Chapter 600: Some Current Situations of Buddhist Monasteries
(This is the case not only in the book, but also in many temples today.) Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info doesn't follow some departments, and those departments will choke you by the neck. In the end, it was all a miasma. )
In the next few days, the monks in the monastery were busy sorting out the scripture pavilion, and Su Wen was in constant contact with other monasteries during these days.
It was all the problems that the various sects found when they contacted their respective dojos, or some of the problems raised by those dojos. And after the various sects were summarized, they were all sent to Suwen.
In the establishment of the Buddhist Association, Su Wen did not try to seize power or determine his position in it, except for leading and promoting it at the beginning.
But to his surprise, although he did not do this, and the other monasteries did not either, they still connected with each other with him as the center.
Thinking about it later, Su Wen also understood.
Buddhism is different from the world, and it is not blindly pursuing things like power and status.
As long as it can ensure that it will not be affected internally, the various sects of Buddhism actually do not have much demand for power.
And in this matter, the most important thing is the benefits that can be obtained by the various sects and monasteries, the help that those remote monasteries receive, the ease with which each sect can promote its own ideas, and the guarantee of inheritance obtained by the gradually declining sects such as the Three Treatises Sect of Enlightenment.
In addition to these, the most important thing for an individual is the merit and blessings that come from promoting this matter.
Among them, Su Wen, as the first person to advocate and the person who promoted it, naturally got the most share.
And those who participate will also get what they deserve.
These things are impossible to generalize and difficult to measure, but they are actually there, and the benefits will naturally manifest when needed.
Other than that, there is nothing for everyone to fight for.
As discussed earlier, in the future, the general association will be composed of the teachers of each sect and a small number of lay people who have advanced cultivation, and deal with and coordinate the affairs of the entire Buddhist sect, so that each sect has people in it, and can ensure that they can speak up if they have any problems and get internal information in time.
As for other things that ordinary people value most, such as resource tilting, each sect doesn't matter.
Buddhism practice re-cultivation, re-enlightenment, re-precepts, and other things can ensure daily needs.
At the same time, during this period, the sects also counted some monasteries that were famous, but were actually places to collect money.
Most of those monasteries are fake monks, or the six impure disciples who don't know which sect has pulled them over.
After the establishment of the Buddhist Association, these monasteries will be eliminated.
At the same time, it is also to proclaim to the world.
lest those people always cause all kinds of things, such as greed for money, lust, and deception, and ruin the reputation of the entire Buddhist sect.
In addition, some monasteries that have been influenced by the local tourism authority or others have also shared some information with each sect for help.
Before, no one paid attention to these things, and the various dojos had no way to ask for help, so they all swallowed their teeth into their stomachs, and outsiders couldn't see anything, but the dojos knew something about each other.
Now that it's sorted out, it's shocking to watch.
This kind of thing has even been encountered in the Pure Heart Temple. The Tokai City Tourism Bureau and Suwen proposed that the entrance fee be charged at the Joshin Temple, and the income would go to them.
Of course, there are also benefits to Jingxin Temple, that is, those who travel to the East China Sea, as long as they are local tour guides, will lead tourists to Jingxin Temple. In this way, the Pure Heart Temple can also get some incense money, which is a win-win situation.
Of course, in the eyes of the people in the tourism bureau, this is a win-win situation, but in the eyes of Su Wen, it is not the same thing, and he directly refuted it.
Later, the parking lot under the Jingxin Temple Mountain was approved by the mayor, and the project that could have been completed in three months was delayed for more than half a year on the grounds that the funds were used to build the Dragon Temple.
The situation encountered by other monasteries is much worse than that of Jingxin Temple.
After all, other temples are not as famous as the Pure Heart Temple.
If the tourist office refuses to do so, all the guides in the city will refuse to lead visitors to the temple and instead go to other Taoist temples and other places. In this way, those monasteries even became a problem with the use of the temple, so they had to comply.
And those tourist offices are not willing to accept only entrance fees, but set up merit boxes in the temple.
It has become customary for the boxes with good fortune written on them to go to the temple and the boxes with merit written on them to the tourist office.
Even Guojing Temple and Wuzhen Temple have encountered this kind of problem, but Guojing Temple is the ancestral court of Tiantai and a thousand-year-old temple, so if you don't pay attention to those people, you won't be affected too much.
In addition to these, there are also individuals who have reached out to the monastery. Especially in some remote temples, this situation will be more common.
Monasteries elsewhere rarely encounter this situation, but most have heard of it.
And the Pure Heart Temple, not to mention encountering it, has never even heard of this kind of thing, and Su Wen only learned that there is such a situation through various sects this time.
After all, the force of the Pure Heart Temple is there, and few people dare to stretch out their hands to the Pure Heart Temple. Now that the name of the Pure Heart Temple is resounding all over the country, I don't care about these anymore.
Su Wen also sighed in the room after getting these materials.
In the past, I only knew that some small monasteries were not having a good time, and it was difficult to even use them on a daily basis, and it was difficult to find a way to learn advanced Buddhism.
But now that I have integrated and understood the details inside the Buddhist gate, I found that there are so many moths attached to the Buddhist door to suck blood.
Although Su Wen will not be angry because of this, he also feels sad and lamentable.
Fortunately, it is not too late, and in the context of the establishment of the Buddhist Association, these things must be rectified together.
Even if you offend many people, you are not afraid, you must always return the Buddha to a pure one.
Thinking of this, Su Wen thought of the Yuanji of the Temple of Sorrow again.
What he said before was light, and Su Wen didn't understand these inside information, so he didn't feel it deeply at that time.
But now after learning about these things, Su Wen felt the difficulty and courage of Yuanji at that time, and the determination to return the temple to a pure one.
When he took the Sangha to the Temple of Sorrow, there were statues of Confucianism and Taoism in the temple, and there were even fortune tellers among them. The people who control these are naturally the local forces.
It can be said that the situation is much worse than the monasteries that have been reported now.
And with his enthusiasm and courage, he didn't know how many things he had experienced, so he swept them all out and returned the temple to a clean one.
This is also the reason why there is now a temple of sorrow that is now famous for its penance and resounds.
Looking at those temples, and then looking at the Temple of Sorrow, Su Wen also had a sense of respect for Yuanji in his heart.
What is lacking in today's Buddhism is this kind of mage who can overcome obstacles and have great courage.
There are many people who can do this in their spiritual practice, but not many people who can do it when dealing with worldly things. What's more, he did it, and he did it.
Maybe when the Buddhist Association is set up to clean up these things, we can ask Venerable Yuanji to participate in it.