I also knew that this was a good opportunity to vigorously promote the Zen method of the Southern Sect, so I stepped forward and set up ordination altars in major prefectures in the name of preaching Zen. Widely collected "sesame oil money", raised a large amount of money and silver, and sent it to the Tang Dynasty army as military salary, which attracted the attention of the world. After the "Anshi Rebellion" was pacified, due to the outstanding achievements of the Divine Society, he was invited into the dojo by Tang Suzong, and was enshrined as the "Seven Ancestors of Zen Buddhism" and pardoned the craftsmen to expand and repair Heze Temple. In the second year of Baoying, the tower was built in Luoyang Baoying Temple. In Luoyang, the gods will write a book on his many years of meditation practice, and in the fourth year of Tianbao (745 years), he wrote the "Xianzong Ji", which expounds on the epiphany of the Southern Sect and the gradual enlightenment of the Northern Sect, and admires the true inheritance of the five ancestors of the Southern Sect, and personally bestows holy relics such as robes and golden bowls, which are the true six ancestors of Zen Buddhism. Commenting on the Shenxiu of the Northern Sect was just a self-proclaimed fake sixth ancestor who relied on the large number of people at that time. Set the north and south of the Dun gradually two gates, that is, the south can be the Dun sect, and the north show is the gradual teaching. The name of "South and North Progress" was widely spread. At that time, the world vied with each other to copy the "Records of the Emperor Xianzong", which was widely circulated and had a great influence, and was unique in the north.

In the first year of Shangyuan (760), the gods passed away, and he lived for 93 years and was named "Master Zhenzong" by the emperor. In the twelfth year of Tang Zhenguan (796), the master of the Decha Shenhui was the "seventh ancestor of Zen Buddhism", and the monument was placed in the Shenlong Temple, and its law flow was called "Heze Sect".

Among the people of the Shenhui Gate, there are many talents, and the most prominent ones are the unknown Zen masters and Faru Zen masters who have been following them. The second to fifth generations of the "Heze Sect", holding high the banner of the "Epiphany" method, have established a number of Zen mountains and monasteries in the north and south of the river, which are famous and have many followers.

Because the Divine Association has served the six ancestors since the time of the novice, they have taken care of the diet and daily life, and they have won the true inheritance of the six ancestors during the period, and then returned to the temple with the six ancestors. After the six ancestors were extinguished, he revived the Southern Sect and realized the Zen style, and was later named the "Seven Ancestors of Zen Buddhism" by the emperor; Therefore, the new temples of all dynasties have made his statue, placed it on the side of the statue of the six ancestors, and listed it in the ancestral hall as a waiter.

All Buddhist temples in China have 18 Arhat statues, but Xinxing Guoen Temple has 20 Arhat statues, that is, there are two more Fahai and Shenhui. There is a reason for this: Fahai is the great disciple of the sixth ancestor Huineng, who once recorded the meritorious work of the "Altar Sutra", and later became the abbot of Baolin Temple in Shaozhou; And the Shenhui is the descendant of the six ancestors Huineng, who once sacrificed his life in the fire to rescue the "Altar Sutra".

The vicissitudes of history and the world are long.

The Anshi Rebellion and the subsequent large-scale destruction of Buddha by Tang Wuzong, coupled with the continuous peasant uprisings and wars, destroyed the economic soil on which the Northern Sect depended, and the gradual cultivation of the Northern Sect had to gradually decline and decline. With the southward migration of the Central Plains culture, the ideology and culture of the Southern Sect, which inhabited the mountains and forests and were rooted in the people, grew rapidly and prospered in the south.

In the history of Chinese Buddhism, there have been "three martial arts and one sect difficulty" (that is, Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Emperor Wuzong of the Tang Dynasty, and the fourth arrangement of Buddha by Shizong of the Later Zhou Dynasty), all of which relied on the preservation and standardization of Zen masters and monks. There is a cloud in the "Caoxi Dajian Zen Master Tablet" written by Liu Zongyuan: "It is said that it is there, and now it is all over the world, and all words and Zen are based on Caoxi." "In Baoling Temple, there are countless disciples cultivated by the Sixth Ancestor Huineng. "Jingde Chuan Lantern Record" and "Transmission of the Dharma Authentic Record" both contain 44 heirs, and the "Dharma Treasure Altar Sutra" says that there are 10 disciples. Among them, the most eye-catching and the most accomplished are five who are known as the "Five Great Masters" by the world: that is, Nanyue Huairang, Qingyuan Xingsi, Yongjia Xuanjue, Nanyang Huizhong, and Heze Shenhui.

