Jing 'an Temple is located at Nanjing West Road 1686, Shanghai. Wei Xiang is a famous ancient temple in the south of the Yangtze River. According to the inscription, it was founded in the 10th year of Sun Quan's Chiwu, Emperor Wu of the Three Kingdoms (247), and was founded by the Kangsenghui. The temple site was originally on the north bank of Wusong River (now Suzhou River). Formerly known as Hudu Chongyuan (Xuan) Temple, it was renamed Yongtai Temple in the Tang Dynasty. In the first year of the Northern Song Dynasty (1008), it was renamed Jing 'an Temple. In the ninth year of Jiading in the Southern Song Dynasty (12 16), the temple foundation was in danger of toppling because it was near the river bank and was hit by the river day and night. The abbot Zhong moved the temple to the edge of the boiling well, which is now the temple site.

After Jing 'an Temple moved to this site, its scale gradually expanded, and it became a giant temple in the Yuan Dynasty. There are eight places of interest in the temple, namely, the red and black monument erected during the Three Kingdoms period, Chen Chaoyan planted during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the shrimp pond originally spread by the wise and strict monk, the lecture platform built by Zhong Yi in the Southern Song Dynasty, the gurgling spring of boiling well, the Lv Yun Cave built by the poet Shouning, and the abbot's room for pedestrians. Shouning collected poems written by poets of past dynasties and compiled Eight Poems of Jing 'an, which made Jing 'an Temple famous. In the second year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1369), Hongwu Zhong was cast, which consumed 6000 kilograms of copper. The inscription "Cast in the second year of Hongwu, wish the Crown Prince a thousand years" is still ringing in the class, and its voice is far away.

Since the early Qing Dynasty, temples have been abandoned repeatedly. During the Yongzheng period, the abbot Fuan won the case of temple land, safeguarded the land of Jing 'an Temple and made notes. After six years of Qianlong (174 1), Assistant Minister of Rites Mai Huan donated money to rebuild the Hall of the Great Hero. In the 43rd year of Qianlong (1778), Sun Siwang, a local, proposed to raise funds to rebuild the temple. Shanghai Road (Changbai) Shengbao also built Yongquan Pavilion in front of the temple, and a gratitude courtyard in the east of the temple for monks to live in. Monks in the sea once carved eighteen arhats and a statue of Wei Tuo from the burned trunk of the ginkgo tree in the Song Dynasty in the temple. During the reign of Emperor Xianfeng, Jing 'an Temple was destroyed by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, leaving only one main hall. With the support of Li Chaoguan, Yao Xi and Hu Xueyan, a wealthy businessman in Zhejiang Province, the abbot of Hefeng rebuilt Jing 'an Temple in the sixth year of Guangxu (1880). At the beginning of April of the following year, the eighth hall was completed, and a grand Buddhist bathing festival was held according to Buddhist rituals. Four people gathered, the traffic was busy, and the merchants spoke, which became a spectacle. Since then, the famous annual Jing 'an Temple Fair has been formed. "Going to Longhua on March 3rd (to see peach blossoms) and Jing 'an on April 8th (to visit temple fairs)" has become a folk custom in Shanghai. In the ninth year of Guangxu (1883), Li Chaoguan wrote an inscription and the abbot Hefeng erected a monument. The inscription of rebuilding Jing 'an Temple is still preserved in the front wall of Ursa Major Hall.

In the 20th year of Guangxu (1894), the abbot built two more buildings on the left and right sides of the main hall, and renovated the whole temple again, thus restoring the old appearance of Jing 'an Temple. In the 30th year of Guangxu (1904), a "Jing 'an Nanxiang Tower" was built in Shanghai Nanxiang. The ancestors of Jing 'an Temple were all buried in the yard, and the ancestral hall was built to worship the ancestral memorial tablet. There is a monastery next to the tower yard, which is managed by a special person. Until the Republic of China, there were still 73 houses and 64 acres of land.

