Tang Dynasty

Chapter 134: Zen Forest

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"It's these gray thieves again..."

Squeezed between a group of bald heads with panic-faced faces, Zhao Ziri, the official Zhao, looked at the flag on the opposite side, and felt that new and old hatred came to their minds.

"Is it really the calamity I hit..."

It is these grass thieves in grey clothes that ruined his ambitions that he claimed to be based on the situation outside Changle City; they also broke through the Zhaojiazhai run by his family, causing his family to be destroyed and only to be displaced from the road. It was the culprit who was able to stay alive by stooping down and dwelling on others like a bereaved dog.

Counting this time, he has hit these disaster stars for the fourth time. When the rainy night outside Chaoyang City broke through, if he hadn't seen the opportunity and took people out of the team after crossing the river, he would have been hit by the camp of these gray-robed thieves. The result is that the situation and the fate are worse than every time, and every time is worse and worse.

Next to him, he was accompanied by a small official and military school surnamed Su, known as the lucky Su La; but he was a strange character who claimed to be able to survive nine deaths.

It is said that he, who had been deceived by deceitful words on the head of Chaoyang City, was supposed to be dragged down and chopped off on the spot; but unfortunately, a piece of stone wall crashed and killed the sword and axe waiting below; then the grass thief He started to attack the wall. Did the military guard rush to stop him? He just ran around and took his life out; then when the rainy night rushed out, the team he was in was the first to board and he made a mistake in the dark. The direction fell into the water, and when he swam to the shore and climbed up, he found that all the people who rushed to the camp were all dead, and he was the only one who hurried to escape.

This time, in order to defend against the invading grass thief, some people who were stranded in the monastery were asked to pick out some people who have experience in battle or army to serve as the leader; so this Su Xiaoxiao was also pointed out by the official Zhao. Up this team. It's just that Zhao Ziri is a little impatient after not getting along for long. This fellow is like an old bustard's noisy and chattering. Once in the battle, he can't stop his mouth, making people talk about bursts of impetuous heart.

"Official Zhao, don't worry about you..."

However, this little school Su seemed to have not seen it at all, Zhao Ziri's face was filled with impatience and disgust, and continued to express comfort and relief loudly.

"I have never played against these grass thieves before..."

"They came so hastily from far away, it is not so easy to attack"

"At the very least, I have to settle the camp before making plans..."

Then, in the air, a locust-like howling wind swept across the wall, and brought out a dense sound like a pounding rain. In an instant, there were screams of left and right screaming among the crowds, falling unevenly and overturning a lot of monks and soldiers with arrow shafts in their heads, faces, chests, abdomen, and shoulders.

"Don't panic... this is just a test,"

Su Xiaoxiao hurriedly waved his hands and shouted to the others who had shrunk under the wall.

"Steady, we must be steady, we all pick up the bow and arrow, and we have to give it back..."

"As long as you deter the other side, you can get a buffer..."

However, at the moment when the cringing probes got up, another wave of dense arrows shot straight through the wall, and the hands of those who hurriedly exposed their figures to release their arrows pierced through the past and dragged them. He fell to the ground and screamed screaming for death or bleeding.

"It does not matter.."

Su Xiaoxiao's face turned pale again, and said hurriedly more loudly.

"There are walls preventing them from shooting us..."

Before he finished his words, a fireball with long smoke trails was thrown high, and it fell behind the crowd not far away with a whirr, bursting into pieces and exploding many hot sparks and sparks. The burning debris came and scattered on the backs of the crowd, suddenly burning with a scream and wailing.

"Don't run, hiding under the wall is the safest"

Su Xiaoxiao couldn't think of these things, so he could only continue to shout in a calm manner.

"Hurry up and raise the gear, there will be nothing wrong..."

"The grass thief came hurriedly, there is no time to purchase the tough equipment..."

"We just have to be optimistic about the door...without losing"

Then, Zhao Ziri and he heard a dull chiseling sound, which suddenly sounded on the back of the high wall full of green vines, creepers and moss marks, and shook a piece of loose brick wall that had been in disrepair for a long time. A fat monk with a bright forehead in the middle, the blood spattered down.

At this moment, Zhao Ziri only felt that he didn't hate a person so much, and he wanted to pull his intestines out and strangle his neck alive.

. . . . . .

As the archers of the crossbow team and the archer team flew out like a rain of arrows, the mottled moss-colored wall of the temple was immediately covered with a layer of white tail feathers, which looked like a grayish brown moldy smell from a distance. A layer of white fluff has grown on the tofu. The silhouettes and figures of those who could not dodge, like fallen leaves in the autumn wind, fell from the walls and walls they were clinging to.

