Tan Wuxian was worried that the scriptures would be stolen, so he pillowed them under his head when he slept, but he was pulled under the bed for three nights, thinking that he was a thief, but when he woke up, he was empty, and he was puzzled, when he suddenly heard the air say: "These are all scriptures for the Buddha to liberate suffering, how can you pill it under your head?"

He understood at the moment, was extremely ashamed, and hurriedly put it on a high place.

The thief finally came, but he couldn't mention it several times.

After dawn, when he saw him easily carrying him out of the hotel, he thought he had met a saint, and he couldn't help but come forward to apologize.

Hexi Wang Fuqu Mengxun occupied the area of Liangzhou and established himself as the king, known as Beiliang in history.

When he heard of his reputation, he summoned him to meet him and asked him to translate the scriptures.

Tan Wu thought about it, he didn't understand Chinese, and he didn't have a translator to help, so there would be a lot of mistakes.

So he didn't agree, he studied Chinese for three years before he translated the ten volumes of "The First Division".

At that time, there were two monks in the Hexi area, Hui Song and Daoming, who were very respected, and when they saw his translation, they were extremely admired and came to visit.

Since then, his translations have been recorded by Hui Song.

He has successively translated "The Great Collection", "The Great Cloud", "The Sorrowful Hua", "The Earth Holds", "The Precepts of Youposai", "The Golden Light", "The King of the Sea Dragon", "The Bodhisattva Precepts", etc., with a total of more than 600,000 words.

His translation style is full of literary brilliance, and his rhetorical system is gorgeous and dense.

Later, he thought that the number of "Nirvana Sutras" was not enough, so he went abroad to search, and when his mother died, he delayed for more than a year.

He traveled far and wide, obtained the "Middle Division" of the Sutra, brought it back for translation, and then sent someone to find the "Later Division", so he continued to translate it into thirty-three volumes.

It was completed from the third year of the Xuan Dynasty to October 23 of the tenth year. Tan Wu still said to the crowd: "There are 35,000 verses in the Sanskrit text of this sutra, and here you subtract a million words, and there are only more than 10,000 verses. ”

Zhang Ye wanted to receive the bodhisattva vows from him, but he only said: "Repent of your mistakes first." ”

Dao Jin retreated and repented wholeheartedly for seven days and seven nights, and went again on the eighth day, and was furious at first sight.

Daojin further pondered: "This is my karma that has not been removed. ”

So he worked hard for three years, practicing meditation and repenting at the same time.

One day, while he was meditating, he suddenly saw Buddha Shakyamuni and other monks teaching him the precepts.

The dozen or so people who were together that night also dreamed of this situation.

Daojin wanted to tell Tan Wuxian that he was still a few dozen steps away, so he was shocked and sang: "Wonderful, wonderful! I have already felt the precepts! I should further testify for you." ”

In front of the statues of the Buddhas, he explained to him the differences in the appearance of the precepts.

Since then, more than 1,000 people, including Doro, who is famous in Kansai, have been ordained from Daojin.

Some books say that the "Bodhisattva Land Sutra" should be transmitted to the eastern land by Ipor Bodhisattva, and the messenger is Tan Wuxuan, so some people suspect that he is not an ordinary person.

In addition to translating scriptures and transmitting the law, Tan Wuxian often tried Taoism.

One day he said to Meng Xun: "There is an epidemic ghost gathered here and it is inevitable. ”

Meng Xun didn't believe it, he must see it in person as evidence, and he cast a spell on him without confession.

When Meng Xun saw the ghosts, he was horrified, and said without confession: "You should be sincere and fast, and use a divine spell to drive them away." ”

For three days of reciting the mantra, Meng Xun waited in fear.

Three days had passed, and Tan Wu said, "The demons have been driven away." ”

On the border, the man who saw the devil said, "There are hundreds of plague ghosts running away in droves." ”

As a result, the territory is tranquil.

