Lohan Mountain took more than three years to build but managed to have zero accidents. Speaking of zero accidents, we have to mention Lohan No. 293, which is one of the three legendary stories of Lohan Mountain. A few years ago, it was hard to build a mountain road on Lohan Mountain, although it was rugged and difficult to travel, but cars could finally go up the mountain. One day, the workers drove a big car with dozens of tons of stones ready to go up the mountain. The car was traveling slowly, and at a corner the car suddenly skidded, and it looked as if the car was going to run off the cliff, and if it was going to run down from such a high mountain, one can imagine how serious the accident would be. However, at that moment the car was stopped by a luohan, the head of the luohan "bang" flew out, fell off the cliff. Everyone panicked and got out of the car to see, face green, it turned out that a rear wheel of the car, has been suspended in nearly 10 meters on the edge of the cliff. The body of the car as long as a little further back, will fall down the mountainside, the consequences are unimaginable.
Coincidentally, Mr. Lin Zhiliang was preparing to give four Lohan statues to the migrant workers to thank them for their contribution to Mount Luohan, and this Lohan was one of them. The workers thought it was unlucky for the statue to have a severed head, and were reluctant to make offerings to this luohan, so they approached Mr. Lin to exchange it for another one. Unexpectedly, Mr. Lin laughed and said, the whole Luohan Mountain Luohan is this Luohan the most spiritual, he used his body to block the dozens of tons of heavy car, manifestation of the spirit to save people, you do not make good offerings to him, but to throw him away? What kind of reasoning is this? So ordered to retrieve the head of this luohan, let the craftsmen re-installed, and sprayed with the gold body, just as brand new. Therefore, later these farmers will often come to worship when they encounter important things in their homes, and it is very effective and very spiritual. This story has also become a good story in the history of the construction of Luohan Mountain.
If you come to Luohan Mountain, you can look for this Lohan, this Lohan's finger is pointing to their necks, the people of Luohan Mountain are also affectionately called it "severed head Lohan". Three Treasures Hall is Luohan Mountain "two dragons" in a dragon, is the best place of feng shui Luohan Mountain. Before the construction of Luohan Mountain, a Ming Dynasty Maitreya Buddha statue made of Xiangshan wood was enshrined here. The statue was said to be very spiritual, so later Mr. Lin built a Buddha Hall especially for this statue, which became the first temple in Luohan Mountain.
Two years after the construction of Lohan Mountain, the mountain was dotted with nearly 200 Lohan statues and was taking shape. So at the invitation of Mr. Lin, the presiding priest of Nanputuo, Zhenwu Dharma, led the monks to prepare for the Lohan Mountain, and held a grand opening celebration. This was also the first time that Nanputuo held such a large-scale enlightenment ceremony for a monk. This temple, as the main hall of Lohan Mountain, usually enshrines the Three Treasures Buddha, and the Maitreya Buddha in the temple has been enshrined for many years, and the opening celebration is imminent, so Mr. Lin intends to build a hall dedicated to the Three Treasures Buddha at a later date.
Unexpectedly, just two days before the ceremony, the Sanbao Hall suddenly broke out in a bizarre fire. It is said that when the fire broke out only thick smoke could be seen but not a bit of fire. When Mr. Lin Zhiliang rushed to the mountain and pushed open the door of the temple, there were only a few remnants left on the burnt offering table, and all the four walls were blackened with smoke. And less than two days from the ceremony, there is no time to think, Mr. Lin immediately contacted the largest Buddha store in Xiamen at the time, asking the owner to make every effort to invite the Three Jewels Buddha. It's amazing, just a day or so, the boss really asked for the right size of Sambodhi Buddha, so we rearranged the Buddha Hall, and the ceremony was held successfully.
Afterwards, Mr. Lin asked the living Buddha about this, but the living Buddha said it was a good thing that although it was a fire, there was no bloodshed and no loss of life. In fact, it was this Maitreya Buddha who was taking the initiative to give up the best place on this mountain to the Sambodhi Buddha, and that's when it dawned on everyone.
And Mr. Lin is a very grateful person, he is very grateful to this Maitreya Buddha, so not only in the three treasures of the temple table, and enshrined a small Maitreya, but also specially in the mid-levels of the mountainside to create a, weighing 8 tons of Maitreya Buddha gold body stone statue. Let people always remember the story of this Maitreya Buddha. Nowadays, whenever you come to Luohan Mountain, you can see the solemn and benevolent Maitreya Buddha statue when you go up and down the mountain.
