the top and no animals on the bottom", passed through theflame mountain, and "cooking by hanging kettle and lying on ice". With thisamazing perseverance, he overcame all kinds of difficulties and arrived in IndiaThere are 657 Buddhist scriptures. In 20__ of Tang Zhenguan, he returned toChang'an. Let's look at this bronze statue. Tang Monk holds a staff in one handand bows in the other hand. His eyes are bright. His pace is calm and hisexpression is firm. He seems to be walking on the long road of learning Buddhistscriptures.
[Ci'en Temple - Mountain Gate - Bell and Drum Tower - Daxiong Hall - titleof wild goose pagoda]
Next, we'll visit dacien temple. The former name of dacien temple is "WulouTemple". Wulou means no worries. When Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi was the crownprince of Tang Dynasty, in order to recommend Ming Fu to his mother, empressWende, who passed away, and cherish his mother's great kindness, he rebuilt andexpanded the temple here and renamed it dacien temple. Now we come to the gateof dacien temple. The main gate of the temple is called Shanmen, which is alsocalled Sanmen. The empty gate in the middle, Wuzuo gate and Wuxiang gate on theleft and right sides respectively, symbolize the three liberation gates ofBuddhism. The plaque on the gate is a few big characters of "dacien Temple"written by Comrade __ himself.
Walking into the temple, we can see two small buildings. To the East is thebell tower. Inside is an iron bell cast in the Jiaqing period of the MingDynasty. It weighs 30000 Jin. The patterns, patterns and words on the bell areclearly visible. The front of the bell body is engraved with the words "morningbell of wild goose pagoda". For a long time, "the morning bell of the wild goosepagoda" has been regarded as one of the eight scenic spots in Guanzhong. To thewest is the drum tower, in which there is a big drum. The bell and drum are thelarge-scale magic weapons of the temple, which are basically used to tell thetime. Monks wake up and sleep when they smell the bell and the drum everyday.
As we go on, what we see is the central building of the whole temple, whichis called Daxiong hall. "Daxiong" is the honorific name for Sakyamuni, in whichSakyamuni's three body Buddha is worshipped. First of all, we can see that themiddle one is called Dharma Buddha viluzana Buddha, which means the pure body ofBuddha nature. On the left side is the Bodhisattva Buddha lushana Buddha, whichmeans the body of Buddha's fruit is perfect. On the right side is the BuddhaSakyamuni Buddha refers to all changeable bodies, and refers to the body of allliving beings. On both sides of the statue are the disciples of the Buddha, withKaya in the East and Ananda in the West. There are also statues of ManjusriBodhisattva and Puxian Bodhisattva on both sides.
On the west wall of Daxiong hall, there are several steles of "Yan TA TiMing Ji". The "Yan TA Ti Ming Ji" began in the Tang Dynasty, which is a verypopular custom in the Tang Dynasty. That is to say, as long as the candidatesare admitted to the new imperial examinations, they have to come to the Yan TAfor inscription. They feel that it is a very glorious thing to be able toinscribe under the Yan TA, and they feel that climbing on the Yan TA has beenpromoted step by step since then Qingyun, poet Bai Juyi of Tang Dynasty, wrote apoem after he was admitted as a scholar in the examination, saying: "theyoungest of the seventeen people is at the title under the tower of mercy".
[Fatang - name of Dayan Pagoda - construction and cultural relics of DayanPagoda - Xuanzang Sanzang academy]
Next, let's visit the Dharma hall, which is usually a Buddhist preachingplace. In Qujiang tourist area, the place we can also visit is equivalent to ourcurrent classroom. In the Dharma hall, Amitabha, who is in charge of the WesternParadise, is worshipped. On the east wall of the Dharma hall, there are threerubbings. The middle one is "the picture of Xuanzang's collection", whichdescribes Xuanzang carrying scriptures and hanging street lamps in front, Onboth sides of the rubbings are yuancha and peep Ji, two of Xuanzang's disciples.Yuancha is the grandson of Xinluo state, peep Ji is the nephew of Yuchi Gong, afamous general in the early Tang Dynasty. Both of them worship Xuanzang as theirteacher, which shows Xuanzang's great reputation at that time.
We can see the big wild goose pagoda behind the Dharma hall. Here I wouldlike to introduce the origin of the name of the great wild goose pagoda. Firstof all, it is called "Gensuo" in the western regions and "Yan" in the TangDynasty, so the name of the wild goose pagoda is pronounced in Sanskrit
In the early days of Buddhism, there were two schools: Mahayana andHinayana. Mahayana Buddhism abstained from eating meat, while Hinayana did not.There is a monastery in mogatuo. The monks of the monastery believe in HinayanaBuddhism. One day, when noon is coming, the monks are hungry, and lunch has notbeen settled yet. They complain very much. One monk sees a group of wild geeseflying by in the air, and says jokingly: "we monks haven't eaten meat for manydays. If the Bodhisattva has spirit, we should know our predicament! As soon asthe voice falls, we see that the monks of the leading monastery are in troubleNo meat for dinner. At this time, a group of geese flew by in the sky. A monklooked at the geese and said to himself, "today there is no meat in the monk'sroom. The merciful Bodhisattva will never forget what day it is." Before thevoice fell, the leading goose folded its wings and fell to the ground. The monkswere shocked and realized that the Tathagata tried to educate them. They kneltdown and buried the goose in the courtyard. He built a pagoda and named itYanta. From then on, he changed his belief to Mahayana instead of eating meat.This is the name of Yanta. The word "big" is added in front of the word "wildgoose pagoda". First, the building of the pagoda is magnificent; second, thelater Jianfu Temple Pagoda is also called the wild goose pagoda. In order todistinguish it, it is called the big wild goose pagoda and the small wild goosepagoda.
The Dayan Pagoda was first built in the third year of Yonghui reign ofEmperor Gaozong of Tang Dynasty. It was designed and built by master Xuanzanghimself, and it took two years to complete. At first, the wild goose pagoda wasfive stories, 180 feet high. Later, it was seriously damaged. When Wu Zetiancame, it was rebuilt into seven stories. People often say that "saving one lifeis better than building a seven level putu". Probably from this, the big wildgoose pagoda is a masterpiece of Buddhist art in China with its simple shape andmagnificent momentum. There are stairs in the tower to spiral up. The brickniches on the East and west sides of the South Gate of the tower are inlaid withthe stele of preface to the three Tibetan holy religions of the Tang Dynastywritten by Emperor Taizong Li Shimin and the stele of preface to the threeTibetan holy religions of the Tang Dynasty written by Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi.Both steles were written by Chu suiliang, a famous calligrapher in Tang Dynasty,and are known as "two saints and three unique steles".
Next, we will visit "Xuanzang Sanzang courtyard", which is a group ofimitative Tang Dynasty buildings. The whole courtyard is composed of threeparts: Guangming hall in the West courtyard, dabianjue hall in the middlecourtyard and Prajna hall in the east courtyard. The brilliant life of masterXuanzang is divided into two stages and displayed to the world at threedifferent levels. The Guangming hall in the West courtyard shows the experienceand moving deeds of the master from his birth to his forty years old The contentof Prajna hall in Dongyuan is the grand welcome of master Xuanzang's going backto the east to get the Scriptures and encourage him to translate, spread andspread the Scriptures until his death, which is called "the stage of translatingand spreading the scriptures". The middle dabianjue Hall shows the religiousbackground of the historical event of "Xuanzang's going back to the East" with adeeper connotation.
[Dayan Pagoda North Square - Tang Furong Garden - Qujiang Ocean Museum -hanyao - Hu Hai tomb]
Dayan Pagoda has been the place of Qujiang since ancient times. Let's visitseveral other famous scenic spots in Qujiang tourist area.
First of all, let's visit the north square of the great wild goose pagoda.This is a theme square highlighting the great wild goose pagoda, the great Ci'enTemple and the culture of the Tang Dynasty. It was built in 20__. It is composedof the fountain water scenic area, the relief scenic area of the Tang Dynasty,the East-West pedestrian street of the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang poetry gardenarea. It has the largest music fountain in Asia. It has become the "Cityreception hall" and "city card" of Xi'an.
