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Chapter 237 Copy the Monk Temple, a certain class is professional

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Fahua Sect was the most important sect of Buddhism, with the most followers and the most widely spread.

The reason why the Fahua Sect is so prosperous is that what the Fahua Sect preaches is not actually the teachings that came from Tianzhu. , Compiled, more able to understand the teachings of Datang people.

Of course, Venerable Huiwen did not dare to say that these teachings were thought up by himself, but claimed that he had been enlightened by Nagarjuna Bodhisattva, and publicly declared Nagarjuna Bodhisattva as the first patriarch of the Dharma Huazong.

It has to be said that this one-handed operation of monk Huiwen can be regarded as a model of selling dog meat with a sheep's head. It not only raised the status of the Fa Huazong, but also raised his own status in a disguised form, which made other colleagues angry Tooth itching.

Because this statement is tantamount to confirming the status of monk Huiwen as a direct disciple of Nagarjuna Bodhisattva.

The eminent monk who is enlightened by the Bodhisattva himself will ask you whether to kneel when you meet!

After the monk Huiwen, the third patriarch of the Fahuazong, the monk Huisi, and the fourth patriarch, the monk Zhiyi, were also outstanding for a while, and the Fahuazong became more and more famous under their hands. With the same role as a national teacher, he even controlled the Taishi Bureau, the private land of the Taoist sect at that time.

Under the impetus of the Great Monk Zhiyi, the influence of the Fahua Sect quickly expanded to the entire northern region, becoming the first sect of Buddhism, overwhelming other sects handed down by Hu monks, such as the success of Kumarajiva Dzong, Sangha Deva's Kushe Sect, Lenamati's Dilun Sect, etc...

This also shows that during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it was absolutely not easy for foreign monks to recite foreign scriptures, and they had to be translated into Chinese products before anyone would buy them.

What is national self-confidence!

Because of this, there are many temples of the Fahua Sect in the big northern cities. For example, among the more than 100 temples in Chang'an, there are more than 40 temples belonging to the Fahua Sect...

This is also the result of the recent rebellion of a twenty-five-year-old monk Ji Zang from the Fahua Sect, who took away one-third of the territory.

In the Daxiong Hall of Dayunjing Temple in Huaiyuanfang, Chang'an City, Monk Zhixi was standing in front of the Buddha statue of the World Honored One, bowing his head, chanting devoutly.

"Buddhist catastrophe, urgent matters, please forgive the sins of the Buddha!"

After finishing speaking, Monk Zhixi jumped up lightly and landed on the lotus platform beside the Buddha statue. Then he stretched out his hand, and his dry and thin palm easily pierced the side of the Buddha statue.

puff!
After a soft sound, Monk Zhixi's hand had been deeply inserted into the Buddha statue. Looking at it from the side, it seemed that Monk Zhixi was stabbing Buddha in the back.

The next moment, Monk Zhixi's hand had been withdrawn from the Buddha statue, and he was holding a round sword in his hand.

"Namo Miaoguang Bodhisattva!"

Monk Zhixi whispered the Buddha's name, then jumped down from the lotus platform, and put the round sword in his hand on the tray held by a monk standing below.

"This is the last magic weapon. Next, after the magic weapon is sealed and the power of the incense fire is leaked, you can..."

"Master Zhixi!"

Before Monk Zhixi finished speaking, he saw a young monk rushing in from the outside quickly.

"Something is bad..."

Monk Zhixi turned his head, looked at the young monk who rushed in, and asked calmly.

"What happened again?"

"us……"

The young monk looked at Monk Zhixi in panic.

"We are surrounded by Yuan Cong Guards and Taoist priests from Taishi Bureau!"

"Oh!"

Monk Zhixi lowered his eyelids and sighed slightly.

"It came so fast..."

"Master Zhixi,"

The young monk looked at him like he was looking at a savior.

"Make up your mind, what should we do?"

"You first send those magic weapons to the side hall and give them to Monk Jizang."

The old monk Zhixi tidied up his cassock, patted the dust on it, and then walked towards the gate of the temple.

"The old monk will deal with the previous matters."

"Yes!"

Several monks agreed, and then slipped out of the back door of the Daxiong Hall with the magic weapons in their hands, and ran towards the side hall where the monk Ji Zang was, while the old monk Zhixi walked steadily through the front door. Go in the direction of the temple gate.

Just as he walked out of the hall, he saw a group of armored soldiers rushing over like a tide. The leader was a middle-aged man in a purple robe, and a man in a purple robe followed him. A young priest in white.

"By the order of the saint!"

The purple-robed man stopped drinking, and raised high the roll wrapped in yellow silk in his hand.

"The Fahua sect is arrogant and rebellious, with high self-esteem, insatiable lust, personal looting, rebellious traffic, and wrong intentions, ordering sand elimination!"

As he spoke, the purple-robed man waved his hand with a stern expression.

"Go and bring out all the monks in the entire monastery..."

Following his order, the soldiers who followed him immediately dispersed. Under the leadership of a group of Taoist priests in Taoist attire, they familiarly pulled out all the monks who were hiding in the house. When the monks resisted a little, they were punched and kicked immediately.

Under the command of these Taoist priests, the soldiers were soon divided into small groups one by one.

Some people searched the monks, some were responsible for searching the inside of the room, and some were responsible for following the Taoist priests to find the hidden doors and hidden compartments of the house.

"I really didn't expect..."

The purple-robed man looked at the orderly scene around him, and nodded in satisfaction.

"Now the people in the Prayer Department of the Taishi Bureau are so well-trained. It seems that Master Qingxia arranged for Qingwei to serve as the prisoner of the Prayer Department. It really knows how to use people well. Compared with the past, it really pales in comparison. "

"This one……"

Kong Qing looked at Zhang Shanzi and the others' skillful raids around the house, and the corner of his mouth twitched slightly.

