The birthplace of Vimalakia Zen on the tip of the boat. Introduction to the Ten Gates of Zen

The names of the ten natural stone gates: (Shimen Nine is not locked, and Tianmen is not closed at night) First: Find the Pass Chaoyang Gate Second: See Guan Yifeng Gate Third: Arrive at the Sanshan Gate Fourth: Clear the Pass The fifth gate of Jimen: Guarding the Taiping Gate. The sixth one: getting through the Jubao Gate. The seventh one: irrelevant. The eighth gate is Xuanwu Gate. The ninth gate: forgetting to close the Zhengyang Gate. The ninth one: returning to the Zhongfu Gate. These ten stone gates, the 48 scenes of the 6 Dynasties of Jinling also come from the 6 Jia 48 Party

The "Bangyuan Cave" contains the strategy of stabilizing the country, also known as the "Rihua Cave". Although it is called a cave, It is actually a valley surrounded by mountains. It is the source of Kuaiji Mountain, the "Xia" capital of China's first dynasty. According to legend, the Yellow Emperor wrote the "Yin Fu Jing" here. It is said that Jiang Ziya obtained the Yellow Emperor's "Yin Fu Sutra" here. "Dongtian" means that there are caves in the mountains that lead to heaven and connect all the mountains.

The first gate: Chaoyang Gate

(Jingkou Pavilion) Nine Heavenly Lions in Xiaofushe: Chinese culture, lions guard the gate.

Because it is in the first position, it is the first to welcome the donor like the sun in the bright world, so it is named.

Xiaofushe Village: "Shuowen" The mountain has no rocks. , "Poetry·Xiaoya" is as big as a mountain or a mountain. There are some stone veins in Xiaofu, which describe the landform here. Mountains with veins are shaped like small ones and big ones. "Yun Hui" The Buddhist temple is called Xiangjie, also called Xiangfu. And the leaves are applied to save the cut, and the sound is covered.

On the first dragon vein, Xiaofushe Village was established. The Buddha said: equanimity is the root of all wisdom. Give up first and gain later. Looking back from the fourth door, there is a natural lion guarding the door, the Nine-Sky Lion.

If you give up, you will gain. If you don’t give up, you will gain. If you give up big, you will get big, and if you give up small, you will get small. Perseverance is a kind of life wisdom and attitude, which comes from the "Book of Changes". Being willing is not a daily calculation between giving and getting, but the emotion and wisdom that goes beyond the realm to make decisions about what has been obtained and what can be obtained.

Being willing is not only a philosophy of life, but also an art of doing things. Giving and gaining are like water and fire, heaven and earth, yin and yang. They are contradictory concepts that are both opposite and unified. They are mutually reinforcing, mutually reinforcing, and exist in heaven and earth, in the world, in the heart, and in subtle details. All the mechanisms of how everything operates. Only when everything is willing to give up can we achieve harmony and unity. If you truly grasp the mechanism and scale of giving and gaining, you will have grasped the key to life and the opportunity for success. You know, a hundred years of life is nothing but repetition.

Xiaofushe guides you to skillfully use equanimity and gain in life, transform your destiny, reverse success or failure, and obtain real success and happiness; it inspires you to step into the great realm of Dharma, the great equanimity and great gain, and it is difficult to give up. Able to give up, give up nothing, attain enlightenment and achieve complete liberation and freedom.

Small is big, big is small. Go back from the small to the big and save all sentient beings.

There is a very classic saying: When you clench your hands, there is nothing inside; when you open your hands, the world is in your hands. Only when you know how to give up can you live a fulfilling, full and vigorous life in your limited life!

Be calm in gaining and calm in losing!

Farmers also call it: Chaotian Gate

The second gate: Yifeng Gate

Yifeng Gate, between the lion and hydrangea, and Zhongfu Gate, Naturally reciprocal, there are dragons and phoenixes forming auspicious terrain (feng shui), so there are two city gates, Zhongfu (towards the east) and Yifeng (towards the west).

Looking from the front, it looks like a falling phoenix, and from the back, it looks like a phoenix. Phoenix on a stone, like nirvana. The locals call it Baosuomen, which is like the long-life lock often hung on a child's chest. There are old rural power stations, Chen Shuozhen stone statues and square wax stone statues here. Taiguyin Waterfall and Mianyun Pavilion have a couplet written by Zheng Yu, a great Neo-Confucian scholar of the Yuan Dynasty: You don’t need the sounds of nature to find tranquility, you can find Taiguyin in front of the rock! Zhaoyin Thatched Cottage ruins (the earliest C2C), there are release ponds under the waterfalls, and the Dragon King's Palace! Maitreya stone Buddha statue.