19 12 As for 19 16, Jing 'an Temple has become one of the important temples for Buddhist activities in Shanghai and even the whole country. 19 12, the first national Buddhist organization, the China Buddhist General Association, was established, with its venue in Jing 'an Temple and the famous patriotic poet Ji Chan (Eight Fingers Chan) as its president. The following year, in order to protect the national temple property, he went to Beijing to petition unsuccessfully, and unfortunately died in Fayuan Temple in Beijing. Shanghai and the national Buddhist community held a memorial meeting in Jing' an Temple. Master Taixu put forward the theory of "teaching theory, teaching system and teaching production" at the meeting, which has a great influence on the Buddhist community in China. 19 13 In March, the Chinese Buddhist Association held its first national congress in Jing 'an Temple. Leaves open, Xiong Xiling was elected President, Qinghai was elected Vice President, and Yuan Ying was elected Speaker of the Senate.

19 19, a road was built in front of the temple to build a thoroughfare, which was named Jing 'an Temple Road (now Nanjing West Road). The west area of Shanghai is becoming more and more prosperous, incense is flourishing, and tourists who worship Buddha are in an endless stream. There is not enough space in the temple to apply. 1920, the monk Chang Gui and the Shanghai gentry Yao Wendong built three temples in Dongxing, and the main structure of the temples has basically taken shape.

1930- 1940, zhifa and wenzhi became abbots one after another, but they made no achievements during their tenure, while the temple property disputes continued, leaving many future troubles. 194 1 year, master Wu De succeeded the abbot, got rid of the disadvantages, turned to Buddhist education and attached importance to Buddhist research. He held dozens of lectures on Buddhism, and invited such eminent monks as Ying Ci, Yuan Ying, Zhi Feng, Ding, Zhao Puchu, Jiang and Dade to give lectures. At the same time, the Jing 'an Temple Guardian Association was established to rectify the temple affairs together with prison Miga.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, under the auspices of abbots Wu De and Miga, a new gate imitating the Tang Dynasty was built in the east of the original gate, and Deng Sanmu (Tieweng) inscribed "Jing 'an Ancient Temple". In front of the new mountain gate, on the edge of the sixth spring mine field in the world, stands an ancient Indian Asoka-style Brahma building, which has become the symbol of Jing 'an Temple. After the completion of the project, the Buddha's birthday and the opening ceremony of Jing 'an Buddhist College will be held on the eighth day of April. At the opening ceremony, Master Tai Xu personally presided over the ribbon-cutting ceremony, lit incense and worshipped Buddha, full of joy and admiration. More than 10 thousand monks and nuns attended the meeting, which became a major event in the Buddhist community in Shanghai at that time.

During this period, Jing 'an Temple also opened Jing 'an Primary School at the back door of the temple to Huashan Road. Establish Jing 'an Rural Experimental School in Nanxiang. The school has five directors, Song Chi, Bai Sheng, Zhao Puchu, Rachel Momo and Gu Heng (Professor of Agriculture, Jinan University), presided over by Master Datong. The funds of the two schools are borne by Jing 'an Temple.

1in the spring of 947, abbot Wu De and supervisor Mi Jia entrusted two lawyers, Zhou Xiaolian and Xi Yafu, to jointly write a letter to the Shanghai Buddhist Association, and offered to change Jing 'an Temple from the system of shaving children and grandchildren to the system of selecting sages in the ten-square jungle. Please invite the Buddhist Association of the city to preside over the selection of candidates to succeed the abbot of Jing 'an Temple. At the same time, the monks of Jing 'an Temple also agreed to Wu De's and Mijia's proposal, and wrote to the Shanghai Buddhist Association, demanding reform and talent selection. Therefore, the Shanghai Buddhist Association respected the wishes of the abbot and the monks of the whole temple, so it called a meeting of the elders, dharma protectors and monks of the whole temple on March 29th of the lunar calendar, unanimously decided to change the temple into a permanent ten-square jungle, and elected Master Song as the first abbot after the restructuring and concurrently served as the dean of Jing 'an Buddhist College. Master Song Chi put forward four requirements when he took over: "First, Jing 'an Temple has been designated as a ten-square jungle. In the future, the election of the abbot will be held by the Buddhist Association in conjunction with the representatives of all the mountains in this city and the people of this temple to show that Dagong is evil. Second, Jing 'an Temple should be regarded as the center of Buddhist cultural undertakings, and the rewards should be gradually reduced in order to become a pure Dojo for preaching Buddhism. Third, the economy in the temple should be open, and Buddhist charitable undertakings should be held as much as possible to realize the Buddha's purpose of saving the world and benefiting life. Four, I concentrate on internal research, not good at external relations, and seriously violate the public's entrustment. Except for the administrative plan of the temple, if I need to preside over it, the leaders of the prison will be responsible for all other affairs. All trivial things are entertainment, but fortunately, not tired. " The participants unanimously adopted the resolution. After Master Song Chi became the abbot, Yum was appointed as the supervisor, the four laws were implemented, and the temple affairs made great progress.

