Brief introduction of longxing temple

Longxing temple, located on the bank of Lingjiang River, at the foot of Golden Mountain and within the ancient city wall, is the first temple in Taizhou. Since the Tang Dynasty, it has become an important place for Buddhist cultural exchanges between China and Japan. During the Tianbao period, the Buddhist monk Tuosi spread Buddhism with the east, told stories of Tiantai Sect, spread Tiantai chapter, and personally made a dry lacquer sitting statue of Jianing, which was regarded as a national treasure by the Japanese and created a precedent for Japanese sculpture art. During the Zhenyuan period, Japanese monks entered the Tang Dynasty for the first time to study, and stayed in Xilongxing for 149 days, studying the view of Tiantai Sect, transcribing scriptures and giving precepts to bodhisattvas. After returning home, they founded Tiantai Sect in Japan. Later generations lived in dynasties, and Japanese monks Yuan Zhen, Rong, Sung Hoon and Zhou Ran came to study successively. Temple was built in the first year of Shenlong in the Tang Dynasty (705), first named Zhongxing, and later named Longxing. Successive dynasties changed their names many times, such as Kaiyuan, Jingde, Chongning and Xiaoguang. After the Yuan Dynasty, it was called Tianning. Youyou ancient temple, with a history of thousands of years, is full of famous monks, famous historical books and outstanding people. There was a mountain in the Yuan Dynasty, which was famous in the East. Since modern times, China and Japanese scholars have tried hard to find the source, and finally confirmed it. The reconstructed longxing temple is an imitation of Tang architecture, elegant and simple, generous and chic. Longxing temple, a famous monk in China, was born in Jiangyang County, Yangzhou City (now Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province). Jian Zhen monk/Kloc-became a monk at the age of 0/4, and by the age of 26, he was already a famous Legalist master who could integrate the strengths of various schools. In October of the first year of Tang Tianbao (742), Rong Rui and Pu Zhao, Japanese learning monks, went to daming temple, Yangzhou to pay their respects to Jian Zhen on the recommendation of Jian Zhen's disciple Daoxing, and invited the great monks to Japan to preach Buddhism to Japan. He was ordained by more than 40,000 monks, many of whom became famous in the future. He is known as the Master of Bujie in the eastern part of China, and has a high position among Buddhists, becoming the master of Buddhism.