Shandong Wen Shang Bao Xiang Temple Buddhist Faith Research

Baoxiang temple, located in the northwest corner of the county. Built in the Tang Dynasty, Known to history zhao air temple, Song Hampyeong reconstruction five years later renamed Baoxiang temple, Ming and Qing generation repair extension. Its magnificent buildings, unique Oriental ethnic style and contains profound Chinese traditional Confucian culture. The" Qunseng crafts, daily call to religious life, also fine orchid area ", thousands of years and rich religious culture. Study on Baoxiang temple, the Buddhist culture and Confucian culture as the breakthrough point, particularly famous is the Baoxiang Temple Tooth Relic of Buddha, study its cultural connotation of belief. According to the" Mahaparinirvana Sutra", recorded, Sakyamuni Buddha into tea adjoin, disciples from the ashes of the Buddha relics picking up, which has four teeth. This says that when no doubt, but added, one for Indra please go, another for the Sea Dragon King’s palace go, the remaining two left in the world. Which is now dedicated to Sri Lanka and the tooth relic. The whole world Buddhists have admitted that Sakyamuni is only exist on the two body tooth relic. However, throughout history, the relic records far more than the two, only our country appears on the history relic records has more than10place much. The Tooth Relic of also known as monkey, collection records Datang angel from North Indian Gandhara receive Mami relic of sakyamuni.Thesis of Wenshang Baoxiang Temple belief function and development path, and beliefs of people in traditional culture, explore the new way to protect the benefit of the people, from the cultural beliefs, getting more abundant spiritual sustenance, beneficial to the people to form a good state of mind. Cultural beliefs to promote awareness of the local national culture consciousness of protection and inheritance, based on the local cultural resources, give full play to its own advantages, promote the establishment of harmonious cultural town. In order to guide the discovery of local cultural resources, and play their own cultural advantage, realize the harmonious culture of county construction, promote social stability and development, the national culture and social system is benign and interactive, the harmonious culture and promoting the construction of harmonious society.