Since there was no damage to the Buddha Hall itself other than blackening at the time, and since time was short, no major repairs were made, we can still see traces of blackening on the walls and windows when we go to the Hall of the Three Jewels. This story has also been passed down as a good story.
Note: The Hall of Three Treasures, also called the Three Treasures Land, is equivalent to the Mahamudra, or main hall, of a temple. Buddhism takes Buddha, Dharma and Sangha as the three treasures. Generally there are three kinds of offerings: First, the offerings are made to the three Buddhas, namely, the Pure Dharma Buddha (Vishnu Shakyamuni Buddha), the Perfect Reward Buddha (Rushena Buddha), and the Thousands of Billions of Incarnate or Respondent Buddhas (Shakyamuni Buddha). Second, the vertical three Buddhas, i.e., the past Buddha, Shakyamuni Buddha, and the future Maitreya Buddha. Third, the horizontal three Buddhas, namely, the Western Amitabha Buddha, the central Shakyamuni Buddha, the Eastern Medicine Buddha. Into the Lohan Mountain, along the stone road up, each stone step can always be felt in your surroundings around the Buddha song and sandalwood fragrance, this is the mountain "a step a Buddha song, a song a Lohan" allusion, that is, one of the characteristics of the mountain. It is only because of the cultural flavor of Zen development that nature and humanity, reality and fantasy collide, merge and render. Mountain Zi Buddha, Buddha Yiu Mountain, evening stroll through the setting sun Lohan Mountain, a deep feeling of "grass and trees draped with the Buddha's auspicious light, the sacred mountain dipped in the aura of the scriptures," the flavor of the rhyme. It is said that there are four magical tourist routes on Luohan Mountain, which are specially set up according to the different needs of the believers by the practitioner from Taiwan, Mr. Cai Aung Rong, who integrates the Tantric practice with Taoist health care and five elements of feng shui and combines with the timing and location of the health trail for seeking good health, the happiness trail for seeking success in love and marriage, the fame trail for seeking success in education and the career trail for seeking wealth and career. These four prayer routes have their own exclusive prayer and worship methods, and even the climbing time, walking steps are very specific. These four blessing trail respectively include eighteen Luohan trail, Guanyin Avenue; happiness trail, concentric locks road; fame trail, step by step; achievement trail, success shortcut; is said to be very spiritual Oh, there are a lot of believers wish to come to return the wish after the wish is fulfilled.
Also because most of the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and Lohan statues on Luohan Mountain are kindly offered by kind-hearted people, there are many legends on Luohan Mountain, and even behind each statue of Buddha there are quite a number of legendary stories on the map. It is also because of the blessings of different Buddhas and Bodhisattvas that different scenic tour routes have different ways of worship and different focuses. Below is a description of each according to the regular tourist routes of Mount Luohan. "The "Lohan" group sculpture is based on the 12 laborers who brought nearly 1,000 Buddha statues to the mountain. The sculpture is about 2 meters high and nearly 6 meters long, and it took Chen Xiaodong from the art department of Fujian Normal University more than two months to create.
At first, there was no road on the mountain, and each of these hundreds of pounds of luohan was picked up one by one by these migrant workers with wooden bars and hemp ropes. Before and after spent nearly 10 months, although the project is huge, but created a miracle of zero accidents. These migrant workers are all villagers from the nearby Miaoshan Village, and Mr. Lin Zhiliang set up this statue in the most conspicuous place on the Luohan Mountain Square in order to give thanks to them and commemorate them. In addition to the commemorative significance of this statue, if we look closely we can also find a charitable donation port on the lower right side. That's right, this statue is hollow, and it is also the largest and most impressive merit box in the country. It is opened once a year in the presence of all the staff of Lohasan. Mr. Lin Zhiliang donates all the money in here for charity. So that generations of people will always remember these people who have made contributions to Luohan Mountain, so that the grateful heart, so that this great love can be passed on. Landscape music and art plaza was just completed in June 2012, the original intention of building this plaza is to let the surrounding villagers can have a rich and modern cultural life like the city people, so this outdoor stage, whether it is the sound, lighting and teachers are first-class. Mr. Lin Zhiliang hopes to come to Luohan Mountain people and the nearby villagers every weekend can be in the beautiful night view of Luohan Mountain to dance happily, enriching everyone's spare time life, but also to promote the villagers to enhance the cultural and artistic literacy. There are large-scale square dances here every weekend for three consecutive nights. Nearby villagers will come with their children to participate, very lively. And leading the dance is by the national dance coach sunshine (angrong sunshine) teacher and rainbow teacher and three dance enthusiasts composed of Luohan mountain star group "Luohan legend".
