Some of the warriors around Huiyuan tightly grasped the sharp swords they were wearing. But in order to show his open-mindedness, Emperor Wu endured it and did not have a seizure.

Huiyuan saw all this in his eyes, but he was not afraid, raised his head to look directly at Emperor Wu, and continued to speak aloud: "Your Majesty rules a vast territory and obtains the supreme position, but he listens to the opinions of mediocre people and wants to destroy Buddhism. You say that the true Buddha does not have an image, and that is true. However, sentient beings with ears and eyes can know the Buddha's principles through the Buddhist scriptures and the true Buddha through the Buddha statues. If Buddhism is to be abolished, what will people use to worship the true Buddha?"

Emperor Wu said: "The true Buddha naturally knows that there is no need to rely on Buddhist scriptures and Buddha statues. ”

Huiyuan said: "Before Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty, there were no Buddhist scriptures and Buddha statues, why didn't everyone know that the void was the real Buddha?"

Emperor Wu couldn't answer.

Huiyuan said, "If it weren't for Buddhism, people would know the Dharma. Then when the Three Emperors and Five Emperors had no writing, people should know the Three Principles and Five Constants and the like. But the people of that time knew only their mothers, but not their fathers, as beasts. ”

Emperor Wu still had nothing to say, but the look of anger had overflowed on his face.

Huiyuan also said: "If the Buddha statue is ruthless, Buddhism will be abolished." So does the portrait of the former Son of Heaven in the country have true feelings, and must be respected?"

Emperor Wu did not answer, but said: "Buddhist scriptures are foreign laws, and they are not used in their own countries." I will also abolish the images that were erected by the previous generations. ”

Huiyuan said: "If the law is to be abolished because it is a foreign country, then the teachings of Confucius in the past came from the Lu country, should the land of Qin and Jin be abolished? If the portraits of the previous generations are abolished, it means that the ancestors are not respected, and if the ancestors are not respected, there will be disorder and disorder, and the Five Classics of Confucianism will lose its effect." So how do you keep the righteousness of Confucianism? After Confucianism is abolished, how can you govern the country?"

Emperor Wu said: "Although the state of Lu and the Qin and Jin dynasties were different fiefdoms, they were both the territories of the king of Zhou, so Confucianism and Buddhism were different. ”

Emperor Wu's courtiers were already angry, but Huiyuan didn't care. Continue to ask: "If it is believed that Qin and Lu are the same country, then China and Tianzhu, where Buddhism is prevalent, although the borders are different, there is no one who is not within the four seas of Futu, and the two countries can also be said to be one kingdom. So why don't we respect Buddhism and abolish it?"

Emperor Wu did not answer.

Huiyuan said: "You said that retiring monks and returning to the world, advocating filial piety, and adopting parents is indeed a Confucian proposition. But dedicating oneself to the Buddha's way so that one's parents are noble is also practicing filial piety, so why should returning home to be filial piety?"

"Parents are deeply gracious, and to take short-term investment as support is to betray their parents and be unfilial. Emperor Wu retorted.

Huiyuan said: If, as Your Majesty said, the people around Your Majesty have parents, why don't you let them go home, but let them serve for five years without seeing their parents?"

Emperor Wu said, "According to what you said, let my subordinates go back to serve their parents." ”

Huiyuan also said: "Buddhism also talks about filial piety, monks cultivate in winter and summer, and go home to serve their parents in spring and autumn, so there are eyes and begging to support their mothers, such as coming to see the coffin and burial." The Dharma is to pass through Dali, and it cannot be abolished alone. ”

Emperor Wu replied wordlessly.

Hui Yuan asked sharply: "Your Majesty is now destroying the Dharma according to the royal power, which is an evil act. Hell is not a choice of high and low, isn't Your Majesty afraid of going to hell?"

Emperor Wu was furious and glared at Huiyuan: "As long as the people can get happiness, I would rather go to hell!"

Huiyuan said loudly again: "Your Majesty uses evil methods to educate the people, and the people will suffer all kinds of hardships with Your Majesty, where is there any joy?"

At this time, the monks were stunned by what Huiyuan said, fearing that something would happen to him.

