If I fail to overcome the tribulation, I can only return to the Ming Dynasty and become a prince.

Chapter 221 Dujiaban

Emperor Meng Yuan's status is not ordinary.

During the reign of Emperor Taizong of the Yuan Dynasty, the leader of the Saskaya sect, Saskaya Banmitha Gongjia Zang, and representatives of the monks and laymen of Wusi, Zang, and Nali rushed to the Mongolian prince Kuoduan for two weeks to express their surrender and submission. From then on, the Saskaya sect The monk gained the favor of the Golden Family and his status increased day by day.

Zhi Gongjiajianzang passed away, and his nephew Pasiba inherited the status of the sect's leader. He refuted Taoism during the Yuan Xianzong period, and the status of the Saskaya sect was no longer shaken.

After Kublai Khan succeeded to the throne, he consecrated Pasiba as the Mongolian National Preceptor, established the General Institution to govern Buddhism across the country and the local monks and secular people in Tubo, and ordered Pasiba to lead it. He also pointed out 13 households in Usi Tibet to Pasiba as his master. Support the land and make him the supreme ruler of the Tubo region.

In the sixth year of the Yuan Dynasty, Pasiba was promoted to the title of Imperial Master and Dharma King. He was given a jade seal and said that "under the emperor, there is only one person above him", which means he is more sacred than the emperor.

The Mongolian rulers of the Yuan Dynasty believed in Tubo Buddhism, and the emperor's master had a very high status in the Yuan court. All emperors, concubines, and concubines received initiation from the emperor's master.

When the emperor's master came to and from the capital, he was greeted ceremoniously by hundreds of officials. He received a large number of donations and rewards during his lifetime. After his death, the money collected could reach thousands of taels of gold, tens of thousands of taels of silver, and tens of thousands of pieces of silk.

Many of his children and disciples were named national preceptors, Sikong, Situ, and Guogong. These senior monks also enjoyed various privileges.

The various Buddhist services hosted by the Imperial Master and his disciples were very expensive.According to the statistics of the fourth year of Yanyou in the Yuan Dynasty, the food consumed by the inner court for Buddhist services was 43 jins of flour, 870 jins of oil, [-] jins of crisps, and [-] jins of honey every year.

There, the emperor's edicts of the Yuan Dynasty and the imperial master's decrees went hand in hand. The imperial master inherited this status from generation to generation. As the highest leader of Buddhism in the country, his decrees were also carried out by the monks in the monasteries in the mainland.

It can be seen from this that when some were still in the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, what a noble status a Yuan Ting emperor's master had.

But it has been decades since the fall of the Yuan Dynasty. Even the imperial master of Yuan Shun Emperor Timur should have died long ago and cannot survive to this day.

Therefore, Zhu Di was very surprised and asked: "Zhan Yun, are you not mistaken? How did he, the former Yuan emperor's master, live to this day? And which emperor was he? I remember that the last master of the Meng Yuan Dynasty, Namgyalpa Zangbu, was In the sixth year of Hongwu's reign, he entered the imperial court and surrendered to the Ming Dynasty. My father awarded him the title of National Master of the Blazing Buddha Treasure.

In the seventh year of Hongwu, the great-nephew of Ba Siba supervised Ba Zangbu and entered the court. He was also honored as the Imperial Master and was given the title of National Master. He established the Xining Seng Gang Division and appointed Lama Sanci as the Du Gang. In Hezhou, Gansu, he established Fan Han The second monk Gangsi is a Tibetan monk who serves as the monk official.

It has been decades now, and he still looks nothing like these people! "

After all, Zhu Di was born at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. He also met this person when Namgyalpa Zangbu, the last Meng Yuan emperor in the sixth year of Hongwu, entered the court.

Later, in the first year of Yongle, Zhu Di also sent Hou Xian and other officials to Usizang, and invited Harima, Tsongkhapa and other eminent Tibetan Buddhist monks to enter the court.

Therefore, Zhu Di was quite familiar with these Tibetan Buddhist sect leaders, but he had never met the people in front of him.

"Of course he is not the people you mentioned, grandpa. All those people are still juniors to the one in front of you!" Zhu Zhanquan laughed teasingly, and then asked the lama in front of him who was restrained by the twelve hatreds of the flying sword. Said: "Should I tell it for you, or should I tell it myself?"

