lingyin temple history

It was founded in the Eastern Jin Dynasty salt and the first year ( AD 326 years), has been more than one thousand six hundred years of history, is Hangzhou 's first temple. At that time India monk Hui Li to come to Hangzhou, see here mountain scenery, that is" Faerie are hidden", so he built here named" Lingyin Temple".

The five generation of King Wu Yue Qian Shu of Chongxin Buddhism, wide build a temple, when the Lingyin Temple grand scale, with nine buildings, eighteen Ko, seventy-two temple, the monks of 3000.

When the Northern Song Dynasty, the temple has the character the Jiangnan, meteorological magnificent Lingyin Temple was listed as the first Zen Institute of five. Lingyin Temple is indeed won the" hidden " character charm, the whole magnificent temple is hidden deep in West Lake's jungle green spring piece. In front of the temple has the cold spring, klippe Zhu Sheng.

Clear Kangxi's southern tour, reached the temple after the North summit Range Rover, improvisation for the Lingyin Temple that floor plaques, soul word for word on a traditional rain, intermediate horizontal three mouth characters, the following a wizard character, his joy, the rain handwriting is too large, almost on the spot. He suddenly remembered in the north peak, when see the mountain Yunlin Momo, a monastery was shrouded in a light mist, cloud forest, very quiet, then suddenly have a brain wave, homeopathy in rain word plus a word cloud, which named" Yunlin temple Lingyin Temple". Now the king before the" Yunlin Temple" four word giant plaque, is that the emperor Kangxi" yubi".

Lingyin Temple since its inception, has ruined building more than 10 times, in 1956 and 1975 two renovated, forming what is now the scale. [ ] Zhou Zongli wisdom and Lingyin Temple in 1966 August, the "Cultural Revolution" movement has spread throughout the country. When red guards against the sweep, around four old, Hangzhou temple was destroyed, religious occupation was struggle, some of whom suffer persecution.