Hanshan Temple

Serene and peaceful place, gets crowded after 9 in the morning and these days many buildings are under repair.Han shan si Nan is the bus stop you can get off and walk around 6oom to temple

an ancient place suzhou city garden landscape among with nice spritual temple atomospher with near by walking distance beautiful bridges which are cools

Hanshan Temple belongs to Linji Sect of Zen Buddhism. During the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, Hanshan Temple was founded by two eminent monks Hanshan and Xiqian. The Hanshan Temple was destroyed by fire five times in more than 1,000 years (one say seven times), and the last reconstruction was during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. In history, Hanshan Temple was one of the top ten famous temples in China. There are many historical sites in the temple, including Zhang Jishi’s stone inscriptions, Hanshan and found stone statues.

Han Shanzi, a famous monk in the early period of Zhenguan of Tang Dynasty (627-649), came here to bind Mao to live. The famous Zen master Xiqian (700-790) of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty founded Garan here, and the title is Hanshan Temple. In the Northern Song Dynasty Taizong Taiping Xingguo (976-983) Jiedu made Sun Chengyou rebuild 70% of the pagoda. .In the second year of Jiayou Renzong of the Northern Song Dynasty (1057), the king of Xun Guo, Wang Gui, used the book of Zhang Jishi, and the easy sealing bridge was Fengqiao. During the Shaoxing period of Emperor Gaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty (1131-1162), it was called Fengqiao Temple. During the Hongwu period (1368-1398), it was built remotely in Sengchang Chong. Hanshan Temple merged into Temple Three: Xiufeng Temple, Huiqing Temple, Nanfeng Temple; Nunnery Four: Manjusri, Yungao, Shedu, one of them was lost. It can be seen that Hanshan Temple was still a jungle in the early Ming Dynasty. From the Revolution of 1911 to 1949, Hanshan Temple was also in danger. Cigarettes were scarce, the gates were left in the cold, income was not available, and the monks were scattered. In the autumn of 1941, Gao Guanwu repaired the original Tibetan scripture building and changed its name to Shuangzhong Pavilion. During the Japanese occupation of Suzhou, the house of the Hanshan Temple Hall was once reduced to a Japanese warehouse stable. In 1954, the former Changzhou received monk from Yanlinzhi Temple to help take care of the incense, and there were monks in Hanshan Temple. In the same year, a famous scholar in Suzhou, Song Hongzhao, gave his ancestral famous building Hualanlou to Hanshan Temple and moved it to the southwest of the stele corridor and renamed it "Fengjiang Tower". In 1958, the temples in Suzhou were centrally managed, and some statues were concentrated in the Xiyuan Jiezhulu Temple. Longqing Temple Longzang Sutra was transferred to Hanshan Temple. During the "Cultural Revolution" from 1966 to 1976, Hanshan Temple became a cell for the rebels to extract confessions by torture. Buddha statues, artifacts, and temples were damaged, and cultural relics in the temple were confiscated. Master Xingkong took protective measures in advance to preserve the inscriptions, Tibetan scriptures, and Luohan. On November 15, 1978, Zhao Puchu, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chairman of the Chinese Buddhist Association, visited Hanshan Temple for the first time and guided the restoration work. The Hanshan Temple began to be repaired.

Hanshan Temple is famous for the poem "Hanshan Temple outside Gusu city, midnight to the passenger ship" by the poet Zhang Ji of the Tang Dynasty. However, in the former Suzhou, Hanshan Temple was not regarded as an iconic scenic spot. In recent years, Hanshan Temple has been renovated and combined with the surrounding Fengqiao area and Tieling Pass to form the Fengqiao Scenic Area. It has both beautiful natural scenery and wonderful historical stories. Worth walking around