Yunmen Temple of Shaoguan, Ruyuan County

Great and magical place.

[Yunmen Mountain Dajue Temple] Also known as Yunmen Temple, It is located under Ciyun Peak, 6 kilometers north of Ruyuan Yao Autonomous County, Shaoguan City, Guangdong Province, and 50 kilometers away from Shaoguan City. It is the birthplace of Yunmen Sect, one of the five branches of Zen Buddhism in my country. Yunmen Temple was founded in the first year of Tongguang in the later Tang Dynasty of the Five Dynasties (AD 923). It was built by Zen Master Wen Yan, a disciple of the ninth disciple of Huineng, the sixth patriarch of the Yunmen Sect. In 928 AD, King Liu Gong of the Southern Han Dynasty consecrated the "Guangtai Temple". It was later changed to "Zhenzhen Zen Temple". In the first year of Qiande's reign in the Song Dynasty (963 AD), the Southern Han King Liu Chang-chi named Chan Master Wenyan as "Master of Great Ci Yunkuang Sheng Hongming". And give a piece of "Wenzhu clothing", At the same time, "Zhenzhen Zen Temple" was elevated to "Dajue Zen Temple". Because the temple is located in Yunmen Mountain, it is called "Yunmen Mountain Dajue Chan Temple". During the "Cultural Revolution", it brought a devastating blow to Yunmen Temple. It is difficult to describe how to make the monk go to the temple. On April 9, 1983, the State Council designated Yunmen Temple as one of the nationally protected temples. In 1982, Venerable Master Foyuan, the disciple of the old monk Xuyun, Returning to Yunmen from Beijing, shouldering the important task of restoring and revitalizing the ancestral courtyard, With the support of the government and the four groups of disciples at home and abroad, After many hardships, the Yunmen Ancestral Court was finally rebuilt and rebuilt with a new look. Reply delete

General monastery, good photos

Don't come here on holidays, there are a lot of people.