Chapter 178: The Festival
Xiao is actually a sage who is famous for his filial piety, and after listening to Fu Yi's words, he was so angry that he didn't know how to refute it. Fastest updates
In the end, he had to fold his hands and perform a Buddha salute, his face was like a pig's liver, and he said: "The reason why there is hell is for people like Prime Minister Fu Cheng!
Taizong led the troops to fight and killed countless people, and the Xuanwumen mutiny killed his brother and killed his father to death, and he has always been very heartbroken.
He traveled to the underworld, and after coming back from the dead, he was already convinced that retribution was obvious, and the underworld and the six realms of reincarnation were controlled by Buddhism, so Taizong was determined to promote Buddhism.
At this moment, Taizong saw that Xiao Fu and the two were arguing, and it was difficult to distinguish between victory and defeat, and he had said that he had not said a single truth that could convince people and respect Buddhism.
So he turned his head and said to Zhang Daoyuan, the servant, and Zhang Shiheng, the Zhongshu Ling: "What do you two think?"
Zhang Daoyuan and Zhang Shiheng are also people who believe in Buddhism, and when they heard the emperor ask them, they already knew the emperor's intentions, and they came out of class together to play: "Buddhism is pure and forgiving, and the Buddha is empty." Since ancient times, Buddhism has been respected as the first of the three religions, which cannot be destroyed, let alone abolished. Please Emperor Mingjian!"
Taizong wanted this voice of support, so he said in a loud voice: "The two Aiqing have said it well! I have made up my mind, from now on, we will select senior monks, raise a meeting, and surpass the souls of the dead! If there are any more opponents, they will be cut off from their posts for the people! Those who slander monks and slander the Buddha will have their arms cut off!"
Fu Yi fell to the ground, silently not daring to speak. The ministers of the full palace, no one dared to object.
Taizong immediately sent a decree and asked Wei Zheng, Xiao and Zhang Daoyuan to preside over and recruit monks.
And elect a monk with great virtue to come out as the altar master of the water and land conference, build a dojo, and prepare for the water and land conference.
Anyone who becomes a monk and a nun is either a person whose parents do not love his brother or a person, or a person whose fate is rough and sees through the red dust, or a person who is poor and has no food and clothing.
Therefore, in this life, the golden cicada cannot be reincarnated in the family of a rich and prosperous person.
However, if he is completely born in a cloth cloth, it is difficult to have influence on the royal family.
If the emperor cannot be allowed to promote Buddhism, even if he retrieves the scriptures, it will be difficult to open up the situation, and it will be difficult to spread the scriptures and Buddhism to the world.
Jin Chanzi's life experience seems to be a difficult thing to arrange properly.
However, Guanyin Bodhisattva and Jizo Bodhisattva are both Venerable Buddhas who have great wisdom and have cultivated the subtle bodhi of enlightenment, so these little things naturally cannot be difficult for them.
Rulai had an explanation before Guanyin's departure: The Tang Kingdom is now the realm of Taoism, and there are many strange people of Taoism in the market, and Guanyin was instructed not to show his face at will, so as not to be alert to Taoism, and everything must be carried out quietly and thoughtfully.
So Guanyin and the two changed their appearance, turning into two bald monks in ragged clothes, with eyebrows falling off, a pair of dirty black feet, red spots, and scabies, two hands scratching on the body non-stop, living off the appearance of leprosy, plus dirty clothes and smelly bodies, everyone saw them, and avoided them.
The two of them saw the capital city of Chang'an from a distance, where the houses were lined up one after another, the streets were full of traffic, and the crowds were weaving, and it was indeed a prosperous country, far from being comparable to the city-state of Xiniuhezhou.
Guanyin and the others were not in a hurry to enter the city, they walked slowly along the way, and deliberately waited until it was dark before entering Chang'an City.
The two men came from the west, so they entered the city through the west gate. On the side of the market on Ximen Street, there is a land temple, Guanyin was happy in his heart, and walked to the land temple gate with Hui'an.
The land god in the temple is the god of yin, although he was born in Taoism, and was originally under the jurisdiction of Taoism.
But later, the Jade Emperor cultivated a Buddhism to balance the power of Taoism, and set aside all the gods and spirits in the underworld for the jurisdiction of Buddhism, that is to say, Taoism governs heaven, Buddhism governs hell, and the human world has become a place of incense that both Buddhism and Taoism compete for. Therefore, the identity of the land is somewhat half-Taoist and half-monk, and some are not embarrassing or embarrassing.