However, the opponent also shot several rounds of arrows with uneven residuals, but they were so scattered that they fell back and forth before and after the attack sequence in which the card cart crossed the bridge, but they did not cause any casualties or losses; after all, Under this kind of targeted full suppression, they have no way to raise their heads and lean out to aim at the identified location;

At this time, the messenger who went to Shaoguan was finally brought back. It was from another main force of the rebel army, the liaison of the former leader of the Yellow Army, a beard and scum, but a rather old lieutenant named Huo Cun's deputy captain. .

"Wait, this Nanhua Temple cannot be attacked easily..."

Before he got close on horseback, he cried out in shock

"This is really huge."

"It's late..."

Zhou Huaian is an understatement

"The attack has already begun, so I can't stop anymore..."

"It's so troublesome..."

The other party was a little anxious to get angry.

"Don't you know where the Nanhua Temple came from?"

"What is the origin..."

Zhou Huaian asked for advice in a sincere manner.

"Is it possible to get to the sky..."

"Even if it can't reach the sky, it's not far behind."

Huo Cun, the deputy captain, changed his face and persuaded him.

"There are tens of thousands of Buddhist believers involved. It is really the place that touches the whole body."

"Does the virtual master book know the ancestral court of the Zen sect..."

"Isn't that the Shaolin Temple in Shaoshi Mountain of Dengzhou..."

Zhou Huaian thought for a while, but he remembered the singing of "Shaolin... Shaolin" again in his mind.

"That's a thing of the past..."

Huo Cun's expression became increasingly distressed

"But now, it is the age of the Sixth Patriarch's Dharma Lineage..."

What, Zhou Huaian couldn't help but froze for a moment. He was attacking Hongquan Temple (the later Shaozhou Nanhua Temple), which is the ancestral court of the Southern School of Zen

It turned out that Nanhua Temple in the land of Shaozhou is actually known as the first Buddhist temple in Lingnan. It was first established in the third year of Liang Tianjian in the Southern Dynasties (504), and was first named Baolin Temple. The courts of the Tang dynasty gave the names "Zhongxing Temple" and "Hongquan Temple" and many gifts and gifts have been inherited to this day.

But it also has another identity that has attracted the attention of the world, that is, the first branch of Buddhism in the world-the true ancestor of the southern Zen school, the dojo where the six groups of Zen Huineng founded the Nanchan branch;

At least in terms of rank and specifications, it is almost the same. At this time, the Shaolin Temple is the largest Buddhist forest in the north, and as one of the ancestors of the "Eight Sects and Six Veins" of Buddhism in the world, it seems to involve the north and the south. The dark history of Zen division.

For example, according to the historical allusion known by Zhou Huai'an, the fifth ancestor of Zen in the early Tang Dynasty, Hongren, was in Huangmei (now Huangmei County, Hubei Province) in the Ping Tomb Mountain, privately spreading the mantle to the emerging disciple Huineng (which is widely known on the Internet and from time to time). It was used to pretend to be compelling, the famous Bodhi and Mingjing verses); thus arousing dissatisfaction with the great disciple of the respected and respected school, and even sent his junior Huiming a thousand miles to chase down, and the so-called "Dayu" who was subdued by Hui Neng The ridge seizure incident".

Later, Huineng, who arrived in Guangzhou all the way south, lived in seclusion for five years, and then began to promote Taoism outside the city (now Guangxiao Temple) and became a blockbuster. Since then, he has been invited to the Baolin Temple in Shaozhou and established a relationship with the ancestors of Shaolin Temple. Tingbei Sect is different from the southern school of Zen Buddhism; in his later years, the Guoen Temple in Xinzhou, Lingnan Road, passed away.

Later in the Kaiyuan period, there was another Huineng big disciple, the Shenhui, who overwhelmed the crowd at the Luoyang Slide Uncovered Conference and convincing the various sects, and began to spread in the North. After the Anshi chaos, due to the political power of the Shenhui, Hui The status of the sixth ancestor of Neng was finally recognized by the court, and finally in the twelfth year of Dezong of the Tang Dynasty, Hui Neng was appointed as the sixth ancestor of Zen.

Since then, the Southern School overwhelmed the Northern School of Shenxiu, and became the main Zen school that has been passed down from generation to generation. The so-called "Eight Sects in the world, Zen dominates; the six channels of Zen, the six ancestors are unique".

