"The Four Great Temples of Shenzhou?" Bai Ya's heart moved, and he asked curiously, "But it's similar to the Five Great Palaces of Shenzhou?"

"It's different!" Hui Nan shook his head with a smile, "The Five Great Universities of Shenzhou Palace is an academy that promotes the concept of doctrine in addition to the Daomen, and although there is also a Dao Protector Martial Hall, the disciples of the sect are mainly responsible for helping the world and saving the people.

For example, most of the Legalists, Confucianists, soldiers, and Zongheng families were born as officials to assist the court kings, while the Mohists, farmers, and doctors studied the way of the evolution of all things in the world, and used their Taoism for their own use, and proposed new tools, agricultural tools, and pills to benefit the people. ”

Hui Nan said and paused, "But my Buddhism and Taoism do not pay attention to external objects, pay attention to seclusion practice, open up the garden of the soul, and calm the hearts of all the people in Shenzhou." Although the four major temples in Shenzhou have different sects and different principles, on the whole, they are in the same lineage. ”

Hui Yan's explanation made Bai Ya understand.

In fact, through what he has seen and heard over the years, he has long regarded this world as ancient China, but as another modern civilization, or even a future civilization, that is different from the scientific and technological civilization of the previous life.

However, although the path of civilization is different, some things are the same.

For example, the disciples of Confucianism, Legalism, and soldiers who filled the courts of various countries were equivalent to the separation of powers in the hearts of Baiya.

Of course, these three powers do not refer to the judicial, executive, and legislative, but to the three powers of etiquette, law, and soldiers.

As for the Mo family, the peasant family, the medical family, and the Yin and Yang family, it seems that they are equivalent to scientists in various fields in the previous life, and they led most of the world's creations and inventions. For example, the Great Post Road, the Teleportation Talisman Array, the Flywheel Treasure Boat, etc., among them are the efforts of the disciples of the Mo family and the Yin and Yang family.

Buddhism and Taoism, on the other hand, put aside the study of material levels and social structures, and turned to provide spiritual comfort for the secular people, so that when the people suffer and fall into a desperate situation, they still have faith to place their souls.

"That'...... What are the four major temples in Shenzhou, but there is a Shaolin Temple?" Bai Ya asked with a grin.

"Hehe, it turns out that Lord Bai has heard of Shaolin Temple......"

Bai Ya was originally just ridiculing the famous temple in his previous life, but he didn't expect Monk Hui Nan to really give a positive answer. He has read some introductions to the Shaolin Temple in his previous life, and knows that the Shaolin Temple was founded in the Northern Wei Dynasty of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and there is obviously no Northern and Southern Dynasties in this world.

However, there are some histories that do not seem to change with the changes of the times, and there are also Shaolin temples in this world.

According to Hui Nan, in 1371 of the Shenzhou calendar, the Venerable Batuo, a high monk of Tianzhu, came to Luoyang of the Zhou State, and was invited to the capital Xinzheng by the contemporary Han king, and built the Shaolin Temple at the northern foot of the Shaomu Mountain in Songshan Mountain.

However, the monk who established the lofty status of the Shaolin Temple for later generations was not Venerable Batuo.

In 1506 of the Shenzhou calendar, the twenty-eighth generation of Shakyamuni's disciples, the Zen monk Bodhidharma, came to Songshan Shaolin Temple.

On the basis of Shaolin's founding patriarch Batuo, he gathered believers, opened the door to teach the sect, and passed on the law to the Shaolin at that time to host the Hui Ke Zen master, leaving the true meaning of Zen and the seventy-two stunts of martial arts, and the Shaolin school of Zen Buddhism was established here.

It is earlier than Luoyang White Horse Temple to become the Xianwu sect, only three years later than Maoshan Shangqingdao, is the first Buddhist Xianwu sect, since then the establishment of the first four major temples in Shenzhou Buddhism ancestral court status.

