Only return to the west

It was only when Bodhi Liuzhi poisoned Bodhidharma for the sixth time that Bodhidharma was poisoned to death. His disciples buried him in a coffin.

On this day, Song Yun, an envoy of the Northern Wei Dynasty who went to the Western Regions, walked to the area of the Green Mountains, met Patriarch Bodhidharma, and asked him: "Master, to whom have you passed on the Fa?" ”

Patriarch Bodhidharma said, "You will know later." I'm going back to India. Then he took off one of his shoes and gave it to Song Yun and said, "Go back quickly, your king will die today." ”

Song Yun talked about it after he came back, and he didn't believe that Bodhidharma was dead. So they opened the coffin and saw that there was only one shoe inside. Some people say that Patriarch Bodhidharma was 150 years old when he came to China.

Historical sites

Nanjing Victory

Nanjing Yuhuatai Gaozao Temple, according to legend for the Bodhidharma Patriarch here to listen to the presiding Shenguang preaching, shaking his head disagreed, Shenguang was surprised, after following at least the room mountain, the snow interrupted the arm to seek the law, and finally became the second ancestor of Zen Hui Ke. There is a Bodhidharma cave under the shogunate mountain on the side of the Yangtze River in Nanjing, and it is said that Bodhidharma crosses the river from here "a reed"; There is the site of "Changlu Temple" in Changlu Town, Liuhe, Jiangbei, which was built to commemorate the Bodhidharma Patriarch who crossed the river with a reed, and the successive dynasties have been repeatedly abandoned and built, and are now being rebuilt in different places; There are the ruins of Dingshan Temple in Pukou, Jiangbei, which is the first temple in Xi after Bodhidharma a reed crosses the river, there are relics such as "Bodhidharma Rock", as the ancestral court of Zen Buddhism is earlier than Shaolin Temple. The temple is currently being rebuilt.

Sacred Miracles of Guangzhou

Guangzhou Shangxiajiugu is the Pearl River Wharf, and is now a prosperous pedestrian commercial street. Among them, there is a small piece of "Bodhidharma Patriarch Xilai Landing Place" stone tablet in Hualin Street, and there is a thousand-year-old temple "Hualin Temple" (the original name of "Xilai Nunnery"), which is said to have been built by Bodhidharma. The stone pagoda in the temple contains 21 relics of the true body of the Buddha.

There is Bodhidharma "washing bowl spring" in Guangxiao Temple, commonly known as "Bodhidharma Well".

Historical influences

According to the unearthed materials in Dunhuang, among the many writings that have been passed down as the Dharma doctrine since ancient times, only the "two into four elements theory" seems to be the real thought of Bodhidharma. In the "Biography of Bodhidharma" in Tang Jingjue's "Records of the Teachers of Lenga", there is: "Slightly distinguish the four elements of the Mahayana path", which was recorded by Tanlin, a disciple of Bodhidharma. According to Tan Lin's preface, he compiled the words and deeds of Bodhidharma into a single volume, called "Bodhidharma Treatise"; And Bodhidharma wrote a volume of "The Essence of Shakranga" for the zazen people, also known as "Dharma Treatise". These two treatises were very popular at the time.

There are also Dunhuang unearthed "Bodhidharma Monk Absolute Views", "Buddha Bodhidharma Heartless Theory", "Nantianzhu Bodhidharma Zen Master Guanmen" (a "Mahayana Theory"), etc., as well as the North Korean Fanyu Temple engraved "Zen Gate Summary" two volumes, Japan Suzuki Daisho school magazine "Shaomuro Yishu" received on Bodhidharma papers. The content of these writings is more or less the same.

Bodhidharma's Zen method of "two into four elements" is centered on the "wall view" method. Tang Zongmi's "Preface to the Collection of Zen Sources" Volume 1 (Taisho 48.403c): "Bodhidharma teaches people to feel at ease with the clouds with a wall view, and the outer fate stops, and the heart is like a wall, so that you can enter the Tao, isn't it the method of sitting meditation?" The so-called two into the "rational entry" and "line entry", the rational entry is the theoretical thinking that belongs to the teaching, and the practice belongs to the practice, that is, the teaching of the combination of the theory and practice of Zen Buddhism.

