The 115th Dialectical Conference (I)
The Dialectic Conference has always been the best and most open way to promote the overall level of cultivation of the Buddha's Dharma, and basically as long as there is a Dharma meeting held nearby, the nearby Buddha's Dharma lovers will come to participate.
Out of the Two Realms Mountain, starting from Ajuni and Quzhi, and then to the south, the national city-states basically believe in the doctrine of the Buddha, and the closer to Tianzhu, the more they believe in the ancestor of the Buddha, and Wu Sizang is of course no exception.
Of course, the master who invited Xuanzang, if Xiang Gong guessed correctly, should be the Wuchao Zen master in the original book.
This is a mysterious master, although his appearance is very short, and not many people even pay attention to it, but he can accurately predict the appearance of Monk Sha, and also taught the Mahayana Buddhism Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra to Xuanzang, it is obvious that he should be a master of Mahayana Buddhism.
However, of course Xiang Gong doesn't care about winning or losing, although it is just a discussion, but there will still be a distinction in everyone's hearts, Xuanzang as a Tang Dynasty holy monk If he loses, I am afraid that it will not be very good-looking, Xiang Gong still thought of an idea, maybe how much
After noon, when I came to the venue, there was a crowd of people, lay people who practiced at home, monks who practiced at home, all kinds of good men and women, gathered together.
Xuanzang has been drilling forward, he has an invitation letter, he will sit on the platform to compete with the masters of various sects and factions from the Western Regions, even if he doesn't say a word, he will sit next to the masters and listen to their debate, which is undoubtedly the point that Xuanzang is most interested in.
Xiang Gong followed, but he didn't go on stage, he wanted to stand under the stage to back up Xuanzang, saying that the first patriarch of the Shi family preached 3,000 disciples, and the one who got its essence was one in a hundred.
The same Dharma has different meanings when understood by different people, and the emphasis on studying the scriptures is different, so there are 16,000 sects in the lineage.
Although Xuanzang had been studying in the Tang Dynasty for more than ten years at this time and had seen many mysteries of sects, it was the first time for him to come to the Western Regions, and he only knew a thing or two about the sectarian doctrines here.
The Tibetan Buddhism of Wusi Tibetan Buddhism inherits the yoga theory of the Tianzhu sect, and the study is the doctrine of the Hinayana sect.
For example, the Eight Auspicious Divine Mantras, the Infinite Gate Micro Tantric Sutra, the Huaji Dharani Sutra, the Sentence Sutra, the Mahaprajnaparamita Sutra, the Seven Buddha Divine Mantras, the Dorin Bowl Mantras, the Manira Divine Mantras, and other 25 parts.
And the lineage of these scriptures must be those who have been initiated, that is, the so-called tantric transmission, so it is called tantra.
Of course, Tantra at this time was still immature, but it was also the most mainstream school in the Western Regions, and it was also a very novel school for Xuanzang.
As soon as the debate on the stage began, all parties to the debate had already begun to warm up, one person with a black beard and a black face, a solemn appearance of the law, wearing a crimson robe and a scarlet robe on his back, stood in the middle of the stage and put forward his topic: What is the correct aspect of the law.
This is one of the characteristics of the Usizang Tantra, the so-called Dharma has a deity, at this time, the Usizang monks believe in the comprehensive Dharma, even if everyone is inclusive, including one, all kinds of Dharma Buddha-figures are credible.
In fact, this way of believing is very inclusive and open-minded, and the so-called Dharma Aspect proposed by this master today is originally a discussion and investigation of which of the many Dharma Buddha-figures of Tantra is orthodox, which can be regarded as a well-intentioned topic, after all, everyone can talk about what kind of views they believe in the Dharma Buddha-figures, which has a very good role in promoting the insight and cultivation of different Buddha-figure believers.
It's a pity that what he didn't expect was that this would also cause irreconcilable contradictions between various Buddha-figure believers, after all, only their own Buddha-figure is orthodox, and this is the belief that everyone hopes to pass on to the world.
Sure enough, the discussion slowly diffused the smell of gunpowder, Xiang Gong frowned, I'm afraid this master who put forward the topic will have a headache, right?
"Wuchao Zen Master, my disciple has some different opinions, I don't know if I can argue with it."
This voice is so familiar that it can't be more familiar, of course it's Xuanzang, his sudden voice made Xiang Gong, who was out of his mind, stunned, I'll go, didn't I just say that I was just here to learn? Why didn't people provoke themselves, and they stood up to find trouble?
The old monk who raised the topic smiled slightly, nodded and said, "Naturally!" ”
It turned out that he was Wuchao Zen Master, and sure enough, it was obvious that Xuanzang was invited by him.
Xiang Gong began to observe the old monk carefully, Xuanzang had already started his own opinion on the stage, but Xiang Gong didn't have the heart to listen.
Most of his thoughts are on Wuchao Zen Master, it stands to reason that Wuchao Zen Master is such a mysterious master, he should not have thought that the topic he proposed would cause conflicts between different factions, why did he still bring it up?
This master can teach the Heart Sutra of Mahayana Buddhism to Xuanzang, which means that he must have come into contact with the scriptures of Mahayana Buddhism, so where did he come into contact with it? Mahayana Buddhism's self-salvation is much higher than that of Hinayana Buddhism, so why didn't he directly propose Mahayana Buddhism, but became entangled in the tantric doctrine of Hinayana Buddhism?
"Therefore, the so-called Dharma Rectification, my disciple thinks, is not as simple as a certain Buddha-figure, we should trace back to the origin, and seek the Dharma-rectification in the scriptures of many Buddha-figures, that is the real Buddha-Buddha Enlightenment of the first generation of patriarchs!"
Xuanzang's words immediately aroused heated discussions among everyone, according to him, everyone's beliefs are just small paths, only the original deity of the first patriarch is the correct Fa Xiang, and this Fa Xiang still needs to be grabbed in various classics, and then synthesized.
Isn't what they believed in before just a scale?
It sounds very reasonable, after all, the first patriarch was the first to put forward the doctrine of Buddhahood, but this is tantamount to denying the belief of almost everyone present for a few years, more than ten years, or even decades and a lifetime, and no one will accept such a denial.
"Nonsense, I watched a big nonsense of Tang Dynasty students in the morning, I was already very uncomfortable, and now you, a monk from the Tang Dynasty, dare to open your mouth in the beliefs of all of us, it is simply presumptuous, according to what you said, are our beliefs wrong? Bastard! ”
Suddenly, someone in the audience scolded loudly, everyone was stunned, and when they looked back, a layman slowly stepped onto the stage, and it turned out to be Zhenanzi again.
Xiang Gongmeng, why is he everywhere? Could it be that this kid was stimulated by himself, so he came to find fault? Is it that all the things of the Tang Dynasty will become a thorn in his side in the future?
Xiang Gongzheng covered his face and shook his head, he didn't expect to encounter such a dog skin plaster, but he didn't care when he heard Xuanzang, and laughed: "What does this layman believe?" Which Buddha-figure? ”
"Peacock King!" Zhenanzi said arrogantly.
"From whom did his doctrine come from?"
"Nature is the first generation...... The first patriarch, but I would like to ask the monks of the Tang Dynasty, are you really sure that you can study the classics and then get the correct Fa Xiang? ”
"Nature."
"Well, you are not a person who writes about the classics, can you really read the minds of the living from the so-called classic dead things?"
"This ......" Xuanzang was speechless, and Xiang Gong secretly said that it was not good.