Mr. Lin Zhiliang wants them to be the founders and promoters of energy dance. Mr. Lin also hopes to use Mount Luohan as a base and the energy dance as a carrier to spread health and happiness far and wide. After entering the Dragon Gate, what meets your eyes is a whole row of exquisite "Vajra Sutra" calligraphy ink stone tablets, these tablets are exactly according to Mr. Lin Zhiliang's "Vajra Sutra" calligraphy original manuscript 1:1 carved from the precious ink, this gallery with the ink is the well-known Luohan Vajra Confessor's Boulevard.
"Vajra Prajna (bōrě) Paramita Sutra", also known as "Vajra Sutra", calligraphy works 3 meters high, up to 30 meters long, more than 5,000 words, is Mr. Lin Zhiliang with ten days and ten nights of time, with the extremely rare Cuanbao font in one fell swoop, the world is rare, extremely rare, more is the Luohan Mountain's treasure of the town.
The real masterpiece is properly treasured in Luohan Mountain, only in a few major celebrations will be welcomed out. There are a lot of calligraphy, religious celebrities, friends from all over the world and a lot of tourists have traveled from overseas, Hong Kong, Taiwan and even foreign countries in the hope that they can be fortunate enough to see this treasure with their own eyes. Mr. Lin, in order to let more visitors can appreciate this ink treasure, and get the supreme blessing of this extraordinary and incomparable. He asked the craftsmen to use ten months of work, according to the ink treasure 1:1 ratio, Le stone carved, displayed here, so that people can't help but "touch the eyes and gaze at the heart of a reading".
The Diamond Sutra is an important classic of Buddhism, known as the king of all scriptures (also known as the father of the scriptures). Depending on the translation, the full name is slightly different, and Mr. Lin wrote the Vajra Prajna (bōrě) Paramita Sutra translated by Hatamarash. Vajra Confession is a confession based on the Vajra Prajna Paramita Sutra, which is used in Buddhism to break up past sins and remove dust and dirt. As soon as the faithful entered the Dragon Gate, they were rewarded with this "Vajra Confession", which was a great blessing for all of them, and their karma was eliminated. Many believers come here specifically to make a wish and pray for blessings.
When walking in the vajra confession, if the hands together, eyes slightly closed, silently make a wish, and then slowly walk forward, walk to the place where you have a very good feeling of stopping, turn toward the monument, will be both hands up to the forehead on the monument, forehead leaning to the word, is the opening of the wish, is said to be very magical and spiritual. Seven Star Formation is the six crystal balls according to the top and bottom of the inverted and overlapping equilateral triangle to arrange, and then put a larger crystal ball in the center (on behalf of the sun, moon, gold, wood, water, fire, earth and other seven stars), known as the Seven Star Formation.
The Green Dragon Seven Star Formation is a combination of Taoism, Tantric Feng Shui, Qi Men Dun Jia and the Big Dipper (Gang) Star, set up in accordance with the time, place and people, and is the strongest of the Seven Star Formation. On the day of the opening, the sky shows a vision, and the stars and moon shine together. On April 16th (2012), there was a super moon in the sky, the moon turned red and lasted for about 15 minutes). This formation condenses the energy on Luohan, brings the magnetic field to its limit, and covers the whole Luohan Mountain, which can purify the magnetic field of the whole mountain and eliminate personal negative energy. People who are sensitive to energy will have a different feeling when standing underneath for 4-5 minutes. Mr. Lam Chi-Leung said that it was this A-Ma that came first before this temple was built. This A-Ma Zu was originally a Christie's auction lot in Hong Kong. It is believed to date back to the end of the Tang Dynasty and is a very rare Buddha statue with a seal. There are two seals on her left and right skirts, one on the left is "Made by Du (to be confirmed) Qinghe" and the other on the right is "Iwazhou", which suggests that this A-Ma was made by Song Qinghe of Iwazhou. But the rock state in history is a mysterious place, the Tang Dynasty had and Lingnan Road to set the rock state, but historical documents in addition to contain the date of its inception, most do not contain the abolition of the history and the local prestige. The whereabouts of the Rock State since the Five Dynasties has not been mentioned, as if missing in general. It is said to have been renamed because of its resemblance to the emperor's name, which was changed for the sake of avoiding taboo.
