“重修观音庵”碑 “Re-establishing Guanyin Nunnery” stone tablet

2019-04-08

“重修观音庵”碑 “Re-establishing Guanyin Nunnery” stone tablet
文物位置:承泽园东北角的观音庵院内
文物类别:文物遗迹
Location: in the Guanyin Nunnery, which is in the northeast corner of the Chengze Garden
Category: Sites of cultural relics

 

文物特色
      “重修观音庵”碑仅存碑身,右下角有缺损,碑面亦有一裂痕。此碑为光绪四年重修时所立,碑额题为“万古流芳”,碑身刻记修庵缘起及修缮情况。
 
历史溯源
      观音庵俗称“姑子庙”,始建于康熙年间,光绪四年(1878)重修;今存前殿、正殿(包括两旁耳殿)和东西配殿,现作为居民住宅使用。碑记撰写人为御膳房三等侍卫佟福祥,是为此次重修的主持者。
 
寻章摘句
《重修挂甲屯观音庵碑记》中记载:
盖闻三摩妙地,仰仗慧日,以辉煌七处,征心须参瞿昙之奥义。群沾法雨,普庇慈云,护佑有灵,报答斯厚。兹因挂甲屯之有观音庵也,由来久矣。近因风雨圮倾,凋残日甚,仅有山门一座,正殿三楹,其余诸屋基址虽在,而栋宇荡然,残钟雪压,法像尘封,观者共为欷,闻之莫不感慨。由是弟子因心有感,发愿重修,第工程浩大,独力难成,不得已募化。四方善信君子各施金赀,共襄盛事,遂于光绪四年正月,诹吉兴修,未及半载而工竣。谨将原有山门一座改建前殿三间,正殿三楹重为建构,并于两旁添建耳殿二间,土地祠一间,正殿左右添建东西配殿各三间,复于庵之西院又建北殿三间,耳殿二间。仰瞻各殿诸神圣像,金身光灿乎云霞,即墙垣等处亦皆一律修整,从此庙貌重新,共仰神灵之有赫。谅必慈恩广布,均沾圣德于无穷。工既毕,而善信君子告予曰:颓落若此,建构良难,今既重修,宜传永久,爰书其源委而勒之于石。
御膳房三等侍卫内务府正白旗信士弟子佟福祥敬谨叩化重修
大清光绪四年岁次戊寅六月中浣谷旦谨建
 
Distinguishing feature
      The stone tablet remains the body only, with a defect in the lower right corner and a crack in the surface of the monument. The tablet was set up in the fourth year of Emperor Guangxu’s reign (1878). The monument was titled “Wangu Liufang”, and the inscription was engraved on the origin and repair of the re-repair.
 
History
      The Guanyin Nunnery was built during the reign of Emperor Kangxi and rebuilt in 1878. Now only the antetemple, main hall and the side halls on the east and west exist, which are now used as dwelling houses. The text of the tablet was written by Tong Fuxiang, a lower-class official in the Qing dynasty, who presided over the renovation.