Winter Mountain Temple

This temple is located in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. It is said that during the Yuanhe period of the Tang Dynasty (806-820), the extraordinary monk Hanshan built a hermitage here, and later, Sekitou Kisen, the successor of Seigen Gyōshi, built a temple and named it Hanshan Temple. Hanshan was a legendary Buddhist monk and poet who appeared at the Guoqing Temple on Mount Tiantai and was known as Jittoku. Although the temple is named after Hanshan, there are almost no traces of his actions within the temple, and the history of Sekitou's founding is unknown. The Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Ji wrote the following poem, "The moon falls, the crows cry, the sky is filled with frost. The fishing fires on the maple river make me sleepy. Outside the city of Gusu, the Cold Mountain Temple. The passenger ship arrives at midnight. " It was formerly called Myori Fuming Tower Temple, and was renamed Fumon Zen Temple during the Song Dynasty's Jiayū period (1056-63). During the Ming Dynasty, it was a famous temple with seven halls.

[Michio Sato]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

中国、江蘇(こうそ／チヤンスー)省蘇州(そしゅう／スーチョウ)にある寺。唐の元和年間（806～820）奇僧寒山がこの地に草庵(そうあん)を結び、のちに青原行思(せいげんぎょうし)の法嗣(はっす)石頭希遷(せきとうきせん)が伽藍(がらん)を創建して寒山寺と号したと伝える。寒山は、天台山国清寺(こくせいじ)に出没し、拾得(じっとく)と並称される伝説的仏者であり詩僧で、その寒山にちなむ寺とはいえ、寺内には寒山の事跡はほとんどなく、また石頭創建の由緒も知られない。唐の詩人張継(ちょうけい)が「月落烏啼霜満天、江楓漁火対愁眠、姑蘇城外寒山寺、夜半鐘声到客船」と詠んだいわゆる「楓橋夜泊(ふうきょうやはく)」の詩によって天下に名を知られた。古くは妙利普明塔院(みょうりふみょうとういん)と称し、宋(そう)の嘉祐(かゆう)年間（1056～63）に普門禅院と改称、明(みん)代には七堂伽藍も整った名刹(めいさつ)であった。

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