Strange to say, that night, the monks of Xinzhou Guoen Temple all had the same dream, dreaming that the Sixth Patriarch Hui Neng sat on the futon of the Buddha Hall and said to them: "I am at home in Baolin Heart." "And he left a side:

Let the world be in chaos,

It's never a worry-free place.

Let the world drought,

Half of this place is collected.

The next morning, the monks of Xinzhou Guoen Temple talked to each other, and everyone had the same dream, only to know that this was not only the will of heaven, but also the wish of the six ancestors Huineng, so they had to burn incense to send the six ancestors Huineng's body to Shaozhou.

On November 13, tens of thousands of officials, monks, nuns and believers from Xinzhou, Shaozhou and Guangzhou gathered inside and outside the Longshan Guoen Temple to welcome the shrine of the six ancestors Huineng. Led by Shao Thorn Shi Liu Wuxi, he was sent back to Caoxi Baolin Temple into the tower.

Along the way, the people of Li burned incense and candles, bowed and worshipped, which was extremely grand.

Monk Ling Tao, a disciple of the Sixth Patriarch Huineng, has been serving the Six Ancestors and has won the love of the Six Ancestors Huineng; Therefore, he was elected by the monks of Baolin Temple as the guardian tower master, responsible for guarding the true body of the six ancestors Huineng.

When the sixth ancestor Huineng was really sent into the pagoda, the tower suddenly shone with dazzling white brilliance, and it gradually faded for three days and three nights.

Shaozhou Thorn Shi Liu Wuxi played this omen to Tang Xuanzong. Tang Xuanzong was greatly surprised, and immediately issued an edict to set up a monument to the six ancestors to remember the virtues of the six ancestors.

One more thing that's amazing. That is, if the people of Xinzhou go to Caoxi to pay homage to the remains of the six ancestors, all the lights of Baolin Temple will definitely shine brightly the day before, doubling the light.

In order to give them more comfort, after some discussion, it was decided to ask the Zen master to build a statue of the six ancestors Huineng and send it back to the Xinzhou Guoen Temple for worship.

After the Zen master received the order, he exhausted his skills and tried his best, but the three statues were all similar in shape but not in god.

Later, Fahai Zen Master and others invited the true body of the six ancestors Huineng out of the shrine, and applied it to it after mixing incense powder and agarwood, considering that the six ancestors Huineng had predicted before his extinction, there would be someone to take his head in order to "raise relatives on the head and make a meal in the mouth", in order to be careful, the neck of the flesh was wrapped tightly with iron sheet and lacquered cloth, and the absorbent quicklime and charcoal were placed in the lower part of the corpse seat. Then, return the real body to the pagoda.

The true body of the sixth ancestor Huineng has been placed in the Baoling Temple for people to admire.

The next day, the Zen master Fang Quan started to make the statue of the six ancestors Huineng, this time the statue was made with both form and spirit, lifelike, very realistic. After this statue was sent back to Xinzhou Guoen Temple, the monks of Xinzhou were amazed to see it, and also called it "the true body of the six ancestors", and it has been enshrined in Xinzhou Guoen Temple to this day.

More than 100 years after Huineng's death, that is, in the eleventh year of Tang Xianzong's Yuanhe (8l6), Tang Xianzong issued an edict posthumously admonishing Huineng as "Dajian Zen Master". The emperor pursued Huineng, Huineng's nickname became longer and longer, and his status became higher and higher.

After the death of the sixth ancestor Huineng, a few years later. On a dark and windy night in a month, someone actually sneaked into Caoxi Baolin Temple to steal the head of the sixth ancestor Huineng. When the knife slashed at the neck, the crisp sound of blood and iron resounded, and several brilliant sparks burst out.

"Oh, that's not good!" The thieves thought that it was the manifestation of the real body of the six rents, and they were so frightened that they threw away their knives and ran out of the pagoda in panic, over the wall, and fled.

The monk Ling Tao, who guarded the pagoda, heard a strange sound in the pagoda, and when he entered the pagoda to watch, he saw that there was a big knife on the ground, and the iron sheet on the neck of the sixth ancestor Huinengzhen had a deep knife mark, so he informed the abbot of Baolin Temple, Fahai Zen Master.

Zen Master Fahai sent people to Shaozhou overnight to report the matter to the government.

Shaozhou Thorn Shi Liu Wuxi was shocked when he heard the news, and knew that this matter was not trivial, so he sent someone to lay a net. Soon, the thief was brought to justice.

Liu Tingshi personally appeared in the court for interrogation, and saw that the thief was a middle-aged man, dressed in plain clothes, and felt strange. After interrogation, it was learned that the thief's name was Zhang Jingman, who was from the north, and that his elderly mother had been bedridden for a long time. Because he wanted to raise medical expenses for his old mother, he was hired to take the head of the sixth ancestor Huineng. His employer was a high-ranking monk in Silla (present-day Korea) named Kim Dae-pae, who was now studying law in Hongju. Jin Dabei admired the noble Taoism of the sixth ancestor Huineng, and wanted to steal his head and return to Goryeo to worship.

Liu Tingshi felt that this case was quite tricky, so he summoned Yang Kan of Qujiang County, where Cao Xi was located, to discuss with him.

One of these two officials is surnamed Yang and the other is surnamed Liu, and this kind of thing happened in response to the saying in Huineng Anthology that "Yang Liu is an official in the face of full difficulties".

After the two officials discussed, it was difficult to reach a conclusion, so they personally sent someone to escort Zhang Jingman to Baolin Temple to ask for the opinions of the senior monks in the temple.

After Monk Ling Tao learned about it, he said: "Sneaking into the holy land of Buddhism to steal the head of the Buddha is really a crime. If it is sentenced by the state, it should be killed, but based on the compassion of Buddhism, then the unjust relatives are equal. Nian Zai sent him to steal the head of the monk to ask for the head to worship, not malicious, and Zhang Jingman is also filial piety, if he beheads him, his old mother will definitely be more lonely, this time let him be exempted from the death penalty. ”

After hearing this, Zen Master Fahai and other eminent monks finally adopted Ling Tao's opinion after discussion.

After Zhang Jingman was released from bondage, his face was flushed with shame, and he knelt down and kowtowed to Fahai, Ling Tao and other monks many times before leaving Caoxi.