1, Foding Palace
As one of the cores of the Buddha's Top Holy Land, the Buddha's Top Palace is located in the west peak of Niushou Mountain, built on a historical mine pit, with a total construction area of about 1.36 million square meters. It is isomorphic with the Buddha's top tower, forming a new scene of the west peak of Niutou, echoing the east peak of Niutou from a distance, and reappearing the magnificent scenery of "Double Peaks and Double Ques" of Niutou. The whole Buddha's dome palace is dedicated to the Buddha's top bone relic, and the outside is divided into two parts: the big dome and the small dome, which means that the outside supports the inside. The large vault is shaped like a Buddhist cassock covering the small vault, symbolizing the infinite blessing of the Buddha; The lower part of the small dome looks like a lotus throne, and the upper part looks like a Mani pearl, and the upper and lower parts are combined into one, forming a sacred image of' Lotus holding treasure'.
2. Zen Grand View
Zen Grand View Zen Grand View is 1 12 meters long from north to south, 62 meters wide from east to west, with an internal clear height of about 4 1.2 meters and three floors above ground. The whole space covers an area of more than 6,000m2, and it is oval, with yellow, white and gray as the keynote, and the world landscape is arranged, which makes people meditate while walking. It consists of three parts: the Zen Garden where the Buddha was born, the Zen Garden where he became a monk, and the Lotus Theater in the middle, which shows the traces of the Buddha's life.
At the top of the Zen Grand View is the Luo Hu Dome, which was designed with the branches of the gourd tree when the Buddha was in nirvana. The dome is completely covered with transparent film and lights, which can create the first ray of sunshine in the morning, warm sunshine at noon, rosy clouds in the evening and moonlight at night. At the center of the reclining Buddha is a 7.5-meter-long bronze statue of Sakyamuni reclining Buddha, whose surface is made of white marble and can rotate 360 degrees slowly, showing the peaceful nirvana of the Buddha. On the north and south sides of the theater are two Zen gardens. To the south is a Buddhist temple, which symbolizes the birth of the Buddha. Its overall shape is like a lotus, with an endless worry-free tree in the middle. In the north is a Buddhist temple, and in the middle is an immortal bodhi tree. On the ground, black and white sandstone is used as a metaphor for the chaos of the world and the purity of Buddha's light.
3. Foding Temple
There is a temple in Niushou Mountain, Foding Temple, which started in the early years of Southern Dynasties. During the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, the temple was large-scale and named Fodong Temple, which was the birthplace of' Niutou Zen' before Zen. After the Northern Song Dynasty, it was renamed Hongjue Temple. The Southern Song Dynasty was destroyed by war and the Ming Dynasty was revived. By 1856, the temple was destroyed by the Hongyang rebellion, and the incense was interrupted for a hundred years. In order to inherit the traditional culture, Jiangning District rebuilt the cultural resort. The mountain started on 20 12 and was completed on 20 15. At the suggestion of cultural celebrities and Buddhist monks, the Buddhist temple was named Foding Temple after the relics enshrined in Niushoushan Underground Palace. The Buddhist Temple is one of the main buildings in Niushou Mountain, covering an area of 68 mu, with a construction area of nearly 40 mu, imitating the Tang style and the traditional central axis pattern. * * * Seven halls, surrounded by buildings such as monk bars and temples.
4. stupa
Foding Pagoda is one of the landmark buildings of Foding Holy Land, with a height of about 88 meters.
The top tower covers an area of 5065 square meters, with nine floors and four sides, echoing the pagoda of Hongjue Temple in Ming Dynasty, and reappearing the grand pattern of "Twin Towers" in Niushou Mountain in history. There is a statue of Todo Loki in the tower, an imitation Tang-style copper diamond clock, and various scriptures and exhibitions. The whole stupa is magnificent, showing the ancient charm of tang style. When you climb this tower, you can enjoy the beautiful scenery of Niushou Mountain all year round.
5. Qianlong Lake
Yinlong Lake was originally named Bamutang. In the folk, Qianlong Lake is a natural weatherman. It is said that whenever the lake is foggy.
The hidden lake portends rain. A road around the hidden lake has been built, and tourists
Hongjue Temple Tower, the core attraction of Niutouchan Cultural Park, is 45 meters high, with seven floors and eight sides. It is the oldest brick tower with imitation wood structure in Nanjing. 1956 The gilded Lama Pagoda unearthed in the underground palace of the pagoda of Hongjue Temple is one of the treasures of Nanjing Museum. The height is 0.35m, and the height of Xu Mi Temple is 0.16m. At the bottom of the tower, there are inscriptions of "Permanent Support for the Cracked Temple in Niushou Mountain, Jinling" and "Sacrifice to Simon Simon Li Fook sean, an Imperial Prison Monk". At the same time, jade bottles, golden reclining Buddha, celadon jars and other cultural relics have been unearthed and are now collected in Nanjing Museum. Then, the Nanjing Cultural Relics Protection Committee sent people to investigate the inscriptions on the walls of brick towers and found more than 70 inscriptions by tourists during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. 1957, Hongjue Temple Tower was listed as a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu Province.