Next, we come to Tang Furong garden. It was built on Tang Furong gardensite, completely imitating the architectural form of Tang Dynasty Royal Garden.It was built in 20__ and opened to tourists. It covers an area of 1000 mu, witha total investment of 1.3 billion yuan. There are many Tang style buildings,such as ziyunlou, Fengming Jiutian opera house, Luyu tea house, ladies' hall,etc. it has the largest water screen film in the world. It is the first themepark in China to show the culture and style of the Tang Dynasty in an all-roundway, and is known as the "No.1 theme park of the Tang Dynasty in the world". InQujiang tourist area, we can visit Qujiang aquarium. It is the largest aquariumin Western China, covering an area of 90 mu with a total investment of 350million yuan. It is mainly composed of dolphin performance hall, Ocean ScienceMuseum, tropical rainforest Museum, undersea tunnel and underwater Grand ViewGarden. We can also visit hanyao, the place where the love story between XuePinggui and Wang Baochuan took place, and the tomb of Qin II Hu Hai, which wasburied as a civilian.
All right, my friends, this is the end of my explanation. Thank you!
"See China in five hundred, please come to Beijing, want to see China in five thousand, please go to xi 'an", see this you should know the history of the xi 'an long, xi 'an was the capital of 13 dynasties, is also one of the seven ancient capitals in China, together with Athens, Cairo, Rome more is known as the "world's four major ancient civilization". Xian, called chang 'an. Around xian imperial mausoleum, palace ruins, ancient temple of acquainting and garden scenic spots, is a treasure trove of xi 'an became a history and culture, numerous cultural relics to reveal it once had the brilliant and deep rich historical and cultural charm. Is in such a city, in this you can feel the Chinese for thousands of years of vicissitudes of life change, and the development of the Chinese civilization and the greatest of the Chinese nation.
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Cultural and historical resources of the scenic spot, beautiful scenery and pleasant environment, everywhere embodies the concept of environmental protection and humanistic care, has become a new card in xian city, the ancient capital tourism new brand. Visitors enter the scenic area, every footprint walk on site, every journey to complete the dialogue with history.
Welcome to here, let me to introduce for everybody!
In northwest China, the beautiful city of xi 'an is a famous ten dynasties ancient capital. A landmark tower, Ming Great Wall ruins, huaqing pool and so on. Can be the most magnificent, the most famous is the wild goose pagoda.
Since the tang dynasty of great wild goose pagoda, built by master xuan zang, used to store the scriptures pagoda. Day it was built in the temple, historically, intact, for visitors to visit and tour, and now is the famous tourist attractions in our country, the symbol of the famous ancient city of xi 'an. Xi 'an ever central is printed on the wild goose pagoda, the wild goose pagoda is a sign of worthy of xi 'an.
The origin of the wild goose pagoda magic the occult. According to legend, in India the ogre tuo, a temple monks believe in hinayana, eats three net (that is, the wild goose, deer, calf meat). One day, a group of geese fly sky. A monk saw group of geese, letter said: "everybody not to eat today, bodhisattvas should know we are hungry!" Taking a wild geese fell dead in his word, the monk in front, he was pleasantly surprised, all times against temple monks, all think that this is the tathagata in educating them. Hence in the place where wild goose fell to the solemn ceremony was buried goose a tower, and called the wild goose pagoda. Xuan zang in the allusions, built the wild goose pagoda.
The earliest due to insufficient financial resources, wild goose pagoda is a building five floors, afterwards because of wu zetian believe in Buddhism, it built the ten layers. Unfortunately, five generations of war and down to seven layers, today is the seven layers of the blue brick flies in the tower. 64.5 meters high tower, each have a door on the ground, modelling concise, magnificence, is a rare masterpiece of buddhist art in our country.
From a distance, you will find that the wild goose pagoda is slightly tilted, this but there is a lot of. Xian a few times in the past, earthquake, earthquake tower like side slightly tilted, later, the tower body part for soil and groundwater is not uniform, the settlement of wild goose pagoda accelerated the tilt, now gradually recover the groundwater, the wild goose pagoda "right".
Wild goose pagoda is the first batch of national key protected cultural relics, after repeated repairs, the seven layers of blue bricks tower become solid, wild goose pagoda in the protection of cultural relics, social construction in the future, don't reduce the beauty of the classical past, this layer charming, mysterious veil. Attracts the world search for buddhist culture and the ancient Oriental civilization.
Wild goose pagoda scenic area is a buddhist holy land, is the national AAAA level scenic area, and the tang dynasty monk xuan zang mages have close relations, tang's monk buddhist scriptures translated by the story is taking place. All buddhist temple, are monks worship Buddha, proving, chanting dojo, and large temple, pagoda compared with other temple what is special about? Monk as a cloud, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign monk countless, tang's monk xuan zang who? Why the story of tang's monk scriptures widely circulated, today visited the scenic spot, will find answers to these questions. Believe that everyone knows the story of "journey to the west" tang's monk scriptures? In this scenic spot, however, there is no "journey to the west" myth "tang's monk teacher", also can not find decline demon in addition to the magic of "sun wukong, pig eight quit, sand monk". But you will feel a living and true tang's monk xuan zang to obtain buddhist scriptures. Xuan zang to say who? We say that he is an indomitable spirit of the Chinese people, is a have feelings of the Chinese national spirit and patriotism. He is a famous monk, taizong your respectful name he is "leader" of practice, the emperor tang said he is the crown of the "reality".
Dear visitors, now we move to the south wild goose pagoda square. This big temple scenic area by the main scenic spot, the wild goose pagoda and the north and the south square, things of two yuan, covers an area of about 500 mu. At the center of the square stands a statue of tang's monk xuan zang to obtain buddhist scriptures tall statue. See his eaves, Khmer, hand-held tin staff, with a firm pace, as if is travelling in the journey of the experiences of the west. Behind him is that he pioneered jion cradle, is hosted by his translation of the temple, and he has built the wild goose pagoda.
Xuan zang (602-664), common family name is Chen yi, henan yanshi, have been super intelligent, industrious. 13 was abnormality admits, ranked in luoyang pureland temple tonsure a monk. Xuan zang has toured the country ten Yu Sheng, visited more than 10 senior monk MingXian, learn the classic, end doctrine, reputation capital, is known as the "door shi wei and buddhist li colt." Travel all over the country, after he review incomplete, Buddhism was introduced into China since 600, a buddhist doctrinal differences, the status of the faction disputes. Xuan zang in buddhist studies, buddhist scriptures the question of the article up to hundred. The origin - tianzhu country he was determined to Buddhism, which is today's India, to explore the essence of Buddhism aggregates, to solve the doubt, carry forward the dharma. He in 627 AD, the table together, apply for to print, not approved by the court. Someone else have quit, but he refused, to don't change, and use three years before going abroad, from the buddhist studies, both material and spiritual aspects of language Sanskrit and are fully prepared. Hence illegal customs, namely illegal smuggling exit, the day fu night, go alone, began his hardships of India to obtain buddhist scriptures and legend. Now, please continue to visit.
Now we went to the temple, the temple of the main entrance is called the gate, also called three, respectively called gate, door, door, a symbol of the three free of Buddhism. You see, the tablet is comrade jiang zemin personally inscribed on the door of "big temple" several characters of the shining. Temple was founded in sui huang nine years (AD 589), the early name "no leakage temple". In 648 AD, the emperor tang Li Zhi make prince, commend to chase the ghost fu for his mother to build temple, so the name "temple". Temple have to its parent after the prince Li Zhi built, also expressed his father emperor taizong miss weld the queen's wish. Emperor taizong and DE queen grew up loving, eternal friendship, at the age of 13 namely "wives by emperor taizong", emperor taizong account was only 17 years old at the time. Emperor taizong acceded to the throne, made the queen. Weld queen good upright, the tail from wagging the dog, strict in law already, she to datang shrines, avoid nepotism, she insisted that don't let his brother sons and nephews in court. For Wei Zheng, fang xuanling brave LiangChen, but all about love. Of the queen's sense of honor, just virtuous, become the tang dynasty heyday LiangZuo beams. At last words also stressed that "no lights, waste thin death". So virtuous cheerful, it deserves to be a female politicians have courage, have heart. On the death of 33 queen, emperor taizong very grief, XiangJinChen confession: "I not know destiny but not of sadness, but no longer smell the suggestion of speech into the palace, a LiangZuo, so can't forget the ear!" So big temple created, actual it is taizong blessing of the father and son to weld the queen, and after the tang dynasty to the generation of xian memorial.