The former Suzaku according to the "Liukjia Tianshu".

The third Sanshan Gate

is the confluence of Neiyun Creek and the two Waiyun Creeks, and is the intersection of the three streams of the Three Mountains (Yunshan, Fengshan and Huangshan). The crossing bridge is also called Yuntai Gate.

Phoenix Nirvana, rebirth of fire, transformed into the Nine Heavens Xuannv! There is a stone statue of Jiutian Xuannv. Pangu opened the sky, kicked his feet and cracked his hands, and opened the stone door. It’s also a zero gate, an empty gate. Folks say it is the key. There are natural stone statues guarding it. Tantric Mahamudra, palm of Tathagata Buddha. Folk saying: Ten gates and one lock a place for life. This door is locked and has a keyhole. Water is the key. The Buddha nature of water is explained here. There is no distinction between flowing water and this is the practice of wisdom. Those who practice contemplation and practice are like water flowing in the current. Just like a spirit walking on water, it is far away from all objects and obstacles, and has no abode in any dharmas. It's like emptiness, abandoning all distinctions and focusing on the mind. Practicing Paramita, you can abandon all kinds of appearances and all worries. This is the arrival of the other shore, this is the liberation of life and death. It was originally called Tongjiafang, the village where Fang La lived. There is a poem: The water flooded the Turtle Bei Bay, and Fang La came out of Erguan; the water flooded the Tongbei Bay, and Fang La rebelled.

The fourth door is Tongji Gate

It is known among the people as Butterfly Gate, Lover's Waterfall, and Jingxin Pavilion. Tongji Gate is one of the most distinctive city gates. It is one of the three highest-standard stone gates together with Jubao Gate and Sanshan Gate, and is also the widest among them. It faces south and has three stone gates outside. Going northeast from the entrance is the strict imperial palace area, and going southwest is the bustling Zhonggong commercial area, so it can be called the choke point of Yunxin Temple. The most special thing is that its appearance is like a butterfly about to open, more like a big ship waiting to sail, guarding the dividing point between the inner city and the outer city. Also known as butterfly door among the people.

The fifth Taiping Gate (Jingxin Pavilion)

Because this gate is located in the middle of the stone gate, it guards the most critical passage to the city and is a battleground for military strategists. There are 5 natural tigers and one leopard. Also known as the Five Tiger Generals, they are the five generals of the Ministry of War, including the front, rear, left, right, and center, and the five governor's offices. The smallest team of the Ming Cult.

The sixth treasure gate

It stores gold and treasures that are inexhaustible. It is called the "treasure basin", which comes from the concept of overturning the bowl and overturning the boat. This is a holy place where Eastern and Western cultures meet. Zaojia Tai comes from a story: Li Hongyao had gold to pick her up, which was a cornucopia of treasures. First of all, the entire shape is heart-shaped. A woman's heart is capable of giving birth. The ice bucket-shaped ruins are like a cornucopia. The largest village on Liujia Ridge, the thousand-year-old village Zaojiatai was built here, all because of the Feng Shui here. The earliest ancient people chose Feng Shui and lived close to mountains and rivers.

Seventh Gate Xuanwu Gate

The north gate of palaces in the past dynasties was mostly called Xuanwu Gate. Famous ones include the north gate of Taiji Palace in Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty where the "Xuanwumen Incident" occurred, and the north gate of the Daming Palace of the Tang Dynasty where Emperor Xuanzong Li Longji eliminated Empress Wei and Emperor Daizong Li Yu eliminated Empress Zhang. The same is true for Nanjing, the capital of the Six Dynasties. The word "Xuanwu" has a northern meaning and has a long history. During the pre-Qin period, the ancients used the four gods "green dragon, white tiger, red bird, and Xuanwu" as the names for the four directions of east, west, south, and north. Therefore, it is not surprising that "Xuanwu Gate" became the name of the north gate. Strangely, the only Xuanwu Gate in China today, the Xuanwu Gate in Xuanwu Lake, Nanjing, faces west instead of north. Why is this? Because it comes from the 10th gate where the boat is resting. This gate has a natural basalt stone statue and faces west.

