Yuyao Lingyan Temple

Lingyan Temple is located at the foot of Shenggui Mountain in the north of Yuyao City, Zhejiang Province, about one kilometer away from the urban area. Shenggui Mountain, formerly known as Shenggui Mountain. According to historical records, during the Eastern Jin Dynasty in my country, Liu Laozhi settled Sun En's rebellion on this mountain; it was renamed Shenggui Mountain because Hu Zongxian, the magistrate of Yuyao County during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, returned from the Japanese pirates to station troops here. In order to commemorate the achievements of Hu Zongxian and the bandits, later generations carved a statue of Hu Gong in the cliff in Yimao, Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (1555). After the statue of Duke Hu, a large number of Buddha statues have been carved on the mountain one after another. The statues date from the late Ming Dynasty to the modern times, and lasted for nearly four hundred years. It is a later group of statues after the Feilai Peak in Hangzhou and the stone carvings on the cliffs in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. Among them, there are engraved statues of Sakyamuni Buddha, standing statue of Amitabha, Avalokitesvara, Jigong statue holding a broken banana fan, and Maitreya statue with a belly and a belly. In addition, there are still poems such as "The Song of Kindness" and poems by Laozi, Zhuangzi and Bai Juyi. All these monuments have important historical significance and cultural value. Nowadays, the incense of Lingyan Temple is flourishing, the sea is peaceful, religious activities are like the law, the public follows the Buddhist laws and regulations, the ancestral style is harmonious, and the Sanskrit music is spread far and wide. It has become a Buddhist resort that integrates tourism, prayers and worship. .