Shaoguan Nanhua Temple historical legend

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Nanhua Temple is located in Shaoguan City, Guangdong Province, Guangdong Province, twenty kilometers south of Yu Ling divided into veins of the Danxia Mountain, founded in the southern dynasty Liang Tianjian three years (504 years), initially known as the Bao Lin Temple. The temple was built on the mountain, face monitor the northern tributary of Caoxi. In the second year of the Tang Dynasty (677), Hui Neng, the Sixth Patriarch of Zen, stayed at Caoxi and developed the southern school of Zen, which is one of the most famous Zen ancestral temples; it is known as the first Zen temple in Lingnan. In the Tang Dynasty, the court gave the name "Zhongxing Temple" and "Hongquan Temple". In the early Song Dynasty gave the name "Nanhua Zen Temple", which is still in use today.

The legend of Nanhua Temple is mostly related to the Sixth Patriarch Huineng. The most famous is the legend of Hui Neng (638-713) who went to Huangmei to seek the teachings of the Fifth Patriarch Hong Ren, which is detailed in the Sixth Patriarch's Altar Sutra and has been widely circulated in the Zen world. There is also the Buddhist verse "Bodhi has no tree, a mirror is not a stage, there is nothing in the first place, where is the dust". It is rumored that it was after seeing this verse written by Huineng that the Fifth Patriarch finally decided to pass on the Dharma to him. ( /f?kz=135762502 Read the story here, it's too long)