Puzhao Nunnery Temple

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Kangxi Period	Monk Xinlian enshrined statue of Yinghua to Ying’s abandoned house in Mount Qingfeng, founded Puzhao temple.
1684 to 1706	Legendary phase, with floor area of only half an acre and several dwellings
1706 to 1820	Built Front Gate, Hall of Yinghua, Main Shrine Hall, Depositary of Buddhist Sutra and others, with the total of 32 dwellings. Built one wooden archway, four stone bridge and 500 stone steps.
1788	Had 22 monks, documented in “The Origin of Puzhao Nunnery” tablet inscription. There was also cooperative temples: Tiefo Temple of Dayi County, Foxing Temple of Wenjiang County, Jingde Temple of Chongqing County, Xuantian Temple of Tianxuan County.
1823	Had 25 monks, cooperative temples: Guanyin Temple of Xinjin County, Jingde Temple of Chongqing County.
1840	Removed old uncoordinated layout and started reconstruction,
7th of Tongzhi, May 1869	Magistrate of Guan county Qian Zhang visited Puzhao, and was astonished by the great view of Puzhao.
12th of Guangxu, 1886	It took 205 years to complete the construction of Puzhao Nunnery Temple. Copied the layout of the Wenshu Temple in Chengdu but more magnificent. The temple had the property of 2000 acres of field and 6 acres of mountain land, and also a hundred monks.
1902	Had 51 monks, cooperative temple: Sanjiang Temple of Chongyang, Guanyin Temple, Xiaogong Temple and others.
1898	Maintain Hongding established the plaque wrote: Xin Kong Ji Di.
30th of Guangxu, 1904	Maintain Hongding went on a tour, Hanyue was in charge, Puzhao Nunnery Temple was declining.
12th of Republic of China,,1923	Guan County established Buddhism Seminar, Shenyin of Puzhao and Monk Liaofan of Dafo Temple were elected as president.
1928	Only 30 or so monks left in Puzhao. Puzhao was fallen apart and declining constantly.
April 11,1929	Nanking National Government issued announcement:” One of the hundred temples were preserved in the country, except Guan temples, Yue temples and Confucius temples, only 5 people over 50 years old are allowed to stayed in the temple. The rest of the young and strong were either sent to factory or returned home. Each temple can keep only 50 acres of field, the rest were auctioned by the government.
30th of Republic of China	1941, Puzhao was at its recession, few monks stayed.
1941 to 1949	Barely maintain previous condition.
1949 to 1957	The land reform was finished, maintain Shengguan and other 4 monks left, the rest were gone.
1958	There was no monk in the temple, it was maintain by folks in Daguan County.
1959	Culture Management Bureau of Guan County hired Monk Haibing to take care of the temple.
1960	Hire a monk named Guangtai, soon dismissed due to his illegal behavior.
1962	Jiulong Nunnery of Shangyuan town was requisitioned by army, Ruqing and Faxin of Jiulong moved to Puzhao.
March to September, 1970	Revolutionary Committee of Guan County issued to tear Puzhao down, in order to expand steel plant of Guan County. Hundreds of hall and dwellings were tore down. Haibing died during this time.
August 8, 1974	The State Council promulgated the "Notice on Strengthening the Protection of Cultural Relics", the demolition of the Puzhao Temple was stopped.
December, 1978	The Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee convened. The governments at all levels correctly implemented the party's religious policy, therefore, the Puzhao was reborn. Monks returned to the temple.
1982	Guan County government named Puzhao as Buddhist activity point. By 1985, the county government allocated a total of about 150,000 yuan to repair the remaining buildings in Puzhao.
Autumn, 1985	Layman Yuanguo assisted the temple in clearing the property and had many belongings returned. At the same time, lobbying around, obtaining support and funding, repairing monasteries and monuments, and returning cultural relics
1986	Reformed monk system of Puzhao. Tongwen was elected as maintain.
1985 to 1991	Religious Section of the United Front Work Department of Dujiangyan City, local financial allocations and monasteries raised at the same time, restored more than 500 meters stone road into the mountain and stone ladder road up to the top, rebuilt the mountain gate and others.
1992	Shi Guozheng became a monk. Puzhao was suffering from difficult situation at the moment, most of the statues are mud made and many of them was not intact. The living situation was very harsh.
March 28, 1993	Signed a lease agreement with Dujiangyan City Tourism Industry Development Co., Ltd. to lease the land next to the temple's Bajiao Pool and subsidize Puzhao Temple for 2,000 yuan each year. On June 29, it signed an agreement to lease about 1 acre of land outside the temple , and pay 4,000 jin of rice annually, the unit price is converted according to the current market price
October, 1993	Shi Guozheng received bhiksuni ritual in Donglin Temple of Jiangxi Lushan.
