A brief introduction to Putong Temple, an introduction to Putong Temple

The tower of Putong Temple is a brick structure, octagonal in plan, eight storeys high, 33 meters, and a solid dense eaves type. The base of the tower is octagonal and five meters high. Under the eaves of each layer, the bucket arch of the eighth layer is not ordered to be arched on the head of the outgoing bucket, and the mountain bucket is placed to support the eaves of the tower, so that each side is slightly arc-shaped, the two corners are cocked, and the shape is peculiar.

The body of the tower decreases from bottom to top, the outline is soft, and the structure is delicate.

Although this tower has been built in the past dynasties, it basically maintains its original appearance, and provides valuable information for the study of the early brick tower in our country.

In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Buddhism came to the east, and the first batch of senior monks who were allowed to preach the Dharma were personally presided over the construction of Putong Temple and Putong Pagoda in Nangong, becoming the first Buddhist temple and pagoda in China, and Nangong has therefore become the birthplace of Buddhist culture in the Central Plains, and the Buddhist holy place in the minds of the Buddhist community and the majority of believers.

Putong Temple is located in the western suburbs of Nangong City, Hebei Province, on the shore of Qunying Lake, the largest artificial lake in North China, adjacent to the 10,000-mu provincial wetland reserve. Strolling in it, among the pines and cypresses, the palace is magnificent, the bell rings for a long time, the fragrance of the law is overflowing, it is a Buddhist dojo with a long history. In 1992, the famous monk Hongchuan master came here as the abbot, multi-party financing to rebuild the Putong Temple, after more than ten years of efforts, built the Daxiong Treasure Palace, Guanyin Palace, Tianwang Palace, three gates and other ancillary buildings, the cultivation monks and sightseeing tourists from all over the country are increasing day by day, and have been rated as advanced religious sites by the relevant departments at higher levels for many times.

The Putong Pagoda in the Putong Temple is now a key cultural relic in Hebei Province.

Putong Pagoda is located in Putong Temple in Nangong City, is now a key cultural relic in Hebei Province, it was built in the Eastern Han Dynasty Ming Emperor Yongping ten years (AD.

Sixty-seven years), Yongping fifteen years of the fifteenth day of the first month of the fifteenth day of the inauguration, has a history of more than 1,900 years, than Henan Luoyang White Horse Temple tower built one year earlier, can be described as worthy of the name of "China's first pagoda, the world's rare treasure". The first floor and the second floor of the tower are provided with blind windows on the east and west sides, the north and south sides of the first to fourth floors are provided with Buddhist shrines, and the four sides above the fifth floor are provided with Buddhist shrines. "Yanglian drill head type" gourd-shaped iron tower stop, a total of four sections, straight into the clouds.

Each corner of each floor of the tower is provided with a corner beam, hang the corner bell, the wind blows the bell rings, crisp and pleasant, especially in the dead of night, several miles away can be heard, put in it, make people suddenly feel solemn and sacred.

Putong Temple Pagoda is in the old city of Nangong City, Hebei Province. It was originally a building in the Putong Temple of Nangong City, and the old city was flooded in the 14th year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty (1487), and the county seat was moved to the present site. At that time, the old temple was destroyed, and only this tower remained.

The tower was built in the Eastern Han Dynasty Yongping ten years (67 years), has a history of more than 1,900 years. It is the earliest existing pagoda in our country. According to the inscription of the 12th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1886), the tower of Putong Temple was rebuilt, and it was rebuilt in the fourth year of Tang Zhenguan (630), and it was repaired again during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty.

The word "Putong" is derived from the explanation of the Buddhist scripture "Myoho-renge-kyo Guanke Juan Sense Guanyin Bodhisattva Pumen Pin": "Pu takes Zhou Pu as righteousness". In Buddhism, "Pudu" refers to great compassion and universal compassion.

"Tong" is vermilion. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the palace where the mother lived was painted red, called "Tong Ting", because the Bodhisattva was enshrined in the Putong Temple behind the tower, and the tower body and the temple were vermilion, so the word "Tong" was taken. So take "Putong Tower".

Today's temple was rebuilt in 1992 by Nangong City. Presiding over this restoration and reconstruction was a well-known figure in Chinese Buddhist circles, Venerable Hongchuan. In August 1984, Master Hongchuan broke through all kinds of obstacles and resolutely flew from Taiwan to the mainland of the motherland via Hong Kong, and was praised as "China's first patriotic monk" by Zhao Puchu, former vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and president of the Buddhist Association of China.

After the reform and opening up, people's enthusiasm for respecting and respecting Buddha has been fully released. In 1992, the people of Nangong City complied with the wishes of the masses to disturb the wheel collapse and approved the proposal of the Provincial Buddhist Association to build a famous temple to repair the first temple in Shenzhou - Putong Temple. Venerable Hongchuan began the difficult preparatory work.

After more than a year of preparation, the foundation stone was laid in November 1993, and on September 26, 1996, the Putong Temple was solemnly inaugurated and the Buddha statue consecration ceremony, and tens of thousands of Buddhist monks, people from all walks of life and good men and women from all over the world participated in this celebration.

Nowadays, the management of Putong Temple is orderly, the temple is clean and tidy, and the ancient pagoda temple with a history of nearly 2,000 years has reappeared the boundless Buddha light of the past. In order to perpetuate the Buddha's fate and further build the "Shiyuan" of Huaxia Shenzhou, the cultural brand of the "ancestral garden" of Chinese Buddhism, the Nangong Municipal Party Committee and the city attach great importance to the development and construction of Putong Temple, Sun Xueliang, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, and Duan Xiaoyong, Mayor of the Municipal Party Committee, personally planned, field investigation, according to the proposal of the Provincial Department of Ethnic and Religious Affairs and the Provincial Buddhist Association, on the basis of extensive research, after the special study of the joint meeting of the four major teams, it was decided to include the restoration and construction of Putong Temple in the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" development plan of Nangong City. Opinions on the implementation of the restoration and construction of Putong Temple", in accordance with the framework idea of the tower in the temple, the temple in the garden, the garden in the water, and the water in the forest, the long-term plan of the Putong Temple of 1,000 acres has been formulated. Focus on the construction of 7,000 square meters of 10,000 people chanting Buddha Hall, Buddhist Expo Garden and other auxiliary facilities, and take the development and construction of Putong Temple as the leader, the development and construction of Qunying Lake and Forest Park into the overall planning, and finally build a thousand acres of Putong Temple.

The courage, determination and sincerity of the Nangong Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Party Committee have aroused great attention and strong support from relevant departments and all walks of life.