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龍興寺

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Basic Meaning: Longxingsi

Senses:

  • A temple located in the east of Zhengding 正定 county, Hebei 河北 province. Original name was Longcangsi 龍藏寺， but it was popularly called Dafosi 大佛寺. It was founded by a prefectural governor named Wang Xiao 王孝 in the sixth year of Kaihuang 開皇(586) during the Sui 隋代 dynasty. At the end of Tang 唐 dynasty, it was destroyed in a war. In 971, the fourth year of Kaibao 開寶 in the Song 宋 dynasty, it was moved and rebuilt in the present place, and large statue of Avalokitêśvara 觀音 was cast. The temple was rebuilt many times during the Ming 明代 and Qing 淸代 dynasties. At the beginning of the Qing dynasty, it was renamed as Longxingsi 隆興寺. [Charles Muller; source(s): FGD]
  • A temple located in Mt Dayun 大雲山 in Xinhui 新會 district, 廣東 Guangdong, origins unknown. It houses a stone pagoda that was built between the Sui 隋代 and Tang 唐代 periods, which had six floors and was octagonal-shaped. Has a height of 3.94 meters with the decorative pattern on the octagonal-shaped base. There are some fake doors on each floor and a bowl roof on its top.　 [Charles Muller; source(s): FGD]
  • Located in the northwest of Yuanling 沅陵 County, in Hunan 湖南 province. It faces the Yuan river 沅水 and with Mt. Huxi 虎溪 in back. It was built in the second year of Zhenguan 貞觀 (628). Extant buildings include the Shanmen 山門, Tianwang hall 天王殿, Maitreya hall 彌勒殿, Mahāvīra Hall 大雄寶殿, Avalokitêśvara 觀音 pavilion 觀音閣, Sandalwood pavilion 旃檀閣, Amitâbha pavilion 彌陀閣， and east and west wing-rooms. They were all build down the hillside. Mahāvīra Hall 大雄寶殿 was built at the end of Yuan 元代 and the beginning of Ming 明代 dynasty. It has a wooden banner written by Yanqian Foguo 眼前佛國 there， a carving of the writing of Dong Qichang 董其昌 who was the Minister of Rituals 禮部尚書 during the Chongzhen 崇禎 period of the Ming 明 dynasty (1628–1644). [Charles Muller; source(s): FGD]
  • In the first year of Shenlong 神龍 in the Tang dynasty 唐 in 705， with the enthronement of Zhongzong 中宗 and peace being restored, the emperor ordered the building of temples named Longxingsi 龍興寺 in every province. Major state rituals were carried out at these temples. The foundation of Kokubunji 國分寺 in Japan followed this system. Afterwards, many famous monks appeared one after another from the Longxingsi of various regions, such as Xuanjue 玄覺 from Wenzhou 溫州, Huilang 慧朗 from Muzhou 睦州, Fachen 法愼 from Yangzhou 揚州, Qiyi 齊己 from Jianglingfu 江陵府 and so on. In 826， The śramaṇa Nancao 南操 who was from Longxingsi in Hangzhou 杭州， persuaded one hundred thousand secular people and formed an association of the Flower Ornament Sutra 華嚴經， which held four chanting assemblies every year. The famous poet Bai Juyi 白居易 wrote a record of Flower Ornament Sutra assemblies 華嚴經社記. During the first year of the Northern Song 北宋 (960–1127)， emperor Taizong 太宗 changed the name of Bianjing 汴京Longxingsi to Taiping Xingguosi 太平興國寺， which became the fundamental temple for Buddhism in the Song 宋 dynasty. Furthermore, the prefectural governor Li Cheng 李承 in the Longxingsi of Yongzhou 永州 and monk Falin 法林 collected money for building Jingtuyuan 淨土院 and practicing the precepts. Liu Zongyuan 柳宗元 (773–819) wrote an account of the construction of Jingtuyuan 淨土院 in the Longxingsi. When the Japanese monk Saichō 最澄 came to the Tang and followed Daosuiʼs 道邃 studying the teaching of Tiantai 天台 school, he stayed at Longxingsi in Taizhou 台州 copying and recording the sūtras and śāstras， and received ordination at the Longxingsi in Yuezhou 越州. Also in the Nyūtō guhō junrai kōki 入唐求法巡禮行記 written by the Japanese monk Ennin 圓仁, he mentioned Kaiyuansi 開元寺 and Longxingsi 龍興寺. 〔佛祖統紀, 宋高僧傳, 樂邦文類〕 [Charles Muller; source(s): FGD]
  • A temple located in Yongjing 永靖, Gansu 甘肅 province. It was first built in the Tang dynasty， and renamed as Lingyansi 靈岩寺 during the Northern Song Dynasty 北宋 (960–1127). The present name is Binglingsi 炳靈寺. [Charles Muller; source(s): FGD]
  • A temple located at the foot of peak Rijing 日精, Mt. Fengyang 鳳陽山 in Anhui 安徽 province. It is also called Dalongxingsi 大龍興寺. Its predecessor was Huangjuesi 皇覺寺, where Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋 of the Ming 明代 dynasty became a monk at his early age. On the sixteenth year of the Hongyu 洪武 period in the Ming dynasty in 1383， it was moved to the present place from Ganying 甘郢, Fengyang 鳳陽 county， and renamed as Dalongxingsi 大龍興寺. Emperor Taizu wrote an inscription called 龍興寺碑文 themselves and appointed Seng Luguan 僧祿官 to be abbot， conferred the seal of Longxingsi 龍興寺印. According to the Daming hongwu shilu zai 大明洪武實錄載， this temple had in total three hundred and eighty-one buddha-halls, Dharma-hall, and monastery and a nunnery. There were portraits of Emperor Taizu of the Ming 明太祖, iron statues, bronze pots, and other kinds of casting with inscriptions. But most of them are not extant today with less than twenty pavilions remaining. [Charles Muller; source(s): FGD]
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    Entry created: 2014-04-29