Chapter 454: "Wa Buddhism" and "Chinese Buddhism"
Last time, it was mentioned that the carpenter and his party started a war with the "Xiuzhen Realm Army" of the Wa Kingdom in the Arctic, but they first let the members of the "True Dan Period" start fighting in the way of "gambling and fighting".
The name "Dharma Protector Heavens" comes from "Hinduism", while "Liuding Liujia" are twelve famous characters in Chinese mythology and legend. The "Five Directions Reveal the Truth" is the "protector god" of Buddhism, and the "Four Values of Gong Cao" are the "four gods" of the year, month, day and time that Taoism enshrines in the heavenly court. As for the "Jialan Blue Sky God", there are eighteen of them, all of whom are Buddhist protectors. Broadly speaking, "Guardian Garan" refers to the 18 "good gods" who support the Dharma, namely:
One is "Great Brahma", two are "Emperor Shakti", three are "Duowen Heavenly King", four are "Holding the Kingdom Heavenly King", five are "Growth Heavenly King", six are "Wide-eyed Heavenly King", seven are "Vajra Secret Traces", eight are "Great Freedom Heaven" or "Maha Shura", nine are "Fat Scattering General", ten are "Great Debate Heaven", eleven are "Great Merit Heaven", 12 are "Wei Dao Heavenly God", 13 are "Firm Earth God", 14 are "Bodhi Tree God", 15 are "Devil Son and Mother", and 16 are "Mori Zhitian";
Seventeen are "Son of Heaven of the Sun Palace", eighteen are "Son of Heaven of the Moon Palace", nineteen are "Dragon King of Suo", and twenty are "King Yamara". The "Twenty-four Heavens" are based on the "Twenty Heavens" and add four "Heavenly Gods" to form the "Twenty-Four Heavens", which are "King Jinnara", "Ziwei Emperor", "Taishan Mansion Jun", and the twenty-four "Leizu Tianzun". The "Liuding Liujia" is a Chinese myth and legend of twelve characters with names and surnames, the specific record is as follows:
"Liuding" is the "Yin God Jade Girl", that is, "Ding Chou God" Zhao Ziyu, "Ding Mao God" Sima Qing, "Ding Ji God" Cui Juqing, "Ding Wei God" Shi Shutong, "Ding You God" Zang Wengong, "Ding Hai God" Zhang Wentong; "Liujia" is "Yang God Jade Man", that is, "Jiayin God" Ming Wenwen, "Jiazi God" Wang Wenqing, "Jiaxu God" Zhan Zijiang, "Jiashen God" Hu Wenchang, "Jiawu God" Wei Yuqing, "Jiachen God" Meng Feiqing.
The "Five Directions of Revelation" are "Golden Light Revelation", "Silver Head Revelation", "Pala Revelation", "Monk Revelation", and "Maha Revelation" are all "Hercules" who protect the five directions in Buddhism. "Jiedi" is a "Buddhist language", which means "to go, to experience, to experience", and it is a mantra of "Prajnaparamita" in the "Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra" in the heyday of "Mahayana Buddhism".
Translated into Chinese, it is: "Go, go, go through all the roads, everyone go to the other side, enlightenment, Sabha!" This "Suvaha" is a Sanskrit transliteration, which means "to achieve quickly"; In addition, in Buddhist scriptures, things like "Sabha", "Suha", and "Suha" also have the same meaning. And "revealing the truth" means "go, go". As for the meaning of "Polo Jiedi", it means "go all the ways, go to the other side." ”
The "Four Values of Gong Cao" are the four "gods" enshrined in Taoism in the "Heavenly Court" for the year, month, day, and time. They are equivalent to the "immortals on duty" in the "Heavenly Realm". And these "four gods" are Li Bing, the "god of duty", Huang Chengyi, the "god of the moon", Zhou Deng, and Liu Hong, the "god of time".
The "Eighteen Apologists of the Buddha" are the "guardian saints" of the Buddhist temple. Buddhism believes that there are eighteen "guardian gods" in the "Buddhist temple", that is, "eighteen apologetic garans". And these eighteen "garans" are: "See", "Meiyin Sanskrit", "Heavenly Drum", "Sigh", "Sigh", "Beauty", "Mo Miao", "Thunder Sound", "Shizi", "Wonderful Sigh", "Sanskrit Sound", "Human Sound", "Buddha", "Songde", "Wide Eyes", "Wonderful Eyes", "Listening Thoroughly", and "Seeing Thoroughly".
These Japanese monks of the "Eastern Tantric Buddhism" and "Shingon Buddhism" with "Wa characteristics" are different from other believers who came to Japan from China, and they are more adept at borrowing the teachings of the Wa folk religion when practicing Buddhism, that is to say, they are very close to the "Fuso Shintoism", but they are very different from the style of Chinese Buddhism.