The lama in front of him was obviously still immersed in the shock of being subdued by one move and all his magical weapons were destroyed, but at this moment Zhu Zhanquan spoke, and the sword edge of the Twelve Hatreds pierced his skin, which still made him come back to his senses. , gritted his teeth and said in Tibetan: "This disciple is the seventh generation emperor of the Great Yuan Dynasty, Dujiaban! This master, how did you survive this tribulation of the end of the Dharma and achieve the status of Arahant? I am ignorant and can't figure it out in a hundred years. Broken, I have no choice but to linger! Please ask the master for guidance!" As he said that, he ignored the twelve hateful flying swords on his body and let the sharp edge of the flying sword pierce the skin and pierce the body. He turned over and knelt down in front of Zhu Zhancheng, kneeling on the ground. Fall down before him.

The so-called Arhat status is the highest status of Hinayana Buddhism. If one practices Mahayana Buddhism, it also has Bodhisattva status and Buddha status.

Corresponding to the Taoist practice of Arahantship, it is already a golden elixir master who has practiced the spirit and returned to the void. Therefore, the former Yuan Emperor Master in front of him called Zhu Zhanquan his guru and asked him how to achieve Arahantship. In fact, he was asking who Zhu Zhanquan was. How to achieve the golden elixir.

After all, according to Du Jiaban's memory, since the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, the aura of heaven and earth has declined to an unsustainable level. Even the first-generation imperial master Pasibana and other amazingly talented people have found it difficult to achieve Arahant status. , can only be reincarnated and rebuilt.

The same was true for successive generations of imperial masters and eminent monks of the Sakya sect. Seeing that there was no hope of a breakthrough in their own practice, they liberated themselves and reincarnated themselves to practice again.

This is also the subtlety of Tibetan Buddhism. In this era of Dharma ending, you can use the method of reincarnation and recultivation to keep your true soul awake, and you can get through this era of Dharma ending with the method of continuous reincarnation.

However, there is a certain danger in doing so, because although the method of reincarnation can keep a little bit of the true spirit insomnia, it requires extremely high cultivation and Buddhist understanding.

If you do not practice Buddhism enough and are unable to realize your previous life, you will fall into the confusion of the womb and forget your previous life. From then on, you will never have the opportunity to embark on the path of spiritual practice.

Unless someone enlightens and helps him to realize his previous life, he can realize his own body again and embark on the path of spiritual practice again.

Therefore, some people feel that it is difficult to realize their previous lives in reincarnation, and they do not trust others to enlighten them, so they can only find a place where they feel safe, and then sit tight in the hope that they can survive this Dharma-ending era.

There is no doubt that the Dujiaban in front of me chose to hide and suffer on this road.

Originally, Du Jiaban was hiding in Uzang, but an earthquake occurred where he was sitting in the Death Pass. The Buddhist temple where he was was damaged in the earthquake, so he had to find a way to change places and continue to sit in the Death Pass.

At that time, it was still the era when Meng Yuan was in power, and the fortunes of the former Yuan Dynasty were booming. So after some operations, he had the title of Imperial Master on his head, and was invited by Meng Yuan to his ancestral land to serve him in Langjuxu Mountain. I have found a place where I can continue to sit at the edge of death.

As a price, he had to take three shots for Meng Yuan.

After all, he is also a practitioner with real magic power. No matter how stupid the rulers of the former Yuan Dynasty are, they will not let go of masters who are very powerful for mortals.

The only problem may be that Du Jiaban himself has a short life span and must rely on death to extend his life. He will not take action for Meng Yuan easily.

Now, the place where he sat on death row was destroyed again. His original intention was to take revenge, but in the end, he met a real Jindan who was still active in the world. How could this not make Dujiaban feel extremely excited and willing to show up in front of Zhu Zhanchun? Showing a posture of prostrating oneself to the ground, begging him to teach the Dharma.

　Du Jiaban was indeed the seventh Imperial Master of Meng Yuan, but he never went to the Imperial Capital of Meng Yuan to accept the canonization, he was only appointed, so he was later replaced by another one, who was the official seventh generation Imperial Master of Meng Yuan.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)