A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 439 Endless Era

Chang'an Xicheng, inside Kaiyuan Gate, Yiningfang.

To the east of the south gate in the workshop is Huadu Temple.

Wu Huaiyu and Ma Sanbao came in casual clothes.

Naturally, Wu Huaiyu, a Taoist priest who came down the mountain, did not come to offer incense. Ma Sanbao invited him to come here to meet someone.

At the gate of Yiningfang, there was a lot of traffic and traffic. Many carriages were loaded with money and silk, and many passers-by carried silk cloth and grain to the workshop.

"They all went to Huadu Temple to donate endless treasures."

Ma Sanbao is obviously not the first time here, and he is very familiar with the situation here.

The two made simple costumes, Huaiyu was dressed as a scholar, Ma Sanbao was dressed as a businessman, Huaiyu even wore a beard, people who are not close to each other usually can't recognize them.

Several people followed behind them, all pretending to be porters and leading mules to carry money and food.

"These people all went to Huadu Temple to give alms."

"Of course, those who left with a full load must have just borrowed money from the Endless Tibetan Garden of Huadu Temple."

Most of the monasteries in Chang'an lend money and collect interest, Wu Huaiyu knows this, but Huadu Temple's Endless Treasure is even more famous.

In essence, Endless Collection is no different from Changsheng Library in other temples, it lends money and collects interest.However, Huadu Monastery Wuwuzang initially did not lend money to collect interest. He accepted alms and then used it to repair the monastery, support monks, and provide disaster relief. No interest was charged on loans.

The closer to Huadu Temple in the south, the more crowded the streets in the square.

"It's not a big deal. It's only crowded in the first month and April every year."

Because one day in those two months was an important day in Huadu Temple.

Outside Huadu Temple, Ma Sanbao met with the agreed person.

Ma Sanbao led everyone into a small courtyard.

The man took off the hat on his head, revealing his short hair.

This is a monk who has returned to secular life. He was originally a monk from Dazongchi Temple.

"This is Zhishi."

"I have returned to vulgarity now, I am no longer Zhishi, and now I am Shao Er, a grassroots."

Zhishi is quite young, only in her early twenties.

Huaiyu was a little curious that Ma Sanbao brought him to meet a monk who had become a layman.

"Duke Yi is not curious why so many people donate to the Endless Collection of Huadu Temple?"

"Why?"

If we want to talk about Huadu Temple and Endless Zang, we have to mention one person, that is, Zen Master Xinxingfa in the Sui Dynasty. The core of teaching is endless Tibetan thought.

Suffering is the headline of the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism, and the final dharma is one of the three dharmas of Buddhism.

Although Zhishi has returned to vulgarity, he used to be a true disciple of the eminent monk of Dazongchi Temple, and he also has a lot of research on the three-level religion of Huadu Temple.

"500 years of Dharma-rectification, 1000 years of Dharma-rectification, and [-] years of Dharma-ending. We have entered the era of Dharma-ending after the two Buddha-difficulties of Emperor Wu of Wei and Emperor Wu of Zhou."

Facing the cruel environment of the end of the Dharma, how to save people has basically formed three typical sects up to now.

One is the Endless Zang of the Three Tier Religion, the second is the birth of a new Buddha believed in by Maitreya, and the third is the rebirth of Amitabha's belief in reciting Buddha.

Since the establishment of the Three Tier Teaching Faculty, its influence has spread extremely quickly.

"The three levels of Dharma Master Xinxing are divided into three levels according to time, place, and opportunity, corresponding to the era of the Three Laws.

The third level is the age of the Dharma-ending era, which is the current era, the era of the five turbidities and the filthy soil. People are the five kinds of sentient beings who have wrong views and cannot be cured. . "

Wu Huaiyu was not confused after listening to Zhishi's explanation.

Anyway, according to what Master Xinxing said, now is the Dharma-ending age, everyone is hopeless, only my teaching can save and liberate, there is no other way.

But to believe in his teachings, the most important thing is endless possession, and liberation through giving.

"In the Hinayana, there is only understanding and benefit. In the Mahayana, self-benefit and others are benefited. Therefore, the Bodhisattva established the Endless Tibetan Dharma with great compassion."

Give money and get salvation.

Huaiyu felt that this set of sayings was not unfamiliar at all, and it seemed that no matter what he taught, he couldn't do without it.

There are even a complete set of sixteen methods of giving in Sanjiejiao, three of which are relatively common.