Jing 'an Buddhist College was founded in the spring of 1946, and hired Master Taixu as the first dean. Later, Master Akamatsu succeeded as the dean, and Bai Sheng was the vice president. Yu Mei is the teaching director, and he has served as an inspector. The faculty was famous for some time: Master Ben Guang, former head of the Philosophy Department of Jinling University, taught courses such as introduction to Buddhism, comparative religion and epistemology. Master Dao Yuan teaches the Teaching of Sages, Master Du Huan teaches Buddhist studies, Professor Lin Ziqing talks about the history of Indian Buddhism, Professor Guan Dedong and Professor Chen Yuxian successively speak Chinese, and Master Xiu Qi teaches fine arts. After becoming a monk, there are nearly 100 readers. The style of study is rigorous and the academic atmosphere is very strong. Master Tai Xu, Zhou Shujia, Dean of China Buddhist College in Beiping, Master Fa Fang, Master Nenghai, Master Xue Song, Professor Mou Runsun of Jinan University, Professor Ni Qingyuan, Dean of College of Literature of Jinling University, etc. Teaching in our hospital. The following year, the monk himself founded the magazine "Learning Monks' Heaven and Earth". In addition to publishing articles on learning monks in our college, other famous people who wrote articles for the magazine include Nanyang Cihang Master, Buddhists Da Xing, Fa Zun, Ai Ting, Nan Ting, Xue Song, Yan Pei, Ji Xianlin, director of the Oriental Language Department in Peking University, and Mr. Ye Shengtao, a famous educator and writer. Due to financial difficulties, only six issues have been published, but it has a certain influence in the Buddhist community. /kloc-at the beginning of 0/948, Jing' an Buddhist College was renamed Jing' an Academy.

/kloc-at the beginning of 0/948, Jing' an Temple set aside a building along the street to establish a Buddhist civilian clinic, with Master Song as the director, Bai competent as the deputy director, Xiu Qi and Optimism as the director of affairs, Fei Zhonghua, Zheng Baoyu and Li Guangyou as the directors of internal surgery and Li Genyuan as the director of dentistry. In the face of poor and sick people, give diagnosis and medicine, and help the poor and save the world with compassion. In order to raise medical fund, it was initiated by Master Song Chi, calling on famous domestic painters and calligraphers to donate their works and hold charity exhibitions. At that time, more than 30 famous artists, including Zhang Daqian, Bai Jiao, Ma,,, and Shen, donated more than 200 pieces of calligraphy and painting, and all major newspapers in Shanghai reported the grand occasion of the Buddhist clinic in Jing 'an Temple in a certain space. This charity has won public praise.