The land in the temple saw two people coming over, recognized it as Guanyin Bodhisattva, saw the two dressed up like this, and came in the night, frightened, hurriedly took the ghost soldiers in the temple to kneel on the ground to greet them, and said with trepidation: "I don't know that the Bodhisattva is coming, I have missed the welcome, please take the Bodhisattva guilt!"
"Don't blame!
The land and the others got up, invited Guanyin and the others into the temple, and invited the two to sit down, served tea and cakes, and prepared to inform the other city gods and lands in Chang'an City to come and see.
Guanyin stopped: "Wait! I came to Chang'an City this time because I have important things to do, so don't alarm others." I'll borrow your temple for a few days, and when the time comes, I'll pay you back, remember not to leak the news!"
The land only agreed, let people clean the temple well, and asked Guanyin for peace, confessed, took the Yin soldiers and ghosts to find another place to live, and gave the temple to Guanyin.
Guanyin and Hui'an lived in the Land Temple and began to carefully plan the matter of learning scriptures.
Thinking that the original derogatory golden cicada to the east to reincarnate as a monk, the golden cicada lived up to the hopes, after a lifetime, hundreds of years of efforts, not only the Buddhism into the east land, and once flourished, but also alarmed Taoism.
Taoism was aware of the actions of Buddhism, so it also took a wonderful move, so that many Taoist capable people assisted Li Yuan, the prince of the Tang Dynasty of the Sui Dynasty, to dominate the world, and successfully won the country, which was the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
Li Yuan claimed to be a descendant of Taishang Laojun, reusing Taoist priests and suppressing the Buddha from top to bottom.
In this way, the status of Taoism is naturally getting higher and higher.
The people took the preference of the Son of Heaven as their preference, so they also built a large number of buildings and built Taoist temples, and Taoism became more and more prosperous, far better than Buddhism.
This move is really brilliant!
This is a chess move that Buddhism cannot come out of, and Buddhism cannot let the king of a country claim to be the descendant of a monk, right?
The monk is a monk, where did he come from?
Guanyin, with her great wisdom, thought about it, and felt that if she wanted to crack this chess, revive Buddhism, and complete the purpose of the law, there was only one way, that is: to solve the bell, you must tie the bell, or you have to start from the emperor.
And the emperor at this time was Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.
So, a curtain quietly opened in Chang'an City.
The great cause of spreading the scriptures was handed over to two people for overall arrangement, one is Guanyin Bodhisattva and the other is Jizo Bodhisattva.
These two people are one yin and one yang, each with their own division, Guanyin is in the yang, and the earth is hidden in the underworld.
After Guanyin Bodhisattva arrived at the Chang'an Land Temple, he invited Jizo Bodhisattva to discuss the plan.
Jizo also thinks that the best way to do this is to start with the emperor.
The direction is clear, so the first problem to be solved next is to make the emperor need Buddhist scriptures.
It's like buying and selling, and both the buyer and the seller are fixed people, and to sell this thing to others, the first thing is to make it need.
Guanyin and Jizo are both wise and wise people, and the two of them planned for a long time in the Land Temple around this first issue, until it was really thoughtful, Jizo Bodhisattva left, and the two went their separate ways.
In the land temple next to the market on the west gate of Chang'an City, Guanyin Bodhisattva and Hui'an have lived there for several months.
In the past few months, Guanyin Bodhisattva and Jizo Bodhisattva have been in the back of a yin and a yang, yin and yang cooperated, looking at the golden cicada and the Taoist, first using the arrogant Jinghe Dragon King as an introduction, triggering Taizong's soul to travel to the underworld.
After Taizong returned to the yang world, he immediately honored the Buddha and worshiped the Buddha, returned the gold and silver to Xiangliang, let the sinners go home, sent the palace maid out of the palace, sent melons and fruits back to the yin, and built a water and land conference.
It is a long way to go to the west to learn scriptures, and there are not only demons and monsters on the way, but also many countries.
With the protection of Sun Wukong and others, the monsters are no longer to worry about, but those mortal realms must have the customs clearance documents given by the Tang Dynasty.
This is the reason why Taizong wanted to hold the water and land conference.
For example, if the Buddha is honored today, the water and land conference is also being prepared, and the task of Guanyin and Jizo has completed the first step.
The next step is to let Jin Chanzi go to the west to learn the scriptures, take the Buddhist scriptures back to the east, and let Taizong issue a decree to promote the world.
Guanyin Bodhisattva started to act again.
In the palace, Wei Zheng, Xiao, and Zhang Daoyuan received the holy decree, posted the emperor's list, selected the Huasheng Temple in the west of Chang'an City as the venue for the water and land conference, and invited all the monks who came to Chang'an City to the Huasheng Temple.
Wei Zheng and the three of them checked the information of the monks one by one, and wanted to select a virtuous monk to be the altar master of the water and land conference.