Give up one penny and one heal millet every day, 36 cents a year, three buckets and six liters of millet.Second, donate 36 cents of money every day.Three, the daily money is [-] points.

After Master Xinxing passed away, every year on the fourth day of his death on the first lunar month, scholars and women from all over the world give money, which is very spectacular.

Faith requires monks of the third-level religion to eat only one meal a day, and they have to beg for food and alms.

According to the third-order doctrine, the more donations you give, the more salvation you will get.

Regardless of the low-level common people or the upper-class nobles, Endless Zang can paint a beautiful picture of a beautiful world for you.

"This Huadu Temple is where Gao Ying, the Prime Minister of the Sui Dynasty and the Duke of Qi, believed in the endless Tibetan Dharma, built a temple out of his house, and later built five temples in Chang'an with donations."

"Up to now, there are more than forty monasteries in Chang'an with third-order teachings, all of which have Endless Tibetan Temples."

"The Zhixiang Temple, where Master Xinxing's relics are buried in Zhongnan Mountain in Chang'an, has become a holy place for the third-order religion."

Wu Huaiyu felt that although the third-level teachings of Huadu Temple were slightly better than the Maitreya teachings that had been used by rebels since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, they were not much better.

The third-order teaching of the endless Tibetan method is to paint a cake for people and describe a beautiful future world, but the way to this world, you have to give salvation to have a chance to reach it.

However, Maitreya believes that this method is too slow. What they want is to directly establish the kingdom of heaven on earth, instead of placing hope in the future. Maitreya is the future Buddha. He lives in Tushita Heaven, where there is only joy and no pain. You can save sentient beings.

Maitreya was born to save all beings, and a new Buddha was born to get rid of the old demons. Many people rebelled under these slogans.

The third-order religion wants to give alms to lead to the future heaven, while the Maitreya religion wants Maitreya to be born to establish a heaven on earth.

One present and one future, but both cannot be separated from believers and money, only the shapes of the pies are different.

The Sanjiejiao was founded and spread in the Sui Dynasty. At first it was supported by the Sui Dynasty, but then it spread too fast. Even the alms of the Sanjiejiao was a bit of a religious tax among the believers, which caused the court’s dissatisfaction. , Since then, there have been many suppression restrictions.

However, after experiencing the war and turmoil at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the people were hungry and suffering, but they were more entrusted to them and made them stronger.

As for Wu Wu Zang, he received a lot of donations and embarked on the road of lending and collecting interest.

"The Chang'an third-tier sect has more than two thousand monks and nuns, and two thousand monk soldiers."

When Wu Huaiyu heard that there were two thousand monk soldiers, Wu Huaiyu was stunned.

It's not surprising that there are monks in the temple, but this is Chang'an, how can they have two thousand monks?
"Faya is the leader of the monks and soldiers in Huadu Temple. He is highly appreciated by the Supreme Emperor and Pei Ji, and he can enter and exit the palace freely. When the Turks invaded Jingzhou in the seventh year of Wude, Faya asked for an order to bring two thousand Monks leave Beijing."

At that time, Zhishi stood up against it, thinking that it was inappropriate for monks to go to war, but was beaten up by Fa Ya. Thousands of monks and soldiers also disbanded and returned to the temple.

But Fa Ya gained Li Yuan's trust even more, and even gave his wife and concubine a lot of money, and after that, he was free to enter and leave the palace.

Zhishi became a monk at Dazongchi Temple at the age of 11 and became a monk for ten years. He also taught the Dharma with the eminent monk Dade of the capital to Li Shimin Qin Wangfu.

Zhishi collected many evidences of Fa Ya's crimes and came here to report to Huai Yu.

Wu Huaiyu doesn't like informers very much, especially a monk who is out of secular life suing another wine and meat monk.

"Although the grassroots are ordered to return to vulgarity, they still don't want such filthy people as Falla to become pure because of their evil deeds."

As he spoke, he handed a letter to Huaiyu.

"Shen lay monk Zhi Shibai:..."

This letter is very emotional, especially the sentence in it, Faya is in Zhiti Jingyuan, which is always a slaughterhouse, and in the forest of Jingshe, it is used as a room for wives and children.Take off the clothes of thousands of monks, the world will mourn the sorrow of the earth; slander the scriptures of the seven Buddhas, all nations will complain to heaven.

A monk who enters and exits the palace is banned, associates with dignitaries, raises wives and concubines, bears children, raises private soldiers, owns forbidden weapons, invades fields, oppresses people, lends usury, etc. These Buddhist scum must be cleaned up.

(End of this chapter)