Chapter 41 Read "Guangxiao Temple Chronicles"

Read "Guangxiao Temple Chronicles" Guangxiao Temple is one of the famous ancient temples in Guangzhou. The temple has a deep relationship with Huineng, the sixth patriarch of Zen Buddhism.Temple tree The famous bodhi tree is said to be the place where the sixth patriarch Zhu Fa received his precepts.Another Sixth Patriarch made a pagoda, and he shaved it off There is also Fengmao Hall, which commemorates the place where the Sixth Patriarch debated the Dao with the monks because of the windmao fluttering. Place.There is also the Hall of the Sixth Patriarch, which was built by later generations to commemorate him.The Sixth Patriarch Huineng is the Patriarch of Southern Zen.

The so-called Dongshan method is opened by him.Although he was later stationed in Xicaoxi Nanhua Temple, but Yangcheng Guangxiao Temple It is the fundamental place where he accepted precepts and taught the Dharma, so there are the most remains of the Sixth Patriarch left in Guangxiao Temple. According to the "Guangxiao Temple Records" written by Gu Guang of the Qing Dynasty, the origin of the relationship between the sixth patriarch Huineng and Guangxiao was in the In the first year of Longshuo, Emperor Gaozong of Tang Dynasty, the sixth patriarch received the mantle of Zen Buddhism under the seat of Hongren, the fifth patriarch of Dongchan Temple in Huangmei County, Jiangxi Province.

Hiding in the hunter's house, keeping a low profile for fifteen years, I suddenly felt that the time was ripe to spread the Dharma and save people. Then he came down south to Guangxiao Temple in Guangzhou. At that time, Guangxiao was a famous temple in the south, and the temple records recorded that the Sixth Patriarch became known to all monks because of his debate on Fengmao. Xingdao: "Master Zhiyin Zong taught the Nirvana Sutra. Occasionally, the wind blows and moves. One monk said that the wind moved, and the other monk said that it moved; six The ancestor said, the wind does not move, but the heart of the benevolent.The audience was amazed and questioned the mystery, Yinzong Qiwu made a salute, please

Xilai's mantle was presented to the public, on the eighth day of the first month of Bingzi in the first year of Yifeng.On the 15th day of the lunar month, the four congregations will be held for six Zu Natsu tube.On February 8th, he gathered all the famous virtues and taught the full precepts. He opened the Dongshan Dharma Gate under the bodhi tree and showed The purpose of the single pass is just like the prophecy in the past, so Fengmaotang is named after it. " The so-called "just as in the past" means that as far back as the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there were Buddhist monks who asked for Naba Tuo Sanzang.

An altar of precepts was established under the myrobalan tree in the temple, and it is predicted that "a Bodhisattva in the flesh will receive precepts here in the future".Later in Liang Tianjian During this period, another Buddhist monk, Master Zhiyao Sanzang, brought a Bodhi tree and planted it on the Guangxiao Precept Altar, and erected a monument to prophesy. Said: "One hundred and sixty years after I pass, there should be a Bodhisattva with a physical body coming under this tree to perform the superior vehicle and save countless people." Later, Hui Neng came to Guangxiao, and everyone believed that these prophecies were fulfilled in him.

The Pagoda of the Sixth Patriarch is under the bodhi tree. It was originally built in the first year of Tang Fengyi. The process of building the pagoda was said: "So I recruited all the people, built this pagoda, and sent it to the Zen master. Once it is completed, it will be clean on all sides. The seven floors are vacated, and the end is like a gushing out. " However, the Pagoda of the Sixth Patriarch we see today is no longer the original pagoda, but rebuilt in the ninth year of Ming Chongzhen. It is said that the regulation is still based on Tang Tower.This is a solid tower made of bricks and stones, about two feet high, with seven octagonal steps.

Each level has eaves and bucket arches, all of which are made of stone.There are niches on each floor for Buddha statues.It is said that buried under the base of the tower Numerous small pottery pagodas are unearthed from time to time.Beside the pagoda, there used to be a stele of the statue of the Sixth Patriarch. Mount like.The folded lines of the clothes are simple and cute, quite similar to the real seated statue of the Sixth Patriarch of Nanhua Temple, which was erected by the people of Yuan Dynasty.