Zhenru Temple

The Zhenru Chan Temple is a Chan Buddhist temple located at the southwestern hillside of Mount Yunju in Yongxiu County, Jiangxi, China. Zhenru Chan Temple is the cradle of Caodong college in Chinese Buddhism. The temple has been burned down and rebuilt numerous instances due to wars and fires. The present version was finished in the 50s. The Zhenru Temple become built among 806 and 810 all through the mid-Tang dynasty by way of monk Daorong, where he taught Chan Buddhism with his disciples Quanqing and Quanhui for almost 70 years.

In the year, 883 for the duration of the reign of Emperor Xizong, the nearby navy governor Zhong Chuan invited master Daoying to the temple to evangelise Buddhism. The emperor bestowed a plaque inscribed by using with Chinese characters of "Longchang Chan Temple". In 1592, in the 20^th year of Wanli length within the Ming dynasty, Hongduan, the abbot of Wanfo Temple in Beijing, went to Mount Yuju to rebuild the temple. After the empress dowager heard the information, she gave a bronze statue of Rocana and a hard and fast of Tripitaka to assist the reconstruction task. In 1602, the Wanli Emperor inscribed a few plaques and couplets to the temple.