Songzan Gambu-Beautiful Legend of Rezhen Temple

Rezhen Temple is located in Tang Guo Township, Linzhou County, 240 kilometers north of Lhasa. Founded in 1057, it has a history of more than 900 years. There is a wonderful story about Rezhen Temple: it is said that this place was originally a barren mountain where nothing grows. Later, when Songzan Gambu visited this place, he sprinkled shampoo on the hillside and made a wish. Soon, 25,000 pines and cypresses grew here one after another.

Rezhen Temple now covers an area of about 1.600 square meters, and the whole temple faces south. The main buildings in the temple include Zuoqin Hall and Thermal Tension. Zuoqin Hall has a building area of 660 square meters, with Buddhist temples and Buddhist temples. Dajingtang is mainly used for various Buddhist activities, and there are several small sutras around it, which enshrine Buddha statues, scriptures and other things. Thermal vibration tension is located in the west of the main hall, which is a three-story building. The first floor is the warehouse, the second floor is the residence of ordinary monks, and the third floor is the bedroom and hall of the living Buddha. Its east, west and north sides are surrounded by monasteries in a semicircle.

There are many sacred monuments in Rezhen Temple. Legend has it that when the Hall of the Great Hero was built, the Dragon King presented colored horses (golden pillars) and jade pillars (jade pillars) as the main pillars in the hall; There are more than 30,000 ancient cypresses around the temple, which are said to be the spiritual trees of Bagawanai in the State of Zhong. Legend has it that Guanyin Bodhisattva once practiced in Qinshan, Puyanggang, and after her success, she was shaved into Berlin and never withered. There is also the thatched cottage where Long Ganlu Spring and Master Zong Kaba wrote "The Broad Theory of Bodhi Daoism" by Shang Gezhapu (meaning Lion Mountain) behind the temple.