June 24, 1994	Under the coordination of the Dujiangyan City Finance Bureau, the Price Bureau and the Religious Affairs Division, the contract was signed with the Waicheng Forest Park in Qingcheng County. It was determined that the “Waishan park’s unified ticket sales will pay 6,000 yuan per month to Puzhao Temple.
May, 1995	The United Front Department of Dujiangyan City organized the five major religious groups in the city to study along coastal cties. Shi Guozheng represented the Puzhao Temple. In the same year, layman Shengquan returned to the temple and proposed the reconstruction of the temple.
Autumn, 1995	Funded poor students near Erhe Town to study and set aside for the later establishment of the Guanyin Charity Club
May, 1996	Reconstruction of the Main Shrine Hall started. Presided by Master Jichen, the statue of Avalokitesvara Buddhisatva was moved in order to give space for the base of the main hall. Six monks left temple at the day the reconstruction began.
April, 1997	Reconstruction of funds shortage, two laymen Shi Guozheng and Shi Ruxuan visited the four famous mountains, asking for funds along the tour.
May,1997	Shi Guozheng was elected as maintain of Puzhao and deputies of Dujiangyan City People's Congress.
August, 1997	The main body of the hall began to take shape, three laymen travelled to Myanmar via Yunnan Ruili with Shi Guozheng. After more than a month, they welcomed and placed the Jade Buddha tall 3.3 meters and weighed 6 tons.
September 29, 1997	Due to arrears of ticket fund of the Waicheng Forest Park in Qingcheng City, Puzhao Temple drew a civil lawsuit and hired Lang Zhaoxiong to defend the obligations of Puzhao Temple.
Winter, 1997	The Main Shrine Hall construction was almost completed.
1998	Due to the shortage of funds, the construction of Main Shrine Hall and Layman Dwelling was almost stopped, Shi Guozheng raised fund in Guangzhou in the south, requested a loan of 200,000 from layman Fang Ruwen to complete the follow-ups. At the same time, the porch in front of Guanyin Square was completed.
June 24, 1998(Lunar May 1)	The opening ceremony for the Main Shrine Hall was held, tens of thousands of people attended the grand meeting. At the same time, Layman Dwelling officially open for accomadation; the next day, Puzhao held the first "Fo Qi" event, with more than 1,000 participants.
August 28, 1998	Dujiangyan Tourism Development Co. has built illegal buildings and recreational activities on the rented Puzhao land and seriously disrupted the normal religious events in Puzhao. Therefore, Puzhao submitted a civil lawsuit based on the arrears of land rent.
October, 1998	Construction of Hall of Wuguan and guest reception started.
Early 1999	Shi Guozheng went to Putuo academy for further study. Due to shortage of funds, construction of guest hall and Hall of Wuguan was halted.
July, 1999	Shi Guozheng returned Puzhao at the request of the United Front Work Department of Dujiangyan City. The construction of Hall of Wuguan and guest reception restarted.
August, 1999	The first “Chan Qi” Buddhist event host by Wang Shaopan was held in Puzhao.
September 27, 1999	The civil litigation case of Puzhao and Dujiangyan City Qingcheng Waishan Forest Park and Dujiangyan City Tourism Development Company was terminated, the arrears of the ticket and the leased land were recovered, and the illegal building outside the temple was forced to be demolished.
Early 2000	Guest reception was decorated and put into use in May.
Autumn, 2000	The second “Chan Qi” Buddhist event was host by Wang Shaopan.
October, 2000	Laymen in Beijing and Hong Kong raised funds for the Hall of Dipamkara Buddha.
February, 2001	Shi Guozheng travelled to Southeast Asia to study.
March, 2001	Met layman Yang Xiumei, received wood carved Guanyin of Qing Dynasty.
May, 2001	Introduced by layman Yang Xiumei, met Cheng Lang. First visit to Puzhao of Chen Lang.
June, 2001	Introduced by Chen Lang, Shi Guozheng went to Hong Kong to meet the Master Jingkong. In the same month, Shi Guozheng became the disciple of Chen Lang, learn Feng Shui.
July 10, 2001(Lunar May 21)	Former maintain of Puzhao Master Tongwen passed away.
August, 2001	The third “Chan Qi” Buddhist event was hosted by Wang Shaopan.
September 19, 2001	Hall of Dipamkara Buddha was completed. At the end of the year, Ray Lui from Hong Kong donated funds to build the Hall of the Heavenly Kings and enshrined wood carved Veda of Qing Dynasty; Started the construction of the Hall of Yinghua and rebuilt the road of the Mountain Gate.
