Chapter 5 Chongyang Palace
However, it was said that Yang Guo rushed to the mountain gate of Chongyang Palace, but when he saw that the mountain gate was wide open, none of the disciples guarding the door were gone. The sound of fighting came from the far hall, and it was clear that the fight was very fierce.
Yang Guo couldn't care about much, and hurriedly swept towards the main hall. Before arriving at the Chongyang Palace, I saw that Zhang Zhijing, the real person in charge of the Quanzhen Sect, had led all the juniors and disciples to form the Tiangang Beidou Array, surrounding a young lama in the middle. Yang Guo knew that the Tiangang Beidou Formation was the Quanzhen Sect's Great Guardian Array, and it was only used against Ouyang Feng, Huang Yaoshi, Guo Jing and other martial arts masters back then, and today when this formation is used, it can be seen that the enemy is not small.
But I saw that this young lama was solemn, his eyes were shining, and he was gentle and did not miss the slightest ferocity. With one enemy and seven, a vajra pestle will be so strong that it does not leak, and there is a faint sound of wind and thunder. After getting three hundred moves, he even seized the Ziwei Star position, firmly restrained the Big Dipper and couldn't play, and saw that the array was about to break. Yang Guo couldn't help but be secretly shocked in his heart, in the past few years, he has been guarding Long'er Ning'er Mountain behind closed doors, but he didn't expect that there would be such a rising star in the rivers and lakes, and he would be as good as Xu Gong at such a young age, even if he was afraid that he would be inferior to him by three points. Today, the Quanzhen Sect is only afraid that it will be defeated. Sure enough, after more than 100 rounds, the lama took the position of shaking the light in the formation with a pestle, and the person who guarded the light position was Zhang Zhixian, who was the weakest martial artist among the seven sons of Quanzhen in this generation, and this time the Zen staff hit Zhang Zhixian's vest, only to see a column of blood spurting out of Zhang Zhixian's mouth, his face was like gold paper, and he was obviously very injured. This true Beidou array is broken.
The young lama's wide robe and big sleeves swept out of the formation like a big harrier, and he folded his hands and saluted: "Amitabha, Zhang Zhang's head has conceded, can you admit defeat according to the agreement?" I also ask your sect to give up the area in front of Zhongnan Mountain within three days to build a temple with my Sakya Paixing Temple, and promote the compassion of my Buddha, so that the Buddha and the Tao family will pray for the prosperity of Mongolia and the peace of the country and the people." It's just that there are a group of warrior monks behind him, and there are even more Yuan soldiers to guard them, so it can be seen that if the Quanzhen faction has half of the objections, today's things will not be good.
Zhang Zhijing changed color miserably and said: "That's it, the disciples are not good, and they are ashamed of the ancestors of the past dynasties, and they are ashamed of the disciples." Poor Dao is willing to gamble and lose, and the area in front of Chongyang Palace will be ceded to the Great Lama from today, whether it is a temple or a disciple, it has nothing to do with my religion. ”
It turned out that this Quanzhen Sect had been in the north of the Yangtze River since Qiu Zhenren gave lectures to Genghis Khan, and he had already ruled the world. After Yin Zhiping and Li Zhichang were in charge of the real people, it was the prosperity of the Taoist gate, the palace view was everywhere, and the state and county chronicles had the record of "ten rooms of the city, there must be a seat of worship". Mongolia since Temujin, has a great ambition to unify the world, take the Jin Kingdom in the north, attack the Western Xia in the west, and break Dali in the south. Möngke Khan is well aware of the truth that religion has always been a matter of water, which can carry a boat or overturn a boat, and if it is borrowed effectively, it can be smooth and the world will return to the heart. If the Quanzhen family is allowed to become powerful, it will inevitably have the disaster of green eyebrows and yellow scarves. In addition, there was a precedent in the past when Chongyangzi had the Song family in mind and resisted the Jin soldiers in Jiangbei in the name of missionary work, and it is difficult to guarantee that the story will not repeat itself today. It's just that the Quanzhen Religion has been established for a hundred years, and its foundation has been deep, and not only the people respect it like gods, but also most of the powerful people in the capital, and many people believe in it. Qiu Chuji was also the national teacher personally sealed by Genghis Khan back then, and it was really difficult to make trouble for no reason. However, Kublai Khan, the fourth prince at that time, offered a plan: "If you hold a debate conference on the monks and Taoism, and invite the great monks of Buddhism to debate with the Quanzhen Sect, if the Buddhism can win, it can frustrate the edge of the Quanzhen, destroy the Taoist classics, and destroy the prestige of Chongyang, and the trouble of elbows and armpits can be eliminated." Meng Ke Khan thought so, so in the eighth year of Xianzong, he ordered Kublai Khan to preside over the Buddhist and Taoist Dharma Conference in the Da'an Pavilion of Kaiping Prefecture.
More than 300 people participated in the conference, including the leader of the Sakya sect, the head of the Sakya sect, the second living Buddha of the White sect, the second living Buddha Karma Baxi, the national teacher of Hexi, and the monks of the outer five roads (Wu'er monks), while the Taoist side was full of true elites, and more than 200 people participated in the debate, including the head Zhang Zhijing, Mr. Manzi Wang, Daolu Fan Zhiying, Wei Zhiyang, and lecturer Zhou Zhili. There are 17 people on each side of the debate, and if the Taoist wins, 17 Buddhist disciples will become Taoists; On the contrary, seventeen real people were to shave their hair and become monks. It was a matter of life and death for each faction, and the two sides inevitably quoted scriptures and scriptures, and the conference lasted for more than a month.
