Jingci Temple, located on the south shore of West Lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, opposite to Leifeng Pagoda, is one of the four ancient temples in the history of West Lake and one of the famous temples in China. The full name is Jingci Retribution Guangxiao Zen Temple.

Jingci Temple in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, under the Nanping Mountain Huirifeng, was built in 954 A.D. in the fifth generation of the Wu-Yue state Qian Hongxuan for the monk Yongming Zen Master, the original name is Yongming Zen Temple; the Southern Song Dynasty was renamed Jingshi Temple, and the construction of the five hundred Lohan Hall. The temple was repeatedly destroyed and built. The present temple, the gate, the bell tower, the rear hall, the ancient well for transporting wood and the Jigong Hall were all rebuilt in the 1980s. Among them, Daxiongbao Hall single-story heavy eaves, yellow glazed tile ridge, more solemn Hongzhuan. In particular, a newly cast bronze bell weighing more than one hundred kilograms, casting Zhao Puchu and others wrote the "Lotus Sutra", counting six point eighty thousand words. Every day at dusk, the melodious sound of the bell swings in the twilight over the West Lake, stirring people's infinite reverie.

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Nanping Mountain from the Tianmu, thousands of miles winding east, Su Shi called "dragon flying phoenix dance, extracted in Lin'an". Nanping Mountain peaks towering show, the strange stone exquisite, steep wall draped, like a barrier. Overhead and in the face of the Huirifeng, peaks under the ancient temple, that is, the net Ci Zen Temple. The net ci temple "depicts the temple is" with the mountain as the base, Leifeng hidden temple, the south screen embracing its back, according to the whole lake victory ".

Jingci Temple was built on the mountain, backed by the green mountains, facing the blue waves, Van Yu layers, grand and solemn. In ancient times, the temple behind the slope of the Lotus Cave, Shaolin Rock, right for the Stone Buddha Cave, southeast of the Joyful Rock. Lotus Cave without a roof, pieces of stone buds rising from the slope, azure into a giant stone lotus. The Ming Dynasty writer Yuan Hongdao said: "the cave stone exquisite if raw, more skillful than sculpture ...... are stone bone soil skin, hollow four reach". Zhishu contained in the founding father Yongming Yanshou every night on the mountain sitting meditation said "Amitabha Jinci Temple Buddha", that is, in the Lotus Cave. Legend has it that because of the Yongming master chanting "Lotus Sutra" here, the heavenly fairies come here to scatter flowers, so the name Lotus Cave, also known as the Rain Flower Terrace.

Sun Long, the eunuch of the Ming Dynasty, had engraved the inscription of "Colorful Flowers and Rain" on the cliff, which is indecipherable and hard to see. Cave in front of the old "actually Pavilion", from the Ming Dynasty Shaoxing governor Hong Yufang poem: "one day thatched building into, actually my spring white". This place has always been a resort for literati to watch and recite. In the Qing Dynasty, the ancient pavilion was destroyed and became a bamboo garden. Lotus Cave has a strange rock rise, the cliff engraved with the word "Shaolin", so it is called Shaolin Rock.

Legend has it that the Southern Song Dynasty monk Shaolin Miaosong Zen master in the Jiading years when he lived in Jingci Temple often sit in this Zen meditation. Lotus Cave right there is a stone Buddha cave, flat ground two stones standing like a niche, engraved with three stone Buddha. The left wall has the Ming Dynasty Zhejiang Governor Hu Zongxian inscribed "Huanzhongtian room" four words, the right wall also has a cliff inscription, for the Yuan Dynasty to the Zheng four years (1344) engraved, the handwriting has been fuzzy and difficult to distinguish. Stone Buddha Cave southeast of the two stone relative to say "happy rock". Anciently engraved with three Buddhas, now does not exist. This stone scene Yuan Hongdao called "the best place of the net Ci".

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