Shaolin Temple was founded in the 19th year of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty (495). It was built by Emperor Xiaowen at the northern foot of Shaoshi Mountain in Songshan Mountain, facing the capital Luoyang, to house the venerable Indian monk Bhattara. Shaolin Temple is often hospitalized, covering an area of about 57,600 square meters. The current abbot is Shi Yongxin, the 47th and 33rd generation descendant of Cao Dong.
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The Historical Evolution of Shaolin Temple
Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534)
Shaolin Temple was founded in the 19th year of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty (495). Emperor Xiaowen TaBaHong, as an Indian monk who settled down and taught Hinayana Buddhism, was founded at the northern foot of Shaoshi Mountain in Songshan Mountain, which is opposite to the capital Luoyang.
In the first year of Yongping (506), Indian monks Lenore Motti and Bodhi Liuzhi successively went to Shaolin Temple to open a translation field and set up a translation hall in the pagoda on the west platform of Shaolin Temple. Later, Huiguang promoted the "four-division method" in Shaolin Temple. Other teachers said that after several generations of development, future generations finally formed the four-division Sect.
In 527, Dharma, the 28th disciple of Sakyamuni Buddha, came to Shaolin Temple in Xiaoming Xiaochang, Northern Wei Dynasty for three years. On the basis of setting up Postuo, he collected many disciples and taught Zen. In the Eastern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Xiaojing spread this method to Hui Ke for three years. Since then, Zen has spread in Shaolin Temple.
At the peak of the development of Buddhism in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Emperor Wudi of the Northern Zhou adopted the proposal of the eminent monk Wei to delete the temple and reduce the number of monks, and in the third year of Jiande (574), he ordered the prohibition of the spread of Buddhism.
In the second year of Northern Zhou Dynasty (580), Emperor Jingdi of Northern Zhou Dynasty rebuilt Shaolin Temple and renamed it Huzhong Temple.
Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties
Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty worshiped Buddha and changed the shrine to Shaolin Temple, giving a hundred hectares of land. With other rewards, Shaolin Temple has become a big temple with 100 hectares of fertile land and huge temple output. ?
At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, thirteen monks of Shaolin Temple were rewarded by Emperor Taizong for their contributions to the Tang Dynasty, and they were given a thousand hectares of land and a water mill, which was called monk soldiers. Since then, Shaolin Temple has become famous all over the world and is known as the first temple in the world.
During the Tang and Song Dynasties, Shaolin Temple owned more than 0.4 million mu of land, 540 mu of temple base, more than 5,000 pavilions and more than 2,000 monks and nuns. Zen initiated by Dharma flourished in the Tang Dynasty and was the largest Buddhist sect in the Tang Dynasty.
After the failure of the New Deal in the third year of Song Renzong Li Qing (1043), it was in Bianjing (now Kaifeng) that Kongzong believers established a Buddhist temple.
Around the eighth year of Yuan You in the Northern Song Dynasty (1093), the monks who repaid their kindness promoted the Cao Dongzong style in Shaolin Temple, which eventually made Shaolin Temple "change its political style into Zen".
Yuan Ming Qing dynasty
At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, the ancestor appointed monk Fuyu as Shaolin abbot, in charge of all monasteries in Song and Yue areas. During the abbot period of Shaolin Temple, monk Fuyu founded the bell tower and drum tower, and built a gallery and kitchen, where monks and nuns gathered to practice martial arts and worship Buddha.
During Jiajing period, the Japanese pirates harassed the coast of China, and Shaolin monks made great contributions to the fight against the Japanese pirates. As a result, the government renovated the temple on a large scale, and Shaolin Temple also enjoyed the privileges of free food granted by the government. Since then, Shaolin monks have been drafted into the army by the Ming government at least six times and made contributions to the war. Therefore, the imperial court erected a monument for Shaolin Temple many times, and the authoritative position of Shaolin Kung Fu in China Wushu was established.
In the 43rd year of Kangxi (1704), Emperor Kangxi personally inscribed two tablets, Shaolin Temple (originally hung in Tianwangtang, later moved to Shanmen) and Bao Shu Lian Fang (originally hung in Daxiong Hall, later burned).
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