Putuo Mountain, located in Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province, is a small island in Zhoushan Archipelago, with an area of about 12.5 square kilometers. As its scenic spots are scattered, we suggest you take a sightseeing shuttle bus. In this one-day tour route that we recommend for you, besides the three famous temples of Putuo Mountain, namely Huiji Temple, Fayu Temple, Fusaiji, Guanyin Temple, Nanhai Guanyin bronze statue and other famous scenic spots, we also include Baibu Beach, a scenic spot where you can listen to the waves, watch the waves and play in the sea sand. I believe you will be able to have a pleasant tour of this "sea fairy mountain". Dear friend, now you have come to Foding Mountain, the highest place in Putuo Mountain. It is also called "Bodhisattva Peak", which is a holy place for worshippers to worship. In addition, due to its unique geographical location, you can sometimes enjoy rare mirage and Buddha's light here, so there has always been a saying that "not going to the top of Buddha means not going to Putuo Mountain". Huiji Temple on Foding Mountain is the highest temple in Putuo Mountain. It stands on the top of the mountain, leaning against the sky and facing the sea, surrounded by fairy clouds, and has magnificent scenery. However, because it is built between valleys and occupies a limited area, the layout of Huiji Temple is based on the short axis of the Heavenly King Hall and the Ursa Major Hall, and it is not completely symmetrical to both sides. The left and right halls, bell towers, wings and other buildings are all connected by verandas, and together with the patio in the middle, it forms multiple courtyards. In particular, the newly-built white marble lotus pond, carved columns and jade bridges in the East Courtyard have a unique flavor of Jiangnan gardens.

the main hall of huiji temple, the daxiong hall, is dedicated to Buddha Sakyamuni and his two disciples Ananda and Jia Ye. Offering sacrifices to Buddha in the main hall is different from offering sacrifices to Guanyin Bodhisattva in the main halls of other temples in Putuo Mountain. It turns out that offering sacrifices to the Buddha instead of Guanyin Bodhisattva at the top of the mountain implies the supreme status of the Buddha, even in the Dojo of Guanyin Bodhisattva. In the wing rooms on both sides of the main hall, there are "Twenty Celestials". To put it simply, they are the protectors of Buddhism. Buddhism believes that when the Buddha helps the world to spread Buddhism, if there is no effective protector, Buddhism will fall, so there are many protectors in the Buddha country. They all have extraordinary magical powers. They can help the Buddha spread the Dharma, and they can also deter those who endanger the Dharma. However, the protector of Buddhism is not just the twenty heavens, but a huge team. The name of this team is "Tianlong Babu", which represents eight troops, among which the Heavenly Department and the Dragon Department are the most important, and the twenty heavens in front of us belong to the Heavenly Department. In order to show their respect for the Buddha, the deities all tilt forward by 1.5 degrees. In addition to Huiji Temple in Putuo Mountain, there are also Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou, Dahui Temple in Beijing and Huayan Temple in Datong.

Of course, as one of the three major temples of Putuo Mountain in Guanyin Bodhisattva Dojo, Huiji Temple also has a hall dedicated to Guanyin Bodhisattva, which is called "Guanyin Hall". Unlike Guanyin halls in other temples, besides a 2.7-meter-high statue of Guanyin, there are more than ***111 line-carved Guanyin statues embedded in the walls, bringing together the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.

At the back door of Huiji Temple, there is a "Putuo Carpinus". It is said that it was first brought by an ancient Burmese monk when he came to worship in Putuo Mountain. The tree is more than 13 meters high. It divides into two branches from the surface, and it divides into two parts. It is very regular and monoecious. It blooms every May and its fruit matures in mid-October. However, because of its extremely low reproduction rate, Myanmar, its origin, has long been extinct and is rare in the world. Therefore, it has become a symbol of Putuo and a bodhi in the Buddhist world. If you are interested in other precious plants in Putuo Mountain, you may wish to visit the new litsea under the back slope of the temple. This is a rare tree species only found in Zhejiang, and it is known as the "Buddha's Light Tree". Whenever Guanyin's birthday is on February 19th of the lunar calendar in the spring, its tender branches and leaves are covered with golden fluff, shining in the sun, like a messenger to herald spring, adding luster to Haitian Buddhism.

