The poem ‘Under Baiyun Peak lies the Brahman palace. The slanting sunlight shines on the palace wall, a touch of red. The white clouds in sight are all lovely. I want to stuff half of them into my bag.’ was written by Chen Youpeng, a poet of the Qing Dynasty. It praises the Baiyun Temple. The Baiyun Temple is located on Baiyun Mountain, which is 20.5 kilometers away from Ningbo and 380 meters above sea level. To the south is Hengxi Town, and to the north belongs to Chengyang Village in Dongqian Lake Tourism Resort. The Baiyun Temple was founded in the first year of Shichu in the Western Han Dynasty (8 AD). Mei Fu, the magistrate of Nanchang, Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, resigned and abandoned his family due to his resentment of Wang Mang’s usurpation of power and came here to practice Taoism by building a thatched hut in the mountains. He is the first ancestor who opened up the Baiyun Temple and is respected as the ‘Baiyun Patriarch’. By the fifth year of Qiande in the Northern Song Dynasty (967), the temple covered an area of 12 mu, with 99 rooms in houses and halls. There was a mountain and more than 380 mu of fields. There was once the glory of a thousand monks having meals in the hall. Especially in the fourth year of Jingding in the Southern Song Dynasty (1262), after the famous monk Wuxue Zuyuan from Hengxi lived in major temples such as Jingci, Lingyin, Jingshan, Yuwang, and Daci in Hangzhou, he was invited by the county magistrate Luo Jizhuang to preside over the Baiyun Temple for seven years. After that, Wuxue Zuyuan lived in Tiantong and Nengren in Taizhou. In 1276, he became the chief monk of Tiantong Temple. Three years later, at the invitation of the Japanese shogunate, he led his disciples to spread Buddhist teachings in Japan and was respected as the National Teacher of Buddha’s Light. He presided over Kenchoji in Kamakura, Japan. Three years later, he founded Engakuji and became one of the twenty-four sects of ancient Zen in Japan, with 209 subordinate temples. In the second year of Zhiyuan in the Yuan Dynasty (1309), another famous monk, Dongming Huiri from the Baiyun Temple, was invited to cross the sea to Japan to promote the Soto Sect and became the tenth abbot of Engakuji. He built the Baiyun Nunnery in the temple, which has been preserved until now.
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The poem ‘Under Baiyun Peak lies the Brahman palace. The slanting sunlight shines on the palac[...]