Buddhism, which originally originated in the ancient "body poison" (India) northern "Kapila Guardian State" (Nepal) in the Spring and Autumn Warring States Period in China, after 500 years of bumpy development, was introduced to Chinese mainland through the "Silk Road" during the Ming Emperor period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and then experienced 500 years of ups and downs, has been completely sinicized, became the so-called "Han Buddhism", and was introduced to ancient Japan on a large scale along with the "Tang envoys" of the Tang Dynasty in China.
After Buddhism was introduced to Japan, it gradually evolved into several major systems, such as "Tendai", "Shingon", "Pure Land", "Zen Buddhism", "Nichiren", and "Nara Buddhism". The term "Nara Buddhism" refers to some Buddhist sects that were introduced to Japan from the Tang Dynasty in China during the Nara period (710-794), namely the "Three Treatises", "Serumi Sect", "Hosho Sect", "Kusha Sect", "Vinaya Sect", and "Huayan Sect". Among them, the "Three Treatises" sect was the first Buddhist sect to be introduced at that time.
Therefore, the "Three Treatises" can be said to be the beginning of the "Buddhist sect" in itself. The first is the Korean monk Huiguan, who came to the Sui Dynasty in the first half of the seventh century to follow the "Three Treatises on Zongyi" in Jizang. In 625 AD, he was ordered by the king of Goryeo to go to the Wa Kingdom and lived in the "Wonheung Temple" to preach the "Three Treatises".
After that, his disciples Japanese monks Zhizang and Daoci entered the Tang Dynasty to study the "Three Treatises Doctrine", forming two schools of Japanese "Yuanxing Temple" and "Da'an Temple".
The "Seisi sect" was introduced to Japan at the same time as the "Three Treatises", but it never developed into an independent "Shuzhen sect" in terms of organization, because because the two sects adopted the "empty sect theory", most of them were studied by the "Three Treatise scholars". Therefore, in ancient Japan, the "Seishi sect" was also called the "attached sect" of the "Three Treatises sect".
In 653 AD, the Japanese monk Dao Zhao (629 AD - 700 AD) came to the Tang Dynasty of China to learn the "teachings" of "Faxiangzong" under Master Xuanzang. After returning to Japan, he centered on "Genkoji Temple" to spread the Dharma, which is known as "Nanji Chuan" in Japanese history. In 716, the Japanese monk Xuanfang (?) 1. 746) after entering the Tang Dynasty, he studied the law with Zhi Zhou, and propagated the Dharma with the Japanese "Kofukuji Temple" as the center, and the Japanese history called "Kitaji Chuan". The Nara period was the heyday of the Hosho sect.
This sect produced many talents and formed the mainstream of Buddhist thought at that time. Among them, the eminent monks such as "Guardian of Life", "Zenzhu", and "Shinshiki" are all scholars who have written a lot and have studied the concept of teaching. The "Kusha sect" and the "Dharma Xiang sect" are called "Hinayana sects" and "Mahayana sects" respectively.
Due to their doctrinal interconnection, when the "Nishu" was introduced to Japan at the same time, the "Kusha sect" was in fact called a "subsidiary sect" of the "Hosho sect". In contrast, the "Hwayan Sect" was developed by the Silla monk Shenxiang (?). 1. 742) was introduced to Japan. Xianxiang studied in the Tang Dynasty and studied under the "Huayan Sect" of "Fa Tibetan Studies". From 740 to 742 AD, he gave his first lecture on the Huayan Sutra at the "Admiralty Temple" dojo in Japan, and preached the Dharma and distinguished with Japanese monks.
The "Huayan Sect" had a close relationship with the royal family and nobles. For example, in 749 AD, he issued an edict stipulating that all sects and institutes should be based on the "Kegon Sutra" in their lectures, and at the same time, the central temple "Todai-ji" was the "main temple" of the Huagon sect.
In 754 AD, the Tang Dynasty monk Jianzhen (688 AD - 763 AD) was invited by the Japanese monk to successfully travel east to Japan, and built the ordination altar in front of the "Virushana" Buddha in the "Todaiji Temple", on the west side of the Great Buddha Hall, in Shimono "Yakushi Temple" and Tsukushi "Guanyin Temple" to spread the "Nanshan Vinaya Sect".
After the "Nara Rokushu" was introduced to Japan, it was used by the Japanese Imperial Court as a guiding ideology for governance. In order to obtain the practical interests of the class, the Japanese side rebuilt temples, statues, and chanted sutras. In terms of scripture writing, the various sects have not made much doctrinal development, and basically inherit the inherent teachings of the Chinese sects.
In 804 AD, the most Cheng (767 AD - 822 AD) and Kukai (774 AD - 835 AD) both entered the Tang Dynasty to seek the law. After returning to Japan, Mosumi founded the "Tendai sect" in Japan with "Mt. Hiei" as the center. At the same time, Kukai centered on Toji Temple and Koyasan, and spread the "Shingon sect".
The two sects were the "representative sects" of Japan's "Heian period" (794-1192), and began to attach importance to propaganda and the interpretation of doctrines and doctrines. Japan's "Tiantai sect" spread the "Tiantai system" of China's "Zhiqi" and propagated "one thought and three thousand", that is, everything in the world is the product of the human heart and one thought.
