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Overview of Fuzhou Kaiyuan Temple

Fuzhou Kaiyuan Temple, the oldest existing temple in Fuzhou, the famous Taoist temple of the Medicine Buddha. Once for the royal temple, clan temple. Temple forehead "Kaiyuan Temple" three words, from the Tang Dynasty famous calligrapher Ouyang Xun's hand, the pen force is strong, tightly knotted, still exists today. It is the place where Master Kukai, the ancestor of Japan's Shingon Sect, Master Yuanzhen, the ancestor of Japan's Tiantai Sect, and Master Prajnaparamita, the monk of India's Tantric Sect, came to China to study in the Tang Dynasty. It is an ancient temple that was strongly protected by King Min's father and son, Wang Shenzhi and Wang Phosphorus. In the Song Dynasty, the whole collection of Vishnu Da Zang Jing, a major project of Buddhist classics, was published and engraved. In modern times, the first large-scale Buddhist hospital was founded.

There is a Buddhist elderly hospice, which supports dozens of poor elderly people for free. Buddhist herbal medicine prepared by a secret recipe to save lives. Founded the social science category of the Fujian Province Buddhist Cultural Research Institute, the abbot of the temple for the release of the nature of the Venerable Master.