If it is said that the Sixth Patriarch Huineng laid down the principles of meditation at the theoretical level of the Cao Xi Method; Then, his right-hand man will verify and further develop and carry forward in concrete practice. After listening to the lectures of the six ancestors Huineng in Baoling Temple, they scattered in the famous mountains and temples all over the country, preached widely, and developed the doctrine of Zen forest, and each of them was full of wit. Stick drink Qi Shi and become a family of its own, popular grass, radio broadcast. Cao Xi is in a vein, and the sea of law is crossing.

The first Heze sect of the Divine Society, popular in the Central Plains.

The two schools of Yongjia Xuanjue and Nanyang Huizhong were not long ago, but they were also quite influential at the time.

Nanyue Huairang and Qingyuan Xingsi are two, and their talents are like clouds and dragons. Its lineage is long and the most prosperous.

Nanyue was spread into two factions: Linji in Hebei and Weiyang in Hunan.

Qingyuan is divided into three factions: Caodong in Jiangxi, Yunmen in Guangdong, and Fayan in Nanjing.

This is the five schools of Zen Buddhism that are called "flowers bloom and five leaves" in the history of Buddhism.

Rinzai Buddhism is prevalent in Japan.

The Dharma Eye sect spread in Siam and Goryeo.

The Cloud Gate Sect and the Rinzai Sect spread far and wide in Europe and the United States.

Later, the Rinzai sect divided the two factions of Yang Qi Fanghui and Huanglong Huinan.

Taken together, some Buddhists refer to them as the "Seven Sects" or the "Five Families and Seven Sects." In this way, it developed in this way until it spread to Japan, and over the years, there were 24 schools of Zen teachings, forming a pattern of stars and moons shining and candles shining.

Some Buddhists refer to the Zen school as "Cao Yuan", also known as "a drop of water in Cao Xi". One is that the Zen method of the sixth ancestor Huineng to open the "epiphany" is in Cao Xi in Shaozhou, so the source of Zen is also called "Cao Yuan"; However, scholars who have studied Zen deeply believe that Huineng himself is "Cao Yuan".

Academic opinions are inconclusive, and the wise see wisdom.

The quotations recorded and sorted out by the eldest disciple Fahai Zen Master Huineng are called "Dharma Treasure Altar Sutra", also known as "Six Patriarch Altar Sutra". This masterpiece of Zen Forest is a shining treasure in the Buddhist library and one of the important doctrines of the world's religions.

There are many famous Buddhist monks and monks all over the world, which can be regarded as a vast sea. In the voluminous Buddhist scriptures, from the perspective of the attribution of literary forms, there are Sanskrit, Tibetan, Japanese, Pali, Chinese, etc. The first authority in the Buddhist world to recommend the Chinese Tibetan scriptures - Japan's "Taisho Xinxiu Tripitaka", a collection of 3,360 Buddhist scriptures, 3,520 volumes.

The only classic written by the Chinese and later spread around the world is the "Six Ancestors Altar Sutra", which has become a unique and out-of-print Buddhist classic that has never been seen before or after in China, and is regarded by later generations as a sectarian code that inherits the ancestors.

From the strict original meaning of Buddhism, the Buddhist scriptures can be divided into the three Tibetan scriptures, Vinayas, and treatises. "Sutra" refers to the Buddhist teachings preached by the Buddha Shakyamuni Chrysostom and reminisced down by his disciples. Historically, only the classics of India or the Western Regions can be regarded as true scriptures and can be recognized. The "Vinaya" is a Buddhist precept preached by the Buddha Shakyamuni Chrysostom and memorized by his disciples. The "Treatise" is a work written by a Buddhist disciple that expounds the theory of Buddhism. It follows from this that no matter how high their achievements and how prominent their status is, their writings can only be called "treatises" at best, otherwise they will be denounced as "apocryphal scriptures" by the people of the time or future generations.