The names of the rational entry and the line entry are found in the fifth part of the "Vajra Samadhi Sutra" translated by Bei Liang. However, the "Vajra Samadhi Sutra" says that the principle is 'enlightenment', and the "wall view" is a unique Zen method from Bodhidharma. Daoxuan's evaluation of Bodhidharma Zen at the end of the 20th volume of the "Continuation of the Legend of the High Monks" (Taisho 50·596c): "The Mahayana wall view has the highest merit, and the stream of learning in the world is like a city. “

The characteristic of the wall meditation method is that it is 'enlightened by teaching', that is, the standard of not departing from the holy religion when enlightening the faith, which constitutes the meaning of teaching people to "not follow the teachings of literature" after the faith, that is, to no longer rely on words and teachings. In the second entry, the principle is mainly to enter, and the line is to help.

Later generations of Buddhism to "outside the teaching, do not set up words" as the symbol of Dharma Zen, because it directly to understand the Buddha's mind as the ultimate goal of Zen, so also called Zen Buddhism "Buddha's heart sect". There are also people who call it "Ranga Sect" because Bodhidharma is dedicated to the "Ranga Sutra" to give people as a confirmation of Zen participation.

Bodhidharma's inheritance is no longer verifiable, and later generations have various theories to trace the tradition. "The Records of the Teachers of Ranga" recommends that Nabhadra be the first ancestor, Bodhidharma is the second, and Shenxiu is the seventh. The Shenhui insists that the Southern Sect is orthodox, affirms Bodhidharma as the first ancestor of Chinese Zen Buddhism, and advocates that the six generations of Bodhidharma, Huike, Sangcan, Daoxin, Hongren, and Huineng are in the same line. Ji Jia Ye, Tan Yao's translation of "Fu Fa Zang Karma Biography", etc., also have the Western Heaven lineage.

Tang Zhiju's "The Legend of Baolin" (written in 801) is based on the 24th generation of the Indian transmission from the Kasya, to the master's bhikshu, followed by the 28th generation of Bhasta, Hinda, Prajnathara and Bodhidharma. This theory was inherited by the "Zutang Collection" (completed in 952) and the "Zongjinglu" (completed in 957) collected by the two masters of Quanzhou Jing and Yun in the Southern Tang Dynasty of the Five Dynasties, and was also used by Song Daoyuan's "Jingde Chuan Lantern Record" (completed in 1004) and Qi Song's "Transmission of the Fa Zhengzong Ji" (completed in 1061), which later became the orthodox theory of Zen Buddhism.

Disciples of the Transmission

Bodhidharma's disciples include Hui Ke, Dao Yu, Seng (a "Dao") deputy and Tan Lin.

Dao Yu, a Hui Yu, he and Hui Ke have been working with Bodhidharma for four or five years, and he is one of the first disciples of Bodhidharma. He learned Zen Buddhism from Bodhidharma, focusing on his inner practice and rarely speaking to others. His deeds are no longer known, only the "Jingde Chuan Lantern Record" volume 3 records the legend that Bodhidharma was dying from Xu Hui to get the marrow, the Tao to cultivate the bone, the nun to hold the flesh, and the Taoist deputy (that is, the monk vice) to get the skin, which can be imagined as a spot in his Zen degree.

Monk vice, common surname Wang, a native of Qi County, Taiyuan, is a disciple of Bodhidharma. During the period of Southern Qi Jianwu (494~497), he lived in Dinglinxia Temple in Zhongshan (now Nanjing). He admired the beautiful scenery of Minling Emei, and took advantage of Xiao Yuanzao's entourage to enter Shu when he left the town of Shu (now Sichuan), thus making Zen popular in Sichuan. Later, he returned to Jinling (now Nanjing), and died in Jinling Kaishan Temple in the fifth year (524) at the age of sixty-one.

Tan Lin claimed to be a disciple of Bodhidharma, and once recorded Bodhidharma's 'two into four elements of the theory'. In "The Legend of Hui Ke", he is called Master Lin. Between the first year of Yongping of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the first year of Wuding of the Eastern Wei Dynasty (508~543), he participated in the translation of scriptures in Luoyang and Yedu, and was an important figure who participated in the translation of the scriptures at that time. He was erudite and good at speaking, and often preached the "Sutra of Victory" in Yedu.

During the Zhou Wu eradication of the law, he and Hui Ke jointly supported the classics, and one of his arms was cut off, known as the 'armless forest'. Although Tan Lin was close to Bodhidharma in his early years, he attached equal importance to Zen and righteousness, so the statement that Mo was dying of Mo on his side and printed the skin, flesh, bones, and marrow respectively did not mention Tan Lin. Take a hundred plating to read the latest chapter of "Glory of Kings: Sanction System Claw Book House" for free for the first time.