Of course, Guanyin Bodhisattva and Jizo Bodhisattva have already made arrangements, and they will definitely let them choose the golden cicada as the altar master.
The method was very simple, Wei Zheng had another dream the night before, and Cui came to meet him in the dream.
The two of them talked about the establishment of a land and water conference to elect the altar master.
Cui recommended a person to Wei Zheng, and this person's legal name was Chen Xuanzang.
Chen Xuanzang is the nephew of Yin Kaishan, the prince of Yunguo in the current dynasty, and Wei Zheng and the three of them also know each other.
So unsurprisingly, the next day, Chen Xuanzang was elected, and the three of them took him to see Emperor Taizong together.
Thirty-one-year-old Chen Xuanzang is the reincarnation of the golden cicada, and is now the most prestigious monk in Chang'an City.
"Good! Good choice! Good choice! Good choice! He is indeed a virtuous and Zen-minded monk! Chen Xuanzang, I will give you a colorful woven gold robe, a Pilu hat, and title you as the Left Monk's Gang, the Right Sangha Gang, and the World's Great Monk's Gang! This water and land conference, you have to give me a good heart!"
Taizong saw that the elected monk was Chen Xuanzang and was very satisfied.
Chen Xuanzang's grandfather and father are both ministers of the DPRK and China, and they know the roots, if it were someone else, Taizong might not be at ease.
The left monk's outline, the right monk's outline, and the world's great expounding capital monk's outline, this official position is really too big, and the monks of the entire Eastern Tang Dynasty are under the management of Chen Xuanzang.
Chen Xuanzang thanked him for his kindness, received the order, and went to Huasheng Temple to start selecting monks and arranging matters for the water and land conference.
Within a few days, 1,200 eminent monks were selected and divided into three halls.
All the required items are neatly arranged and properly arranged, and the auspicious day of the zodiac is selected on the third day of the ninth month of the ninth month, and the 7749th day of the water and land conference is opened.
Chen Xuanzang wrote a recital and reported it to Taizong. Taizong approved it and told him to proceed as scheduled.
On the day of the opening of the altar, Taizong will lead hundreds of civil and military officials and relatives of the emperor to personally light incense.
In the thirteenth year of Zhenguan, on the third day of the ninth month, Chen Xuanzang led 1,200 monks to open the altar in Chang'an City Huasheng Temple, and began the 7749-day water and land conference, preaching Buddha and chanting, and surpassing the dead.
On this day, Emperor Taizong dispersed the dynasty early, took the civil and military officials and the emperor's relatives, rode the dragon chariot and phoenix, and came all the way to the Huasheng Temple.
Buddhist music was playing in the Huasheng Temple, reciting the treasure scriptures, and the monks stopped the music when they saw Taizong's royal car coming.
Master Chen Xuanzang got up and walked down the altar, and brought 1,200 monks to see Taizong.
After the ceremony of the monarch and the minister, Chen Xuanzang led Taizong and hundreds of officials and others around the Buddha three turns, incense to the Buddha, and paid homage to the golden body of the Buddha.
After worshipping the Buddha, Master Chen Xuanzang presented the text of the Jigu list to Taizong, which read:
"The virtue is slim, and Zen Buddhism is extinguished. Pure and clear, circulating in the three realms. Ever-changing, controlling yin and yang. The body is really normal, and it is infinite. Looking at the lonely soul, it is deeply sad. This is the holy order of Taizong: an anthology of monks, Zen **. Open the door and court, and the boat of mercy will be widely transported, and the sea of suffering will be born, and the six pleasures of sinking will be freed. Bring back to the truth, play Hongmeng, stop doing nothing, and mix vegan. Take advantage of this good cause, invite the Qing capital to the Qing Dynasty, and take advantage of my victory to get out of the hell cage. Ascend to Bliss as early as possible, and travel to and from the West at ease. ”
"The poem says: A furnace of eternal longevity incense, several volumes of superbirth. Boundless mystic law proclamation, boundless heavenly grace. All the wrongs are gone, and the lonely souls are released from prison. May I protect my state and live a long life. ”
Taizong was full of joy when he saw it, and said to the monks: "You have done a good job of this water and land conference, and I will be rewarded!"
Chen Xuanzang led 1,200 monks to bow down and thank him.
Guanyin Bodhisattva took Hui'an in the clouds above the Huasheng Temple, looking at this neat and tidy Dharma/meeting, and saw Emperor Taizong leading the Manchu Dynasty magnates to come to congratulate the incense, Chen Xuanzang presided over the head of the way, and his heart was naturally happy, thinking "everything is under control".
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