Why the plaque of Guiyuan Temple can be erected?

The ancient temple of Guiyuan Temple, which has a history of hundreds of years, is rich in traditional culture and Buddhist culture. The plaques and couplets hanging in the temple have cultural value and legendary color.

The plaque of extraordinary significance is the straight plaque "Guiyuan Zen Temple" erected above the three gates of Guiyuan Temple. According to the relevant historical records of Guiyuan Temple, the Qing Emperor Daoguang was pleased to hear that Bai Guang, the main peak of the two monks for the creation of Guiyuan Temple has made painstaking efforts, its Taoist practice is extraordinary, this deep appreciation of the meaning of the jade seal was given a party, with the seal engraved in negative seal script, "Royal Decree to give the Guiyuan Temple of the Cao Dong Zong thirty-first Bai Guang, the main peak of Zen Shi's seal," 22 words. At that time, according to the imperial seal, because the temple had the jade seal given by the emperor, the temple name could be written directly, compared with the name of many temples around the country are written horizontally, the direct plaque of the Guiyuan Zen Buddhist Temple shows its distinctive style, highlighting its special status and qualifications.

Specifications are extremely high and has considerable commemorative significance of the plaque, when counted in the early years of the Republic of Li Yuanhong, President of the gift of the three, they are "return to the ancient temples", "Shengda macro" and "three multiply the broad transport ". Why President Li Yuanhong wrote the plaques to Gueiyuan Zen Temple, here we have to mention the contribution of Gueiyuan Zen Temple in the Xinhai Revolution. In the famous Battle of Yangxia, the Commander-in-Chief Huang Xing led the revolutionary army to fight with the Qing army in Hanyang, and the commanding headquarters was located in Zhaocong Ancestral Hall (today's Cuiwei Road Middle School in Hanyang), and the food station was located in Guiyuan Temple, which was adjacent to the Zhaocong Ancestral Hall. Guiyuan Temple thus became the target of the Qing army, some halls and pavilions within the temple were repeatedly bombarded by Qing artillery fire and suffered heavy losses. When the revolutionaries decided to retreat from Hanyang, they decided to burn the food and other military supplies left in the temple, which would bring more losses to the temple, but the abbot of the temple, Venerable Yun Yan, and the monks agreed with the revolutionaries' move. Revolutionary army said to the temple monks, the success of the revolution, must be rebuilt temple, to thank the temple monks. 1912 Republic of China was established soon after the then Vice President Li Yuanhong is very concerned about the reconstruction of the temple halls and pavilions of Guiyuan Temple, he not only took the lead in Guiyuan Temple donations of thousands of coins, but also authorized to be used as a paving poles of the timber was also part of the allocation of the Guiyuan Temple for the repair of the use of the temple. Republic of China four years (1915) in November, Li Yuanhong, vice president of the handwritten "Guyuan ancient temple" and "Shengda macro", its refined horizontal plaque were hung above the main door of the Hall of the pack and Maharajah Bao Hall beam above.

Republic of China nine years (1920) to eleven years (1922), by the abbot heart net presided over the construction of the new Tibetan scripture pavilion, the date of completion, has been the president of the Republic of China Lai Yuanhong and inscribed "three times the broad fortune", by the temple of the return of the plaque, hanging in the new Tibetan scripture pavilion on the main door, the plaque due to the "cultural revolution" turmoil, the plaque was made in the main door of the temple of the return of the plaque. The Cultural Revolution" turmoil, now no longer exists. the late 1990s, the temple of the return of the temple hall repair, an original hanging in the Maharajah Bow Hall on the beam of the "Shengda Hongkuo" plaque is now hanging in the re-construction of the Tibetan scripture pavilion on top of the main door.

Guiyuan Temple, many of the plaques are from the hands of the abbot of the recently deceased Changming, Changming master plaques, very rich in Zen, let a person evocative. Such as Guiyuan Temple, a plaque above the back of the three doors for the "should be as the view", Abbot Chang Ming's understanding is that many people to Guiyuan Temple, you can look at the Guiyuan Temple this way, you can also look at the Guiyuan Temple that way, see the wisdom, as you wish.

Into the Guiyuan Temple within the three gates a short distance ahead, a round arch lintel for the Changming Law Hall in front of the main door of a couplet for the "Caodong East to return to the Yuan to get the road, Fengshan West out of the Lema turn back," is the Changxue Tang Professor of the Seal Script, the hall columns for the Abbot of the Changming line of writing. This couplet explains that Guiyuan Temple is a Zen Buddhist temple, and the bhikkhus in the temple are the disciples of Cao Dong Sect, one of the sects of Zen Buddhism.

The Pavilion is also one of the main buildings of Guiyuan Temple. The couplets on both sides of the main door of the pavilion are "Seeing is doing, doing is letting go of, there is why not, wisdom is born in consciousness, consciousness is born in self-birth or no birth". On the pillars in front of the hall of the pavilion, there is a couplet that reads, "There is no definite law for people outside the world, and then we know that there is no law, and there is no harm in leaving things unsettled".

In the hall enshrining the Jade Buddha on both sides of the couplet written by Venerable Master Chang Ming, "Observation of the Buddha is emptiness and color, wishing that the public that is the mind that is the Buddha". These three couplets hanging in the pavilion are related to Buddhist teachings, and it is not easy for non-Buddhist people to comprehend their profound mysteries.

The guest hall in the Guiyuan Temple is a place to receive traveling monks, monks and other guests, and the original old guest hall had a couplet hanging in it, which reads, "All monks are Buddhist monks, and no guest is not a Dongpo", and Buddhist monks were great masters in the Song Dynasty, who often sipped tea and discussed poems with Su Dongpo, and talked about scriptures. This couplet is meant to show that the temple has made a wide range of Buddha's fates, and welcomes all guests. Now the new hall on both sides of the door is Chang Ming master wrote and written "white hair to increase the light of the people into the life of the wonderful realm of its benefits, the ancestral ancestral court reconstruction of the guest to come back to get a rest place is not happy," this pair of welcome to the guest association written with enthusiasm, let a person doubly feel warm. Hanging in the middle of the hall is a couplet written by Mr. Huang Liang, a famous calligrapher, when he was 76 years old, "Buddha is allowed to be a disciple, and the sky is allowed to be an idler", and his calligraphy art makes people feel happy and pleased. The couplet on the left wall of the living room is "Understanding Zen is Dharma, and transmitting Buddha's teachings is Buddhism", and the couplet on the right wall is written by Mr. Lai Lingyun and Mr. Yang Zhenxing, "Cuiwei hides the ancient temple, and the Buddha's temple is surrounded by the sound of clear sound".

The abbot's room of Guiyuan Temple Hall on the front wall of the eye-catching hanging a couplet "re-emerge on the lion's seat, reappearance of the body of the king", which is the Buddhist disciples to celebrate the Changming master on November 8, 1979 was appointed as the 48th abbot of the Guiyuan Temple to write a couplet. In the hall columns, there is a favorite Abbot Chang Ming wrote a couplet "Qingtai extreme happiness to advise all good deeds, the most bitter mud plow to teach the disciples not to do all kinds of evil," he has repeatedly written this couplet gifts to guests.