After the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC), the Shanghai Municipal People's Government allocated funds twice to repair Jing 'an Temple, and set up a restoration committee, which was composed of Yuan Ying, Wei Fang, Zhao Puchu, etc. 14, with Yuan Ying as the director. 1953, the abbot held Master Song and set up a shinto altar in the temple to replace Dongmi, who had been lost for a long time since the Five Dynasties. The altar is located above the Dharma Hall. The main altar in the middle, called the "Great Altar", is the main altar when practicing Dharma, and it is dedicated to three statues of Pilu Jinna Tathagata, Harraca Ranasa, and Ran Ming King. Zuo Tan called "Moju Altar" an altar where some frankincense was burned as a sacrifice for Pu Xian to prolong the life of King Kong, and then the "Great Datura in King Kong" was hung. The right altar is called the "Holy Temple of Heaven", which is dedicated to the Guanyin Bodhisattva in Ruyi Wheel, followed by the "Great Datura in the Fetal Tibetan World". On the east and west walls, there are eight portraits of founders who inherit Shinto, namely Dragon Dream, Dragon Vision, King Kong Vision, Bukong, Wu Shan, Yihang, Huiguo and Konghai. There are peacocks and Amin kings in the east room, and there are King Kong cheats and the new Zen Buddhism ancestral system hanging on both walls. There is a room in the west, the left is dedicated to the big black sky, and the right is dedicated to the great mother. Twelve days are hung on two walls: the east wall is the moon, the earth, the Vishamun, the windy, the watery and the Luo Cha; The western wall is a burning skyscraper of Shuntian, Brahma, Isheri, Indra, Huori. Since then, under the auspices of Master Song Chi, the temple has been practicing the secret dharma every day, and every year in the spring and autumn, it holds a meeting to teach the secret dharma and enlighten its disciples. Every Buddha's birthday during the incense period, the whole temple is open, and pilgrims are popular for a while. 1966 during the cultural revolution, temples were severely impacted, Buddha statues were destroyed, cultural relics and other artifacts were looted, monks were driven away, and the whole temple was turned into a factory.

1983, Jing' an Temple was listed as one of the key Buddhist temples in the Han area of China by the State Council. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the party's policy of freedom of religious belief was seriously implemented, and Jing 'an Temple entered a new period of development. 1984, the Shanghai Buddhist Association established the Jing 'an Temple Restoration Committee. Master Zhen Chan, the president, is the director, and Jia Jinsong, the vice president, is the deputy director. On the basis of extensive consultation with the Buddhist community and relevant experts and scholars, we decided to restore it as it is. Monks have also returned to temples, and a number of surviving ancient cultural relics have also been returned. 1985 After Jing 'an Temple was reopened, Master Ganquan became the abbot.

With the concern of the leadership of the Party and the government, Qi Xin, a monk in the whole temple, worked together to adhere to the tradition of paying equal attention to agriculture and Zen, starting from thrift and starting from scratch, earning his own living, prospering incense and reviving rituals. 1985, during the restoration of the secret altar of Jing 'an Temple, a delegation from Koyasan visited Jing 'an Temple for the second time. Head Masaaki Nakai, deputy head Jing Diyuan and Secretary General Qian Youlong presented some secret altar utensils, which enabled Xinya altar to be repaired quickly. At the same time, the "Master Song Chi Memorial Room" will be set up to display the photos, works, calligraphy and painting works and daily necessities of Master Song Chi before his death. 1987, Master Du Huan became the abbot. 1988 Newly-built Ursa Major Hall, inscribed by Zhao Puchu lay man.

1988 After the death of Master Huan in March, in June of the same year, Master Zhenchan served as the abbot of Jing 'an Temple. Li Guoqing and his wife donated a white marble Guanyin bodhisattva to Tongyuantang. The following year, Singaporean layman Liu Gengyu and others donated money to bring back a 3.6-meter-high jade Buddha statue of Sakyamuni from Myanmar, which was dedicated to the Daxiong Hall. 1994, the newly-built three-story offices of Sengliao, Shangketang, Cultural Relics Building and Temple Office were completed one after another. In 2000 10, a seminar was held to commemorate the centenary of Master Shou Song's birth and his Buddhist thoughts. Nearly 1,000 people from the Buddhist circles in the United States, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Hongkong and Taiwan Province, as well as teachers, scholars, experts and Buddhist practitioners from Beijing, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and Fujian provinces attended the seminar, which was unprecedented. Ten years after the implementation of the policy, the development and restoration achievements of Jing 'an Temple have surpassed any previous historical period.