Big in the tang dynasty temple is located in the eastern half of chang an city JinChang fang, about 398 acres, a total of 1897 rooms, 300 monks, as one of the buddhist temple of changan grand scale. At the beginning of the temple was built, the court specially to meet please return from India to changan, is a hong fu temple by xuan zang as temple abbot attendance, big temple became the highest institution of higher learning and the flourishing of Chinese Buddhism. Continuously by war after tang dynasty, the temple gradually deserted, experience and repair for many times, until 1446 AD, is laid the temple size today.
Now the scope of the temple width of 160 meters, north and south long 318 meters, a total of 93 acres, the main building the temple, from south to north lined the entrance, drum tower, things peidian peidian, dharma scripture-stored tower, the wild goose pagoda and the monk xuan zang. Things on both sides, respectively, the monastery, temple abbot yuan pipe, tube institute, etc.
We walked into the entrance, you can see on the second floor of the bell and drum, in the east tower suspension with a cast iron back "wild goose pagoda". Casting in the clock l548 AD, cast with the clock back "wild goose pagoda" four strong characters, the wild goose pagoda mouth back from cause to enable to today, have been as great temple do instrument specifications, is BenSi buddhist activities and the other part of the monks live. As Buddhism large multiplier, morning bell is called his monks to make. The temple monks WenZhong every day, to smell drum but sleep. Back when the dawn, the loud sounds of ding lacerate morning sunrise, wrap over south, a total of 3 array, each array 36 ring, struck a chord with 108 ring, said 108 kinds of renouncing earthly life troubles, prayer times peace, and all the peoples happiness, good harvest.
The west side of the drum tower hang a big drum, temple called MuGu, to tap the drum tower, bell and drum are large multiplier for the monastery. Things peidian peidian former east guanyin hall, now the guest room, west to hid in the house.
Now we come to visit Ursa major. High on the stage of Ursa major for the center of the temple building, Ursa plaques glittering, is the late President Mr. At the beginning of the buddhist association of China book. Incense before the prosperity, the main hall of the temple to worship the Buddha within three body of Buddha, for indicating the Buddha which he covered the Buddha, west for indicating the Buddha luo that Buddha, east to Buddha shakyamuni Buddha. Buddha flanked by a disciple of the Buddha, east to kasyapa, west to the difficult, on both sides and samantabhadra bodhisattva statues and like manjusri bodhisattva, are the Ming dynasty sculpture, the symbol of truth and wisdom, respectively. Double-box lined with other things, including xuan zang, 18 arhats, such arrangement is to the Buddha's 16 their honour person with speaker friends celebrate, the translators were listed as 18 arhats, xuan zang for 18 arhats earlier arrangement in our country, there are other arrangement in the future. Lohan is theravada Buddhism, the highest realm of practice refers to eliminate all the troubles to enter nirvana, death and rebirth, no longer is a provider. Ocean's three righteousness is: kill, cut off is greed, hatred, and delusion, etc. All the worry; Should be for. Should be by outsiders to support; Not born, enter nirvana, forever no longer into the cycle of life and death. Behind the hall of worship Lord Buddha plastic is standing on the top of the south China sea guanyin bodhisattva as as well as the bodhisattva, dragon lady, wooden fork 150 characters, and the good fortune the lad 53 and seek legal way story, lively and interesting, vivid display of the south China sea avalokitesvara putuo lo ng mountain dojo penglai fairyland.
On the west side of Ursa walls inlaid with a few "wild goose pagoda title" tablet, wild goose pagoda title like this tablet in the scenic spot I have dozens of tong. "Wild goose pagoda title" began in the tang dynasty, refers to the top of is in changan exceeded otherregions HeJinShi, gathered wild goose pagoda, and Wu Ju cultural activities, on the small wild goose pagoda title jiajing nineteen years (1540), after having obtained title metropolitan examinations of shaanxi inscription is: "name the topic wild goose pagoda between heaven and earth first things first." After the tang dynasty poet bai juyi in A.D. 800 exceeded otherregions jinshi spring-and-autumn way: "jion tower under the title, 17 of the boy." Implemented at the moment. Said "poor Meng Fuzi" meng jiao, jinshi in only 46 years old, he spring-and-autumn yue: "old dirty not kua, debauchery is long, life is short. Today percussion horseshoe disease, a day to see changan flowers." After he receive government degrees "" spring in his famous poem, become popular 美谈.
In the ancient capital of chang 'an activity is a continuation of more than one thousand years, wild goose pagoda title and title jinshi just continue to the tang dynasty. Because each in each generation, since the tang dynasty chang 'an is no longer a capital city, but so do dungans followed a provinces after having obtained juren Tang Jinshi jas have title activity on the wild goose pagoda. He in the temples and the wild goose pagoda, is still a deposit of the Ming and qing dynasties after having obtained juren title tablet in 73. In the jianfu temple, the small wild goose pagoda has also kept a Wu Ju title title 17 tong Ming and qing dynasties, also known as the "wild goose pagoda title". Because the size of wild goose pagoda emulate title in the tower, considerable tang tang dynasty life, then gradually formed as title wild goose pagoda, the small wild goose pagoda. These are historical data in the system of our country's scientific research.
North of the hall for the two-story dharma scripture-stored tower, the upper with xuan zang had translated books, the dharma, dedicated to a statue of amitabha Buddha, is the Ming dynasty bronze figure of Buddha of fine gold. Xuan zang consecrate Buddha dharma is also on display, xuan zang institution and peek at base, round BeiTa portraits, etc. Round city ghost kingdom prince, by year after becoming a monk came to China, given up to xuan zang and door; Snapshot of the base is xuan zang ambitions, this is the founding fathers WeiChi ready and nephew, every time go out with three car, so has the nickname "three monks". Thus it can be seen at the time of xuan zang, fame and position.
Now, at the foot of the people came to the wild goose pagoda, formerly known as temple of great wild goose pagoda FuTu. Master xuan zang to keep from India brought back a large number of buddhist scriptures and the Buddha sarira, in AD 652, the attached chart, approved by the court, in BenSi west courtyard pagoda built five layer. Each layer of all remaining sarira, a total of more than ten thousand grains. Master xuan zang to attend a tower labor, carrying bricks, took two years to build.
As for the "wild goose pagoda" the name of the origin, the dialects. And xuan zang own compilation of the datang western region "described in the buddhist story of the most credible. In history, according to "the datang western xuan zang mahayana and theravada Buddhism in early points two, mahayana precepts carnivorous, theravada don't quit. Ancient Indian magadha tuo state city, a king outside indra the mountain have a temple, the temple monks believe in theravada teaching, one day, at will, the monk hungry, not landing, lunch is complaining. There is a monk suddenly see a group of geese fly through the air, freely a joke: I've been waiting all the monk for many days without eating meat, if bodhisattvas have spirit, should know our difficulties! See the words sound just fell, the leading wild goose to fly back, arrived before the monk was broken wings fell down, and all the monks frightened, understand what is Buddha to education them, the monk hurriedly bowed down, and buried the courts to the goose. Built on a tower, named wild goose pagoda, to believe in mahayana from now on, no longer eat meat. This is the origin of the name of the wild goose pagoda. The word "wild goose pagoda" plus one "big" word, before it is due to architectural grandeur of the tower, the second is built in the jianfu temple tower is as known as the wild goose pagoda, to distinguish, hence respectively referred to as the wild goose pagoda and small wild goose pagoda. Of Buddhism in India, also went to join the ritual of the famous wild goose pagoda.
