Blissful Residence is located at the end of Dongdazhi Street in nangang district, Harbin. It was built in the 1920s and covers an area of 57,000 square meters. Gokurakuji is the largest modern Buddhist temple building in Heilongjiang Province, which is as famous as prajna temple in Changchun, Ji 'an Temple in Shenyang and Lengyan Temple in Yingkou. It is one of the four famous Buddhist temples in the three northeastern provinces.
The overall design, formal layout and architectural structure of Gokurakuji retain the style and characteristics of China temple architecture, including the mountain gate, bell tower, drum tower, Heavenly King Hall, Ursa Mahayana Hall, three temples and the East-West Attached Hall.
192 1 raised funds by Chen Feiqing, then the inspector general of the Middle East Railway, and started construction in 1923, covering an area of 23,400 square meters. The main buildings are distributed on the north-south central axis, including the mountain gate, Tianwang Hall, Daxiong Hall and three temples, all of which have hard mountain roofs. The mountain gate is archway-style, and the blue brick is built into an arc-shaped doorway. Entering the mountain gate, there is a bell tower in the east and a drum tower in the west.
There are seven pagoda, a lonely bhikkhu pagoda, 500 Arhat halls and 48 prayer flags halls in the tower yard. The seven-level floating tower is octagonal and seven-story attic-style, conical, full-body brick and stone structure, beautiful in shape and exquisite. The whole temple is resplendent and solemn. It is not only a sacred place for northern Buddhists to worship, but also a scenic spot for Chinese and foreign tourists to watch and browse. It has been listed as a national key open temple and a provincial key cultural relics protection unit.
Tennoja is the largest temple in the temple, with three rooms wide from east to west and one deep from north to south. In the center of the temple is a 1.6-meter seated statue of Maitreya Buddha, which faces north like Wei Tuo. In the tunnel between the Heavenly King Hall and the Ursa Major Hall, stands an iron tripod with a height of 3 meters.
Daxiong Hall is the main hall in the temple, with five rooms wide from east to west and three rooms wide from north to south. There are a pair of stone lions in front of the steps. There is a 2.7-meter-high siddhattha gotama in the center of the hall, and two statues of Ananda and Ye Jia stand on both sides. There are rubbings of Five Hundred Arhats hanging on the walls of East and West temples. On the Buddha Pavilion, there is a plaque with "bright lights shining clearly", and on the Ming column, there is a couplet with "May the earth become a pure land and ask all beings who is the Tathagata". Behind the Buddha Pavilion are thousands of buddhas with thousands of hands and eyes.
The three temples are located behind the Hall of the Great Hero, with five rooms wide from east to west and three rooms deep from north to south. There is an eight-foot-high statue of Amitabha in the main hall, with Guanyin on the left, Bodhisattva on the right and Tibetan king on the east.
There is a Buddhist scripture building behind the three temples, which is a two-story building with brick and wood structure. There are 60 Song editions of azithromycin granules Collection, with 590 volumes of * * *; 48 parts of "Frequency Armor Collection"; 678 copies of dragon collection; Continue to hide 1750.
Since 1983, when Gokurakuji resumed its opening up, exiled monks have returned one after another. They manage their own temples and send young monks to China Buddhist College for further study, so as to train a new generation of senior monks. Nowadays, Gokurakuji has attracted more and more attention in developing foreign language and cultural exchanges of Buddhism.
Every year on the eighth, eighteenth and 28th day of the fourth lunar month, Gokurakuji will hold a grand temple fair, which is bustling and very lively. Nowadays, Gokurakuji, a famous temple in the north, is particularly eye-catching in developing foreign exchanges.