The discovery of this A-Ma is of great research value to history and archaeology, so it attracts many archaeologists and historians to test it. In addition, to tell you a secret, the A-Mazu is equipped with a hidden, behind it can be opened, once opened, her life will be revealed, may be able to solve the mystery of the origin of the A-Mazu in Guangdong and southern Fujian. Enshrined on both sides of the A-Ma Temple are the Four Heavenly Kings, also from the Ming Dynasty. The Lotus Palace is the Taoist temple of Tibetan Buddhism on Mount Lotus Luohan. The Lotus Palace here was originally a cave, which was later built as the Lotus Palace, dedicated to the Lotus Sangha. Lotus Sang Daishi (Sanskrit Padmasambhava, English The Lotus-born) or Lotus Sang Daishi.
Lotus Sang, Sanskrit transliteration of Padmasambhava, Indian monk. Ancient India Ujjaina country people, when the Tibetan king Chisong Detsen sent envoys to invite the lotus born monk into Tibet to spread the law, is the establishment of Tibetan Buddhism before the important figures, Tibetan Buddhism Nyingma school founding ancestor, often honored as the lotus born masters, masters, Guru Rinpoche (meaning guru Rinpoche), and so on. Amitabha Buddha, Guanyin Bodhisattva and Shakyamuni Buddha's body, mouth and mind of the three secrets of the incarnation, in Tibet is honored as the second Buddha, loved by Tibetans. It is said that the Lotus Sangha was born on a lotus flower on the sea, so it is also known as the Sea Born Vajra. In order to fulfill all sentient beings, the Lotus Sangha has eight transformations, which are also known as the Eight Transformations of the Lotus Master.
The Lotus Palace is guarded by a yogi, Master Xu Lifeng, who is very knowledgeable and has traveled to various places at home and abroad, and resides at Mount Luohan to practice and regularly holds various meditation activities and blessing ceremonies such as observing the Great Self-Realization, Bright Lamps, praying for blessings, interpretation of the Heart Sutra, and sitting in Zen meditation. Many people from all walks of life who seek to grow physically and mentally or who desire to get out of the hustle and bustle and experience tranquility come to the temple, as well as many people who are looking for ways to communicate with others, the self, and the environment, and who are interested in Buddhism. The pagoda in front of the Dharma Hall is the Lohan Mountain Pagoda, which is used to enshrine and house relics, scriptures and various Dharma objects. As you can see there is a painting on each of the four sides of the pagoda, and each painting has a character that represents a word. They are blessing, fortune, longevity and happiness.
Inside the Dharma Hall is enshrined a statue of Sakyamuni Buddha speaking in the Tang Dynasty, which was bought by a grandmother in Hong Kong for 600,000 dollars a few years ago, and the grandmother felt that Lin Dong and she were very much connected, so she transferred it to him at the original price, which is very precious. Next to it is a pair of its disciples (Ananda and Gautama). According to research, these two statues were originally a pair, but then somehow they were separated, one in Taiwan and one in Hong Kong. Luckily Lin Dong got them both back and brought them back to their homeland. The Luohan Mountain from the bottom to the top, and then from the top to the bottom of the browse, know the calligraphy of the tourists will stop, just for the cliff wall of all kinds of famous calligraphy works. Rumor has it that at the beginning of the construction of Lohan Mountain, Mr. Lin Zhiliang, the initiator, invited celebrities from all walks of life to add color to Lohan, and each had a piece of calligraphy left on the mountain, and Mr. Lin Zhiliang's first life will be engraved on the cliffs above the famous posters, which will be melted into 500 Lohan for the posterity to look up to and learn from. These calligraphy Zen culture is rich, Jia Qinglin's "and", Shen Peng's "epiphany", Huineng Zen master's epiphany of the essence of "Bodhi has no tree, the mirror is not a platform, there is nothing, where to stir up dust! "Mr. Lin Zhiliang's "Heart follows the music of the sky" and so on, which are all in harmony with the landscape, compatible with Buddhism, and the person who enters the country.
In the location of the cultivated Lohan Mountain teahouse, look far away, in the Lohan forested halfway up the hill, there is a stone, really with a Lohan very much like the bare head, there are two eyes, there is a nose, reclining to the left to the left elbow to support the formation of a natural stone Lohan, the whole volume of the stone Lohan is three life-size, far from the life-like. Then found very similar stone Bodhisattva.