Master xuan zang organization construction of the stupa in person, because of the brick surface soil, wind and rain erosion, gradually destroyed after more than 40 years. Wu zetian changan years (AD 701-704) the empress wu zetian and tombs which adheres to give money to rebuild. Hence converted into seven layers of the pagoda pagoda, said 7 class floor, more majestic earlier. People often say: "save people's life, made 7 class floor", almost.
One thousand years, has been of great wild goose pagoda is the symbol of the ancient city of xi 'an and landmark buildings. Towering pagoda, a symbol of master xuan zang spirit of high quality and great personality.
A castle in the wild goose pagoda is a typical imitation wooden type 2-foot-tall tower, more well-known Chinese and foreign with "personality" story. Wild goose pagoda is composed of tower, tower, DaCha Lao, 64.7 meters, carved on the lintel frame has a line in the tang dynasty. Four bar with fluency vivid shade is engraved line carve Buddha, bodhisattva, king kong lux portrait. Especially XiMenMei line in characterization, the lecture is the Buddha, look dignified kind, 30 honour bodhisattva poses of all stripes, lifelike. Today we research building in tang dynasty, buddhist art and history and culture of precious materials.
Embedded at the bottom of great wild goose pagoda south on both sides of the gate put the emperor taizong of the "tang monk SAN teaching sequence", and when the prince of the tang dynasty the emperor "tang monk SAN teaching sequence", two second "st" monument, all by the head of the secretariat (prime minister) book by b. Like this both tablet inscription and the relative arrangement, left and right sides is symmetrical. Set in pagodas, it is unique. Engraved inscription and below are their elegant, dancing began flying dance lotte, scan "sequence" tablet musicians of instrument for wind, monuments, and "remember" instruments for string. So tianle dance is a buddhist fairyland.
Some say wild goose pagoda SAN teaching sequence memorial tablet "quiet" two st. One is two st imperial emperor taizong account from - from "sequence", taizi Li Zhi from "remember" the name, the second is the experiences of xuan zang - praise xuan zang to obtain buddhist scriptures preach Buddhism, the contents of three is everyone calligraphy calligraphy masterpieces of - b, four is in huang, changan solemn sacred big buddhist temple in the city. Therefore this monument as a national treasure, the treasure of the name is more famous monuments.
Now, we came to a layer in the wild goose pagoda. First look at the two stone tablets, on the wall on both sides is a xuan zang institution, one is translated by the figure xuan zang. The two tablet is the vivid reflection of xuan zang mage glorious life.
Look at pillar hang four long, is by the emperor taizong, tang dynasty the emperor and the words of the master xuan zang.
First, from emperor taizong drive makes tang monk SAN teaching sequence, the effect is: master xuan zang is a buddhist leader, he risked his government rules and life, overcome all difficulties and obstacles and single ride of expedition alone, visited college, explore and study the buddhist scriptures, the buddhist truth widely carry forward, with the sun, with heaven and earth.
Second picture: from tang dynasty the emperor drive makes big temple monument, the effect is: master xuan zang can be called is a crown of Buddhism, the buddhist scriptures, reject, he make the Buddha's light shining, to promote Buddhism, he represents an era, he surpassed the xiyu buttocho, dove moro, ZhuDaoSheng and shen this monk, master xuan zang's achievements and spirit is unprecedented, after.
The third picture means: create big temple in troublesome, and the capital translate sutras, I sincerely hope that the dharma hui flow to carry forward, settle can bless usually long, holy teaching to promote, illumination of Chinese history, wisdom the feelings of the world can jian, fukuda, reflected in the Buddha dharma forever.
The fourth picture means: we cherish esteeming mood, built a pagoda, with resettlement from the buddhist monk buddhist paradise to classical, magnificent pagoda thousand buddhas bless, and to pay close attention to; We also need to establish the monument, engraved two precious holy wrote inscriptions, stupa st mark will be with heaven and earth, stand in changan resort.
Now we began to climb up the visit. Please step light tower, pay attention to safety. Is rich in every layer of display, respectively consecrate figure of Buddha of fine gold of Ming dynasty, the Indian buddhist monk of the Buddha sarira, display has Buddha footprint stele, department of xuan zang in his later years of print consecrate Buddha replica of stone, and xuan zang poems calligraphy, poetry, yu, qi baishi. The sixth layer suspension has several great poets in tang dynasty poetry calligraphy.
In the autumn of 752, when the wild goose pagoda to create the 100th anniversary of the poet du fu in conjunction with the ts 'en-ts 'an, cross, xue according to, ChuGuangXi five great poets, reach the wild goose pagoda, held a special poets gathering wild goose pagoda. They lean on, to see the pagoda wei, autumn scenery picturesque scene, inspired each poet's feelings and young. Famous frontier fortress poet ts 'en-ts 'an cheerful poison sings: "potential Wells such as tower, solitary towering temple. Step into the world, pedal plate of vanity. Four corners in the day, the seven layers of the sky. The glimpse into high bird, prone to present concern.charlotte heard." Everyone please du fu chanting songs, see his feelings, a poem, a appears once asking it, manhood, he sing a way: "high across the sky, heavy wind all. Since the kuang, belonged to the philistines, we turn the sorrow. The seven stars in the north, west flow galaxy. Xihe whip the day, and less HaoHang clear autumn. Qinshan suddenly broken, there. Looking down but, how can distinguishes the imperial state." These poems are rare song.
We got to the top of the stupa, I have a kind of "step into the world," superb wonderful feeling, all the trapped, the magnificent scenery of the ancient city of panoramic view, the ghost town.
Tourists friends, let us now slowly down the tower, pay attention to safety. Behind the monk xuan zang to continue to visit.
Now, everybody came to the gate of monk xuan zang homes. Is a set of imitation tang monk xuan zang court buildings, by then the great times hall, eastern hospital prajna hall, west courtyard bright hall, the research and it covers an area of 3224 square meters.
If you would like to ask: xi 'an big temple temple treasure? That is the parietal andother master xuan zang and Buddha sarira, because xuan zang sarira and Buddha sarira is a precious cultural relics.
Tourists friends, great times in monk xuan zang homes don, honours xuan zang's statue and a parietal andother master xuan zang. Xuan zang, meanwhile, the six other spirit has been spreading around the world, is a symbol of and spread the spirit of xuan zang, will work with the sun, with heaven and earth.
Monk xuan zang hospital has nearly 400 square meters large murals, beautiful st reflects the buddhist circle and xuan zang's life story. From birth, becoming a monk xuan zang and abroad religion began his brilliant life.
Xuan zang in 629 from changan, travel and study in the western regions. The lanzhou, dunhuang and gaochang, by way of kyrgyzstan, kazakhstan, uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal and other countries. Along the "silk road", with amazing perseverance, through "account", overcome numerous difficulties and obstacles, to buddhist India. The experiences of long west road, full of dangerous and numerous difficulties and obstacles. But in front of xuan zang, could not the volcano, did not pass the tongtian river. In the most inaccessible desert orphan. When water sac capsized, five days and four nights into the water, a few degrees fainted in the dunes, in front of the dangerous corner, xuan zang by "not the west, not east to step" pledge and conviction, rescue, out of the woods yet.
Trek through a full three years and more than 50000 in solitary, xuan zang buddhist holy land - tianzhu finally arrived in India, to learn from the famous temple of nalanda. Back in 645 AD, xuan zang west scriptures and carries a lot of Buddha sarira, 8 statue of Buddha and buddhist scriptures, 657 have returned home, was welcomed by taizong in one's hand, and the people. Arrived at changan, character, the whole city of millions of rushing out, pomp. In 648 AD, at the beginning of the great temple was built up, xuan zang to serve is too troublesome, please to the abbot temple served as the first, continue to turn. He successively in changan hong fu temple, temple, west temple, tongchuan YuHua palace and organized translation for 19 years, until he died.