In addition, the Jade Hall located in Luodian Town, Baoshan District, was built next year, and 1988 was renamed as the Vatican Palace, which is the lower house of Jing 'an Temple, and was abboted by exorcist, the former prison of Jing 'an Temple. Although Jing 'an Temple was repaired by itself, it still allocated funds to support the construction and opening of the Vatican Palace. 1993, the Vatican Palace was renamed "Baoshan Quiet Hall", with a larger scale. Zhao Puchu, president of the Chinese Buddhist Association, personally went to worship Buddha and wrote an inscription for the nursing home: "A sense of security for the elderly is the ideal of great harmony. To repay all beings, Pharaoh is the best. Respect your parents and teachers. Beauty is in the Vatican Palace, which is not very safe. "

1At the end of 995, Master Huiming was transferred to Jing 'an Temple as a prison. At the beginning of 1996, a new temple affairs committee headed by Master Wu De was established, which reached a new level in collective leadership and democratic management. During this period, Master Hui Ming, as a member of the Japanese Buddhist delegation, attended the Seoul meeting of the China-China-Korea Buddhist Friendship Seminar held in South Korea, attended the centenary celebration of the discovery of King Ashoka in Lumbini, Nepal, and the groundbreaking ceremony of the "China Temple" aided by China. When he visited Swasheng Yangbu Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, he was invited to return to the Buddha relic.

In the process of socialist construction, Jing 'an Temple responded to the call of the Chinese Buddhist Association, established human Buddhism, carried out civilized incense sacrifices, carried out patriotic health campaigns, improved the cultural taste of the temple, carried forward excellent Buddhist cultural traditions, took an active part in social charity, rescued flood-fighting and disaster relief, helped out-of-school children and helped the poor, and built a "Shanghai Chiwu Hope Primary School" for Shigatse, Tibet, which was well received by Buddhist believers and all walks of life.

Jing 'an Temple has a long reputation. The store provides vegetarian food and vegetarian noodles, which are in short supply every day. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, refined vegetarian moon cakes become the best gifts for relatives and friends, and are welcomed by believers at home and abroad.

At present, Jing 'an Temple will be rebuilt and expanded on the basis of restoring its original appearance. In addition to the main buildings: Chiwu Mountain Gate, Doulv Hall, Daxiong Hall, Tongyuan Hall, Zhenzhen Hall, Cultural Relics Building, Gongde Hall, Suzhai Department and Sengliao, the Dharma Hall, Buddhist Scripture Building and Buddhist Library will be built to restore the "Eight Scenes of Jing 'an". There are many Buddhist cultural relics in the temple, including the monument of Han Yun Zhao Huiting written by Song Guangzong Zhao Dun when he was a prince (recognized as the oldest monument in Shanghai by the Municipal Monument Exhibition at the beginning of the People's Republic of China), the clock cast in the second year of Ming Hongwu (1369), the calligraphy and paintings of celebrities in past dynasties, including the long scroll of Heart Sutra by Su Shi and those by Wen Zhiming, Chen Jiru, Zhang Ruitu and Yi Bingshou. From the Han and Wei Dynasties to the Qing Dynasty, there were many statues of stone carving, copper casting, gold plating, white porcelain and lacquer gold. There are Tripitaka Sutra, Pingga Jingshe School Journal, Zhaisha Photocopying in Song Dynasty (full name: Tripitaka Sutra of Shayansheng Hospital in Pingjiang Prefecture) and Japanese Taisho Tibetan Sutra (full name: Taisho Newly Revised Tripitaka Sutra). This temple is open to pilgrims every day. During the ten years of 1985- 1995, * * received a total of1200,000 followers at home and abroad, and had regular contacts and friendly effects with the Buddhist circles in Europe, America, Southeast Asia, South Asia, East Asia, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Jing 'an Temple is thriving and moving towards the new century.