From Huiji Temple, you can also stand on Foding Mountain at an altitude of more than 311 meters and overlook the magnificent sea view. If the weather is fine, you can see the large and small islands in Zhoushan Archipelago dotted like lotus flowers in the East China Sea of China. Among these archipelagos, the most famous one is Luojia Mountain not far away. You see, is Mount Luojia shaped like a kind-hearted Guanyin bodhisattva lying peacefully on the sea? If you carefully identify her, you can also distinguish her head, neck, chest, feet and so on, so it is also called "sleeping Guanyin" or "sleeping Buddha at sea" It is said that Guanyin traveled across the ocean to Putuo Mountain to open up the Dojo after practicing Taoism in Luojia Mountain, so many devout believers who came to Putuo Mountain would take a boat to worship in Luojia Mountain.

Well, Huiji Temple on Foding Mountain is here for you. If you walk down the mountain to Fayu Temple, you can enjoy many stone carvings on the way, among which the four characters "Haitian Buddha Country" carved on a huge rock are the most famous. Legend has it that it was written by Hou Jigao, a famous anti-Japanese scholar in Ming Dynasty, and it has become a representative landscape of Putuo Mountain. If you are interested, you might as well take photos as a souvenir.

We are now in Fusaiji, the largest temple in Mount Putuo. Fusaiji is also known as "Qiansi". Its predecessor was the famous "refusing to go to Guanyin Temple". In the seventh year of Jiading in the Song Dynasty, the emperor wrote the inscription "Yuantong Treasure Hall" and designated it as a temple dedicated to Guanyin. Later, it was destroyed many times. In the thirty-third year of Wanli in Ming Shenzong, the court sent eunuch Zhang Qian to expand Baotuo Kannonji, and endowed it with "Putuo Temple to protect the country and live forever". The temple was large in scale and was located in the southeast for a while. In the thirty-eighth year of Kangxi, the amount of "giving alms to the masses" was given, and in the Yongzheng period, it basically formed the present scale. Today, there are 231 * * rooms in Fusaiji, including ten halls, twelve floors, seven halls and seven pavilions. In front of Fusaiji, there is a stone archway about 21 meters high, with four pillars and three doors, and the pillars are carved with exquisite cloud silk and stone gourd. On the north side of the square, there is a stone tablet on the tree, which says, "Civil and military officials, soldiers and civilians wait here to dismount." It is said that this is an imperial edict issued by the emperor. In the past, officials came here, civil servants got off the sedan chair and military officers dismounted to show their respect for Guanyin Bodhisattva.

behind the stone archway is a lotus pond with an area of about 1.5 mu, named "Hai Yin pond", also called "release pond", which was built in the Ming Dynasty. "Hai Yin" means that the wisdom of Buddha can print all the laws like the sea, while "release" is a universal Buddhist activity which is integrated with Buddhism's teachings of "compassion" and "not killing". There are three bridges on the pond in Hai Yin. Walk through the middle one, and you will come to the Imperial Monument Pavilion, which was built in the Yongzheng period. The inscription on the Imperial Monument records the history of Putuo Mountain. The carved dragon on the monument is lifelike, and the calligraphy is vigorous and vigorous, which can be described as two unique works. Of course, if you are interested, you can also go to the "Guanzi Bodhisattva" wall in the east. According to legend, Guanyin Bodhisattva not only has a merciful heart, but also has vast wisdom to see everything in the world, so it is sometimes called "Guanyin", which means that she can hear people's sufferings, and sometimes it is called "Guanzi", which means her ability to observe everything in the world.

When you come to the temple, you will definitely ask strangely, "The main entrance of the temple is closed. How can I get in?" Here's another story. According to legend, Emperor Qianlong forgot to go back when he visited Putuo Mountain at night. When he returned to Fusaiji, the temple gate was closed, but his request to open the door was rejected. The young monk at the door said, "There is a state-owned law, and the temple has temple rules." Ganlong had no choice but to enter the temple from Dongshan Gate. After returning to the palace, Qianlong was extremely angry with this and made an imperial decree: from now on, this door cannot be opened. This has continued until now, and it can only be opened when the head of state, the bodhisattva of the temple or the abbot enters the door for the first time. Usually, tourists can only enter from the side door next to them.