Sums up the translation of xuan zang, quantity, quality, contents and way new four distinctive features. First of all, no matter from quality or quantity, xuan zang is far more than the previous. Xuan zang one person alone out 1335 rolls of buddhist scriptures. Because of Buddhism translation accurate and reliable, and he is based on the original Indian FanBen lost a lot, so translation is regarded as "quasi FanBen" xuan zang. So just had the heyday of Buddhism in the tang dynasty, as well as many overseas monk tang method to a new situation.
Translation from buddhist scriptures translation in China, and xuan zang created the "new translation" on the evaluation of Buddhism in China. Xuan zang is the history of our country famous FoXueGu, translator and traveller, and a great patriot of infinite loyal to the motherland. Important philosophical works in ancient China in the "Lao zi" and so on translated Sanskrit into India, promoted the cultural communication and exchanges, and established the friendliness of the people of both countries. There are highly sums up the spirit of xuan zang, a poem and remarks today's students and young people. His poems yue: "wild goose pagoda hid bay leaf, and consent reputation xuan zang. To swim tianzhu, achieve true through datang. Studying the beneficiaries of the good luck, TengXiang knowledge is supposed to do. Don't be sweet wind drunk, you don't have his nations when home". To inherit and carry forward the spirit of patriotism, xuan zang wild goose pagoda has been designated as patriotism education bases.
Died in 664 AD, xuan zang in tongchuan YuHua temple, tang after the emperor learned that news, in three days, "said crying:" I lost treasures, also the loss of beams also!" Xuan zang coffin back to Beijing, in temple oratory, city move to the common wail, condolences to the. In a master xuan zang funeral mourners up to millions of audiences, that night, more than 30000 people camped outside the tomb, for the corpse xuan zang. Lay down his life for his people to the religion, taken by the translation, brilliant life, after death shroud of reed mat generation monk said the lofty respect and mourning. Here has become a point of xuan zang, forever memory of xuan zang Buddhism holy land.
Tourists friends, often the main scenic spots to visit here. Us to the north square and dong yuan, xiyuan to visit. North square is Asia's largest water fountains and the tang dynasty culture square, something the two estates have distinctive shaanxi folk culture park.
Dayan Pagoda, an ancient Tang Dynasty pagoda, is a unique symbol of theancient city of Xi'an. As one of the eight scenic spots in Guanzhong, the bigwild goose pagoda stands high in the Ci'en Temple in the southern suburb ofXi'an. It is one of the famous Buddhist pagodas in China. Dayan Pagoda scenicspot is a Buddhist holy land, which has a close relationship with masterXuanzang, a famous monk of Tang Dynasty. The story of Tang Monk's Sutraacquisition and translation takes place here. All Buddhist temples are templesfor monks to worship, worship and chant Buddhist scriptures. What's specialabout Dayan Pagoda compared with other temples? There are so many eminent monksat all times and in all over the world, so who is Tang Monk Xuanzang? Why is thestory of Tang Monk's scriptures widely spread? Today, after you visit thisscenic spot, you will find the answer to the above question.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have come to the South Square of Dayan Pagoda. Inthe center of the square stands a tall bronze statue of monk Xuanzang of TangDynasty. He was dignified, dressed in cassock, holding a staff in hand, withfirm steps, as if he was on the way to the West.
You must have seen journey to the west, one of China's four famous works,and the TV series of the same name adapted from it. Is the Tang monk in journeyto the West Xuanzang? Xuanzang, a native of Yanshi, Henan Province, isintelligent and studious. He became a monk at the age of 13. He worshipsclassics and exhausts all kinds of theories. He is well-known in the capital andis known as "the great tool of Shimen and the great horse of Buddhism." Afterstudying all over the country, he found that the sutra was incomplete and therewere many mistakes in it. He decided to go to Tianzhu, the birthplace ofBuddhism, which is now India, to explore the essence of Buddhism, so as to solvethe doubts and promote Buddhism. In the first year of Zhenguan (620__), he wentto India to apply for law, but he was not approved by the imperial court. In thethird year of Tang Zhenguan (620__ AD), he set out from Chang'an, along the SilkRoad, through the Gobi desert, where there were no birds on the top and noanimals on the bottom, and traveled westward to Tianzhu. He studied Buddhism inthe famous nalandao temple for 20__ years. At a grand Dharma meeting, Xuanzangread out his Buddhism It is said that for 18 days in a row, no one could arguewith Xuanzang. All the kings invited Xuanzang to take the magnificent Xiangyuparade. The venue cheered and thundered. The Mahayana monks called masterXuanzang "Mahayana heaven", the Hinayana monks called him "liberation heaven",and the Buddhist "heaven" refers to the Bodhisattva gods. Xuanzang was highlyhonored and respected in India. Then he resolutely declined the hospitality ofthe kings and monks and set foot on his way home. In the 19th year of Zhenguan(645 AD), Xuanzang returned home with a large number of Buddhist relics and 657Buddhist scriptures. He was warmly welcomed by the Emperor Taizong and theChinese. When they arrived in Chang'an, millions of monks and customs went outto welcome them, which was unprecedented. After returning to China, with thesupport of the Tang royal family, he gathered erudite eminent monks from allover the country to form an unprecedented Buddhist scripture translation site,and acted as the translator himself. The quality and quantity of translatedBuddhist scriptures are far more than those of their predecessors, which usheredin a new era in the history of translation in China. The author of the book, arecord of the western regions in the Tang Dynasty, has attracted the attentionof scholars all over the world. It should be said that journey to the west iswritten in the background of xuanlei's going out to the west to seek scripturesin the Tang Dynasty, but the Tang monk in the story does not refer to Xuanzang,but a figure in an artistic literary work.
Now we come to the gate of the Great Mercy Temple. The main gate of thetemple is called the mountain gate, also called the three gates, which arecalled the empty gate, Wuzuo gate and Wuxiang gate respectively, symbolizing thethree liberation gates of Buddhism. We call becoming a monk "stepping into theempty door" and that's probably where it comes from. You see, the plaque on thedoor is a few glittering characters of "dacien Temple" inscribed by Comrade __himself.
Ci'en Temple was originally named Wulou temple. In 648 ad, when Li Zhi,Emperor Gaozong, was the crown prince, he built a temple for his mother, empressWende, and ordered the temple to be built in jinchangfang, Chang'an. Facing theHanyuan Hall of Daming Palace in the north, it covers an area of 26570 squaremeters and is surrounded by beautiful scenery. It is the most magnificent andspectacular Buddhist temple in Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty. At thebeginning of the construction of Ci'en Temple, the imperial court speciallyinvited Xuanzang, who came back to Chang'an from India, to be the abbot of thetemple. Thus, da'ci'en Temple became the highest institution of Buddhism inChina at that time. After the end of Tang Dynasty, because of the constant wars,the temple gradually became desolate. After many times of maintenance, it wasnot until the Ming Dynasty that the scale of today's temple was established.
When we walk into the mountain gate, we can see the confrontation on thesecond floor of the bell and drum. To the East is the bell tower, in which thereis an iron bell. The clock was cast in the 27th year of Jiajing reign of theMing Dynasty (1548 AD). It is 3.4 meters high and weighs 15 tons. It has fourbig characters of "morning bell of wild goose pagoda". To the west is the drumtower, in which there is a big drum. The bell and drum are important tools ofBuddhism, which are used to summon monks to do rituals. It is also an importanttime tool. Monks in the temple wake up at the bell and sleep at the drum everyday.
Now we come to visit the main hall of the temple. The main hall is thecentral building of the temple. There are Sakyamuni's three body Buddha in thehall. The middle one is Dharma Buddha piluzana Buddha. Dharma Buddha refers tothe pure body of Buddha's nature. The west one is paoshen Buddha Lushena Buddha.Paoshen Buddha means to obtain the Buddha's fruit and perfect body. The east oneis Yingshen Buddha. Yingshen Buddha refers to all changeable bodies and theuniversal body. On both sides of the three body Buddha are Sakyamuni's Kaya andAnanda, and on both sides are eighteen Arhats.
