What is the Female Shaolin Temple Yongtai Temple like? It has what kind of history?

Shaolin Temple is famous all over the world, many people go to Mt. Songshan is to see the Shaolin Temple, but many people do not know is in Shaolin Temple, there is a Shaolin Temple and Shaolin Temple weight equivalent temple, that is, the Yongtai Temple, Yongtai Temple is the first Chinese women's temple. Zhongyue Songshan has a folk legend: Shaolin Temple and Yongtai Temple is a pair of sister temples, ? Dragon in Shaolin, phoenix in Yongtai? Shaolin Temple, because of Zen ancestor and Shaolin Kung Fu and famous, needless to say. Yongtai Temple, fame than the Shaolin Temple is much smaller, but in the years of Buddhism prevalent in China, it is a long-established reputation of a royal temple. Historically, there have been three princesses, Princess Transit, daughter of Emperor Wencheng of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Princess Minglian, daughter of Emperor Wu of the Southern Liang Dynasty (the originator of the Zen Buddhist nuns), and Princess Yongtai, sister of Emperor Xiaoming of the Northern Wei Dynasty, who practiced Buddhism in Yongtai Temple, thus accomplishing Yongtai Temple's unparalleled status of reverence.

Northern Wei Zhengguang two years (521 years), Xuanwu Emperor Yuan Ke's daughter, Princess Yongtai in Zhongyue Songshan? Out of the desire to enter the Tao as a nun? The history of filial piety Ming emperor Yuan Dai will be in the ZiJin peak of the MingLin tower next to the edict to build a temple, let sister YongTai princess service buddhist preaching, and happy to do the official and ordinary people's family of more than a hundred women for the nuns. The name of Yongtai Temple was first seen in the Tang Emperor Li Xian Shenlong two years (706 years) on July 25, Songyue Temple all Vina abhorrence of Doying to the court, said the practice of the temple? By the mountain with the water, the shape of the secluded perch, without much work, will be able to live? After the completion of the refurbishment, because? Tianen for Yongtai Princess in the former pieces, so Galan set up a temple, please Yongtai for the name, especially looking forward to the degree of monks two seven people since then, the Ming practice temple from the creation of the name of Yongtai Temple, **** experienced 185 years.

Jin Dynasty, Yongtai Temple and more Yongchan Temple, is the temple monks flaunted themselves as a Buddhist Zen lineage of a representation. Because after the Northern Song Dynasty, people were y influenced by the Cheng Zhu theory? Men are superior to women? The social atmosphere is gradually formed, Buddhist monks have also said that female monks are? Second monk? (Containing the meaning of inferiority) said, this is the evil consequences of gender discrimination. Yongtai temple monks renamed the temple Yongchan Temple, when this is a way to fight against the prejudice. Jin Dynasty Yongtai Temple famous monks all anmaster passed away, his disciples for his tower, tower inscription that is entitled? Songshan Yongtai Temple Junan master tower record?

After Yuan and Ming, Yongchan Temple was called Yongtai Temple. This period of Yongtai Temple nuns and monks lineage in accordance with the Shaolin Temple since the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Fuyu began the 70th generation? The order of the ranking of the generation. Therefore, at this time, some monks of Yongtai Temple will claim that Yongtai Temple is Shaolin Temple under the hospital, Yongtai Temple called Yongtai Hospital or Yongtai nunnery. Monks also buried after the death of the tower built in the Shaolin Temple Tower Forest. Such as the Yuan Zhizheng four years (1344) after the death of Lord Yuan Gong Yongtai, built a tower in the Shaolin Temple Pagoda Forest, the tower inscription is engraved with? Yongtai courtyard master Yuan Gong's tower? 8 words, and now the tomb tower still exists.

Yongtai Temple in the history of the successive Ming Lian, Yongtai two princesses in this, its high specifications, in the history of Chinese Buddhism is also second to none. Feudal society, people of the royal family to become a Buddhist service is not uncommon. Such as the Northern Zhou empress has 10 people, all believe in Buddhism. Among them, there are 6 people who came out as nuns, the good emperor Yuwen Yong Li Qiu queen, the emperor Yuwen Zhu queen, still emperor Yuwen diffraction of the biological mother and the emperor's emperor Chen queen, queen Yuan, Yuchi queen, also have come out of the palace, to the monastery as nuns. Because the two princesses Minglian and Yongtai were high on the list of ? Royal children? , do not need to be in front of people modestly called their own into living in the monastery for grass nunnery thatched nunnery. Yongtai Temple from the beginning to now has a history of more than 1480 years, are to? The temple has a history of more than 1,480 years. The monks who have been living here for generations are all bhikkhunis. This is written clearly in the historical documents about Yongtai Temple.