Great gratitude temple pagoda underground revisited

Heavy kenda gratitude temple tower, nanjing last July on big gratitude temple ruins of the tower of the Ming dynasty the underground excavation.After excavation, spread subversive messages: the digging underground could belong to the song dynasty wellwishing temple.But placed the walls by four 80 cm wide slab formed, on the SLATE found the word "Jin Lingchang dry temple", and in the house behind a stone tablet, iron letter with the wording "jinling wellwishing temple".Well, actually is the underground Jin Lingchang dry temple or wellwishing underground temple dungeons?In the same year on November 22, iron open letter, media shippo gold tower appeared.Then, the pagoda is long do asoka temple tower or sense of holy stupas wellwishing temple?Also in The Three Kingdoms period in A.D. 248, the main sun quan wu will assist Indian monk built ashoka tower, will look the Buddha sarira consecrate them;And by ashoka tower as the center, built for the early temple.This is the first in southern Chinatemple.But the center of the complex is ashoka tower, temple early rather than to build.

JianWen emperor of the eastern (si ma yu, 371-372 AD) "make samana mage Cheng Zao towers, not to die."Eastern jin xiao wu (SiMaYao, A.D. 373-396) rebuilt was destroyed by the rebellion was built in the early temple, changed its name to long dry temple;And rebuild the ashoka tower at the same time.In the process of reconstruction, discovered in the underground palace in the original ashoka tower the Buddha buddhist relics, "namely moved sarira here, for JianWen made tower, built a tower."In the southern dynasty, emperor wudi xiao yan (503-548 AD) in datong three years (AD 537), long dry temple and ashoka tower, "the old tower sarira and claw".(the guest residuum, long dry tower Gu Qiyuan in Ming dynasty (AD 1565-1628) from) in the tang dynasty, did not see a tower in the city of adding records.

When down south, "waste temple step-by-step lu, long sarira of induction meter seen."In the northern song dynasty "few, monk can zheng shape its trace, have complex for a letter to the temple, namely its ostensible place a tower, give sense of holy stupas.""The first year wellwishing, renamed wellwishing temple.""At the beginning of yuan to shun, Jin Xiu tower, tower finish date, smallpox is like, the auspicious light such as practice bears full days."(ditto) to the Ming dynasty, the Ming emperor zhu di, "yongle, namely its reconstruction big gratitude temple, nine floors, pure with coloured glaze, the ancient Buddha brake GongLi armor."(ditto)

From visible on both the original built temple, in the early or later long dry temple, or after the song dynasty wellwishing temple, reconstruction of the great gratitude temple in the Ming dynasty, are tower as the center.Long dry by ashoka tower tower and sense of holy stupas and great gratitude temple tower.Dungeons are under the tower, there is no built in early built underground temple, long dry temple and wellwishing temple, under the great gratitude temple main hall.

And the construction of underground has rule: tower temple, placed under the tower;Have no temple tower (e.g., hangzhou's coasts), placed under the tower;A temple tower, dungeons beneath the temple's main hall.Underground palace has iron letter or Shi Han, inside the Buddha buddhist relics or Buddha spiral coil and other treasures.

Therefore, the author thinks that the nanjing big gratitude temple tower site placed the excavated cultural relics, both with the words "" jinling wellwishing temple stele, visible the fallen for the northern song dynasty" holy stupas "dungeons.But the palace found "Jin Lingchang dry temple" of the slab.ChuWei destroy the king, "for mountain stand, in Jin Lingyi stone mountain."(health records) Wang Dao call "jinling" of health of the ancient.The fallen is also visible long dry temple ashoka tower dungeons.Since the long dry temple to wellwishing temple, is always a underground, all under the tower.

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