In the second year of Chengxuan, Meng Xun crossed the Yellow River, went to Baohan to attack the begging and twilight, let the prince Xingguo be the forerunner, but failed, Xingguo was captured by the twilight, and then the begging was broken by Helian Dingding, Xingguo and the twilight were captured, and then Tuyuhun beat Helian Dingding, and Xingguo was killed in the chaos.

When Meng Xun heard the news, he was furious and scolded the uselessness of Buddhism, so he dismissed the monks, and those under the age of fifty must return to the laity.

Tan Wuxian first made Meng Xun cry and weep for the stone statue he built for his mother, and then persuaded him with his words, and Meng Xun suddenly woke up and changed his mind.

However, his reputation for mastery of Taoism led to his bad luck.

Tuoba Tao of the Northern Wei Dynasty, when he heard that Tan Wu confessed that his Taoist skills were profound, he sent an envoy to greet him and threatened: "If you don't release people, you will use soldiers." ”

Although Meng Xun knew that his strength was invincible, he had been with Tan Wuxian for a long time and couldn't bear him to leave.

Tuoba Tao saw that the hard one was not good, so he came to the soft one.

He sent Li Shunlai, the prince of Taichang Gaoping, to worship Meng Xun as the envoy to serve in the middle of the festival, the general of the Taichang Hussars, the pastor of Liangzhou, and the king of Liangzhou, and supervised the military of the Western Regions of Liangzhou.

After the ceremony was completed, he then ordered: "There is a master of Tanwu Confession in your place, who is erudite and talented, who is a first-class person in Kumarosh, and who is good at reciting mantras, and miraculous and magical, and is enough to rival Buddha Tulden. The emperor wanted to hear what he said, so he sent a fast horse to send him there. ”

Meng Xun understood everything immediately, he and Li Shun feasted on Xinle Gate, and when he was slightly drunk, he dropped the cup and said: "The old minister of Xifan is frustrated with Meng Xun, serving the court, and he does not dare to disobey him. But the Son of Heaven listened to the slander and came to persecute him from time to time, and some time ago I asked for him, and I promised to keep him, and now I have come to ask for it, which is really speechless! Tan Wuxian is my teacher, and I should live and die with him. Your Majesty is old, I don't hesitate to die in my old age, what is the fun of living like this!"

Li Shun slowly finished tasting the wine, put down the glass and said: "The king sent his beloved son to serve the court, who knows how loyal he is? It is precisely because of this that the emperor gave the king an incomparable courtesy. But the king wants to damage the mountain-like merits for a mere monk, and he can't hold back his anger and destroy the virtues that have always been there.

Meng Xun sneered: "Too often to speak as beautiful as Su Qin, I'm afraid that words and deeds will not match!"

The two parted unhappily.

Meng Xun refused to let go, and was forced by the strength of Wei, and was in a dilemma, at this time, Tan Wuxian resolutely asked to go west to find scriptures, and Meng Xun was also angry with him.

In March of the third year of Yihe, Tan Wuxian was about to embark on a journey, and Meng Xun pretended to fund him with food and gave him many treasures, and secretly arranged the killer.

At the gate of the city, Tan Wu said to the people with tears in his eyes: "My mortal rival is coming, and the saint cannot save him." ”

Monson had the Assassins kill him in the middle of the way.

Tan Wu died at the age of forty-nine, and the monks and laymen near and far sighed when they heard the bad news.

In the extremely contradictory psychological torment, Meng Xun became more and more confused, often seeing ghosts during the day, stabbing him with a sword, and a month later, he fell ill and died: and Tan Wuxian can also be called "co-death".

An Xiaoyu said: "It's also quite sad to have Meng Xun as a confidant." ”

The little monk said: "Everything is fate, and Tan Wuxian calmly goes to death and returns to Buddhism." ”

An Xiaoyu said: "I really can't understand what you monks are thinking in their heads?"

