Yunjushan has lush trees and towering old trees. There are not only unintentional apricot trees in the Tang Dynasty, but also rare Bai Le trees and fragrant fruit trees. There are both the legendary "Yueming Lake" transformed by the accidental fall of Chang 'e in the Moon Palace into a white jade basin, and the legendary "Wulongtan" transformed by the five immortals jumping into the sea. There are both rugged rocks and grotesque caves; And this mountain is "really like a Zen temple", and it is famous at home and abroad.
According to records, Shinnyoji was built in the early years of Yuanhe in Tang Xianzong (806-8 10). Formerly known as "Yunju Temple", it was founded by Zen Master Daorong. In the first year of Xiangfu in Song Dynasty (1008), the inscription "True as a Buddhist Temple" inscribed by Song Zhenzong has been passed down to this day in the name of "Credit Temple".
To enter the Heart Temple, you must first pass the "Zhaozhou Pass", which is the pass of the mountain, which is now the gate of the Heart Temple. Through the gate, I suddenly became enlightened. But seeing the surrounding peaks embracing each other, in the middle of the small basin, the halls are blue and tiled with red walls, the pastoral valleys are yellow and green, and the bridges are flowing, which makes people feel like entering a fairyland.
There is a lake near here, which is shaped like a bright moon. It is called Yueming Lake, also called "Release Lake", with an area of more than ten acres. The lake is as clear as a mirror and spotless. Whenever the sun rises, the golden light ripples, and the shadows of mountain gates and temple buildings are photographed from a distance, which is spectacular. At the exit of the lower end of Yueming Lake, there is a granite single arch stone bridge. Silver beads splashed under the bridge, forming a misty mist. When the sun shines at noon, seven-color rainbows can be seen, so it is called "Flying Hongqiao".
Flying over Hongqiao and Shuangfei Bridge, under the peak on the right, are the pagodas of Taoist Zen master and sea lantern master; There are nearly 100 pagodas of ancient tombs outside Zhaozhou Pass, such as Buddhist Zen Master Pagoda, Old Monk Xu Yun Pagoda, Haihui Pagoda, etc. It can be seen that the Buddhist Dojo of Xinyang Temple was once prosperous and has a long history.
There is also a "Fo Yin Bridge" on the Bixi River about150m in front of the temple. There is a relatively flat natural granite boulder on the southeast side of the bridge, which is called "Heart to Heart Stone". According to legend, this bridge was built by Fo Yin, a Zen master in Yuan Dynasty. At that time, Su Shi, Huang Tingjian and others often visited this mountain, but sent Yuan Zen Master to stop here. On one occasion, the Zen master and Su Shi sat on their rocks and had a heart-to-heart talk. Su Shi got up and wrote the word "stone bed" on the boulder. Fo Yin immediately ordered the Zen master to be engraved as a souvenir. Later, the stone was submerged. 1957, when Xu Yun, an old monk, presided over the dredging of Yueming Lake, he dug this stone down, washed it and put it at the bridge head in Fo Yin, which became a scene. There is a poem in the empty cloud: "The old woman worships Buddha and has a long-cherished wish to speak freely on the stone." There are historical sites on the banks of Bixi Bridge, and the clouds are unintentional. The four seas are jubilant, the sun is shining, and Zebei celebrates peace. Xinyi sincerely stays in the area, and Yunbixi Bridge is marked with one name. "
Walking on, after crossing the Luohan wall, I saw a plaque hanging on the gate of Ershan, "It's really like a Zen Temple". The temple buildings of Psychological Temple are centered on the Tianwang Temple, Mahayana Mahayana Hall and the Tibetan Scripture Building. There are more than 20 temples, including Haiyun Building, Xuhuai Building, Bell Tower, Drum Tower, Guest Hall, Gongde Hall, Jade Buddha Hall, Galan Hall, Zen Hall, Chuai Hall, Ancestral Temple, abbot's room, Lao Liao and Xuyun Old Monk Memorial Hall. Houses1 More than 100 monks live here. They adhere to the Buddhist tradition of "paying equal attention to agriculture and Zen" and "the tiller revives the old industry", cultivate their own land and "build temples with temples". * * * Management of 3700 mu of forest land, food self-sufficiency. Monks don't kill animals, and they don't use pesticides in the fields. The rice and vegetables produced have no pollution. I have eaten vegetarian food several times in the temple and found the food very delicious and unique.
After the heyday of the Tang and Song Dynasties, the temple suffered seven disasters and was almost deserted. It was not until after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party that it was restored under the auspices of Master Yicheng. At present, there are not only more than 240 newly carved Buddha statues in Xinyi Temple, but also the Tripitaka Sutra, Yanhua Sutra, Fangshan Shijing, a giant jade Buddha with a height of 3.6 meters, a thousand-monk pot built in the thirty-fourth year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (1695), and a Buddhist monk more than120 years ago. It is not only a key cultural relic protection unit in Jiangxi Province, a national key temple open to the outside world, and one of the three model jungles in China, but also famous at home and abroad because the contemporary Buddhist monk Xu Yun and the current president of the Chinese Buddhist Association, Master Yicheng, preach Buddhism here.
If you want to climb Wunao Peak at the top of Yunju Mountain, you should start from Xuhuailou, bypass the fields, cross the bamboo forest, and then climb from southeast to northwest along the ridge covered with pine forests. Less than 3 kilometers 1 hour. The main peak is 925.6 meters above sea level, and it is called "five brains" because it is juxtaposed with the four surrounding peaks. Standing on the top of the mountain, overlooking the east, the lake is vast; Looking at Lushan Mountain in the north, the West Sea is flooded and surrounded by rivers; Overlooking the "Yunju Villa" in the south, pavilions are connected. Hundreds of miles of clouds, layer upon layer, are spectacular. Yunjushan is the first batch of key scenic spots in Jiangxi Province. The origin of Buddhist culture, numerous cultural relics and magical tourist attractions are all worth seeing.