What do you mean by the three gates of the temple?

The layout of ancient temples in China is mostly the mountain gate in the middle of the front, the bell tower and drum tower in the left and right of the mountain gate, the Heavenly King Hall in the front, and the statues of four donkey kong in the hall, followed by the Hall of the Great Hero and the Hall of Tibetan Scripture, while the monk's room and the Zhai Hall are on the left and right sides of the middle road. Daxiong Hall is the most important and huge building in Buddhist temples, and "Daxiong" is the Buddha Sakyamuni. Before the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Buddhist temples generally built towers in front of the temples or in the center of the houses. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Buddhist temples generally replaced pagodas, and most of the temples built pagodas.

Shanmen Temple is the gate of the temple, commonly known as the "Three Gates". It is usually an arched building with three portals, with the main entrance in the middle and a slightly smaller portal on the left and right. These three doors symbolize the "three liberation doors" of Buddhism, namely, the empty door, the door without phase (the middle door) and the door without work. The three doors are also called the three liberation doors: ① empty liberation-observing people and me, dharma and me are all empty; (2) no phase liberation-there is no phase in all the laws, and there is no difference in this; 3. Unwilling to get rid of it-it's disgusting to look at life and death, and "unwilling to ask". Therefore, entering the three gates means entering the three gates, which means that when the fire of trouble burns out without an open flame, it will reach a comfortable position because of wisdom. (Buddha's situation).

And only the temples close to the mountains will have the mountain gate gods-two generals, Hum and Ha. When it comes to two generals, Hum and Ha, their origin is this: both of them used to be King Kong Lux in the Buddhist kingdom. According to "Dabaojing Sutra", the two generals, Hum and Ha, held the Vajra pestle (a very strong and sharp ancient combat weapon), which was originally the hag god who defended the Buddhist country. In today's Chinese, it was the two guards guarding the gate, or two generals who guarded the door. There is also a saying in Buddhism that in ancient times, a king's wife gave birth to a thousand sons, all of whom became Buddhas. The youngest two sons, one is called Qingyeji. One is called Lou Zhide. In order to protect their brothers from becoming Buddhas, and at the same time, to protect Buddhism, the two brothers voluntarily became Buddhas. The two of them, armed with weapons, glared at each other, were majestic and conscientious, guarding the mountain gate and defending the Buddha country and Buddhism from being infringed forever.