After passing the Heavenly King Hall dedicated to Maitreya, we can come to Dayuantong Hall, the main hall dedicated to Guanyin Bodhisattva in Fusaiji. The hall is seven rooms wide and six rooms wide, which can accommodate thousands of people. There is a saying that "a hundred people can't feel wide when they enter, and a thousand people can't feel crowded when they board", so it is also called "living hall". Walking into the main hall, you can see a statue of Guanyin of Pilu, about nine meters high, wearing a crown of Pilu, on which there is a statue of Amitabha, with kind eyes and a kind smile, and a good fortune and a dragon girl standing beside him, with an innocent and lively expression.

In China, Guanyin Bodhisattva is a household name, and is known to all women and children. According to Buddhist scriptures, when in danger, as long as the name is recited, the Bodhisattva can hear it and go to save and extricate herself, so it is called "Guanyin". In the Tang Dynasty, the word "world" was omitted to avoid the taboo of Emperor Taizong Li Shimin, and it is called "Guanyin" for short, which is still in use today. For most ordinary people, they don't necessarily know that the founder of Buddhism, Shi Ying Muni Buddha, but few people don't know Guanyin Bodhisattva. Guanyin has actually become the core figure of folk Buddhism and even the whole folk religious belief.

and why is this Guanyin temple in front of us called "yuantong temple"? In fact, it is precisely because Guanyin can see with her eyes as long as she hears the cry for help from suffering, indicating that "the ears are connected, that is, the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind are connected". So "yuantong" has become synonymous with Guanyin, which means "unbiased, unimpeded" and complete access.

There are also 16 Guanyin Bodhisattvas with different costumes and shapes on both sides of the Guanyin in Pilu, which are called "Thirty-two Guanyin Suits". These are the images of Guanyin's appearance in educating the world in different capacities. The 32-year-old Guanyin can only be offered as a whole, and can't appear alone. Together with the Guanyin Buddha body offered in the middle, this plastic method is also the unique feature of Guanyin Dojo.

There is also an annex hall on both sides of the main hall. The east annex hall is dedicated to Manjusri Bodhisattva, and the west annex hall is dedicated to Samantabhadra Bodhisattva. In addition, there is a Tibetan Temple dedicated to Tibetan Bodhisattva in the Buddhist temple. After visiting the large and small halls in Fusaiji, you can also visit the "Duo Pagoda" located in the southeast. Duobaota was built in the Yuan Dynasty. It was piled up by Taihu Stone brought back by Putuo Mountain monks from the south of the Yangtze River. It was named after the meaning of "Duobao Pagoda" in Hokkekyo. The appearance of the tower is simple, steady and dignified, unlike the traditional tower in China, which is exquisite and small. There are niches carved on all sides of each tower, which enshrines the full-seated Buddha statues. It belongs to the tantric modeling of Buddhism believed by the ancient Mongolian rulers and is very rich in Yuan style. According to the investigation, there are only two such pagodas in China, and the other one is in Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang, so it also has high cultural relics value. To the east of Duobao Pagoda is Baibu Sand, a famous bathing beach in Putuo Mountain. The sand here is pure, the beach shape is beautiful, and the waves are endless. If you have enough time, you might as well go and feel it.

Fayu Temple is the second largest temple in Putuo Mountain. Because it is located behind the mountain of Fusaiji, the largest temple, it is also called "Housi". Buddhists believe that Buddhism nourishes all beings, just as rain covers all things, so there is a saying of "dharma rain" Fayu Temple was originally built in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, and experienced many disasters. In the thirty-eighth year of Kangxi, the emperor gave it the title of "Tianhua Fayu Temple", so it was named "Fayu Temple". In yongzheng emperor, it was expanded on a large scale, and Fayu Temple became a famous temple in the southeast because of its large-scale halls and pavilions.

Looking far away from Fayu Temple, you will find that in the architectural layout, it adopts the method of taking advantage of the mountain and ascending in groups, and several halls rise step by step on the pedestal, with extraordinary momentum. The whole temple is covered with glazed tiles of sky blue, light green, goose yellow, purple red and other colors, which reflect thousands of colorful lights under the sunlight, forming a wonderful scene of "Buddha's light shining", which gives people a sense of palace in the air from a distance. In the late Qing Dynasty, Kang Youwei once wrote "Jin Ping faces the waves, Fa Yu flies in the sky" to describe the scenery of mountains and seas in Fayu Temple.

