The five halls of Lingyin Temple have their own needs, namely, the Heavenly King Hall, the Ursa Major Hall, the Pharmacist Hall, the Tibetan Scripture Hall and the Huayan Hall. Lingyin Temple has to be said to be a blessed land. It has a history of 1000 years, and it has a great reputation in history. It is said that it was given by emperors in previous dynasties, so it is more effective to come here to worship Buddha.
Generally speaking, Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou is very spiritual in seeking children, learning, career, marriage or health and safety. There are many bodhisattvas enshrined in Lingyin Temple. If you want to pursue your career, you can visit Manjusri Bodhisattva in the temple. If you want to be healthy and safe, you can go to the pharmacist Buddha in the pharmacist temple. The Samantabhadra Bodhisattva in Lingyin Temple is specially used for learning and is said to be quite effective.
Architectural pattern of Lingyin Temple;
Lingyin Temple was restored and rebuilt on the basis of reconstruction in the late Qing Dynasty. The temple covers an area of about 87,000 square meters, and Lingyin Scenic Area covers an area of about 2.577 million square meters. The layout of Lingyin Temple is similar to that of Jiangnan Temple. The central axis of the whole temple building is divided into three main halls: Tianwang Hall, Daxiong Hall and Pharmacist Hall.
The overall planning of Lingyin Temple is to form a five-layer pattern along the central axis: Tianwang Hall-Daxiong Hall-Pharmacist Hall-Tibetan Scripture Building (under the Dharma Hall)-Huayan Hall. At the same time, it was laid out to the two wings, and five hundred Luohan Hall, Dao Ji Hall (now called Jigong Hall), Guest Hall (Liuhe Hall), Ancestral Hall, Great Compassion Pavilion and Dragon Palace Sea Collection (collection display) were built successively. In addition, the 500 Luohan Hall was rebuilt in the site of the original Luohan Hall, displaying 500 bronze Luohan with an average height of 1.7 meters, and building four famous bronze halls with a height of 12.6 meters, covering an area of about 87,000 square meters.
In addition, each entrance hall has a spacious platform to beautify the environment of the ancient temple. Large-scale heart sutra walls and sculptures of hundreds of lions have been built one after another, and there is a cold spring in the northwest of the Five Hundred Arhats Hall. Rockery and rocks formed a natural waterfall, and a "Youde Pavilion" was built next to the pool to commemorate the rejuvenation of the spirit in the early Qing Dynasty.