After Zhang Cambodia waited for the Zen master to talk about Huineng's experience of becoming an ancestor, he couldn't help but comment on Huineng: "Huineng's important role in the development and spread of Buddhism can be summed up in three main points. ”

Zen Master: "Those three points?" ”

"One is that everyone has Buddha nature, and as long as everyone cultivates himself to Buddha, he can become a Buddha on the ground. The so-called "bitter sea is boundless, and turning back is the shore". This popularized Buddhism; The second is the sinicization of Buddhism. Huineng believes that as long as people have Buddha nature and have no thoughts in their hearts, they can become Buddhas immediately if they abandon the sufferings of the world, good and evil, and do not need to go to the Western world to become Buddhas. He said that Chinese people want to go to the West to become Buddhas, so where do Westerners go to become Buddhas? The third is to create the doctrine of enlightenment and Buddhahood. Traditional Buddhism (such as the Northern Sect Shenxiu) emphasizes gradual cultivation into Buddhahood, which gives people a long and painful process of cultivating Buddhism. And Huineng believes that as long as people are quiet and do nothing, without thinking and seeking, they will reach the realm of Buddhahood, and Buddhahood does not have to be limited to temples, and they can also become Buddhas by practicing at home. Huineng believes that the Buddha is enlightened, not cultivated. Zhang Cambodia said his point of view in one breath.

After listening to this, the Zen master nodded again and again in agreement. He turned his wit, "Please tell me about the use of Huineng's Southern Sect Zen to the general public?" ”

Zhang Cambodia took over a certain topic, "Before talking about this issue, I want to talk about some changes in the history of the Tang Dynasty. The history of the Tang Dynasty began in 618 when Tang Gaozu Li Yuan became emperor and established the Tang Dynasty, which can be roughly divided into several periods, roughly bounded by the Anshi Rebellion. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the national strength was strong, and the national strength gradually recovered during the period of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, defeating the strong enemy of the Eastern Turks, and Taizong of the Tang Dynasty was honored as the "Heavenly Khan" and achieved the rule of Zhenguan. During the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, he defeated strong enemies such as the Western Turks and Goguryeo and established the rule of Yonghui. After the death of Tang Gaozong, Wu Zetian founded the Jianguo Zhou in 690, which is today's Wu Zhou, and the heroine politics reached its peak. ”

Zhang Cambodia said that next, I wanted to comment on the behavior of Empress Wu Zetian's dictatorship, pro-villain, and loyal ministers. But when the words came to his mouth, he immediately choked back, and talked about the founding of the Tang Dynasty-

The royal family of the Tang Dynasty claimed to be from the Li family of Longxi, and some historians verified that it should be the Li family of Longqing of Zhao County, and had a close relationship with the royal family of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the royal family of the Sui Dynasty. His ancestor was Li Hu during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and he was named one of the Eight Pillars of the Western Wei and Northern Zhou Dynasty for his merits. After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Wen of Sui named Li Hu's son Li Xin as the Duke of Tang, and Li Yuan, the son of Li Hu, inherited the title.

Li Yuan was reused by Emperor Yang of Sui and was sent to stay in Taiyuan in 616, but Emperor Yang of Sui was not at ease with him and sent Wang Wei and Gao Junya to supervise him.

During the Great Cause of the Sui Dynasty, due to the excessive use of national power by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty and the failure of the three conquests of Goguryeo, Li Yuan, the ancestor of the Tang Dynasty, was revolted by the people in various places, which is known as the civil rebellion at the end of the Sui Dynasty.

Li Yuan saw that the world was in chaos and the fall of the Sui Dynasty was irreversible, so he had the idea of replacing it. In 617, Li Yuan killed Wang Wei and Gao Junya, and rebelled in Taiyuan.

Soon, Li Yuan led his sons to break through Qu Tutong in the garrison pass and occupy Daxing City, the capital of Sui. Li Yuan supported Yang Yu as the emperor, was for Emperor Gong of Sui, and respected Emperor Yang of Sui as the emperor, appointed himself as the prime minister, and entered the Tang Dynasty. In Yangzhou, Emperor Yang of Sui, he was disheartened and unwilling to return to Guanzhong, and was finally killed by Yu Wenhua and other rebels in the Jiangdu coup d'état in 618. Li Yuan took this opportunity to force Emperor Gong of Sui to take the throne in May of the same year and establish the Tang Dynasty, that is, Tang Gaozu. The capital city was renamed Chang'an, and the eldest son Li Jiancheng was the crown prince, the second son Li Shimin was the king of Qin, and the fourth son Li Yuanji was the king of Qi.

After Li Yuan established the Tang Dynasty, he used Guanzhong as a base to gradually unify the world. Before entering Guanzhong, he first sent an envoy to tout Li Mi, the Wagang army that occupied Henan, making it a barrier to the east. After entering Guanzhong, he sent Li Shimin to pacify Xue Ju and Xue Rengao in Jincheng in the northwest, and sent Tang envoys An Xinggui and An Xiuren to capture Li Liang of Wuwei.

In 620, he sent Li Shimin to defeat Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang, who invaded Hedong. Later, Emperor Zheng Shichong of Luoyang and Emperor Dou Jiande of Hebei Xia announced an alliance to unite against the Tang Dynasty.

In 622, Li Shimin defeated the coalition army, captured Dou Jiande, and Wang Shichong surrendered. The rest of Dou Jiande's Liu Heimin was also defeated by Li Jiancheng, and Hebei was pacified. In 623, Fu Gongqi led the rest of Du Fuwei to oppose the Tang Dynasty in Danyang, but was captured and killed by the Tang army the following year, and Jiangnan was pacified. In 621, the Tang general Li Jing won the battle of Tang Ping and Xiao Milling, and the Liang Emperor Xiao Mill surrendered to Tang in Jiangling. The following year, Lingnan Feng Ang surrendered, and Qianzhou Lin Shihong died, and the Chinese headquarters came under the ownership of the Tang Dynasty.

During the reign of Li Yuan, according to the old system of Emperor Wen of Sui, the central and local administrative systems were re-established, and the format of laws and decrees was revised, and the system of uniform land and rent was promulgated, and the government and military system were rebuilt, laying the foundation for the system of officials, criminal law, military system, land and military service in the Tang Dynasty.