However, as a new generation of university monks educated by materialism in New China, a new generation of university monks with outlook on life, world outlook, and values, in fact, did not particularly care about this kind of vain thing that ancient people were quite attached to and valued.

These armed monks and soldiers entrenched in the temple know at a glance that they are not good people; and the previous reactions and performances focused on this. So don't talk about the false name of the ancestral court of Zen, even if the sixth ancestor Hui Neng took his disciples and grandchildren and climbed out of the stupa to stand in the way, Zhou Huaian could still use the sword to cross back.

"It is said that Xuzhushu was also a Buddhist man,"

Speaking of which, Huo Cun complained a little bit broken.

"Why are you so rash and impulsive..."

"But I don't know what will be involved..."

"Aren't you afraid of being extinct from your teacher..."

"That's because, I, I have been subjected to Tantric Buddhism..."

Zhou Huaian smiled slightly

"So naturally there are no taboos..."

"Secret...Zong..."

At this moment, he opened his mouth in a daze, but he didn't know what to say.

"So, it's basically not a group of people..."

When Zhou Huaian said this, he still muttered in his heart, "Esoteric Buddhism is great/Fa is good" and "Esoteric Buddhism carries the pot and quack" in his heart.

Don’t you see, the later generations of Tantric Buddhism/Dharma can be justified by entering the world to practice. In the name of the various practices, you kill when you kill, eat and drink when you drink and eat meat, you find a woman when you find a woman, and you can also take boys and girls in the name of practice. His human organs were also touted by foreigners as the pure land of mankind, the final mystery. In this era, Tang Mi was once a rather tall gadget;

Although not as endless as later generations, there are all kinds of fake living Buddhas who have been reincarnated without the approval of the people's government at or above the county level. In the literary and art circles and petty bourgeoisie groups, the demons dance and deceive, and they randomly collect celebrities and wealthy disciples to collect wealth; and The young literary and artistic women who took the initiative to stick to the door are willing to play roles such as Rinpoche, Dakinis, and Vajra, to mess around and group P for whatever they want; but it is also one of the upper-class fashions that used to be awesome.

Especially the three great esoteric scholars of the Tang Dynasty, Vajrayana, fearless, and Bukong, were all a generation of great virtues who were favored and admired by the emperor at that time, especially the last one known as the Bukong Sanzang, who was known as the contemporary benevolent view of the sky, was Tang Suzong. He and Zong Emperor of the Tang Dynasty were named a national teacher, and he claimed to have cursed Shi Siming to death, and specially built the Chang'an Qinglong Temple as the propaganda dojo.

Monk Huiguo, one of the reincarnation disciples, took in another scholar Kukai from Japan, which indirectly gave birth to the more wicked Dongmi line headed by Shingon Sect of Japan. It also extended the Nichiren sect, who specializes in engaging women to become Buddhas, and specializes in associations to incite peasant riots, and the Pure Land Shinshu (Ichijo sect), which is known as murder and arson to be reborn in bliss.

Of course, Zhou Huaian claimed to have studied in Buddhism from the line of Tantric Buddhism, mainly for the needs of those messy and heterogeneous thoughts.

After all, in the early days, due to the decline and decline of Tianzhu Buddhism, it was repeatedly suffered from the crisis of severing inheritance, which gave birth to the tantra, which formed the secret practice and spread the teachings underneath; and in the process of this Buddhism entering the end times, all kinds of people wanted to travel east to China. Although the great virtues of the monks are like crucian carp who cross the river, there are only a few who can really succeed, such as Bodhidharma, Kumarajiva, and the like, who have very good skills and are appreciated by the emperor.

Other more unknown existences are buried in the desperate heat of the desert Gobi, plagues and sudden illnesses, quicksands and swamps, or under the mouth of the beasts and robbers who lost their lives, and become a Silk Road. Xu regards Xu as nothing more than the nameless bones that were killed and concealed by the ban; (Therefore, when Xuanzang was able to pass back to Tianzhu back then, he could not help but have great perseverance and great volition, as well as extraordinary force and wisdom to adapt to changes.)

And the survivors who finally got to Middle-earth were not the result of everyone being appreciated and recognized. More often than not, they did not even leave a single name in the historical records, and died of illness and old age in the middle-earth one after another in despair.

Only the few with the best luck can be accepted by the upper-level figures who are out of curiosity; but they also want to get ahead is extremely difficult, they must be in a variety of skills outside the Dharma, such as politics, economics, and culture. His knowledge is a stepping stone to impress the upper-class elites and detour through preaching. And many ancient knowledge from Tianzhu such as medicine, literature, music, dance, etc., have communicated and merged with the local culture through these ways of spreading Buddhism.