Although Emperor Wu wanted to harm Huiyuan, it was inconvenient to start because of the lack of reasoning and words, and his heart to destroy the Buddha was even more determined.

At that moment, the decree said: "The monks will go back first, and then they will meet to discuss it later, and you will write down the name of the argument with me just now." ”

Soon, Emperor Wu of Zhou issued an edict banning Buddhism, and almost all the monasteries in the north were destroyed, and most of the monks fled south. Buddhism was dealt a heavy blow.

After exiting the main hall, Shangtong and other mages stepped forward to hold Huiyuan's hand, and burst into tears: "The power of the Son of Heaven is difficult to touch, you can protect the Dharma while being poor, you are indeed a living Bodhisattva." Emperor Wu's sins are unforgivable. You have done your best for the Dharma Protector. ”

Huiyuan said: "Righteousness must be declared, where can I take care of my life." ”

Then, Huiyuan said goodbye to the monks: "The luck is not good, the will of the Son of Heaven cannot be disobeyed, and I cannot be accompanied." But the Dharma will not be extinct, and our desire for liberation can be fulfilled, so you don't have to worry about it. ”

Huiyuan was thirteen years old when he became a monk, and initially joined the monk Si Zen master. As soon as the monk Si Zen Master Gao Shen saw Huiyuan, he said to him: "You have the face of a monk, you should cherish this opportunity." ”

At the beginning, Seng Si asked Huiyuan to read the scriptures by himself, and he taught Huiyuan at any time.

As soon as Huiyuan was not careful, Seng Si whipped him with a whip, so Huiyuan studied the Fa very hard.

Huiyuan left the monk and learned the law from lawyer Lizhan, Shangtong, and Dayin.

After studying, Huiyuan has become a great master who is proficient in Buddhist scriptures and good at teaching Buddhist principles.

People rushed to discuss Buddhism with Huiyuan, and there was a constant stream of visits.

The name of Huiyuan spreads far and wide.

After debating with Emperor Wu of Zhou, Huiyuan hid in the West Mountain of Jijun and cultivated diligently in the mountain.

In three years, I read the Lotus Sutra and Vima nearly 1,000 times.

And then he practiced these Buddhas, often sleeping in the mountains and drinking in the valleys.

After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Wen greatly promoted Buddhism.

In the early years of the emperor's reign, Emperor Wen summoned the world's eminent monks to Famen Temple to preach the Dharma, and Huiyuan was among them.

It is very interesting that at the beginning, Huiyuan stood up for the protector of the Dharma, argued with the Son of Heaven, and almost died.

Now, Huiyuan is valued by the emperor for propagating the Dharma.

In the spring of the seventh year of the emperor's reign, Huiyuan lived in Shangdang.

In the summer, Emperor Wen issued an edict inviting Huiyuan to the capital to preach the law, and the edict was earnest.

Huiyuan knew that he couldn't excuse himself, so he went to Beijing.

At that time, Emperor Wen issued an edict to invite six eminent monks, and Huiyuan was one of them.

The monks and more than 200 scholars gave a lecture on Buddhism.

Emperor Wen sometimes came to the lecture to listen to the Fa in person. Emperor Wen also let all the great virtues live in Xingshan Temple and held a grand puja.

As a result, the people who studied the Fa rushed to the capital, and the audience was a high-ranking monk**.

Among the six monks, Huiyuan has the most fame.

Every time he sat at the table, he shouted loudly, like thunder, and the listeners were moved.

Hui Yuansheng is simple and upright, serious and serious. As for the fulfillment of the precepts, there is no mercy.

Where Huiyuan preached, all the tools for punishment were placed.

When the disciples are incomplete, or do not bathe and purify, or misinterpret the Dharma, or have abnormal manners, Huiyuan will not listen to their justifications, and will be severely punished.

Whenever a disciple learns and does not understand, Huiyuan is so anxious that he often has to step forward and twist the other party's ear.

In order to teach Buddhism, Huiyuan has been commenting on the scriptures from beginning to end. The scriptures annotated by Huiyuan include "The Earth", "The Ten Lands", "Huayan", "Nirvana" and so on.

