Why is Jingshan Temple called Guo Si?

Jingshan Temple is called Guo Si because it was built in the Tang Dynasty, which is the peak of Buddhism after China and the top of the five Buddhist temples in the south of the Yangtze River.

Jingshan Temple, founded in Tianbao period of Tang Dynasty, is an ancient temple with a history of over 1200 years, and it is the last peak after the China of Buddhism. There are also three precious cultural relics in the temple: Iron Buddha, Bell Tower and Yongle Bell. In addition, it has also made important contributions to the cultural exchanges between China and Japan, and has become a holy place of Buddhist culture. With the precipitation of history, it has always been called the "National Temple".

Jingshan is not only the ancestral Dojo of Lin Ji, but also the birthplace of Japanese tea ceremony, enjoying a high reputation in Japan. Nowadays, more and more Japanese tea ceremony practitioners come to Jingshan Temple to fulfill their wish of "seeking roots". Jingshan Tea Banquet is a continuation of the etiquette and customs of ancient tea banquets in China and an outstanding representative of Zen tea culture in China. Named after being born in Jingshan Temple in Yuhang, it is the lobby tea party when Jingshan Temple receives distinguished guests.

Temple history

Incense reached its peak in the Southern Song Dynasty, ranking first among the five temples in the south of the Yangtze River. Its scale is extremely grand, with 1700 monks and 1000 temple buildings. Due to the war and disrepair, the original temple buildings have basically disappeared. Now there is only one bell tower, which contains a clock in the first year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, three iron buddhas in the Song Dynasty, and a mountain ancestor monument from Yuan Dynasty to Mindfulness.

In the fourth year of Tang Tianbao (745), Zen master Faqin went to Jingshan Jiean. In the third year of the Tang Dynasty (768), Jingshan Temple was built in Tang Daizong. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Xiao Zong wrote the book Jingshan, Sheng Xing and manjuji. Jingshan Temple originally belonged to the "Tauren School". After four years of advice in the Southern Song Dynasty (1 130), it became the "Linji Sect", and its reputation grew stronger, and it was listed as the first of the "Five Mountains and Ten Temples in the South of the Yangtze River" (the "Five Mountains" are the five jungles of Jingshan, Lingyin, Jingci, Tiantong and Ashoka).

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Jingshan Temple.