At the same time, the "Tiantai Sect" also propagated the "harmony of the three truths", that is, the integration of the three truths of "emptiness", "falsehood", and "middle", and on the basis of this theory, advocated the "unity of the four teachings" of "Yuanjiao" (Tiantai Buddhism), "Zen" (Zong), "Yuanjiao" ("Mahayana Precepts"), and "Esoteric Buddhism", especially in the development of "Esoteric Buddhism", and the results were more prominent.
The "Shingon Buddhism" clarifies that "Esoteric Buddhism" is the "ultimate meaning" of Buddhism, emphasizing the idea of "becoming a Buddha in the body", that is, "born from the parents, quickly attaining the position of great enlightenment", and believes that as long as the "Three Tantric Blessings" (reciting the "secret mantra" orally, knotting the "seal" in the hand, and reciting the "Buddha appearance") can "become a Buddha immediately" and obtain the blessings of the Dharma.
This is also the key theoretical basis for "ninjas" to perform "ninjutsu". In religious practice, the two sects pay more attention to "esoteric religion". With the main purpose of "chanting and cultivating the Dharma" as the main purpose of "reciting and cultivating the Dharma", the Dharma meetings such as relieving disasters, gaining, prolonging life and praying for protection are practiced to restrain disasters, gain benefits, prolong life and pray for protection, which is similar to the "Yin and Yang Liao".
Therefore, in order to distinguish between "Shingon Buddhism" and "Tantra", the "Esoteric Religion" of the Japanese people, also known as the domestic "Tiantai Sect", is referred to as "Taimi". After the twelfth century, after hundreds of years of development, the "Buddhism" of the Eastern spread was combined with Japanese folk beliefs and living customs, and some "new sects" that emphasized faith and simple doctrines emerged one after another. At the same time, the two sects of "Zen Buddhism", "Rinzai" and "Caodong", also flourished with the Song-Japanese trade and were introduced to Japan by the Song Dynasty.
In 1175, the Japanese monk Horan (1133-1212) founded the Japanese "Pure Land Sect" based on his works such as Kanjingshu. The sect is based on the "Pure Land Doctrine" of Tiantai Mountain in Zhejiang, "abandoning all good deeds and only reciting the Buddha's line" as the "right karma" and "right cause" of ordinary people to be reborn in the "Pure Land".
Since Fa Ran first created the method of "Buddha Recitation", it has achieved great development, and the Japanese Buddhist community has formed three major legal systems: "Pure Land Buddhism", "Pure Land True Buddhism" and "Shizong". Founded by a monk (1239-1289), Shizong propagated the teachings of "He Reciting the Buddha", paid more attention to the Amitabha Sutra, and paid more attention to the missionary practice of "processionization", that is, to encourage his disciples to become "traveling monks" and promote Buddhism through personal practice in Japan.
"Rinzai Zen" and "Soto Buddhism" were introduced to Japan by the monks Eisai (1141-1215) and Dogen (1200-1275), respectively. Eisai studied in the Song Dynasty twice in 1168 and 1187, inheriting the concept of the Chinese "Rinzai Zen Huanglong School", cultivating "Seeing Living Zen", that is, the so-called "attaining enlightenment with the help of the quotations of the ancestors", and later founded the Japanese "Shofukuji" and "Kenninji" and concurrently practiced "Tantra".
The "ancestor" of the "Caodong Sect", that is, the "Daoyuan monk", was taught by the old monk "Rujing" of the "Tiantong Mountain" in the Song Dynasty, and after returning to China, he preached with the "Yongheiji Temple" in Japan as the center, advocating the practice of "silent meditation", advocating "just meditating, Zen mind is the Buddha", that is, advocating "resting the body and mind" through "silent silence" in order to achieve liberation. By the time of "Yingshan Shaojin", the "Zen style" was reformed, the popular prayer rituals of the people were absorbed, and the "General Holding Temple" was built as a new missionary center.
After Zen Buddhism spread to Japan, it was converted by the imperial court and shoguns, and flourished among all sects. The "Zen monks" had close contacts with the Song Dynasty and absorbed a large number of cultural achievements from the Song Dynasty in China, and on this basis, they formed a very influential school of "Five Mountains Literature" in the history of Japanese Buddhism.
In the middle of the 17th century, the Ming Dynasty monk Yin Yuan (1592-1673) introduced the "Yellow Barberry Zen Buddhism" to Japan, and revitalized the development of Japan's "Zen forest" (Buddhist world). The "Huang Bai Sect" also came to the "Zen style" of the "Yang Qi School" in the Chinese "Rinzai Sect", advocating "Zen and purity consistency" and propagating the "Amitabha Buddha Faith", so that the "Benshan", that is, the "Wanfu Temple" of the "Huang Barberry Mountain", still retains some Ming Dynasty styles in terms of rules and practice methods.
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