Jingdezhen Zen Temple is located in Maoshan Town, xinghua city City, Jiangsu Province. There is a temple in front of Sanmao Taoist Temple in Maoshan, which is dedicated to Sanmao Zhenjun and presided over by Taoist priests. Incense is burning all year round. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, there were many wars and few scholars, and the Taoist temple in Maoshan declined day by day. In the fourth year of Jingdezhen in northern Song Zhenzong (A.D. 1007), Zen master Dejing, the founder of the mountain, hanged a pot here to save the world and changed the temple into a temple. With the title of emperor as "Jingde Temple" and Zen master Dejing as abbot, the ruined temple was restored, and the statue of San Mao Zhen Jun was moved to the top of the mountain, and the Hall of Great Heroes was built in the center of the mountain. The following year, construction was carried out, and Buddhist temples, Buddhist temples and temples were built. At that time, Maoshan was full of citronella, which was fragrant and also called Xiangshan. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, wars were frequent, and the Ursa Major Hall, which had been in disrepair for a long time, once collapsed. In the 23rd year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1390), Zen Master Deju came to the abbot of the temple to rebuild the Hall of Great Heroes and sculpt three giant buddhas and eighteen buddhas. In the fifth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1407), the immortal teachings of Buddhist masters were granted to travel all over the world and pass through Maoshan, so it was renamed "Jingdezhen Zhihua Temple". After years of delay, the temple collapsed, so it fell into the middle earth and changed to "the ancient Jingde Temple in Beimaoshan". In the third year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1724), Master Du Yuan of Yangzhou came to the abbot of the temple at the order of Mu Chen, a famous Buddhist teacher, and tried his best to restore the temple's capacity, promote the holy religion and open the Dojo. In the 23rd year of Qianlong (A.D. 1758), the master of the study followed the abbot of Jisheng and vowed to build this temple alone. After seven or eight years of hard work, the lotus has taken on a new look, the Buddha statue is solemn and solemn, and the temple has taken on a new look. In the 28th year of Guangxu (A.D. 1902), Sanmao Zhenjun Hall was destroyed by fire, and the abbot of Zhou urged it to be heightened and slightly repaired. After Tongzhi, Lang Yue became a monk and advocated Huayan Sect in Maoshan, and Jingde Temple became the ancestral home and Buddhist holy land of Huayan Zhongxing in modern times. In the second year of Xuantong (A.D. 19 10), Sanmentou Temple was destroyed by fire again. The abbot Maeda urged donations everywhere, and the believers donated money and materials to build the original four Tantou temples into six pagodas with three semicircular gates on the left, middle and right, and the words "Ancient Jingde Temple" and stone carvings were embedded in the main entrance. In the 11th year of the Republic of China (A.D. 1922), Master Mihai, a famous monk, served as the abbot of the mountain temple, presided over the temple affairs, guided Buddhism, expounded Buddhism, set up a Buddhist college, and collected a large number of Buddhist classics and three treasures from other places. There is a Zen hostel in the temple to receive ten monks, which opens the door for learning and spreading Buddhism. For a time, Buddhism flourished in Maoshan area, and a large number of Buddhist talents stood out. For example, Mihai Fatu Weifang was the abbot of Jinshan Temple in Zhenjiang, Dalin Temple in Lushan Mountain in Jiangxi Province, and Jade Buddha Temple in Shanghai. After liberation, he served as the vice president of the National Buddhist Association. Master Ci Zhou has successively served as abbot of Jinshan in Zhenjiang, abbot of Baohua Mountain in Jurong and president of Zhenjiang Buddhist Association. Master Dayun, a disciple of Mihai, was the deputy secretary-general of Jiangsu Buddhist Association and a teacher of qixia temple Buddhist College. Mihai disciple You Cheng is the abbot of Guangfu Temple in Changshu and Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou. Zong Wei, disciple of Mihaifa, abbot of Guangxiao Temple in Taizhou. Jingdezhen Temple in Maoshan has become a Buddhist holy place in the east of Jianghuai.
This temple is very large, with five entrances and ten compartments. Later, it was destroyed by war, rebuilt in Ming dynasty, overhauled in Qing dynasty, and finally destroyed by civil revolutionary war and "ten-year turmoil" Now the temple and the heaped-up mountains are all gone, leaving only a Tang Jing Pass and a stone tablet of "Ancient Jingde Temple". Because the ancient Jingdezhen temple in Maoshan is full of incense, every year in March 18 of the lunar calendar, pilgrims and tourists from eight neighboring countries come to burn incense and worship the gods, and vendors from all walks of life come in droves, making Maoshan a well-known market town.
On the morning of August 16, 2008 (the 16th day of the seventh lunar month), Maoshan Town was very busy with gongs and drums, dragon dances and dragons. A thousand-year-old temple, Maoshan Jingde Zen Temple, held the foundation stone laying ceremony for the reclining Buddha Hall, the Tibetan Scripture Building, the abbot Shangliang, the Daxiong Hall and the Shanmen Hall. The main leaders of the town and some business owners attended the celebration.
First of all, a ceremony was held to beam the reclining Buddha Hall, the Tibetan Scripture Building and the abbot's room. Mr. Hou Zhaoming, the initiator of the reconstruction of the ancient temple and the chairman of Guangzhou Asia International Hotel, delivered a warm speech, and the great monk Song Chun made a speech.
After the ceremony, Master, Mr. Hou Zhaoming, Secretary Tan, and business owners laid the foundation stone for Daxiong Hall and Sanmen Hall.
Finally, Song Chun monks and other eminent monks cleaned the reclining Buddha Hall, Mahayana Hall and Sanmen Hall.
The whole celebration was presided over by Zhang Qiuhong, director of the preparatory committee of Jingde Temple.