Gold plated wood carving   Colored drawing Image height 32 cm

Welcome to Jialan Bodhisattva's Christmas

          Jialan is the abbreviation of Sanghalanmo, which is translated into Zhongyuan, namely the garden where the monks live, which is also the general name of the temple.

    "Galactic God", in a narrow sense, refers to the guardian god of the Galactic land; Broadly speaking, it refers to all the good gods who support Buddhism. According to the Mantra of the Seven Buddhas and Eight Bodhisattvas, there are eighteen guardian Kalan gods, namely Meiyin, Sanskrit Yin, Tiangu, Qiao, Tanmei, Guangmiao, Leiyin, Shiziyin, Miaomei, Fanxiang, Renyin, Buddhist Nu, Tande, Guangmu, Miaoyuan, Thorough Listening, Thorough Seeing, and Omni Seeing, which are collectively called "eighteen Kalan gods".

In Chinese Buddhism, Duke Guan (Guan Yu, the general of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms Period) is often regarded as the god of Jialan. It is said that the founder of Tiantai Sect in the Sui Dynasty was a wise master who once settled in Yuquan Mountain in Jingzhou; Dingzhong once saw the Emperor Guan show his spirit, and led his relatives of ghosts and gods to show all kinds of terrible scenes to disturb the wise. After the enlightenment of the wise master, Emperor Guan asked the wise man to teach him five precepts, so he became a formal Buddhist disciple and vowed to be a Dharma Protector of Buddhism. Since then, this hero who has been highly respected by Chinese people for more than a thousand years has become the Dharma Protector of Buddhist temples.