6, Zen forest road landscape area
Hongjue Temple was originally named Fodong Temple. Sikong Xudu Prison was built in Tian Liang in the second year (503), located at the southern foot of Niushou Mountain, and later renamed Pujue Temple. After Liang Wudi Xiao Yan, he built a fairy cave temple under the Buddha cave temple. Therefore, Niushou Mountain is also called' Fairy Cave Mountain'. Monk Farong of the Tang Dynasty gave lectures here and founded the "Tauren Zen", which became famous. In the Southern Tang Dynasty, Pilu Temple, stupa, Tianwang Temple and Baiyun Ladder were expanded on the basis of Pujue Temple. Large-scale, incense heyday. In the early years of Hongwu, the temple was extensively renovated and later renamed as Foku Temple and Hongjue Temple. Carve Buddha statues and figures on the rock wall to form cliff stone carvings. However, after hundreds of years of erosion and weathering, only ruins remain in the temple, and the cliff stone carvings are difficult to identify.
7. Ngau Tau Chan Cultural Park
Hongjue Temple Tower is a typical brick-wood structure tower in the south of the Yangtze River. This kind of star anise. In ancient Jiangsu culture, there were generally hollow tubular structures with staggered inner and interlayer angles. The first is the twin towers of Luohan Garden in Suzhou, which was built in the Song Dynasty and has seven floors and an octagonal building. Yangzhou Wenfeng Pagoda, built in the 10th year of Wanli of Ming Dynasty (1582), is also octagonal and has seven floors. The Longshan Pagoda in Jintan County, which was rebuilt in the 40th year of Qing Emperor Kangxi (170 1), and the Hongji Pagoda in Nanjing in Ming Dynasty, which is recorded in history, all have this structure. It overcomes the weakness of the early hollow cylinder structure, the outer wall is open and the interlayer is staggered, thus avoiding the longitudinal cracking and damage of the door (or window) from top to bottom.
The underground palace is buried at the bottom of the tower:1956 July 14, tourists found the underground palace at the bottom of the tower of Hongjue Temple, with cultural relics under the upper circle. Nanjing Museum excavated and cleared a gilded Lama Pagoda, which is 0.35m high, which is 0.16m high for Xu Mi Temple. The bottom of the tower is engraved with the words "Honglin Temple in Niushou Mountain, Jinling will be permanently supported" and "Imperial Buddha disciple Simon Simon Li Fook sean eunuch will be diligent". There are four gates in the tower, and there are Buddha statues of Sakyamuni and Wei Tuo in the Buddhist niches. The tower is equipped with a thirteen-day phase wheel, a treasure cover and a gourd top. At the same time, there are also cultural relics such as Buddha statues and jade bottles unearthed.
Inscriptions on towers in past dynasties: Nanjing Cultural Relics Protection Committee investigated the inscriptions on the walls of brick towers and found more than 70 inscriptions by tourists in Ming and Qing Dynasties. 199 1 September, the municipal cultural management Committee conducted a survey of the tower, and these inscriptions have been well preserved so far. They are all carved with knives or tiles on the lime plaster layer on the wall of the door ticket cave, distributed in 3-7 floors. It dates from the fifth year of Zheng De in Ming Dynasty (150 1) to the thirty-second year of Qianlong (1767). At most, it was the Jiajing, Wanli and Kangxi years of the Qing Dynasty. It shows that temples have the most incense and tourists during this period. At the same time, it also tells us that Hongjue Temple was rebuilt or rebuilt five years ago in the Ming Dynasty (15 10) and was finally destroyed in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. Judging from the damage to the wood structure, dear.
8. Hongjue Temple
Yue Fei's anti-Jin old base area starts from Hanfu Mountain near Qinhuai River, 500 meters east of Tiexin Bridge, and ends at the main peak of Niushou Mountain, with an intermittent remnant of about 4,200 meters. It is more than 2000 meters long from the foot of Niushou Mountain to the ridge. The width of the base varies from 1.5m to 3m, and the height is about1m.. So the base is made of local reddish-brown stones, winding and undulating. Some sections have obvious artificial traces; Due to the age, wind and rain, some areas have been scattered and collapsed, which is difficult to find. It has been more than 860 years since Yue Fei hit Niushou Mountain, and the remains of the old base have become good materials for patriotic education for young people. In spring, people can enjoy the beautiful scenery of mountains and rivers, not only including Buddhist cultural treasures such as Hongjue Temple, but also visit ancient battlefields, mourn Yue Fei's resistance to gold, cherish the memory of national heroes and receive patriotic education.