After Huiyuan finished holding the ground, he dreamed that he had climbed Mount Meru.

He looked around from the top of the mountain and saw a vast expanse of water, and then he saw the image of the Buddha.

The Buddha was lying under the treasure tree with his head facing north, and his purple-gold body was covered with dust.

Huiyuan stepped forward, bowed down first, and then brushed the dust off the Buddha's body with his own clothes.

Immediately, the Buddha's body became bright and clean.

After waking up, Huiyuan knew that this was the commentary he had written that was in line with the original intention of the Buddhist scriptures, so he had this sign.

After that, Huiyuan wrote "Nirvana Shu" again, but after writing it, he did not dare to talk about it, and asked the Buddha to give him instructions in a dream.

In the dream, he personally shaped the statue of seven Buddhas and eight Bodhisattvas, and when he was about to finish the color, a person came out from the side, asked Huiyuan for a pen, and completed the work on behalf of Huiyuan.

When he woke up, Huiyuan thought, "I will die soon." ”

Hui Yuan immediately began to lecture on the method of nirvana in order to make the most of the little time he had left.

Before giving a lecture, he asked the monks to recite Prajnaparamita 50 times in return for the four kindnesses.

In less than a year, Huiyuan dreamed that the long pole of the Jingying Temple had fallen and the hanging lamp had gone out. Huiyuan knew he was leaving.

A few days later, when Huiyuan was walking outside the house, he felt light.

He bathed outside with perfume, then went back to the house and drank porridge and lay down on the bed.

After a while, Huiyuan asked the disciple, "What time is it?"

The disciple replied, "It's exactly the right time." ”

Huiyuan said: "I feel that the cold air has reached the navel, I'm afraid death is not far away, please move the bed." ”

Then sit upright, close your eyes, and do not allow others to support you.

Huiyuan sat there, with a solemn posture, like a god.

When everyone smelled the fragrance in the house, they knew that he was already exhausted.

The monks stepped forward to put his hands and feet together, and felt that his hands and feet were soft, and his body was cold, only the top of his head was still slightly warm.

When Huiyuan was in Thanh Hoa, he raised a goose. The goose listened to Huiyuan's lectures every time, and he has been listening to them for several years.

After Huiyuan entered the customs, the goose chirped day and night in the temple, and the monks hated it, so they asked Huiyuan to bring it.

The man with the goose walked to the gate of Jingying Temple, put the goose down, and the goose chirped and flew to Huiyuan's room.

From then on, the goose listened to Huiyuan's lectures tamely as before.

As soon as the goose hears the bell of the puja, no matter what time it is, it will fly into the hall and lie down in the ground to listen to the lecture. The monks dispersed, and the geese flew out with their cries.

And so it went for six years. And suddenly one day the goose wailed and refused to enter the church.

Twenty days later, Huiyuan abandoned the world.

When Emperor Wen learned of Huiyuan's death, he was very sad and said to the ministers: "The country has lost a treasure!"

Soon, everyone erected a monument for Huiyuan.

Written by Xue Daoheng, written by Yu Shinan, and engraved by Ding, these three people were known as the "Three Uniques" at that time.

Tang Dynasty bhikshu Tan Lun, surnamed Sun, Bianzhou Junyi people.

He became a monk at the age of thirteen and studied under Master Duan in Xiufu Temple.

The end of the cultivation of the first view of convenience.

He admonished Tan Lun, "Tie your heart to the end of your nose and you will be still." ”

Tan Lun said: "If you have a heart, of course you can tie it to the end of your nose." But I didn't have the intention to tie it, and I didn't know what to tie. ”

Everyone thought his words were strange.

Tan Lun himself sighed and said, "How can you get a thorough understanding by learning these shallow things?"

Therefore, while the monks were praying and repenting, he himself entered meditation, and everyone admired him.

Later, he once brought a bowl to the hall, and before he had walked halfway, he suddenly stood on the road and settled down, and the bowl in his hand was not slanted at all.

The master praised him very much for this.

Master Duan told him, "For you to learn to meditate, you must first clear your mundane feelings." It's like peeling an onion, peel it off layer by layer, and then it will be clean. ”