Introduction to Wenshu Monastery: The predecessor of Wenshu Monastery was the Miaoyuan Pagoda Courtyard in the Tang Dynasty. It was renamed "Xinxiang Temple" in the Song Dynasty and was later destroyed by soldiers. Legend has it that when the founding master, Zen Master Cidu, passed away and was cremated, the red fire condensed into a statue of Manjusri Bodhisattva in the air and remained there for a long time. People believed that Cidu was the incarnation of Manjusri Bodhisattva, and the temple was later renamed Wenshu Monastery. Later, in the thirty-sixth year of Kangxi (1697), funds were raised to rebuild the temple. During the Jiaqing and Daoguang years, Master Benyuan, the abbot of Wenshu Monastery, purchased 82 more stone pillars, renovated and expanded the main hall, and formed the current scale.

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