On the west wall of the main hall, there are several steles of "Yan TA TiMing Ji". "Yanta inscription" began in the Tang Dynasty. All the top scholars inthe Chang'an examination had to have a banquet in Qujiang first, and thengathered together to inscribe the name of the big Yanta. They thought it was avery glorious thing to inscribe the name of the big Yanta, and they thought thatthey could ascend step by step by climbing the big Yanta. Bai Juyi, a poet ofthe Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem here after he was admitted as a Jinshi in theexamination: "the youngest of the seventeen people is at the title under thetower of mercy." It's a good story for a while.
On the north side of the hall is the Sutra collection building of Fatang(two floors). On the upper floor is the Sutra collection building, whichcontains the scriptures translated by Xuanzang. On the lower side is the Fatang,where the monks preached. There is a statue of Amitabha in it. Amitabha is incharge of the Western Paradise. That is to say, if you recite Amitabhawholeheartedly before you die, you will be led to the paradise by him after youdie, so it is also called "Jieyin Buddha". There are also three rubbings in theDharma hall, one of which is the picture of Xuanzang's negative collection, andon both sides are the portraits of his two great disciples yuancha and peepingJi. Xuanzang was carrying a basket of Buddhist scriptures on his back. He waswalking on the road of collecting Buddhist scriptures with Buddhist dust in hishands and hemp shoes on his feet. After suffering, only the little oil lamp thatnever went out was with him.
Behind the Dharma hall is the famous wild goose pagoda. Please follow me tovisit.
As for the origin of the name of "wild goose pagoda", there are severalopinions. Its name comes from a Buddhist story. According to Indian Buddhistlegend, there were two schools of Buddhism, Mahayana and Hinayana, and HinayanaBuddhism did not avoid meat and fishiness. One day, it was Bodhisattva givingday, but a monk in a Hinayana Temple couldn't buy meat for dinner. At this time,a group of geese flew by in the sky. A monk looked at the geese and said tohimself, "today there is no meat in the house. The merciful Bodhisattva willnever forget what day it is." Before the voice fell, the leading goose foldedits wings and fell to the ground. So the monks in the temple were shocked andthought that it must be the manifestation of Bodhisattva. They built a stonepagoda at the site where the wild geese fell. They gave up meat and turned toMahayana Buddhism. Since then, people have also called Bodhisattvas the king ofgeese and pagodas the "geese pagodas.".
The great wild goose pagoda was built with the approval of the imperialcourt by master Xuanzang to preserve a large number of Buddhist scripturesbrought back from India. Master Xuanzang personally participated in theconstruction of the tower, which took two years to complete. However, the pagodawas gradually destroyed more than 40 years later because of the erosion of thebrick surface and soil core. Later, Wu Zetian rebuilt the wild goose pagoda inher reign, and there were further repairs in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Whatwe see now is the repaired wild goose pagoda.
Dayan Pagoda is a typical wooden pavilion style brick pagoda, which iscomposed of tower base, tower body and Tasha. Its height is 64.7 meters. Thepagoda is square cone-shaped, with a total of 7 floors. There are spiral stairsinside. We can climb up the pagoda along the spiral stairs to see the beautifulscenery of the ancient city. Now please come up with me.
When we come to the bottom of the Dayan Pagoda, we can see that the brickniches on both sides of the South Gate of the pagoda are inlaid with two steles,preface to the three Tibetan holy teachings of the Tang Dynasty, written byEmperor Taizong Li Shimin and Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi of the Tang Dynasty. Bothsteles were written by Chu suiliang, a famous calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty,and are the best of the steles in the Tang Dynasty. Next we can visit the firstfloor. Let's take a look at the tablets on both sides of the wall. Among them,there are two stone tablets, one is the picture of Xuanzang's negativecollection, which reflects the process of his Scripture acquisition, and theother is the picture of Xuanzang's scripture translation, which reflects theprocess of his scripture translation. The pictures of the two steles are vividportraits of master Xuanzang's glorious life. Now let's start climbing up.Please step up the tower and pay attention to safety. On the second floor, wesee a sitting statue of Maitreya. You can worship it and make your wish. Then weascend the third floor. Here is the Buddhist relic presented by Indian Buddhistmonks. All right, let's keep climbing. On the third floor, there are rubbings ofthe original steles of Jiwang Shengjiao preface and Tongzhou Shengjiao preface,which are kept in Xi'an Beilin Museum. In the fourth floor, we can see hugefootprints, which are said to be left by Sakyamuni when he passed away. It issaid that before his death, Sakyamuni went to a small river and said to hisdisciples, "this is the last footprint I left to mankind." After that, hugefootprints were formed. At that time, people vied to pay homage to each other.When Xuanzang came to India, he heard this story and went to pay homage to itspecially. He also drew the footprints with a brush when paying homage. What wesee now is carved by Xuanzang in his later years. On the fifth and sixth floors,there are Xuanzang's poems and calligraphic works of several great poets in theTang Dynasty. Let's go up to the seventh floor. You can look up and have a lookat the very interesting poems above us. No matter where we start, these wordscan be very smooth. You can read with me, "you have to travel to the west, youhave to travel to the West.". The former worshipers praised the Tang monk, whilethe latter was praised by others. " There is also "monk Tang has to travel tothe West.". Before worshiping the Buddha in the west, the predecessors praisedhim. " And so on. No matter from which angle, it can be read as a poem aboutTang Monk's learning scriptures.
When you climb to the top of the pagoda, do you have a wonderful feeling of"climbing out of the world"? You can see the magnificent scenery of the ancientcity from all sides, which makes you forget to return.
Tourist friends, now let's walk slowly down the tower and pay attention tosafety. Continue to visit Xuanzang Sanzang courtyard in the back.
Now, everyone comes to the gate of Xuanzang Sanzang courtyard. XuanzangSanzang courtyard is a group of buildings imitating Tang style, which iscomposed of dabianjue hall, Prajna hall and Guangming hall.
If you want to ask: what are the treasures of Da Ci'en Temple in Xi'an? Itis the parietal bone relic and Buddha bone relic of master Xuanzang, becauseboth of them are very precious Buddhist relics. We have just seen the Buddhistbone relic on the third floor of the Dayan Pagoda, and a portion of Xuanzang'sparietal bone relic is stored in the dabianjue Hall of the Sanzang academy,where the statue of Xuanzang is still worshipped.
There are nearly 400 square meters of exquisite large murals in Xuanzang'sSanzang courtyard, reflecting the holy scenery of Buddhism and the life story ofXuanzang. In particular, it reflects Xuanzang's brilliant life of seeking Dharmaand translating scriptures.
In summary, Xuanzang's translation is characterized by large quantity, highquality, complete content and new way. Xuanzang alone translated 1335 volumes ofBuddhist scriptures. Because Xuanzang's translation is accurate and reliable,and the original Indian Sanskrit version on which he bases is lost, Xuanzang'stranslation is regarded as "quasi Sanskrit version". Thus there was the heydayof Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty and a new situation in which many overseaseminent monks entered the Tang Dynasty to seek Dharma. The translation ofBuddhist scriptures in China begins with the translation of Buddhist scriptures.Xuanzang is a famous Buddhist, translator and traveler in the history of ourcountry. At the same time, he is a great patriot who is loyal to the motherland.He also translated Laozi, an important ancient Chinese philosophical work, intoSanskrit and introduced it to India, which promoted the cultural communicationbetween China and India and established the friendship between the twopeoples.
In 20__, Xuanzang finally died in Yuhua temple in Tongchuan. Although heasked for simplicity, the emperor buried him in Bailuyuan, which is on the Bankof Chanhe river. People have expressed their admiration and mourning for thisgeneration of eminent monk who sacrificed his life to seek Dharma, painstakinglytranslated scriptures, lived a glorious life and died with a reed mat. It hasbecome a Buddhist holy land to pay homage to and commemorate Xuanzangforever.