The little monk said: "We Buddhism also have chic things, I will tell you a story about crossing the water with a cup." ”

In the wilderness, a monk walked lightly, looking back as he went.

The horses were chasing after them, and the hooves of the horses kicked up the messy dust, startling the ravens to scatter in all directions.

The pursuers kept whipping their mounts, but the monk in front of them was out of reach, and they couldn't help but scold: "Thief bald! Eat and live with you, and steal it! Quickly hand over the golden statue, otherwise you will die without a place to be buried!"

The monk was not annoyed, and shook his ragged clothes: "The Buddha statue belongs to me, if it wasn't placed in your neighbor's house three years ago, how could it be knocked out by you?"

After speaking, he stepped forward.

After a few steps, he stopped.

In front of it was a river, deserted with no ferries.

"Look where you're going!" the men behind smirked, sadistic desires distorting their faces.

The person being chased puts down a kind of container reed on his back.

The man on the horse was getting closer and closer, ready to jump down.

The monk took out a wooden cup from the reed.

Several people raised their whips, and the imaginary screams made their hearts flutter.

The monk puts the wooden cup into the water and kicks it on.

Everyone looked at each other.

The monk drifted with the wooden cup to the opposite shore, without sails, but as light as flying.

This is the end of a chase and escape.

So who are the runaways?

He's not a thief, he's an archmage.

Because he had a wooden cup, and he used to cross the river by it, the people called him a cup.

The cup crossed the river, took the golden statue that he had just gotten, and left the Hebei territory, all the way, to the capital.

At this time, the cup master was about forty years old.

He has been wearing a coat for I don't know how many years, one by one, piece by piece, can barely cover his body.

He speaks invertedly and has a moody attitude, sometimes bathing naked in the dead of winter by cracking open the ice, and sometimes basking in the sun in the summer.

I don't always take off my shoes when I go to bed, but I often go barefoot when I wander around the market.

The whole belongings of the cup are a reed.

At that time, the people in the capital saw that he was crazy, and they did not recruit disciples, and second, they did not explain the scriptures, and they did not take him seriously.

One day, he walked to the Yanxian Temple, and the French and Italian specially prepared a living room for him, and the cup had a place to live.

But he always seems to be idle. After living in Yanxian Temple for a while, he said goodbye to Fayi and went to Guangling.

Beidu came to the Yanbu River and asked to take a boat with a smile, but the owner of the boat saw that he was in tatters and looked disdainful.

The cup sighed slightly: "You and I have no chance, don't be reluctant, let's take our own boat." ”

Toss the cup in the water, hum and chant all the way, and go down the river.

Cupdu went ashore and came to a peaceful cottage.

A family surnamed Li in the village was holding a Baguan Zhai meeting, and when the cup saw this, he went straight into the dining hall and sat down.

When everyone saw that this monk was ugly, they frowned and ignored him.

When the master of the Li family came out, he saw a reed in the middle of the courtyard, and he wanted to move it to the corner, but he couldn't move it to a few people, so he had to give up.

After eating and drinking, wipe his mouth, lift the reeds and leave, and look back at the door and smile: "The Four Heavenly Kings will bless the Li family." ”

He walked for a while, and a little scoundrel who was huddled behind him just now said, "Oh, it must be a monk!" Inside his reeds, I saw four children, a few inches long, very dignified, and wearing fresh clothes. ”

"Then why didn't you say it earlier?" Everyone looked frustrated, and the fasting meeting was not done, and they went to chase the cup, but it was too late.

It wasn't until three days later that people saw him in the west of the village and saw him meditating under a cage tree.

The master of the Li family knelt on the ground, invited the cup home, and made offerings every day.

He does not take fasting seriously, drinks wine and eats meat, which is no different from the laity.

The people came to dedicate one after another, and the cup took a look at the people, some reached out to take it, and some asked him to take it back in its original form.

The news reached Liu Xingbo, the assassin of Yanzhou, and Xingbo sent someone to invite him, and he carried the reeds to Yanzhou.