Yijing Temple is a millennium-old ancient temple located on Tongming Mountain, Zhangxia Town, Changqing District, Jinan City. The founding patriarch of the temple is Master Yijing, one of the four great translators of Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty of China. Master Yijing is from Changqing, Jinan, Shandong Province. He became a monk at the age of seven, received the novice precepts at the age of fourteen, and received the full precepts at the age of twenty-one.
At the age of fifteen, Master Yijing was determined to learn from his predecessors Faxian and Xuanzang. He risked his life to seek Dharma and went to India in the west to obtain the true meaning of Buddhism. At the age of thirty-seven, Master Yijing set off from Guangzhou by sea to India in the west. It took twenty-five years and he traveled to more than thirty countries. At the age of sixty-one, he returned to Luoyang, bringing nearly four hundred volumes of Buddhist scriptures and precepts, totaling five hundred thousand stanzas, a portrait of the Vajrasana, and three hundred Buddha’s relics. Empress Wu Zetian ‘ordered all officials and organized the four assemblies’ and welcomed him at the Shangdong Gate. When Master Yijing was seventy-nine years old and seriously ill, Emperor Ruizong of the retired emperor sent an envoy to express condolences and posthumously bestowed him the title of Minister of State Ceremonial. In the eighteen years after Master Yijing returned to China, he translated one hundred and two classics and wrote five works. Now the temple has buildings such as the Ksitigarbha Hall and the Guanyin Hall. During incense seasons, devout men and women will come to worship.Opening hours: Open from 9:00 to 18:00 all year round.
