Famous Stories of Zhangye Big Buddha Temple

According to the record: the Queen Mother of Western Xia who believed in Buddhism often went to the Big Buddha Temple to live, worship, set up a dojo here, and made a big fast. Legend has it that the Queen Mother of Mongolia Bieji lived in the Great Buddha Temple, gave birth to the founding monarch of the Yuan Empire - the first Yuan emperor Kublai. After the death of Mrs. Bieji, the coffin is also funeral in the Big Buddha Temple. These rumors, not seen, true or false, is still a mystery.

Southern Song Dynasty surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty, an emperor in this monk, not the emperor, but turned into a generation of famous monks. [In the back of the temple of the hidden scriptures, but also hidden since the Tang and Song Dynasty Buddhist scriptures more than 6,800 volumes, one of the Ming Yingzong Royal Edict of the "Daming Sanzang Sacred teachings of the Northern Tibetan scriptures," for the country's only surviving several scriptures in the most complete one.

The Italian traveler Marco Polo came to Zhangye during the Yuan Dynasty. Polo came to Zhangye, was the statue of the Great Buddha Temple exquisite magnificent architecture and the prosperity of Zhangye marveled at the attraction, had stayed for a year.

Yuan Shizuizu Kublai and Yuan Shundei Tohuan Tiemuer were born in the Great Buddha Temple. The reclining Buddha sleeps for thousands of years and never wakes up; the questioner always asks for a hundred years and never asks for the unknown.

This is a couplet at the gate of the Great Buddha Temple. What are the secrets of the Great Buddha Temple that make people question the world and not be able to understand them? Perhaps it is worth asking too many questions, not to mention other things, just involving the legend of the Great Buddha Temple is confusing, can not let people question.