Shanghai longhua temple

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Longhua temple is located at Shanghai xuhui district of Shanghai, is LongHuaZhen the oldest and largest of the monastery. Legend longhua temple was built in three kingdoms, the prince for her sun, years.over has a history of over 1,700, existing of qing dynasty, temple for reconstruction. Now the longhua temple had become with ancient temples, pagodas, longhua temple fair, the bells of religious longhua tourist resort.

Longhua temple, a majestic scenery quiet, splendid hook, solemn dignified style. Inside the temple palace neat, rational layout, the main building has: the clock tower, gulou, maitreya temple, TianWangDian Ursa major palace, three temples, etc. The first house as the center of the house, the house maitreya with maitreya bodhisattva. Here the maitreya like and other temples, Chinese dynasties is the puppet monk (name) image, fellowship, his chest laugh, The second house for TianWangDian, height is four meters on both sides of the house as the four major Kings, and the strict attitude round. And the other temples TianWangDian different is, there is a heaven with coronary maitreya, The third house for higher daxiong baodian, located inside the temple is the main. JinShen enshrined in the three honour temple “three”. The covering the Buddha is Vishnu Lou, say again FaShen Buddha. The manjusri bodhisattva, top “is either on the lion, five, wisdom, brave. Samantabhadra bodhisattva, right is riding elephants, show exalted. During the Ming dynasty also display a fourteen years (1586) molten temple bells.

Inside the temple tower hung over there is a clear guangxu twenty years (1894), casting qinglong 3-ton bell made about two meters tall and weigh up to 13,000 jins. At the end of each year, there will be new “into” activity, longhua bells attracted a lot of visitors.