About 200 years later, in 1712 of the Shenzhou calendar, the Tianzhu monk was fearless and the master of Vajra Zhi traveled east to Shenzhou again, and was treated well by the King of Qin, and built Huayan Temple in Taibai Mountain, and passed down the five teachings of Tantra. ”

Monk Huinan said, suddenly solemnly clasped his palms together, bowed his head, "Huayan Temple is the ancestral court of Shenzhou Tantric Sect, and this temple has something to do with it. It's just that the white donor is not a disciple of the temple, and the poor monk can't say much because of the door rules. ”

"It should be like this!" Bai Ya didn't care, and asked in another word, "What about the last four major temples of Shenzhou?"

"The last of the four major temples in Shenzhou is in Dali, south of Shudi. Hui Nan smiled, "About 1878 in the Shenzhou calendar, the head of the Duan clan of the former Dali Kingdom in Nanyue was enlightened by an unknown monk, converted to Buddhism, and established the Chongsheng Temple of the Faxiangzong, which was called Tianlong Temple by the people of Dali. ”

However, although Tianlong Temple was established the latest, but the missionary effect is the best, Dali respects Buddhism throughout the country, and the monarchs of the past dynasties have the custom of being a monk in the twilight of their years. Hui Nan continued, "In terms of martial arts, Tianlong Temple is also quite distinctive. The Buddhist masters of the past dynasties have emerged in an endless stream, and they are even better than Huayan Temple and White Horse Temple, and can rank second among the four major temples in Shenzhou. ”

"Songshan Shaolin Temple, Dali Tianlong Temple, Taibai Huayan Temple, Luoyang White Horse Temple, these four are the four major temples in Shenzhou, all of which are the source of the ancestral court of Buddhism in Shenzhou. Hui Nan said respectfully, "However, Shaolin is Zen, Tianlong is Faxiangzong, Huayan is Tantra, and the three sects are different.

As for the White Horse Temple, it is a bit complicated, because it was built the earliest, and it is the first Shenzhou temple, so most of the monks from the Western Regions who traveled east in the following hundreds of years stayed here, and the sects in the temple are staggered, and they cannot be classified into any one sect.

If it weren't for the great internal friction, the White Horse Temple, which was built more than 700 years earlier than Shaolin, would not have ranked third among the four major temples in Shenzhou!" Hui Nan shook his head and smiled helplessly, "It's just that although the four major temples in Shenzhou were established very early, the Buddhist mission at that time was not smooth, and it did not have much influence in the world. ”

"Why is that?" asked White Cliff a little strangely.

You must know that in the world of his previous life, Taoism and Buddhism, the two most prevalent religions in Shenzhou, are still better than Buddhism. Local Taoism was suppressed so much that it couldn't raise its head, and Buddhist monasteries could go public like companies to make money.

"Because Buddhism has been suppressed by many schools of thought, especially Taoism!" Hui Nan said with a wry smile, "It is also a hidden religion, how can the Taoist sect allow outsiders to rob the secular faith." ”

"That'...... How did Buddhism develop later?" Bai Ya asked with interest.

"Everything in the world has its rise and fall, although Buddhism was suppressed a lot at that time, but it will always usher in an opportunity, and this opportunity is at the end ......of the Wuxing era," Hui Nan said, turning around and asking, "Has Lord Bai ever heard of the Qin-Chu War and the Wuxing era?"

"Well, I know!" Bai Ya immediately relayed what Wang Peng had said about the Qin-Chu War and the Wuxing era.

"Yes, after the Great War of Qin and Chu, the nations saw the power of martial artists in the disciples of the Taoist family of Wudang Mountain. The court began to realize that relying solely on the ordinary army could no longer forcibly suppress the secular people, otherwise it would attract the intervention of the warriors. Hui Nan sighed and said.

And because the hundred schools of thought were deeply rooted in the court and the world, and could no longer be completely eradicated, they adopted the method of Huairou to attract the warriors of the hundred schools as tools to attack neighboring countries. However, although this method was effective, it also sowed great disasters later. ”

As the monk Hui Nan narrated, Baiya seemed to have a historical picture scroll thousands of years ago in front of him.

