Introduction of Tagong Temple attractions:

Tagong Temple is located in Tagong Township, Kangding County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, on the Sichuan-Tibet Highway, about 400 kilometers away from Chengdu. Tagong Temple is a famous Buddhist temple in Tibetan areas, which has a high status in Tibetan Buddhism, spectacular temple architecture and a long history. According to legend, when Princess Wencheng entered Tibet to marry Songzan Gambu in 64 1 AD, she passed by the grassland where Muya people lived and saw the beautiful scenery of the grassland, so she decided to build a temple here. Tagong Temple, with a history of 1000 years, was inherited by Orba of Sakya Sect of Tibetan Buddhism, and is now presided over by Deng Zhu, the great Lama. There are many stories and legends circulating in the history of Tagong Temple. According to legend, a long time ago, today's Tagong Township was a lake.

Guanyin bodhisattva practiced dharma in heaven, and when she saw the suffering of all beings below, her heart was filled with compassion. In order to let more sentient beings hear Buddhism, Guanyin Bodhisattva decided to choose an auspicious place to make Buddhism stay and develop forever. Then the Bodhisattva scattered seven grains of soil into the air, and the soil fell into Tagong Lake, and the lake slowly receded, exposing the land. At that time, there was a dragon king living in this lake.

As the lake disappears, the Dragon King will be forced to go underground! The dragon king couldn't help crying at the thought of never seeing the sun again. He knelt in front of avalokitesvara and begged him not to leave this land, begging the bodhisattva to leave him a window to see the world. Merciful avalokitesvara agreed to the request of the Dragon King. So when we go to Tagong Temple now, we can see two wells in front of the main hall of the temple. In fact, they are not related. The dragon king lives in the north. This well is his window to contact us. Well water is cool and sweet, only for Buddha's use. Well water in the south is used by monks in the temple in their daily lives.

The terrain of Tagong Township is half-moon, just like the moon on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, which is very auspicious. There are five sacred mountains protecting the Tagong Temple. They are isomorphic with Tagong Temple, forming a complete Dojo. The holy mountain and the temple are closely related and inseparable. There are four sacred mountains around the temple: Manjusri, Guanyin, Vajrayana and Green Tara. The shape of each holy mountain is very similar to the bodhisattva in the portrait we see. Outside Sisheng Mountain is a beautiful singing grassland. There is a majestic snow mountain in the distance, which is covered with snow all year round and stretches for miles. This is the famous Yala Mountain, and it is also the great protector of Tagong Temple. Mount Yala existed a long time ago, and avalokitesvara once gave her ring to the mountain god. This holy mountain has an important position in all Tibetan areas. The four major sects of Tibetan Buddhism all have temples dedicated to Mount Yala, and the three major temples in Lhasa are dedicated to the Great Protector of Muyakang District (Muya refers to Tagong). Its body is white, wearing armor, riding a white yak (or a white horse), holding a conch and colorful flags, and it looks very imposing.

People support him all year round, holding a grand cigarette festival on the third day of the first lunar month, and holding the biggest support ceremony of the year from May 14 to 16 of the lunar calendar. Mount Yala is also a sacred place of practice. For thousands of years, countless monks and great virtues have closed their doors in the mountains, leaving hundreds of large and small closed-door caves. There are many hot springs in the mountains, most of which are hidden in Beruzana. If you can bathe in spring, you can quickly eliminate deep karma. In addition, there are many lakes scattered in the mountains, the most famous of which is Yala Yingcuo. Yala Yingcuo means green Songhai in Chinese. She looks very transparent, blue and pure, just like an emerald, which makes people fondle it.