The eighth Zhengyang Gate

Because it is located at the largest stone gate facing the east, the stone statue of Nuwa is facing the eastern sun, so it is named Zhengyang. The gate is also the stone gate closest to Jinluan Hall (the chief rudder of Mingjiao in western Zhejiang). The Zhongfu Gate of the Imperial City is 60 meters from the entrance. Extending past this gate is the statue of Fuxi and the place where the natural stone statue of Zhu Yuanzhang is located. Taking this as the main gate, it should be called the Tianzi Gate, also known as the Ten Thousand Buddhas Chaozong.

"Flying from the southeast": Legend has it that this stone flew from the sky without any traces of ropes on it. There is a viewing platform at the back, where Jin Ge Xianweng made alchemy, also known as "Gexian Alchemy Platform", Sutra Pavilion and Bell Tower. Later there is the "Ye Basin Rock", "people are like basins, it is many feet deep, the clear spring is clear, and the four seasons are endless".

Looking from the opposite position, "Southeast Xiao Feilai" is a natural big Buddha head, which is called the Great Sun Tathagata. This is the Buddha with the head of the immortal girl. The head of the Buddha is in an auspicious shape, with two symmetrical heads on both sides. A maid, 16 meters high, sits west and faces east, looking at the heart of the sky. The proportions of the avatar's facial expressions are very coordinated, as if he is reciting the "Heart Sutra". It can be said that nature is better than man-made.

The ninth gate of Zhongfu Gate

is naturally equivalent to the Yifeng Gate. There are dragons and phoenixes in the auspicious terrain (feng shui), so there are Zhongfu Gate (toward the east), Yifeng Gate Feng (to the west) two stone gates. It is named because a giant stone bell locks the Buddhist and secular worlds like a stone lock. The bell was started by Emperor Wu of Liang in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Bao Zhigong was the founder here. It was Bao Zhi who enlightened Emperor Wu of Liang, and then the bell-ringing ceremony began. The golden bell of Zen Buddhism originated from this. It is also called Guanyin Gate, because from a distance, the big bell looks like Guanyin sitting on the lotus platform. There is a playful boy with his little legs crossed on the stone wall. Farmers also jokingly call it the boy worshiping Guanyin.

There are many famous mountain monks in the world. In this wonderland of the "Heaven's Heart" stone gate, as early as the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Fu Xi, the master of Dongyang and the founder of Vimalakirti Zen, established the "Yunxin'an (Temple) with the purpose of "ascetic practice and strict precepts". ", founded the flat tea·Dinggu Dafang. Later generations of eminent monks lived there, eating wood, drinking from the stream, strolling in the courtyard, and sitting and watching the clouds rise. "The clouds on the temples will grow old with you, and the heavenly mind will be at peace." (Tang Dynasty's Bai Juyi's "Early Summer Singing and Presentation to Wei Guests") "The clouds are elegant and unrestrained, and the cranes are flying and stacked." (Tang Huang Tao's "Ode on the Owl") This scene can only exist in the heart of heaven. How many times can we see it in the human world? The branches are full of spring, and the moon is full in the sky! Let us share the compassion with Master Hongyi, "countless rare treasures offer the eyes of the world, and a bright moon shines in the heart of heaven." Let us wander among the mountains and rivers of Leshan, turn away from confusion and become enlightened, find our true colors, and find our heavenly heart.

Zhu Ziting was built by Zhu Xi, a thinker of the Song Dynasty. Zhu Xi once wrote a book here. The four words "Heaven's Heart is Eternal". Zhu Xi wrote a couplet of his own and said: "The sun and the moon are two eyes of heaven and earth, and poems and books are in the hearts of saints of all ages."

There is a stone dragon here. The king of elephants is called Xiang Xiang. The dragon and elephant confront each other. The Buddhist scriptures say that this is Dragon Elephant Bodhisattva, when you look up, there is a Buddha statue standing at the highest point of the stone gate on the right, that is Dragon Elephant Bodhisattva.

The tenth Shence Gate

(Jingshou Pavilion)

Shen, immortal, Ce: strategy, is the first gate of Bangyuan Cave. It is also the last door, the source of the source. Among the ten city gates, nine of them have only one door opening. Only the Shence Gate has two door openings on the left and right. It is believed here that entering the mountain is a barrier, descending the mountain is a door, entering the mountain is breaking through the barrier, and descending the mountain is peace and happiness. The Shence Gate in Nanjing is set up according to this principle. After passing the Bell Buddha Gate, you will reach the fairyland. It is the place where gods live, hence the name.

