The temples dedicated to the five parties and five Buddhas, referred to as "Hanmi Temple" or "Tangmi Temple" for short, prevailed from the early years of the Northern Wei Dynasty (386) to the fifth year of Tang Huichang (845). Because tantric Buddhism advocated secular practice, Liang Wudi indulged in Buddhist practice during the Liang Wudi period (502-557) and built a large number of official Buddhist temples all over the country, and tantric Buddhism began to become a Buddhist sect practiced in royal temples and official temples.
The official Buddhist temple first appeared in the Southern and Northern Dynasties and lasted until the fifth year of Huichang in Tang Wuzong (845). Before Huichang in Tang Dynasty, every county had one or two official temples (monk temple and nun temple). During Huichang period, Buddhism in China reached its peak, with more than 5,000 temples and more than 700,000 monks. Temples occupied a lot of land and property, and monks were exempted from military service and hard labor, which seriously affected the economy of the Tang Dynasty. In the fifth year of Huichang, Wuzong listened to the rumor of Taoist Zhao Guizhen and ordered to demolish all the Buddha statues in the country and turn the temples into post stations and restaurants.
All the temples dedicated to the Five Kingdoms and Five Buddhas belong to official temples, which almost disappeared in the land of China in this disaster, and only a handful of them have survived. Except Tibet (Tibet was called Tubo Kingdom at that time), there are only more than ten official temples dedicated to five buddhas, namely: Fayuan Temple in Beijing, Bailin Temple in Zhao County, Hebei Province, Nanjing Crock Temple, Wufosi Temple in Chaoyang, Liaoning Province, Kaiyuan Temple in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, and XiaNiu Li in Longxi County, Zhangzhou. The five Buddha statues preserved in these temples are not recorded in the Tang Dynasty. For example, the three statues in the center of Huayan Temple in Datong, Shanxi Province are wood carvings in the Ming and Xuande years, and the other two statues are clay sculptures in Xuande and Jingtai years. In the center of Kaiyuan Temple in Quanzhou, Tathagata was made in the Tang Dynasty, and the other four statues were made in the Five Dynasties. The Lingu Temple in the lower part of Zhangzhou has five directions and five buddhas. It was destroyed by soldiers in the sixth year of Nanming, and was re-carved in the Sangha Temple during the Cultural Revolution. 1995 was rebuilt. Recently, many temples in Chinese mainland have been rebuilt because of the supremacy of the Five Buddhas: Songshan Shaolin Temple in June 2003 +065438+ 10, Xi 'an Daxing Temple in 20 1, Shanghai Xilin Temple in 20 14 and so on! During the period of Tang Gaozong, the official Buddhist temples were named and managed by the emperor. The official temples in the Tang Dynasty were named four times: jing xing Temple in the first year of Ganfeng in Tang Gaozong (666), Dayun Temple in the first year of Tianshou (690), longxing temple in the second year of Tianshou (69 1) and Kaiyuan Temple in the twenty-sixth year of Kaiyuan (738). Each official temple also has its own temple name. For example, the full name of Kaiyuan Temple in Quanzhou, Fujian Province is "Dakaiyuan manjuji", and the full name of Kaiyuan Temple in Chaozhou, Guangdong Province is "Dakaiyuan Town National Temple". People used to call it Kaiyuan Temple, which is why there are many Kaiyuan Temple, longxing temple Temple and Dayun Temple all over the country. The Five Buddhas in Guanmiao are the five highest-ranking gods in Buddhism. Wu Zong died the year after he destroyed the Buddha. After Xuanzong ascended the throne, he advocated the revival of Buddhism. However, due to political and economic reasons, the official temples in Five Dhyani Buddhas have not been restored by the court. Buddhist temples revived by the people are all private temples dedicated to "Three Western Monks" or "One Buddha and Two Bodhisattvas". Later, the monks released it.