This is Ishtiaq (阿德) from Bangladesh, a traveler, photographer and volunteer doing bachelor in China. I was lucky enough to visit the amazing Niushou Mountain and Scenic are located in Jiangning District, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. It is a famous Buddhist mountain in China. It has a profound cultural heritage and is the opening and birthplace of the Buddhist head of Zen Buddhism. It consists of many large and small mountains such as Niushou Mountain, Zutang Mountain, Jiangjun Mountain, Dongtianmu Ridge, West Tianmu Ridge and Yinlong Mountain
Let“s have a summery in 9 photos.........
Start from Fo Ding Qian Yuan Landscape....
Wonder Guzheng playing by Maggie....
Buddha“s Temple
Buddha“s Pagoda
Buddha“s Palace
Buddha“s palace (inside)
Gallery
Grand Zen
And Coffee
Recommended tour route: Classic day tour route: Niu Shou Square - Foding Temple - Foding Pagoda - Foding Palace - Zhenghe Culture Park - Chanlin Road Landscape Tour Time: 5 hours Theme Tour: pilgrimage to the Buddha: Niu Shou Square—Foding Temple—Foanting Tower—Foding Palace Leisure Holiday Tour: Niu Shou Square—Foding Temple—Foding Tower—Foding Palace—Zhanlin Road—Hidden Dragon Lake Historical and Cultural Tour: Niu Shou Square—Foding Temple— Finding a Zen Path (Yue Fei Anti-Golden Base, Ming Dynasty Cliff Stone Carving)—Fo Ding Tower—Fo Ding Palace—Zhenghe Culture Park—Hidden Dragon Lake Sightseeing Experience: Niu Shou Square—Foding Temple—Foding Tower—Foding Palace— Zhenghe Culture Park—Baoxiang Lake—Zhenlin Road—Hidden Dragon Lake But for the entire scenic spot, the core attractions are the Foding Temple, the Buddha Pagoda, and the Buddha Crest Palace. You can play according to your own time.
Fo Ding Qian Yuan Fo Ding Qian Yuan is an ecological tour that covers multiple ecological landscapes with beautiful scenery. It is a natural oxygen bar where visitors experience nature, breathe fresh air and relax. Most people choose to take the sightseeing bus all the way to the Buddha“s Peak Palace, but I started from the Foding Front Court. This is the closest attraction to the East Gate. The beautiful scenery of Foding Qianyuan is capable to attract any nature lover easily. Quiet environment, the rockery spring pool, the stone bridge flowing water, the strange mountain and the grass, together with the mountains and temples in the distance constitute a landscape painting everything together made a heaven look.
Buddha Peak Temple There was a temple in Niushou Mountain, which began in the early years of the Southern Dynasties. During the Tang Dynasty, the temple was a large-scale temple named Buddha Cave Temple, the birthplace of the “Niutou Zen“ before the Zen Buddhism. After the Northern Song Dynasty, Yiming Temple was renamed. The Southern Song Dynasty was destroyed by war and the Ming Dynasty was revived. By 1856, the temple was destroyed by the chaos of Hong Yang, and the incense was interrupted for a hundred years. Respecting the prosperity of the world, in order to inherit the traditional culture, Jiangning District rebuilt the cultural resort. It opened in 2012 and was fully completed in 2015. Recruited by celebrities from the cultural circles and Buddhist monks, named after the Buddha“s relics at the Niushou Mountain Palace, named Foding Temple. Foding Temple is one of the main buildings of Niu Shou Mountain. It covers an area of 68 acres and has a construction area of nearly 40 acres. It resembles the Tang style and the traditional central axis pattern. There is a total of seven halls, and there are buildings such as 僧竂, 斋堂.
Buddha top tower “Seeing a pagoda is like seeing a Buddha, and worshipping a pagoda is like worshipping a Buddha” The tower, 88 meters high, 4677 square meters in area, is a Tang Dynasty style building. The tower is one of the symbolic buildings of the holy land on the top of the Buddha.
On the eighth floor of the Buddha“s top tower, there is a copper-cast diamond bell engraved with the full text of the Diamond Sutra written by Lung Xiang Master. On the ninth floor of the Tathagata Hall, a Buddha is sitting in Pilujana. By Climbing the tower can enjoy the beautiful panoramic view of Niushou Mountain in all seasons.
Buddha’s Palace As one of the cores of the Buddha“s Holy Land, the Buddha“s Palace is located at the west peak of Niu Shou Mountain. Based on the historical mines, the total construction area is about 136,000 square meters. Together with the Buddha Pagoda, it forms a new scene of Niu Shou Xifeng. It echoes with Niu Shou Dongfeng and reproduces the grandeur of the singularity of the “Shuangfeng Shuangyu”. Its outer space is divided into three parts: the big dome, the small dome and the Buddhist cliff. The inner space consists of nine layers, three layers above ground and six layers below ground. It is composed of three major spaces: The Grand View of Zen Kingdom, the Hall of Sari and the Palace of Sari Tibet. The whole Buddhist Ding Palace is not only the main place for collecting Buddha“s parietal bones and receiving worship from the followers, but also a cultural exhibition place for presenting the Sari culture and the world Buddhist and Zen culture with various artistic techniques.
The base of the small dome is a lotus throne. The whole lotus throne consists of 56 flying Bodhisattva doors symbolizing Buddha“s infinite wisdom and 56 cloud doors symbolizing good luck and good luck. It combines up and down with the small dome“s Mani jewels to form the sacred image of “lotus treasure“.
Foding Palace is divided into two parts: large and small domes. It means external and internal support. The length of the dome is 120 meters. It is like Buddha“s robe. It echoes the eastern peak of Niu Shou and covers the small dome of the palace. It symbolizes the immeasurable blessing of Buddha. The small dome as a whole is like a buddha“s hair bun, a single hand with ten shapes, implying that tens of millions of believers provide for the buddha.
Wan Buddha Gallery The Wanfo Gallery consists of three, four and five floors underground. The third floor of the underground lays stress on the expression of Chinese Buddhist culture. There are two corridors of Sutra and Hakka and sixteen silk mounted brushwork. The fourth floor of the underground exhibits Indian Buddhist culture. The corridor has twenty days and seven lacquer paintings representing Hindu Buddhist doctrine stories. Entering the underground five floors, the theme is Buddha“s Bensheng and Sari culture, including multi-media videos of Buddhist Sari culture, ten pieces of sixteen ceramic slabs of sages and robberies, and eight spiritual pagodas and related objects.
The Grand View of Zen The Zen Kingdom is 112 meters long in North and south, 62 meters wide in East and west. The total height of the building is 46.5 meters. The net height of the interior is about 38 (41.2) meters. The space area is more than 6000 feet, which is oval. The core of the Grand View of Zen realm is Zen culture, which consists of three parts: the Zen realm garden born by Buddha, the Zen realm garden of Chengdao and the lotus theatre in the middle, which together represent the story of Buddha“s life. Following the footprints of Buddha“s practice, people can realize the miracle of Buddha“s becoming a Buddha by Sakyamuni people.
Author Ishtiaq Ahmed 阿德 Traveler, Photographer, Volunteer Wechat: ishtiaq_007 Mail: 3047778493@qq.com
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