Chapter 403 The Advantages of Taoism

Li Chunfeng had also thought about the future of Taoism before, and he had also thought of various ways to make Taoism grow stronger, but most of them were extremely unrealistic, but he never thought about letting Taoism go out.

Until just now, after Li Zhen said this proposal, it was like a lightning bolt that continued to explode between Li Chunfeng's scratches - yes, why has no one ever thought of letting Taoism go out?

Is it because of the fear that the culture of the other race and the culture of the Central Plains will not be compatible, which will make it difficult for Taoism to spread?

This is certainly not the reason, since even Buddhism, a foreign religion, can be carried forward in the Central Plains, there is no reason why Taoism cannot be spread outside.

Is it because you are worried that it is easy to fail in a missionary mission? Loss of disciples?

This is even more impossible, although Taoism in the Tang Dynasty can not do Buddhism, but Taoism is the local religion of the Tang Dynasty after all, with the entire Tang Dynasty as a basis, even if the mission fails, there is also the Tang Dynasty This acre of three points of land is guarded, advance can be attacked and retreated, invincible, with the local as a bonus, even if the failure is at most the loss of a little disciple, it will definitely not hurt the fundamentals. What's more, most of the Taoist disciples are devout believers, and there are countless people who are willing to die with their bodies, and these people are not even afraid of death, but they are also afraid of failure outside?

Is it because the power of Taoism is too weak and there is no energy to spread it?

This is not even more, although Taoism is weak now, but after all, it is a religion that has been inherited for thousands of years, although it is temporarily suppressed by Buddhism, in fact, the background is not weaker than Buddhism, although the influence in the Tang Dynasty is not as good as Buddhism, but this influence is only reflected in the high-level, and in the minds of the believers at the bottom, I am afraid that it may not be much weaker than Buddhism.

In fact, Taoism is a bit overproductive now, which means that they have developed to the peak within the Tang Dynasty, and if they want to go further, they can only kill Buddhism and snatch food from their mouths, and they do exactly that. Not only Taoism, Buddhism is also the same, but it is different from the rigidity of Taoism, it is necessary to compete with Buddhism in the country, Buddhism is much more flexible, they have suppressed Taoism at the same time, they have begun to look for a way out outside, and the countries around the Tang Dynasty are their goals - the previous monks such as Biancai asked Li Zhen to clear the customs and go to the Quartet to preach, which is the best proof.

It was the efforts of these true monks (as distinguished from those false monks) who preached in spite of themselves that the influence of Buddhism was further expanded, starting from the Tang Dynasty to the four directions, and eventually spreading its influence to the whole of Southeast Asia, becoming one of the three major religions in the world.

In the final analysis, Li Chunfeng felt that Buddhism was still developing too well in the local area, suppressing Taoism to the death, and Taoism has been fighting against Buddhism in the Central Plains and competing with them for incense, so his eyes are limited to the Central Plains, and he has never thought about it, nor does he have this vision to spread his thoughts.

But in fact, if Taoism really wants to spread out, it is actually easier than Buddhism, as long as it is not in that kind of place where religious conflicts are more chaotic, in fact, it is very simple to develop the influence of Taoism - because Taoism is different from Buddhism, most people can only fool, and most of the Taoist priests of Taoism have real skills.

Not to mention anything else, most of the Taoist priests of Taoism will have both hands of medical skills, and some have reached the peak on this road (the best example is Sun Simiao), and as we all know, in ancient times, the medical skills of the Han civilization were very advanced, and when the Han doctors used herbs to treat patients, Europe was still in the extent that they would only pray when they were sick, and when the Han doctors compiled their own medical books, Europe had just discovered the effectiveness of bloodletting therapy, so bloodletting became their only means of curing diseases, headache cerebral fever bloodletting, Stomach pain, stomach distension, bloodletting, fever and cough are also bloodletting, and bloodletting is simply regarded as a universal medical skill.

Of course, phlebotomy therapy is indeed effective against fever and venereal disease, and a little less blood can play a role in cooling, but even dizziness and tinnitus have to be bled is too much - you must know that dizziness and tinnitus are generally a symptom of anemia, and the blood itself is less, and then bleedting...... That's not saving people, it's killing people.

But there is no way, they will only use the method of bloodletting, but Christianity controls people's minds to death, so that they dare not desecrate corpses, if it were not for the fact that some doctors who are not afraid of death secretly use corpses for research, I am afraid that their surgical operations will not be developed until now.

In fact, not only in Europe, but also in West Asia and Central Asia, although Tianzhu also has its own medical system, it is much behind Datang. It is conceivable that in the future, if the Tang Dynasty really conquers Europe, Taoism will not even have to do anything else, just throw a few Taoist priests who know how to heal, and it will definitely be able to snatch a large number of believers.

In addition, the theory of Taoism is not as domineering as Christianity, not only oppresses people's bodies, but also oppresses people's minds, on the contrary, Taoism still pays attention to integrating into all things, letting go of the mind, and only needs time for Taoism to even surpass Christianity and become the largest sect in Europe - provided that Christianity does not overreact and suddenly kill people. However, with the garrison of the Tang Dynasty, Christianity may not dare to be so mad.

And those idle Taoist priests who have nothing to do are not just studying medical skills - as I said before, many disciplines are now studied by them, such as alchemy is later chemistry, astronomy is later astronomy, etc., only these Taoist priests need to show their means a little, which is much stronger than pure Christianity that only deceives people with that language, and believers must not be hulala?

Of course, the conquest of Europe should be a long time later, and now if Taoism really wants to be spread, it must look at Nanyang and even Tianzhu - don't look at Tianzhu as the base camp of Buddhism, in fact, in Tianzhu Brahmin is the first major sect, Buddhism is not very good under the suppression of Brahmanism, and its status is not much better than Taoism in the Tang Dynasty.

However, with the declaration of Brahmins as a cult by the Tang Dynasty, a large number of temples have been demolished, idols have been melted down into gold, monks have been expelled or even hunted down, and a large number of monks have to announce their withdrawal from Brahmanism or switch to other sects in order to survive, and the power of Brahmins has been greatly weakened.

In other words, the religious situation in Zhu is very chaotic today, because the Brahmins, as the leading brother, are gone, and a large market has been vacated - this gives other sects the opportunity, it is conceivable that Tianzhu will definitely enter the believer snatching mode in the next period of time, and the major sects will definitely do their best to snatch believers, and even fight, and this situation is undoubtedly the best time for Taoism to start, and when the situation in Tianzhu stabilizes, Taoism is estimated to be able to gain a firm foothold in Tianzhu.

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