The jade spring temple is located in Hubei on the jade spring mountains of 15 kilometers of open counties. The jade spring mountain, one piles the blue mountain, have another name called and cover the ship mountain. It have an elevation of 400 meters, the intersection of all over the mountain and ancient the intersection of cypress and green pine, exotic flowers and rare herbs everywhere, lofty and steep to compete luxuriantly, four seasons are verdant.
The valley deep and remote ravine is deep here, the efficacious stone show of hole, the pearl spring is sparkling and crystal-clear and limpid, the mountain small stream zigzags and pours down, the scene is beautiful, too beautiful to be absorbed all at once, called three clear famous mountains .
Have won fame both at home and abroad ancient to it stops the intersection of jade and spring to be temple quiet to lie under the intersection of jade and the intersection of spring and foot of mountain. 1983 the intersection of person who confirm jade spring temple as Chinese and Buddhism Chinese key temple, the State Council of China.
Jade spring temple history is remote, it is the earliest Buddhism temple of Hubei. As far back as the Eastern Han Dynasty Kin On (218) in 22 years The general net Buddhist monk forms cogongrasses here as the Buddhist nunnery, sit in meditation and practise Buddhism or Taoism. In the period of Sui turn on emperor, the intersection of Buddhism and the intersection of Tiantai Sect and intelligently founder The Buddhist monk has established the jade spring temple here formally.
Tang ChaoShi, a spirit show carries forward the law of deep meditation in the north of Zen Buddhism, incline and face upward in the the four seas. Song Dynasty
When, the jade spring temple reaches the great prosperity. Song really (1021) in a day the first year of an era for Xi ,The bright respectful queen builds the jade spring temple, large-scale after extend, the hall is brilliant, it is building person nine, unless it is for hall 18, unless it if you can t enter by monk, give up 37, occupation of land 2.
5 kilometers of left, 2.5 kilometers of right,before and after 5 kilometers, and change into Jingde Buddhist temple ,Become the first in Jingchu jungle . Since the jade spring temple is intelligent After the Master opens, the eminent monk comes forth in large number. Eminent monk s spirit show, delegation, god knew in the Tang Dynasty; Have Murong, affair one Song Dynasty; Hid mountain, Zhong Mount in Yuan Dynasty; Often pressed down, not had quietly in the Ming Dynasty; There were lotus moons in Qing Dynasty; Grandfathers print in modern times; There was empty, ultra bright Master of dust after the foundation of the state.
They expound the texts of Buddhism in the jade spring temple, have made enormous contribution to culture of Buddhism.
It is stopped that the jade spring temple is ancient for ten directions originally, but begin since the end of Ming Dynasty, perform for eight 13 families . It is east to be mean respectively for meditation room in eight sessions, meditation rooms west, like boat hall, Goddess of Mercy hall, last hall, Tibetan Scripture floor, pavilions, little to last temple flexible, add, adjoin hall, big the intersection of person and pavilion Lu, give sub Buddhist nunnery, the intersection of high point and temple, large the intersection of cloud and the intersection of temple and 5, call 13 families jointly.