Zhanshan si 湛山寺

Zhànshān sì 湛山寺 Location: Qīngdǎo 青島 Other names:

Zhànshān Temple

First Founded 193??

Lineage: Tiāntái 天臺 Status: Public (十方叢林)

Institution section editor: Erik Hammerstrom

Zhànshān sì 湛山寺 is a temple built in Qīngdǎo 青島 in the 1930s.

History

This temple was the idea of Yè Gōngchuò 葉恭綽 and Chén Fēiqīng 陳飛青 who, while summering in Qīngdǎo 青島, realized that although there were many churches in the area, there were no Buddhist temples. These two pooled their financial and political resources to build this temple. Work on the temple was begun before 1931 but was not completed for ten years.

In 1934, well before the temple opened, Yè and Chén invited Tánxū 倓虛 to establish the Zhànshān Temple Buddhist Seminary 湛山寺佛學院. This Seminary thus predated the formal opening of the temple. Tánxū became the first abbot of the temple, and he brought the Tiāntái 天臺 lineage he had received under Dìxián 諦閑 at Guānzōng Temple 觀宗寺 to both the Seminary and the Temple.

The temple was closed during the Cultural Revolution, but reopened on June 6, 1988 under the abbotship of Míngzhé 明哲

Personnel

Important Abbots

• Tánxū 倓虛 (1934 - 1946)
• Míngzhé 明哲 (1988 - present)

Notable Residents

• Cízhōu 慈舟

Temple Institution

Important Buildings or Artifacts

Associated Organizations and Groups

• Zhànshān Temple Buddhist Seminary 湛山寺佛學院 (1934 - 1949)

Notes

References

• Shì Dōngchū 釋東初. Zhōngguó Fójiào jìndài shǐ 中國佛教近代史 (A History of Early Contemporary Chinese Buddhism), in Dōngchū lǎorén quánjí 東初老人全集 (Complete Collection of Old Man Dongchu), vols. 1-2. Taipei: Dongchu, 1974 Pp. 2.516-517, 761.
• Official Chinese website for Zhànshān Temple.