There is a stone horse on the right, also known as: the horse arrives at the success gate. The main halls include the Tianwang Hall, the Western Hall, the Mahavira Hall, the Holy Mother Hall, the Ksitigarbha Hall, the Buddhist Sutra Tower, the Immortal Aunt Hall, the Mani Hall, etc., as well as the Thousand Buddha Temple, the Dafang Pagoda, the Tomb of Nishi, and the Tomb of Thousand Monks. Cypress.

Founded in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, it has 180 scenic spots, including 60 cultural scenic spots and 120 natural landscapes. Various stone Buddha statues that have been excavated along the stone gates and cliffs for hundreds of years were created by Baozhigong in the Southern Dynasties. No wonder the locals spread the word: Going up the mountain to worship the Bodhisattva is worse than worshiping the stone pagoda. It is really an "unparalleled treasure, an unparalleled achievement, and a masterpiece of the ages". Later generations called it "the largest Buddhist country in the southeast" and was praised as the "Buddha The whole mountain”. Along the way, there are Saw Rocks, nicknamed "Jiangnan Dunhuang", with its Buddha statues, auspicious animals, release pond, Yin Yue Cave, relic pagoda ruins, Dharma Pagoda (built to commemorate the founder of Fuchuan Mountain of Buddhism), Zhu Zi Pavilion (Zhu Xi) He wrote a book here), silica fossils (also known as wood fossils, with a history of 15000 years ago), Shimen Valley, Wordless Book of Heaven, Kuzi and other landscapes. At the entrance of Yunxin Temple, there is the Jingshou Pavilion up the mountain and the Anle Pavilion down the mountain. With the tip of the boat as the background, it highlights the traditional culture of Jinzun Jinniang (Fuxi and Nuwa), and also implies the connotation of Buddhist culture. The majestic China The Great Buddha City is completely natural.

Also known as the Lover’s Temple: every year during the Chinese Valentine’s Day, 50,000 people spontaneously go to the mountain to worship the fairy goddess. Located at the top of the boat tip and umbrella tip. On the top of a mountain with an altitude of more than 1,500 meters, there is a vast meadow of thousands of acres. This can not but be said to be a unique natural wonder of mountain meadows in the south of the Yangtze River. Below are ten mountain gates, and above is a flat river, climbing from a deep canyon. Up there, there is no way out, but when I see the tip of the boat, I feel the ups and downs of life, the change of fate, the insights of life, and the impact of vision, all come to my mind instantly. The ridge is wide and gentle, with a distance of 5 kilometers from east to west. The mountain maintains the natural characteristics of Yanshan Mountain's wide and gentle anticline, and has always been a grazing place for local people.

The scenery at the top of the boat is wonderful, with rhododendrons in spring, reeds in summer, snow in autumn, and silver snakes dancing in winter. It is a style outside the Great Wall of "the sky is blue, the fields are vast, and the wind blows the grass and cattle and sheep appear low." Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, once said Frequent visits to this place, and the story of Hongwu receiving divine help from the heavenly horse here has been passed down in history, which makes it a bit more profound and mysterious. It provides eco-tourism with an ideal place to escape the summer heat, cultivate the body and mind, broaden the horizons, and cultivate the spirit. It also provides extremely convenient conditions for the development of tourism projects such as horseback riding and archery, bonfire parties, alpine gliding, skiing, watching the sunrise, and sea of ??clouds. Resting in a yurt, wandering in the alpine meadows, you can fully experience the charm of the southern grasslands... If you don't put it on the tip of the boat, the gods will complain!

The mother flower of Thousand Acres of China, the Jinboluoyi flower in the hands of Buddha in "Nianhua Smiling". The entire scenic spot is because of these 6 yellow flowers, 6 1. The top of the umbrella can be seen from the Jingliuli Kingdom of Medicine Buddha from the direction of Zhejiang. There is Sunlight Bodhisattva and Moonlight Bodhisattva. Wang Hua, the Sun Bodhisattva of Huizhou, obtained the "Liujia Heavenly Book" here and captured the six states according to the Heavenly Book. After his success, he made many pilgrimages to the Umbrella-Tipped Medicine Master Buddha and was known as the Sun Bodhisattva.

Sacrifices show the heart of heaven, pouring money into charity;

Wish to save all sentient beings, and fly beyond the three realms;

Return to the supreme land, look up to the kindness Pulinggai.

(Southern Dynasty Fu Dashi)