The big wild goose pagoda is located in the dacien temple in the southernsuburb. It is a famous ancient building in China and is regarded as the symbolof the ancient capital Xi'an. It is said that after the Tang monk came back fromIndia (ancient India), he specialized in translating and collecting scriptures.Due to the imitation of the Indian Wild Goose Pagoda, it is named the wild goosepagoda. Later, a small wild goose pagoda was built in Jianfu Temple of Chang'an.In order to distinguish it, people called the pagoda of Ci'en Temple big wildgoose pagoda and Jianfu Temple small wild goose pagoda. The Dayan Pagoda issquare in plane and is built on a platform about 45 meters square and 5 metershigh. The tower has seven floors, the bottom floor is 25 meters long, and theheight from the ground to the top is 64 meters. The body of the tower is made ofbricks, which are hard to grind. There are stairs in the tower, which can spiralup. There is an arched entrance on each side of each floor, which can be viewedfrom afar. Chang'an has a panoramic view. At the bottom of the tower, there arestone gates on all sides, and there are exquisite line carved Buddha statues onthe masts. It is said that it was written by Yan Liben, a great painter of theTang Dynasty. In the brick niches on both sides of the South Gate of the pagoda,there are two stone tablets, the preface to the great Tang Sanzang holy religionand the preface to the Sanzang holy religion, written by Chu suiliang, one ofthe four great calligraphers in the early Tang Dynasty. After the end of theTang Dynasty, the temples were repeatedly attacked by fire, and the temples weredestroyed. Only the big wild goose pagoda remained.
When you visit Xi'an, you must want to see the second big wild goosepagoda. This ancient Tang Dynasty pagoda is a unique symbol of the ancient cityof Xi'an. The ancients once left a poem that "driving mountains and shining atnight, the morning bell of the wild goose pagoda is in the south of the city".As one of the eight scenic spots in Guanzhong, the big wild goose pagoda standshigh in the Ci'en Temple in the southern suburb of Xi'an, about 4 kilometersaway from the city center. It is one of the famous Buddhist pagodas inChina.
Dayan Pagoda was formerly known as Ci'en Temple. Ci'en Temple wasoriginally named Wulou temple. In 648 ad, when Li Zhi, Emperor Gaozong, was thecrown prince, he ordered to build a temple in jinchangfang, Chang'an, in memoryof the kindness of his dead mother, empress changsun. Facing the Hanyuan Hall ofDaming Palace in the north, it covers an area of 26570 square meters and issurrounded by beautiful scenery. It is the most magnificent and spectacularBuddhist temple in Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty. Now, please comewith me to visit Ci'en Temple and Dayan Pagoda.
[Ci'en Temple - stone lion - Bell and Drum Tower - Daxiong Hall - Sutralibrary]
Dear tourists, Ci'en Temple is a temple built by the royal family. It has aprominent position and a grand scale that no other temple can match. The templewas composed of 13 courtyards, covering an area of 340 mu, seven times the areaof the temple now. Its architecture is magnificent and its decoration isgorgeous. The existing area of Ci'en Temple is 32314 square meters, about 48.5mu.
Let's take a look at this pair of powerful stone lions in front of theMountain Gate of the temple. Strange to say, generally speaking, thingsintroduced into our country from foreign countries are always introduced intothe real objects first, and then there are works of art based on the realobjects. The lion settled in China, but the first exception is the lion stoneart, and then there is the real lion. As we all know, the lion was introducedinto China from Persia in the Eastern Han Dynasty, while the stone lion wasintroduced into China from India at the same time as Buddhism. The lion has thefunction of protecting the Dharma and avoiding evil. Buddhism believes that "theBuddha is the lion among the people", so the lion is often engraved in front ofthe Buddha platform, which is called protecting the Dharma lion. At the gate ofCi'en Temple, there are four stone lions sitting symmetrically on the left andright, and two of them are close to the gate. It is not clear when they werecarved. On the east side is the lion, teasing at the foot of hydrangea. On thewest side is the lioness, with a pair of cubs at her feet, called the lioness.It seems that these lions are also arranged in the order of male left and femaleright according to people's habits. The two lions on the outside are carved in1785 and 1930 respectively. The height of the two pairs of stone lions is morethan 1.7 meters, and each pair weighs at least 250 kg. It's strange that thesetwo solid monsters made of eight faceted majestic stones, even if they aregently patted with their hands, will also make a metal sound like copper but notsteel, which is crisp and pleasant. Tourists, can you guess the reason?
Walking into the temple, there are two small buildings. To the East, thereis a bell tower. There is an iron bell cast in the Jiajing period of the MingDynasty, weighing 15 tons. To the west is the drum tower, in which there is abig drum. For a long time, "the morning bell of the wild goose pagoda" has beenwidely spread as one of the eight scenic spots in Guanzhong. But in the past,people thought that "the morning bell of the wild goose pagoda" refers to thebell of the small wild goose pagoda in Xi'an. In fact, this scene refers to thebig wild goose pagoda, because the bell of the big wild goose pagoda weighs30000 Jin. It was cast in October of the 27th year of Jiajing in the MingDynasty (1548 A.D.), more than 100 years before the bell of the small wild goosepagoda was moved into the temple.
As we all know, most temples have the main hall, and so does Ci'en Temple.Its main hall is located on the high platform in the center of the temple. Itwas built from 1458 A.D. to 1466 A.D. and was overhauled in 1887 A.D. The threestatues above the main hall are the three body statues of Shi Ying and Mou Ni.The one in the middle is called Dharma statue, the one in the west is calledBaoshen statue, and the one in the East is called Yingshen statue. Shiyingmuni,the founder of Buddhism, was originally a prince of ancient India's yingpilaweikingdom. He was born in 565 BC and died in 486 BC, about the same time asConfucius. Yingye, one of the top ten disciples of Sakyamuni, is on the eastside of the three body Buddha, and Ananda, one of the top ten disciples ofSakyamuni, is on the west side. On both sides are statues of eighteen Arhats andXuanzang.
Behind the main hall is the Sutra library, which contains importantclassics such as the Tibetan Tripitaka. Downstairs is the lecture hall, whereBuddhists preach Buddhist scriptures. There is a bronze statue of Amitabha, morethan 1 meter high. Inside the hall, there is a Buddha seat offered by Xuanzanghimself, as well as a statue seat of the four heavenly kings of qingxiangshi inthe Tang Dynasty. This stone is blue stone produced in Lantian Yushan. It iscrisp and pleasant to the ear.
[origin of the name of Dayan Pagoda - Xuanzang and Temple Pagoda -Architecture and cultural relics of Dayan Pagoda]
Dear tourists, when we walk out of the Sutra library, we can see themagnificent wild goose pagoda. When you see this Tang Dynasty building, you mustbe both surprised and curious. First of all, why is the tower named aftergeese?
According to Indian Buddhist legend, there were two schools of Buddhism,Mahayana and Hinayana, and Hinayana Buddhism did not avoid meat and fishiness.One day, it was Bodhisattva giving day, but a monk in a Hinayana Temple couldn'tbuy meat for dinner. At this time, a group of geese flew by in the sky. A monklooked at the geese and said to himself, "today there is no meat in the house.The merciful Bodhisattva will never forget what day it is." Before the voicefell, the leading goose folded its wings and fell to the ground. So the monks inthe temple were shocked and thought that it must be the manifestation ofBodhisattva. They built a stone pagoda at the site where the wild geese fell.They gave up meat and turned to Mahayana Buddhism. Therefore, the pagoda is alsoknown as the big wild goose pagoda.
At the Dayan Pagoda, people will naturally think of Xuanzang, the famousmonk of Tang Dynasty, who was the first abbot of Ci'en Temple. It is said thatin the third year of Yonghui reign of Tang Dynasty (652 AD), master Xuanzang, afamous monk, built the big wild goose pagoda in the West courtyard of Ci'enTemple with the permission of Emperor Gaozong in order to arrange theScriptures, Buddha statues and relics he brought back from the western regions.Construction started in March of that year, under the supervision of Xuanzanghimself, and was completed in one year.
