Doushuai Temple at the Lion Hill is one of the “Forty Views of Jinling”. “Doushuai” is the transliteration of Sanskrit, meaning “feeling content and enjoying the happiness”.

　　The founder of Doushuai Temple is Zheng Jifan (namely Monk Boan), hierarch of Jiangpu in the Ming Dynasty. The temple is located in the remote mountains, facing the Lion Hill and leaning against the Wolong (crouching dragon) Hillock. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, many hierarchs came to interpret the Buddhist Scripture and made the temple well renowned home and abroad.

　　In recent years, the temple has been rebuilt and many facilities have been constructed, ending the long history of no electricity supply. Concrete roads replaced the bumpy hill roads of the former days, on which cars can be driven directly to the gate of the temple. Visitors from far and near come thick and fast. Every 15th day of the first month of the lunar year, there will be a temple fair, attended by huge crowds of people.

　　The abbot of the Doushuai Temple is Monk Yuan Lin, who is already in his nineties. Yuan Lin is not only good at sermon, but also has profound knowledge of poetry, calligraphy and painting. His handwritings are almost as good as Master Hong Yi. Master Da Dao, Dean of Hong Kong Buddhist College called his works "the reproduction of Hong Yi's". Yuan Lin is good at painting landscape; he likes drawing plum blossom, bamboo, and orchid and is especially skillful in drawing lifelike figures of Buddha. His enjoys the fame in Buddhism circles of Nanjing and Hong Kong. So those who can get the handwriting or painting of Yuan Lin will be overwhelmed with joy.  

Source: Pukou District Bureau of Cultural Affairs