By the way, I haven’t traveled yet since I started working?

You guys tell me, editor, that I write so many fun and delicious things every day but have no chance to play or taste any delicious food. What a painful ordeal it is.

After all, today, Thursday, the editor will continue to bring you the Sizu Temple in Hubei, one of the famous scenic spots in China. How many students know about it?

Sizu Temple, known as Youju Temple in ancient times, formerly known as Zhengjue Temple, also known as Shuangfeng Temple, is the dojo of Master Daoxin, the fourth generation founder of Chinese Zen Buddhism. It is located in the Western Mountains 15 kilometers northwest of Huangmei County. The temple was founded in Tang Wude

Seven Years (AD 624) has a history of 1,370 years and is the first Zen temple in China.

It not only occupies an important position in the history of the development of Buddhism in my country, but also enjoys a high reputation internationally, especially in countries and regions such as Japan, India, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and is also a famous tourist attraction.

The fourth ancestor, Zen Master Daoxin (580-651), whose common surname was Sima, lived in Hanoi (now Qinyang County, Henan Province) for a long time, and later moved to Meichuan Town, Guangji, Qizhou (now Wuxue City, Hubei Province).

When he was 12 years old, he went to Zen Master Sikong Shan to seek liberation. He had a great enlightenment, which captured his mind and made him unable to sleep for sixty years.

At the age of 21, he was ordained and studied in Ji'an, Jiangxi Province.

In the third year of Yue, Monk Wen Can traveled all over Jiangyou and returned to Sikong to serve him. He was handed down the mantle and became the fourth ancestor of Chinese Zen.

In the second year of Daye (606), Chan Master Can died.

He went to Mount Lu and lived in Dalin Temple for ten years, studying tranquility and vipassanā.

In the 13th year of Daye (617), at the age of 38, he lived in Xiangfu Temple in Ji'an and ordered the city to forbid slaughter and recite "Maha Prajna Paramita" to relieve the siege of the city.

In the seventh year of Wude in the Tang Dynasty, Qizhou Taoist priests invited teachers to build a temple in Huangmei. They saw that there were good spring stones in the twin peaks and stayed there for nearly thirty years.

With the Zen gate open wide, there are five hundred disciples gathered. They are self-sufficient and sit diligently.

He wrote a volume called "Bodhisattva's Precepts" to teach the precepts.

He also wrote "Essential Methods for Entering the Tao and Feeling at Peace", which teaches people to practice One Practice Samadhi to clarify their mind.

Use agriculture to support Zen, pay equal attention to practice and attainment, unite Zen and precepts, and integrate all methods such as tranquility and contemplation.

There are many people who have achieved results in Shuangfeng of Qizhou.

After becoming a Zen master, he became a respected Zen master and was known as the Dongshan Dharma Gate.

Jingzhou Faxian was taught "the art of finding out the important points and calming the mind".

Hengyue is good at crouching, and he has learned the method of "entering the Tao and feeling at ease".

Xuan Shuang of Jingzhou "is in urgent need of subtlety, and can only keep thoughts in mind. He sits for a long time without lying down, keeping thoughts in front of him."

Niu Tou Fa Rong understands the purpose of "hundreds of thousands of Dharma doors, all returning to the same square inch, and the wonderful virtues of the sand of the river, always in the source of the heart".

Falang of Silla returned to the East following the Dharma and established the beginning of the Haedong Zen Way.

The Fourth Patriarch and his six divine feet are not only the foundation of the fortune of the Zen sect in China, but also the founder of the Buddhist Zen Way of Haedong in Silla.

In the second year of Yonghui (651), Zu ordered his disciples to build a pagoda on the west ridge of the temple.

On the fourth day of the ninth month in the ancient calendar of the same year, he entered the pagoda and warned his disciples. After finishing his words, he became silent. His life span was seventy-two.

In the second year, the pagoda door opened by itself, and the body became immortal. People welcomed the real body back to the temple to worship.

The emperor of the Tang Dynasty gave him the posthumous title of "Great Physician Zen Master", and the pagoda was named "Ciyun".

After Hongren, eminent monks such as Qingjiao, Zhongxuan, June, Fayan, Zhitang, Yungu, Pingchuan, Samadhi Jingguang, Jiechu, Qigaolang, Huishan Jiexian, Daolunpu and other eminent monks successively stationed in Xixi Mountain.

In the fourteenth year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty, the real body of the Fourth Patriarch raised his hands to the top of his head, spit out fire and passed away. He received countless relics and the palace was also ashes.

King Jing initiated reconstruction.

In the winter of the fourth year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty (1845), it was destroyed by war and restored during the reign of Guangxu.

It was later destroyed, leaving only three ancestral halls and a few ancient cypresses.

In December 1995, Elder Benhuan took up the great cause of revitalization. It took five years to build more than 200 palaces and pavilions, and the former ancestral palace regained its glory.

On September 12, 2003, I retired after my great achievements, and the great monk Jinghui succeeded me as the abbot.

He vowed to revitalize the Zen style of the Fourth Patriarch as his mission, advocate Zen in daily life, strengthen the construction of the monastic system, continue to publish the journal "Zhengjue", and hold activities such as the Four Buddhist Dharma Practice Assemblies and Zen Culture Summer Camps with the theme of Zen.

And further improve the surrounding environment of the temple.

Now, the parking lot in front of the temple, the stone archway of "Ciyun Pagoda", Chuanfa Cave, the pilgrimage steps from the temple to Pilu Pagoda and Chuanfa Cave have been completed.

The eternal Zen temple is full of vitality.

The Fourth Ancestor Temple was founded by Zen Master Daoxin, the fourth ancestor of Zen Buddhism, in the seventh year of Wude in the Tang Dynasty. It has a long history of more than 1,400 years. Although it has been restored several times, it was still destroyed in the late Qing Dynasty.

Today, only one room of the Fourth Ancestor Hall and a few ancient cypress trees remain.

With the support of governments at all levels and the help of people from all walks of life, the Fourth Patriarch Temple was rebuilt.

On January 5, 1996, the construction of the Main Hall was officially started. As of June 2000, in just over four years, the hall, monk dormitories and other buildings were built with an area of ??about 13,000 square meters, and the construction cost was 4,500.

More than 10,000 yuan.

In October of the same year, the Sizu Temple held a ceremony for its completion, the consecration of the Buddha statue and the enthronement of the elder.

Three years later, I retired and retired to the Fourth Ancestor Temple.

In order to promote the style of the Four Ancestors, I founded the publication "Zhengjue" in December 1999.

Promote Buddhist culture, contribute to society, and benefit the world.

In the first half of his life, I was committed to asceticism, studying scriptures, laws, and doctrines, sitting in meditation, retreating, kneeling and worshiping the five platforms, piercing blood to write sutras, burning my arms to be filial to my mother, spreading the Dharma to save lives, leading people to observe the precepts, and following Baizhang's rules.

, inherited the style of Zen sect, advocated humanistic Buddhism, and was honored as the master of Buddhism.

In the second half of his life, he traveled around the country and abroad, made many good connections, worked with all his heart and soul, built monasteries to comfort monks, restored and built many monasteries.

With great virtue and great deeds, he can be called a Buddhist master.