Dear tourists, you must have seen journey to the west, one of China's fourfamous works, and the TV series of the same name adapted from it. Is the Tangmonk in journey to the west the famous monk Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty? MasterXuanzang, with a common surname of Chen, was a monk in Luoyang at the age of 13.He was diligent and eager to learn. After visiting teachers all over thecountry, he decided to explore the essence of Buddhism in India, the birthplaceof Buddhism It's very important. Xuanzang started from Chang'an in the thirdyear of Zhenguan (A.D. 620__) and traveled along the Silk Road through the Gobidesert without birds and animals. He traveled westward to Tianzhu. Aftercompleting his studies in the 19th year of Zhenguan (A.D. 645), he returned toChang'an. It took him 20__ years to travel 50000 kilometers. Through more than100 countries and regions, he retrieved 657 Buddhist scriptures and gained ahigh status in India. After returning to China, with the support of the Tangroyal family, he gathered erudite eminent monks from all over the country toform an unprecedented Buddhist scripture translation site, and acted as thetranslator himself. The quality and quantity of translated Buddhist scripturesare far more than those of their predecessors, which ushered in a new era in thehistory of translation in China. A total of 75 Buddhist scriptures and 1335volumes have been translated, and a record of the western regions of the TangDynasty has been written, which has attracted the attention of scholars all overthe world. It should be said that journey to the west is written in thebackground of xuanlei's going out to the west to seek scriptures in the TangDynasty, but the Tang monk in the story does not refer to Xuanzang, but a figurein an artistic literary work.
Dear tourists, when the Dayan Pagoda was built, it was 60 meters high, with5 floors, brick surface, earth core and CD ladder. In the center of the reartower, there are lots of plants and trees growing in the cracks of bricks, whichare gradually decadent. After several renovations during the reign of Empress WuZetian in Chang'an, Emperor Xuanzong in Tang Dynasty and Emperor Changxing inlater Tang Dynasty, the big wild goose pagoda was 4.5 meters higher than theoriginal one and added two floors. Each side of the ground floor is 25 meterslong, the base is square, the side length is 45 meters to 48 meters, there areticket doors on all sides of each floor, and there are stairs in the tower. Onthe lintel of the bottom floor of the pagoda, there are exquisite line carvedBuddha statues, especially the picture of Sakyamuni Buddha on the lintel of thewest gate. The photo of the abandoned hall at that time is engraved on it. It issaid that it was written by Yan Liben, a great painter of the Tang Dynasty. Itis a precious material for studying the Buddhist culture and architectural artof future generations. The brick niches on the East and west sides of the SouthGate of the pagoda are inlaid with the steles of preface to the three sacredreligions of the Tang Dynasty written by Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the TangDynasty and preface to the three sacred religions of the Tang Dynasty written byEmperor Gaozong Li Zhi of the Tang Dynasty. The two steles were written by Chusuiliang, a famous calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty. They are the best of thesteles in the Tang Dynasty. They are precious original calligraphic inscriptionsprotected by the state. They are important material for the study of ancientcalligraphy. It can be said that the square brick Pagoda with wooden structureis a masterpiece of Buddhist architecture in China, with its simple shape,majestic momentum, remarkable national characteristics and the style of thetimes.
Tourists, since the completion of the great wild goose pagoda, celebritiesof all ages have left a good sentence to recite through the ages. Du Fu praised"the sky is high, the wind is strong all the time", and Cen Shen praised "thetower is like gushing out, towering in the sky alone; stepping out of the world,pedaling through the void". The poet's magnificent description and philosophicalexclamation often resonate when people climb the tower.
The big wild goose pagoda is located in the dacien temple in the southernsuburb. It is a famous ancient building in China and is regarded as the symbolof the ancient capital Xi'an. It is said that after the Tang monk came back fromIndia (ancient India), he specialized in translating and collecting scriptures.Due to the imitation of the Indian Wild Goose Pagoda, it is named the wild goosepagoda. Later, a small wild goose pagoda was built in Jianfu Temple of Chang'an.In order to distinguish it, people called the pagoda of Ci'en Temple big wildgoose pagoda and Jianfu Temple small wild goose pagoda. The Dayan Pagoda issquare in plane and is built on a platform about 45 meters square and 5 metershigh. The tower has seven floors, the bottom floor is 25 meters long, and theheight from the ground to the top is 64 meters. The body of the tower is made ofbricks, which are hard to grind. There are stairs in the tower, which can spiralup. There is an arched entrance on each side of each floor, which can be viewedfrom afar. Chang'an has a panoramic view. At the bottom of the tower, there arestone gates on all sides, and there are exquisite line carved Buddha statues onthe masts. It is said that it was written by Yan Liben, a great painter of theTang Dynasty. In the brick niches on both sides of the South Gate of the pagoda,there are two stone tablets, the preface to the great Tang Sanzang holy religionand the preface to the Sanzang holy religion, written by Chu suiliang, one ofthe four great calligraphers in the early Tang Dynasty. After the end of theTang Dynasty, the temples were repeatedly attacked by fire, and the temples weredestroyed. Only the big wild goose pagoda remained.
Another saying: Dayan Pagoda was built in the third year of Yonghui reignof Emperor Gaozong of Tang Dynasty. Because it is located in Ci'en Temple, it isalso called Ci'en Temple Pagoda. Ci'en Temple was built by Prince Li Zhi in 648to remember his mother, empress Wende. When the Dayan Pagoda was first built, ithad only five stories. Wu Zetian rebuilt it at that time, and later repaired itmany times. Now the tower is seven stories, a total of 64 meters, square pyramidshaped. The body of the tower is made of green bricks, and the walls of eachlayer are made of wood like structures such as column brace and column forehead.There are arches on all sides of each floor. This kind of Pavilion style bricktower is a masterpiece of Chinese Buddhist architectural art with simple shapeand majestic momentum. Two stone tablets written by Chu suiliang, a famouscalligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, are inlaid on both sides of the south gate atthe bottom of the Dayan Pagoda. One is the preface of Sanzang holy religion inthe Tang Dynasty; the other is the preface of Sanzang holy religion in the TangDynasty written by Emperor Gaozong. On the side of the stele, the pattern isbeautiful and vivid. These are important cultural relics for the study ofcalligraphy, painting and sculpture in Tang Dynasty. Dacien temple is the mostfamous and magnificent Buddhist temple in Chang'an city of Tang Dynasty. It wasbuilt by royal decree of Tang Dynasty.
Tang Sanzang, Xuanzang, once presided over the temple affairs, led theBuddhist scripture translation field, and founded a Buddhist sect. The big wildgoose pagoda in the temple was built by him. Therefore, dacien temple has a veryprominent position in the history of Chinese Buddhism and has been attachedgreat importance at home and abroad.
Inside the temple gate, the bell and the drum tower face each other. Thebell and drum are the orders of the temple. There is a saying of "morning belland evening drum". A Ming Dynasty iron bell, weighing 30000 Jin and more thanthree meters high, is suspended in the East bell tower. Tang Dynasty students,after passing the entrance examination, went to write a title under the Ci'enpagoda, which is called "the title of the wild goose pagoda". Tang Dynastypainters Wu Daozi, Wang Wei and others have done many murals for Ci'en Temple,but they have long been forgotten. However, on the lintels and doorframes of thefour door openings under the Dayan Pagoda, there are still exquisite TangDynasty lines. On the lintel of the West Stone Gate, the line engraved palacepictures are especially precious.
On the southeast side of the Dayan Pagoda, there are monk tombs. Six ofthem were built in the Qing Dynasty. The main hall is the central building ofthe temple, in which there are three body Buddha, Bodhisattva and clay statuesof arhat. It is a place for worshiping Buddha and chanting sutras. The Dharmahall is a place for preaching. There is a bronze statue of Amitabha in thehall.
Today's cisi temple is the scale of the Ming Dynasty, and the temple is thebuilding of the late Qing Dynasty. Now the big wild goose pagoda has beenrestored. The ancient pagoda is magnificent, the temple is full of incense, andthe courtyard is full of flowers
