The history of Lingshan Temple

The reading cave next to Lingshan Ancient Temple is steep and lush. According to legend, Liu Wenjing, a military commander in the Tang Dynasty, lived in seclusion in Lingshan and devoted himself to studying the Book of Changes. At the request of the Buddha in Lingshan, his spear was opened, and then he helped Li Shimin fight all the way to win the world. In order to commemorate this place, later generations named the cave as Reading Easy Cave, which has become a hall of blessing for scholars and scholars of all ages to visit and study here for thousands of years. In front of Reading Easy Cave is Bagua Well. The square stone has a dark wellhead, a clear spring, crystal clear, and sometimes it swims in brocade scales, and the shore is green. On the day when Nicodemus was born, Grandfather Tai sent his disciple Guang to Lingshan to celebrate his birthday, and sent Anan to accompany him to visit Lingshan all the way. Guang came to Lingshan and saw the magnificent scenery here. He just greedily enjoyed the scenery of Lingshan, but accidentally lost the Eight Diagrams Mirror of Yin and Yang. Later, this mirror was made into this well by the sun and the moon, and the world named it "Bagua Well". On the south side of the top of the mountain, there are two huge stones of more than ten square meters overlapping. This is the so-called Xiekangtai, and you can vaguely see the ancient inscription of Xiekangtai. Confucius said that "a man who doesn't know or care is not a gentleman", hence Taiwan Province's name. This place is surrounded by mountains on three sides and a deep canyon on one side. The valley is as deep as 100 meters. When you board this platform, you can see the top of Mount Tai from a distance. White clouds fluttering, looming, Xu Lai breeze, lifelike. At the bottom of the valley, the water gurgles and the piano sounds sweet. Standing here, overlooking, empty and nostalgic, fresh and pleasant. Xie Kuntai has also described beautiful stories. During the Western Han Dynasty, there was a diligent and honest government known as "one man after Yu", "Dayu in the south of the Yangtze River" and "hero in water control". In order to solve the water control difficulties of one people, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. Due to the shortage of funds and the high-pressure policy of the imperial court, one day, Jaco came here to find a heart to relieve boredom. Just then, a fairy came to Lingshan and saw Jaco hesitating here. After asking the reason, she was moved by Jaco's thought of solving problems for the people. The fairy immediately used gods to help Jaco solve the water control problem in his hometown. When Jaco saw this, he was very grateful. They had a heart-to-heart, and then got married. Every time future generations visit this place and learn this allusion, they will especially give birth to "setting up a shocking platform for the ages, climbing high and entertaining themselves;" Looking at the beautiful scenery of the four fields, I feel very comfortable and happy here. Looking down from the southwest side of the powder-dissolving table, you can see that the famous fairy turtle supports the stone. If you look closely, the image is clear. Legend has it that Tang Xuanzang went to Xitianling Mountain to learn from the scriptures, traveled long distances and experienced hardships. After eighty difficulties, he finally reached Xitianling Mountain. After learning the scriptures, the four were happy and wanted to return to the Eastern Tang Dynasty. At this time, the Buddha pinched his finger and calculated that Master Xuanzang should have 81 difficulties to make a positive result, so he ordered the fairy turtle to return to Tongtianhe to wait for Master Xuanzang and send him across the river. Who knows that the fairy turtle has already got the Buddha's decree and is waiting here. This situation is for Xiangui to drag the Sanzang Twelve Classics back to Lingshan to wait for the Buddha's order, so the world named this stone "Xiangui Tujing Stone". This place is also called "Shu Yun Pen". Seen from below, it looks like a circular stone pillar, with a height of more than ten meters and a diameter of more than one meter. There is a grass at the top, just like a brush. It is rumored that 10,000 years ago, Nu Wa Niangniang tried to mend the sky by refining stones. She used this pen to draw cracks and clouds. It is a magic pen that exists with heaven and earth. Pairs of stones are facing the ground, which is the famous Qipanshan. If Lingshan is a gifted scholar, Qipanshan is a pair of handsome men and beautiful women made in heaven. It can be said that "for thousands of years, the feelings remain unchanged." The chessboard stone stands against the mountain, facing the cliff ahead. Towering stone pillars are like knives and axes, clean, exquisite and perfect. According to legend, when Manjusri and Pu Xian came to Lingshan to listen to Buddha's words, they once rested here to play chess. At that time, a woodcutter went up the mountain to get firewood and came here to watch two young people play chess. Just as the woodcutter was fascinated, two young men asked the woodcutter, "What are you doing up the mountain?" The woodcutter said, "Chai," Manjusri said, "Do you know what time it is? Your family has not had firewood for several months. " At this time, the woodcutter suddenly realized that these two young people were the legendary gods in the sky. Since then, there has been a legend of "one day in the sky, one year on earth". There is a boulder in the center of the top of the chessboard, which is about 5 meters high and weighs hundreds of tons. It is square and has no edges and corners. It looks like a bell and drum. According to legend, Luban Gongsun Sheng once came to Lingshan to worship Buddha, but he came here because he went the wrong way. He found the opposite is Lingshan. Facing a cliff hundreds of meters, how can he reach the opposite Lingshan? At this time, he had a brainwave. If only he could build a stone bridge leading to Lingshan. He found this boulder and used it as a pier at the top of the mountain. Then he looked around but didn't find a stone bar as the bridge deck, so the bridge was not built at that time and still left a "fairy pier". Between the two peaks is the Lingxi Grand Canyon hundreds of meters deep. The stream rushes down, naturally forming eight landscapes, such as Three Waterfalls, Three Cascades of Water and Three Dalian Springs, with charming scenery. There are also 72 scenic spots, such as Living Buddha Cave, Zhang Xianshi, Swan Treasure Egg, Sea Lion Wood Day, Baibu Jiudao Bridge, Dinggongtan, etc., which are all wonderful and dreamy. The magical Lingshan takes blue sky as paper and sea water as ink, depicting a better human scene than fairyland. In the fourth year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, it is said that the Tibetan Bodhisattva incarnated as Jin Qiaojue, traveled across the ocean to seek dharma in China, and once came to Lingshan to practice. Later generations built a temple here during the Zhenguan period (627-650 AD) and named it "Guangrui Temple". Since then, it has become a Buddhist resort and Buddhist Dojo, with a history of more than a thousand years, and a large number of eminent monks have emerged. Master Huilin, a monk in the Tang Dynasty, came to Lingshan to study Sanzang in order to promote Buddhism and expand the temple here. With the passage of time, Master Gaozong, a Buddhist leader in the Song Dynasty, also came to Lingshan to practice and serve as an abbot because of his Buddhist fate, so Lingshan became famous. In the 29th year of Qianlong (AD 1746), the abbot Master Huiguang built a big temple here because he loved the beauty and aura of Lingshan. Since then, the incense of Lingshan has been more vigorous. It is said that there is a Longtan at the entrance of the ancient temple. In the dry season, farmers from far and near come here to ask the Dragon King for rain. The water here is sweet and delicious, which can cure all diseases, relieve diseases and worries for the people and benefit the people. For thousands of years, generations of poets have come here for sightseeing and left beautiful poems. The ancients said: "Wanshan is round in the depths of white clouds, and the ancient temple is covered with bamboo trees." The cliff hangs high, and the towering rocks are full of Chihiro. On the stage, I screamed at the foot of the mountain and sang the wine to the ancient and modern times. A flower blooms in spring, and the east wind sings a bird bosom friend. " Guangde's hometown, once Lingshan Ancient Temple, is large in size and extraordinary in weather, and its former prosperity still lingers in the ears of the world.