2002	The renovation was finished and the construction of Nanting reception started. Held the first grand Buddhist event. Many Hong Kong celebrities visited Puzhao. Layman in Chongqing donated the first car of Puzhao.
March, 2003	Layman Ray Lui donated the fund to build copper statue of Avalokitesvara Buddhisatva to replace the old one. In May, Nanting Reception was completed and Chen Lang moved in there. In late May, Chen Lang left Puzhao to go to Hong Kong Yanghe Hospital for medical treatment. In December, he passed away. Puzhao held the fifth “Fo Qi” Buddhist event in order to commemorate him.
March, 2004	In September, Shi Guozheng went to Sichuan University’s Institute of Religion for further study.
2005	Maintainance of the Depositary of Buddhist Sutra. Participated in the study tour of Southeast Asia organized by the Chengdu Buddhist Association. On May 29, a lease agreement was signed with the Forestry Work Station in the Daguan District of the Dujiangyan City Forestry Bureau to recover the land originally leased to the temple of Puzhao and later leased to the forestry station.
2006	Construction of the Hall of Medicine Buddha started, Layman Zhang Lun introduced a systematic management mechanism and made an attempt to reform the management of Puzhao. In June, Shi Guozheng completed the study at Sichuan University’s Institute of Religion and returned to the temple
April 17, 2007(Lunar March 1)	Master Shenghong passed away, teacher of Shi Guozheng.
October 6, 2007	Construction of the Hall of Medicine Buddha completed.
Early 2008	Raised Yizhen reception.
May 12, 2008 Morning	Open ceremony of Yizhen reception in the morning. 2:28 in the afternoon, the Wenchuan Earthquake demolished the monasteries. Most of the buildings were damaged in different degrees. Three days after the earthquake, self-rescue was held by the temple. People’s Liberation Army troops went to the temple to support and rescue Buddhist relics. Government officers at all levels, people in the religious world, and social charities gave helping hands to Puzhao.
June, 2008	Reconstruction of damaged building gradually started.
July, 2008	The Hall of Dipamkara Buddha was recovered.
September, 2008	The Hall of the Heavenly Kings and Yinghua were recovered.
November 13, 2008	180 after the earthquake, the sky lantern was put back to use.
January, 2009	Puhuan, Puji were shaved and committed themselves to the Buddhist world.
July, 2009	The reconstruction of Hall of Wuguan as the official reconstruction project in Dujiangyan City after the disaster started.
2009	In order to speed up the post-disaster reconstruction process, with the support of the government and local villagers, Puzhao built a new two-kilometer "Yuanjue Road" in the back mountain, and the vehicle can directly reach the Puzhao Temple from Daguan Town.
October 10, 2009	Open ceremony for the Main Shrine Hall. Renovate the former Layman Dwelling into staff residence.
January, 2010	Putong Tower was recovered. New year Buddhist event was held in Puzhao.
July, 2010	New Hall of Wuguan put into use.
September, 2010	The temple electronic monitoring security system was officially launched with a total of more than 40 monitoring points
2011	Reconstruction of the Hall of the Buddha-Selecting， offer a place to meditate.
December, 2011	The Reception of Shangke and Yunshui were finished and put into use.
January, 2012	Puzhao, Post-disaster Reconstruction was finished and published.
March, 2012	Puze, Puyu, Puqian, Puheng became new members of Puzaho.
April, 2012	Construction of Release pool and Lancao Garden completed. Puyun became the new member of Puzhao.
May, 2012	Hall of the Buddha-Selecting was completed. Guozheng met Master Xinyun at Dajue Temple of Jiangsu Yixing.
June, 2012	Wei Minglun, Ye Yushan visited Puzhao.
July, 2012	Temple guest reception maintenance reinforcement project completed.
August, 2012	Puzhao was incorporated into the eighth batch of provincial heritage conservation units in Sichuan Province Well-known musician Hu Yanbin sang in Puzhao Temple to help charity charity activities The abbot of the Wenshu Monastery gave a great compassion to show public the sutra. The third edition of Puzhao illustrated officially released and became popular with the public.
September, 2012	Yan Yongkui hosted a 7-day meditation program. Sayalay Daw Khemanandi from Malaysia taught meditation in Puzhao. Buddhist Psychology Course officially started.
October, 2012	The renovation and maintenance of the quadrangle dwellings in the Qing Dynasty officially began.
November, 2012	The first Medicine Buddha Buddhist event was held. The temple was awarded the title of "2012 Chengdu Harmony Temple Viewing Church Standards Unit"