Kanroji is located halfway up Huacheng Peak in Jiuhua Mountain, and it is one of the "Four Jungles" in Jiuhua Mountain together with Gion Temple, Dongya Temple and Baisui Palace. The temple was built in the sixth year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (1667), and the Imperial Master Yulin was instructed to enter Jiuhua. Seeing the mountains and rivers around this place, he set up a temple here. Legend has it that on the eve of construction, pine needles all over the mountain hung nectar, which was called a miracle, and because "Hokkekyo. Herbal Analects" wrote: "Sakyamuni said: I will tell the public the purification method of nectar." Amitabha is also known as "the Buddha of manna" and "the king of manna". When he incarnated, he was named "Kanroji".
Kanroji is located on the mountainside, and it is also the only place where the north road faces the mountain. The temples are spacious, there are many Buddha statues, and the environment is elegant, so the incense is very strong. Monk Dong An once went to the altar twice here. During the Qianlong period, abbot Youtan opened the altar to preach the precepts and became a jungle. In the 16th year of Daoguang (1836), the abbot monk Qinglian was expanded. In the third year of Xianfeng (1853), the abbot of Shengchuan Monk was killed in the temple. In eight years (1858), the abbot, Monk Enhao, was rebuilt. In the third year of Tongzhi (1864), it was rebuilt by soldiers, and the abbot Fayuan was rebuilt the following year. In the 2th year of Guangxu (1894), the abbot monk Dahang asked for training. When he entered Beijing, please return to the Tibetan Classics. It was rebuilt twice in 1956 and 1983, and was identified as the national key Buddhist temple in the Han area by the State Council. In 1985, the Buddha statue was rebuilt and painted and gilded. Today, there are cultural relics and monuments such as Daxiong Hall, Ancestral Hall, Liaofang, Bell and Drum, and Inscription. The building area of the whole temple is 3,5 square meters.
The whole temple is composed of three groups of residential buildings and palace-style Daxiong Hall. It is built on the mountain and is five stories high, with glazed tiles and shining golden light. The temple has an irregular layout. In the north, two groups of buildings, Weituo Hall and Zhiketang, are arranged on a platform with a height of 2.5 meters, with three floors, of which Zhiketang has four windows on the wall, but actually there are only three floors, and the top window is opened, which increases the sense of hierarchy. In the south of Weituo Hall, there is a 15-meter-high Daxiong Hall, with a companion gallery in front. The hall is built on a 6.8-meter platform, with a width of 17 meters and a depth of 15.5 meters. The east of the main hall is a two-story building with a patio, which is 22 meters deep and 15 meters wide. The upper and lower floors are the ancestral hall, the abbot's hall, the meditation hall and the guest room. After the pedestrians enter the gate, they exit from the side door of the mountain gate, turn up more than ten steps, and then enter the main hall from the side, giving people an obvious effect of spatial layer flashing and light and shade change. There are three patios and hundreds of external windows in the temple. The roof is a hard mountain with two or four falls, while the main hall is a rest peak. The whole temple is spacious, with neat pavilions, green hills on the back and flowing water in front, which is very poetic. When the ancients stayed in this temple, there was a poem that "the sound of the spring in the corner of the house fell, and the bedside was suffocating", and "Only when you stay here in Zen can you know that there are many mountains". There is a stone railing with ice patterns on the roadside in front of the temple, which can be overlooked under the shadow of ancient trees to see the mountains. There is a "centering stone" next to the temple, surrounded by bamboo forests, which cover the sky.
The temples in Jiuhua Mountain have always attached importance to the education of Sangha. Now Jiuhuashan Deacon Training Class of China Buddhist College and Jiuhuashan College of Anhui Province are located in Kanroji. As early as the 22nd year of Guangxu reign in Qing Dynasty (1896), Hua Yan scholar Yue Xia (1858-1917) came to Jiuhua with Chu monk Pu Zhao and others. In August 1898, Xia founded "Huayan Dojo" (also known as "Huayan University") in Cuifeng Temple, "stressing Huayan and creating great classics". The "Huayan Dojo" lasted for three years. At that time, there were 32 monks, including Xu Yun and Xin Shu, who later became famous monks in modern times. "Huayan Dojo" pioneered the establishment of a Buddhist college in the history of Sangha education in China and was highly praised. At the beginning of 1919, Rong Xu, chairman of Jiuhuashan Buddhist Association and abbot of Dongya Temple, propose to create's "Jiangnan Jiuhuashan Buddhist College" received the response and funding from various communities in Jiuhuashan, and was approved by the Education Department of Anhui Provincial Government.
In p>1985, the Jiuhuashan Buddhist Association held the Jiuhuashan Sangha Training Course, which lasted for one year. It was open to all the monasteries in the province and was selected on the basis of examination. In May, the first Sangha training course (24 young monks) started in Gion Temple. Its educational policy is: teaching and educating people, paying equal attention to learning and repairing, and improving the ideological and moral cultivation of learning monks; Improve the interest and knowledge level of Buddhist monks in the study of Buddhist culture, and train them to become Buddhist talents who are based on Buddhism and care for and support socialist modernization. Rende, the president of Anhui Buddhist Association and Jiuhuashan Buddhist Association, served as the class teacher, Shi Mingxin, Tiling, and lay man Zhao Jiaqian as teachers, who taught Buddhism, Buddhist history and Chinese respectively, and also offered courses on history, calligraphy, chanting classics, natural science knowledge and politics. Monks do their homework in the morning and evening during their school days. When they graduate, they should be able to read classics, practice and participate in large-scale Buddhist activities. The monks in this class were ordained by the novice monk at the end of 1985. In January 1986, the training course was moved from Gion Temple to Kanroji. In October 1986, the first Sangha training course was completed, and most of the monks returned to their original places to engage in temple management. Later, the training course was held several times.
On September 19th, 199, Jiuhuashan Buddhist College held its opening ceremony in Kanroji. Zhao Puchu, president of the Chinese Buddhist Association, made a special trip to Jiuhua to attend the opening ceremony, and delivered a warm and ardent speech. He pointed out that the opening of Jiuhuashan Buddhist College was the result of the comprehensive implementation of the policy of freedom of religious belief since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and all this should be thanks to the strong support of the Party and the people's government. Zhao Puchu went on to point out that the purpose of running a Buddhist college is to train successors to the Buddhist cause. Finally, he Yinba encouraged young monks to carry forward the bodhisattva "All living beings are exhausted before they can prove Bodhi;" The great dedication of "Hell is not empty, I will never become a Buddha" and "If I don't go to hell, who will go to hell" strives for the cause of Buddhism and the cause of human peace, and rises to fulfill the great wishes of all sentient beings.