Of course, the best use of them is undoubtedly the amount of health derived from the ancient Brahman system and other health-preserving methods; after all, the instinct to pursue reproduction and longevity is always irrespective of human races and national boundaries, but is always eternal. Theme; it is also the area where any emperor, generals and ministers who are at the top of society and have vast resources, are the easiest to pay attention to and be moved. Therefore, these monks who were active in the court and the courts of the public also often had various fascinating and negative reputations.

For example, the Buddhist monks from the Han area who were the first to spread Tantric Buddhism into Tubo, the lotus ordination mentors, even the Dandan Mahayana Buddhist monks brought by Princess Wencheng, and the Dharma-protector monks and disciples of the "Mokoyanna" group were expelled and expelled. ; And another ordained master, Yixi Wangpo, also died on a hunger strike due to fright.

Later, there was the re-introduction of Padmasambhava to Tibet. The shepherdess who was specially tuned/taught, and the son of Jincheng Princess, the sixth generation of Zanpu Trisong Dezan, played the game of alms-giving concubine and designated Ming concubine, and adapted measures to local conditions. Learning from the native Bon religion, he invented the rituals for the sacrifice of living human organs to attract the local nobles; only then was it possible to unilaterally declare victory at the Confucian Law Contest under the current Zanpu’s pull, and to drive away. Mahayana Buddhism and Dharma Sang in the Han area;

Then, it didn’t take long to spread that because of the dispute between the foreign Tantra and the indigenous Bon religion, it completely detonated the continuing civil strife in Tubo and had to leave to escape the disaster; finally relied on the later Asyadis to re-enter Tibet and integrate the remaining Tantric followers on the plateau. Only then has the embryonic form of the Tibetan secret system of later generations.

And the fate handed down by Tang Mi was not better there; as the Wuzong generation in Huichang reigned, because the monastery occupied a lot of land, and sheltered and sheltered a large number of Buddhist figure households and monk households who did not pay taxes, and the whole world Many Buddhism sects were greatly injured because of this, and the Tang Chuan Tantra, led by Qinglong Temple and Daxingshan Temple, which had not been established for a long time but dedicated to the upper echelon, almost died out and gradually declined.

Of course, among the faculty in this faculty, there is another brother who is even more unlucky; that is, the Catholic heretical faction that was passed down from Yadong, and the Nepolis branch that was exiled by the Roman Church and the Emperor of Dongluo, once set up One of the foreign Sanyi religions in "Da Qin Nestorianism Popular in China Stele", once committed to localization and put the monarchs and gods of Tang Taizong and the following dynasties in the church to worship with God; it was simply thrown on the street. No splashes were left.

Now it can be said that under the squeeze, annexation, and absorption of many prominent sects, Tang Mi can survive only a small number of phoenix horns; therefore, such a short-lived existence in Chinese history has once been prominent and withered. The name, used to cover all kinds of unreasonable phenomena and super common knowledge, is really suitable; anyway, because its focus is on the development of the upper level. In fact, there are not too many people in the middle and lower classes who can understand and know something.

In this era, the Tang Chuan Tantric Buddhism gave the world the impression that it was good at incantations and many tricks, especially the ** and health-preserving methods.

"Besides, you think this generation actually hides weapons in private..."

"Also secretly accommodated so many armed thugs... with the intention of resisting the rebels entering the country for investigation..."

"This will fulfill their wolf ambition..."

"Where is there a bit of monks and Buddhist ancestors..."

"It's simply the village of the thief who occupies the mountain as the king..."

Zhou Huai'an was chattering with him, and the battle against the monastery had entered the next stage.

This Nanhua Temple only has a wall with a height of ten feet outside, and it has never been able to compare with the walls that the rebels conquered, or the walled walls; it can also be compared with ordinary camp walls; therefore, it was quickly covered by a large row after crossing the river In the unfolded array, the light ram of the horse-drawn horse had cracks and gaps;

Then, just under the large row above their heads, soldiers with various sharp cones and chisels rushed out, and they slammed, digged and pulled up against the roots of the wall. The bald donkeys guarding on the wall couldn't even raise their heads and leaned forward. They were shot by waves of crossbows, as well as the poisonous smoke balls thrown in stages. They couldn't stand firm at all.

It didn't take long to hear a burst of cheering shouts, and the whole wall was pushed inward and collapsed, and many breakthroughs were obtained. (End of this chapter)