"In fact, they are just practice makes perfect, and they can't afford Fu Lingyin's praise."

At this moment, a cry of surprise was heard suddenly, and a monk rushed out from a courtyard door on the side with his head in his hands...

Boom!
A stick followed behind him, protruding from the gate of the courtyard, hit the monk in the back of the head, and knocked him down.

Then, the monk was dragged back by the people behind the door...

The purple-robed man Fu Yi and Kong Qing glanced at each other, then turned their heads knowingly, pretending not to see it.

"Fu Lingyin..."

The old monk Zhixi walked up quickly, folded his hands together, and bowed to the purple-robed man with a look of grief on his face.

"The sage said that my Fa Huazong participated in the assassination of Princess Pingyang, and wanted to eliminate my Fa Huazong. I can't tell the difference, but I can only agree, but the temple of our sect doesn't need to be eliminated to this extent, right?"

"Feel sorry!"

Fu Yi replied blankly.

"In addition to the Shatai Fahua Sect's monastery in Chang'an, I have to find out the rebels who assassinated Princess Pingyang, so please forgive me for not being able to treat everyone lightly."

boom!
As if to verify his words, just after Fu Yi finished speaking, a monk smashed through the window, and half of his body leaned out of the window lattice, but before the monk got out of the window, he felt a burst of shock Hu Zhong was pulled back.

Monk Zhixi looked at the scene where the surrounding monks were being pushed, shoved, beaten and kicked out of the room by the soldiers, with a look of grief on his face.

"Fu Lingyin, the old monk can make the monks of my Fa Huazong not resist. I wonder if Lingyin can forgive them."

With a sneer on the corner of Fu Yi's mouth, he nodded slowly.

"can!"

"Xie Lingyin!"

Monk Zhixi clasped his palms together, bowed sincerely again, then clasped his palms together, and said softly.

"All Acharyas of my Dayunjing Temple, please leave your meditation room and come to the front yard to take the examination. If you encounter insults and beatings, don't resist. It is said in the "Miaofa Lotus Sutra", endure the insult, and add Slow people, cursing and beating, all of them can be tolerated, in order to seek the Buddha way."

Although his voice was very low, it was heard clearly throughout the entire Dayunjing Temple, and even the monks meditating in the meditation room in the backyard of the temple could hear it clearly.

Kong Qing raised his eyebrows slightly, and threw out an identification technique.

Name: Zhixi

Age: 73 years old

Past: Disciple of Monk Huisi, the third patriarch of Fahuazong, was taken back to Guoqing Temple when he was young. Because of his firm belief and outstanding talent, he was awarded the Dharma of Harmony of the Three Noble Truths by Monk Huisi. At the age of 23, at the age of 44, at the age of Si Tuo Han, at the age of 62, at the age of Anahan, at the age of 73, at the age of 17, at the age of Arhat.

Now: After Monk Fa Ya and Monk Yifan had accidents one after another, and Monk Jizang established his own family, he was dispatched by the current patriarch of the Fa Hua Sect, Monk Zhang An, to be stationed in Dayunjing Temple in Xixi, and be in charge of the affairs of the Fa Hua Sect in China.After receiving the news that today's sage wants to eliminate the Fahuazong, he urgently began to transfer the assets and magic weapons of the Fahuazong.

Future: With the act of escaping the shell of the golden cicada, he abandoned the floating wealth of the Huazong in Chang'an, successfully escaped and returned to Tiantai Mountain with the magic weapon, and invited the empowered monk Zhang An to come down to Tiantai Mountain in person, and persuaded Li Yuan to suspend the suppression of the Huazong.

Major: "The Harmony of the Three Noble Truths"

Cultivation: Proof of Arhatship. (equivalent to Daoist Daoist)
"what?"

Kong Qing moved his gaze from the profile of the monk Zhixi to the other's face, and silently looked him up and down.

Originally, he thought that the monk Zhixi who transferred the floating wealth at the first time should be a greedy monk, but he didn't expect that the other party's collection of floating wealth turned out to be an attempt to escape...

But it's pitiful, let you have all sorts of schemes, but the poor are a coward!
After taking a little look at the other person's appearance, Kong Qing turned his gaze back to Monk Zhixi's profile again, and began to look through his history seriously.

As time passed, the monks of Dayunjing Temple, under the advice of monk Zhixi, walked to the square of the front hall with their heads bowed and their hands clasped together, and stood silently behind him.

Without the hindrance of these monks, the Taoist priests and the soldiers began to rummage in their houses. Stacks of scriptures and some wooden Buddha statues were moved out of the meditation room and piled up in a pile.

When almost all the monks had arrived, a Taoist priest shook the talisman in his hand.

boom!
The flames lit up, and the scene was very familiar!
"Namo Miaoguang Bodhisattva!"

Seeing all this, Monk Zhixi clasped his hands together, his face grieved!
　What Mengxin said earlier about the Fahua sect is all true. In fact, except for a certain Buddhist sect that flourished in our country, except for a lotus sect that does not need teachings at all, and only needs to recite Amitabha, the rest are almost all sinicized. sect of Buddhism.

　　Almost all of these Sinicized Buddhist sects began to change at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, and they all followed the practice of the Fahua School. Representative figures such as Monk Du Shun, Monk Ji Zang, and Monk Daoxin who are now farming in the south.

　　The three of them, together with the monk Zhiyi of the Fahua School, are the four holy monks in Shuanglong.

　　And the reason why Master Huang listed the four of them as the Four Great Sacred Monks should be because their sects became more famous later on.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)