Once upon a time, there was a monk named Luo Qinzhe. Once, he took his disciples to the lake. Luo Qinzhe Rinpoche told his disciples to close their eyes until he told you to open them. Then the master and apprentice set off on horseback. The disciples only heard the sound of purring in their ears. I don't know how far they went, but they stopped. Rinpoche told his disciples to sit in the same place and not to walk around casually. Disciples heard the voices of many fairies around them, and they took Rinpoche away. Later, beautiful music came, as if people were singing and dancing to welcome Rinpoche. The disciple couldn't keep his eyes open, so he had to reach out and grope around. As a result, he didn't touch anything, only to find that the ground was full of sand. He was surprised and grabbed a few and put them in his arms. Rinpoche finally came back, and the master and apprentice rode back to the ground. Disciple opened his eyes and saw that the sand in his arms was all gold! Their route to the bottom of the lake turned into a white line, which is still clearly left in the lake and can be seen when standing on the shore. Many years later, an Indian monk tricked Qin into noticing that there was a place in the Far East where Guanyin Bodhisattva blessed herself. After coaxing Qin to observe that it was time for Buddhism to spread eastward, he threw his walking stick at Tagong with his magical power, only to see a rainbow light flash in the air, and the walking stick was firmly inserted in the present position of Tagong Temple, which became the treasure of the town temple. Tagong Temple was built in the middle of the 7th century, and it is said that it is about 64 1. In order to strengthen national unity and consolidate the frontier, Emperor Taizong betrothed Princess Wencheng to Songzan Gambu, the king of Tibet, and at the age of 12, he gave a statue of Sakyamuni Buddha (called Sleeping Buddha in Tibetan) to the princess and the king of Tibet.

When Princess Wencheng entered Tibet and passed by Tagong, something strange happened. This reclining Buddha actually seems to have taken root on the ground and can't move! Just as everyone tried their best to pull the Buddha statue, the Buddha made a gesture of wanting to stay here. However, this Buddha statue has an unusual mission and must be sent to Lhasa. Princess Wencheng immediately decided to ask everyone to take Jinsha on the spot and copy a statue of the Buddha statue of Tagong. Legend has it that in the process of molding, the lower body was just formed that day, and the upper body was naturally generated overnight! When the new statue was completed, the original statue set off smoothly and finally arrived in Lhasa, where it was enshrined in Jokhang Temple. Later, temples were established in this area, and people called the temples and their locations Buddhist lands.

After Princess Wencheng arrived in Lhasa, Songtsan Gampo issued a decree to build 108 temples with gates facing the Han Dynasty. Tagong Temple happened to be the108th temple in this batch of temples, which was full of wonderful meanings and was finally completed. A few years later, a monk from India subdued the local anti-Buddha demon and held a blessing ceremony for the temple again. Buddhism will be auspicious and complete, and all buddhas and bodhisattvas will appear in the sky with joy and admiration. Tagong and Tagong's voice fell from the sky (the word Tagong means happiness of Buddha and Bodhisattva in Tibetan). From then on, Tagong became the name of the temple. Because of the secret meaning of extraordinary victory, Tagong Temple was also named as the first scene to get rid of Ruyi Temple.

Tagong Temple consists of Daxiong Hall, Sleeping Buddha Hall, Ancestor Hall, Protector Hall, Thousand Hands and Thousand Eyes Guanyin Hall, Lotus Teacher Hall, Achievement Tower Hall, Tallinn, Monk's Dormitory and prayer wheels around the temple. Daxiong Hall is the main place for monks in the whole temple to recite scriptures and practice dharma. There are many murals around the hall, depicting the scenes of Buddha and Bodhisattva, five ancestors of Sakya, King Chisong Dêzain of Tibet welcoming Master Lotus and Indian monk Kampomodo Sado. Murals have a history of more than 300 years and are precious Buddhist relics. The famous reclining Buddha is enshrined in the sleeping hall. The Buddha statues are inlaid with gold, silver and jewels, which have been provided by pilgrims for thousands of years.

There are also footprints left on the stone by Ba Siba, a Buddhist master in Yuan Dynasty, when he went to Tagong, and a statue of Guanyin with thousands of hands and eyes about 1 m high. This Guanyin statue was made by Princess Wencheng when she was in Tagong, for the benefit of all beings. The materials used in the statue were sacred mountains and waters in the Han and Tibetan areas at that time and a large number of jewels, which had extraordinary power. The Thousand Hands and Thousand Eyes Guanyin Temple was built in 1997, dedicated to the highest bronze statue of Guanyin in Tibetan areas. In Tagong Temple, there are many precious Buddhist relics, including the Buddha's tooth relics of the ancient Buddha in Ye Jia, the clock used by the great Indian scholar Naroba in the 1 1 century, the gold-plated bronze Buddha given to the temple by Bathba, and the walking stick used by Indian monks to coax Qin Dingdang in the achievement tower.

There are nearly 200 prayer wheels around the temple. The temple is an altar city, and there are many altar cities in the temple. A trip around the temple is equivalent to reading the 6-character Daming mantra of 1.3 billion people and the heart mantra of more than one billion lotus masters, so a trip around Pagong Temple is of great merit. If the surrounding five sacred mountains are connected together, it will take at least 15 days to circle the whole altar city.