Kublai Khan led more than 200 of his advisers, including Yao Shu, Dou Mo, Lian Xixian, and Wang Pan, to be referees and notarizers, and sat and watched the tiger fight.
On this day, the focus of the debate was on the "Eighty-one Pictures of Lao Jun" and "Lao Tzu Hua Hu Jing". It turned out that when Buddhism was introduced to China in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was not recognized by the people of the Central Plains. On the contrary, he is a native of Taoism and has always won the hearts of the people. In order to absorb believers, the Buddhists pretended to be in the name of Lao Tzu, perfunctory the story of Lao Tzu going out of the Guanxi to the West and turning Hu into a Buddha, preaching that Buddhism came from a family, so as to gain a firm foothold in the Central Plains. However, because of this Lao Tzu Hu Zhi theory, he has been suppressed by Taoism, and he consciously is inferior to Taoism. Therefore, after the Buddhist power flourished in the Central Plains, the Buddhists tried to prove that Lao Tzu turned the Hu Sutra into a pseudo-scripture, so as to get rid of Taoist suppression. Therefore, the key to today's dispute between Buddhism and Taoism lies in the authenticity of this Laozihua Sutra.
At that time, he was only 23 years old, quoting scriptures, pressing step by step, and gradually feeling overwhelmed, and often "did not answer" or "never heard of" and "did not dare to hold the opinion". In the end, he made a mistake in his busy schedule and quoted it from Sima Zichang's "Historical Records". Phagsipa asked, "Does your "Historical Records" have a saying that you have turned into a nonsense?" The Taoist priest replied, "No." Then he asked, "What is the name of the sutra that your Mr. Lear wrote?" The Taoist priest replied, "Tao Te Ching." Phags-pa then asked, "In addition to the Tao Te Ching, what other scriptures did Mr. Li Er write?" The Taoist priest replied, "No." Pasipa then asked: "In the Tao Te Ching, did Lao Tzu mention anything about turning into a beard?" The Taoist priest replied: "There is no ......" Ba Sipa: "In the historical book "Historical Records" respected by your Han people, there is no such thing as turning into a hu; In the book written by you Li Laojun himself, there is not even a shadow of it. - It's hypocritical! The Taoist was speechless when asked, and had to admit defeat. Immediately, the chief referee, Shangshu Yao Shu, stood up and announced in public: "The Taoist is responsible!" In the end, Taoist priest Fan Shiying and other seventeen people cut their hair into monks in Longguang Temple, and were ordered to burn 45 "apocryphal scriptures", so far the authenticity of "Lao Tzu Hua Hu Jing" is clear. This is the famous "Hu controversy".
Since he was a child, he had a reputation for wisdom, and he lectured to people at the age of eight. After this controversy, it became even more famous, and was deeply appreciated by Kublai Khan, who followed Kublai Khan for life since then. It is even more rare that he is both civil and military, not only proficient in Buddhism, but also superb in internal skills, especially better than the Golden Wheel Dharma King back then.
However, it is said that although Li Zhichang, the head of the Quanzhen Sect, was not ordained as a monk like the seventeen real people, he died of depression in just a few months, and the position of head was handed over to Zhang Zhijing. After the defeat of the Zihua Hu Controversy, the Quanzhen Sect was in a really difficult situation, but it only relied on its prestige in the past years to support it. However, Kublai Khan was not completely relieved, so he instructed Pas-pa to write another war letter to compete with the Quanzhen Sect in martial arts. If the Quanzhen Sect wins, then the burning of the Quanzhen Daozang will be stopped, and if the Quanzhen Sect is defeated, the generation in front of the Chongyang Palace will be assigned to the Sakya sect, and it will be allowed to build a Buddhist temple and absorb the followers. The Quanzhen Sect had already been defeated in the cultural battle, so it had to fight against the odds, pinning its hopes of preserving the Quanzhen Daozang on the victory of the martial war. Whoever wants to defeat seven with one is still defeated. The black smoke that Yang Guo saw in the back mountain before was the pyre that the Yuan soldiers were set high and lit when Ba Si Pa entered the Chongyang Palace, and when the Quanzhen Sect was defeated, he immediately burned the Dao Zang.
Yang Guo saw that the Quanzhen faction was invincible, and he was secretly anxious in his heart. Although he has never had a good impression of the Quanzhen Sect, he has been a neighbor for nearly 20 years, and he has inherited Wang Chongyang's incense feelings, so he does not want the Quanzhen Sect to suffer this great shame. Moreover, listening to the meaning of this lama's words, he actually regarded Zhongnan Mountain as a thing in his pocket, and he had always hated Mongolia, and he was even more unwilling to allow the Mongols to build a temple in Zhongnan Mountain to accept disciples, and since then he has lost his purity. So at that moment, he came out of the crowd and said loudly: "Wait, it's funny!" When did the Quanzhen Sect become the master of this Zhongnan Mountain!