Rowing was a Zen master of Guobao Temple in the Tang Dynasty, who built a tower to worship after his death. The boating Zen Master Tower was built in the ninth year of Tang Zhenyuan (793), and its epitaph was engraved in the second year of Changqing (822). The temple was destroyed early, and the brick tower still stands on the flat Yuan Ye at the foot of Zhongtiao Mountain for thousands of years. The tower height10m, the plane is circular, and the bottom diameter is 5.75m.. It is divided into three parts: tower gate, tower body and base. The height of the three parts is almost equal, the abutment is thick and simple, and it is made of blue bricks. The upper part of abutment shrinks to four or five skin bricks layer by layer. A Shu column stands on it, and the door of the pot is decorated with a turning point. It used to be a circle of lotus petals on the top, but now it has worn out. It is suspected that it was artificially smashed in the catastrophe, and then the part of the tower, such as the beam-column doors and windows of the wooden structure. In the circumferential direction, the column is divided into eight bays, and the doors are divided into east, west, north and south, of which the south gate is the doorway, and its door leaf has been lost. The other three doors are fake doors, with stone bubbles and bolts, such as physical objects. The remaining four bays have become straight lattice windows, all of which are shutters and engraved with lattice angles. There are Shu columns above and below the window frame, and their shapes are similar to the wooden structure of the palace painted in the murals of the Tang Dynasty. The flange of the tower was decorated with a circle of horn teeth last week, and then the eaves of the tower were stacked layer by layer, showing a concave curve, similar to the bricks on each floor of the dense eaves tower in Tang Dynasty. The eaves are covered with bricks, and the upper part of the tower eaves is closed layer by layer, forming a gentle cone with vegetation. Above the frustum is a magnificent and elegant pagoda. The pagoda has two layers of banana leaves from bottom to top, and the carving is smooth as running water. Above is a Xia Lian basin with a circle of pearls and a lotus flower.
The lotus covered on my back is full and extremely nervous. There is also a circle of pearls on the lotus, on which a round stone shaped like lotus moire is stacked, which is full of charm and flourishing. A huge sphere was placed on the top of the Yunshui stone carving, which was used as the brake of the tower and the highest point of the whole tower. Look at this pagoda. It's almost the same as the single-story brick pagoda such as Dengfeng Jingzang Zen Master Pagoda and Tongguang Zen Master Pagoda. It is shaped like a lotus in full bloom, with upward momentum, gorgeous and graceful, just like the crown of a sculpture bodhisattva in the Tang Dynasty. Layers of stone chips, mountain flowers and banana leaves are covered with lotus flowers, and the balls are freely retracted, which is very rhythmic. The round and full ball at the top inhibits the whole upward trend. Seen from a distance, this pagoda is like layers of water. The proportion of the three parts of the whole tower is harmonious, the tower foundation is straight, the soft eaves are not smooth, and the tower body is open layer by layer. The lines of the three parts set each other straight, and complexity and simplicity complement each other. * * * together form a beautiful and solemn outline, just like a symphony with urgency and delay, tightness and density. When the sun sets, the tower where monks go boating is like a lotus in full bloom in the field, and there is a pale blue shadow hidden in Zhongtiao Mountain in the distance. Sunlight gives the pagoda a golden halo, like a brilliant Buddha lamp illuminating all beings.
Sailing Zen Master Pagoda is one of the well-preserved pavilions and pavilions-style national famous pagodas, and it is a typical and isolated case of Yuantang Pagoda. The inscription on the tower is very distinctive, written vertically from the right. It is rare in the whole country and has high artistic value.
On June 25th, 20001year, the boating Zen Master Tower was listed as the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
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