The Qin-Chu War in 1016 of the Shenzhou calendar had a great impact on later generations, thus opening the Wuxing era after the Wenxing era.

During this period, the hundreds of schools of thought successively established the five university palaces of Shenzhou, as well as the immortal martial arts sects of Taoism such as Maoshan Shangqing Dao and Wudang True Martial Dao. Martial arts prevail in the world, and everyone cultivates, which can be described as a prosperous era for martial artists.

This period lasted for about a thousand years, and after nearly a thousand years of development, the power of the hundred warriors became more and more huge, and they were no longer satisfied with becoming a battlefield conquest tool for the kings and nobles.

Either for the sake of ideals or for the sake of power, they gradually began to infiltrate the temple and control the king and the court.

The poor monk remembers that in the historical materials, about 2280 in the Shenzhou calendar, the then King Huai of Qin died, the new king was young, and the Empress Dowager Fan, who was born in the Legalist family, was in charge. Hui Nan recalled and said, "The disciples of the Houli Xuegong and the Huashan Sect filled the court and army of the Qin State, and in the spring of the following year, they launched the Third Shenzhou Unification War. ”

"Such a!" Bai Ya couldn't help but be stunned when he heard it.

The Qin State had unified the entire Shenzhou in his previous life, and this world seemed to have reached the extreme. The Qin-Chu War was the second Shenzhou Unification War, and if this time was added, it would already be three, which was even more martial than a certain Western country in his previous life.

"This war involved all the seven heroes of the Warring States and fought against each other, which lasted intermittently for more than 500 years, and was known as the Second Warring States Period of China. Hui Nan shook his head and sighed, "The people of Shenzhou have suffered a lot, bitterly, bitterly!"

"Master, does the Second Warring States Period have anything to do with the promotion of Buddhism?" Bai Ya heard this, and he already had a faint concept in his heart, and immediately interrupted and asked.

"Yes, but this is not what my Buddhist disciple wants, I can only say that time is also fate!"

From 2281 to 2845 in the Shenzhou calendar, for nearly 500 years, all living beings in the land of Shenzhou in the Second Warring States were devastated, and the people were struggling to survive.

The major powers were exhausted by this war, and the Hundred Sects and Wumen also suffered heavy losses, which ended with the Qin state and its allies Qi Shu nominally admitting defeat.

The consequences of this war were quite serious, and although the royal families who instigated the war suffered hardship, it was not them who suffered the most, but the hundred warriors who joined the war on a large scale.

After the Great War of Qin and Chu, the positive image of the hundred warriors accumulated in the hearts of the people of the countries collapsed and disappeared.

Buddhism, which advocates that all evils should be avoided and all good should be pursued, that all beings are equal, and that everyone can become a Buddha has filled the emptiness and faith in the hearts of the people at this time, so that they can pin their hopes on reincarnation and become Buddhas after death, thus gaining great propagation and development.

The four major temples of Shenzhou and the monks of the Western Regions established many monasteries in the Dongtian blessed land within the borders of the major countries during the Second Warring States Period. Buddhism began to truly take root in the land of China, comparable to the believers of the hundred schools of Zhuzi and the most powerful Taoism.

Of course, the rise of Buddhism was not without a price, at least at that time, the hundred schools of thought and Taoism regarded Buddhism as a natural enemy, which directly led to the Taoist dispute between Buddhism and Taoism in later generations. When Hui Nan said this, he suddenly remembered something, and suddenly stopped talking.

"Master, why don't you talk about it?" Bai Ya couldn't help asking.

"Master Bai, you haven't officially joined a certain Immortal Martial Sect, but the poor monk just said too much, don't say more. Hui Nan smiled bitterly.

"But it has something to do with the Immortal Oath?" Bai Ya's heart moved, and he hurriedly asked.

Hui Nan still smiled and did not speak, which suddenly made him extremely depressed.