If you want to enter the Buddhist temple of Fayu Temple, you must first pass the Lotus Pond in front of the temple. It covers an area of about 1,811 square meters and was built in the 18th year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty. The lotus seeds produced here were once presented to the court as a tribute by Hangzhou Weaving House in history. There is a single-hole stone arch bridge on Lianchi, which is called Haihui Bridge. "Haihui" means that all buddhas and bodhisattvas get together, and its virtue is as deep and numerous as the vast and deep sea. Haihui Bridge divides the pond into two ponds, the east and the west. There are more than 51 patterns such as various drama stories, birds and animals on the double-sided reliefs of the railings on both sides, which are exquisitely carved and are the finest stone carvings in Putuo Mountain.

Walking through Lianchi, let's first take a look at the Zhao Wall in Kowloon, a newly-built scenic spot in 1987. This nine-dragon wall is two meters high and 12 meters long. The lower wall is sumeru, with cornices on the four sides and the top. Seventeen dragons with different shapes are carved between Liang Shi and Shiwa in the upper part, while nine dragons on the middle stone slab hold their heads high and dance their claws, vying for the dragon ball, which is lifelike. At first glance, it seems to be carved from a whole piece of bluestone, but if you are careful enough, you will find that it is actually carved and spliced with 61 pieces of 71 cm square high-quality bluestones, and the splicing place is seamless and does not show traces, which has to make people admire its exquisite craftsmanship.

After enjoying the Nine Dragon Wall, we went to the Jade Buddha Hall, the second floor of Fayu Temple, via the Heavenly King Hall. It got its name because a white jade statue of Sakyamuni, which was invited from Myanmar at the end of the Qing Dynasty, was originally enshrined here, but it was destroyed in the Cultural Revolution. The statue of Buddha now enshrined was invited from Yongle Palace in Beijing in 1985. On the railing of the platform behind the Jade Buddha Hall, there is a picture of "Twenty-four Filial Pieties", which was carved during the Yongzheng period. The 24 dutiful sons in the picture, from the emperor to the people, embody the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation to respect the elderly and provide for the elderly, and are also a witness to the integration of Buddhism and Confucianism.

Next, let's take a look at the most famous "Kowloon Hall" in Fayu Temple. According to the Records of Putuo Mountain, in March of the thirty-eighth year of Kangxi, the emperor made a southern tour to Hangzhou, met with the host of Fayu Temple, and issued the imperial edict of "tearing down the old temple of Jinling to give it", so 121,111 glazed tiles were removed from the Ming Dynasty palace in Nanjing and sent to Putuo Mountain, and the Kowloon Hall with a royal style was built. There are no beams or nails in the Kowloon Hall, which is a must of ancient architecture. Among them, the most distinctive one is the Jiulong Caijing, which is a cultural relic preserved in the Ming Dynasty. Looking up, you can see a big ball of beads hanging under the Caijing, with Yi Long on the top and eight columns around it, as if to snatch this treasure pearl, which constitutes the pattern of "Dragon Play Pearl", which is lifelike and ingenious. It is said that this Kowloon algae well also has the function of fire prevention, because the dragon can spit water, and the shape of the algae well can gather water, so if the prayer flags in front of the Buddha are accidentally lit by the incense, the Kowloon in the temple will spit water to put out the fire. Therefore, this Kowloon algae well has become the treasure of Putuo Mountain.

There is a 111m-high statue of Guanyin in the temple, so it is also called "Kowloon Guanyin Hall". On both sides of Guanyin statue, there are eighteen arhats in asceticism, and on the other side of the hall, there is a spectacular "Island Guanyin Map". In the middle of the picture, the kind-hearted Guanyin Bodhisattva stands on the back of a huge aojiang fish, holding a net bottle in one hand and Yang Liuzhi in the other. The net bottle and Yang Liuzhi in the hands of the Bodhisattva originally meant to spread dharma rain and promote dharma, but later it evolved into various meanings. It is believed that Yang Liuzhi can eliminate disasters and diseases, and the nectar in the clean bottle spreads all over the world with Yang Liuzhi, which is a metaphor for the merciful Guanyin to use clean water to help all beings get rid of their sufferings and reach the other side of the paradise. There are buildings such as Heaven and Dragon Palace in this painting. The layout of the whole picture is reasonable, and there are many figures, which are vivid. If you are interested.