Chapter 57 3. Huiyuan gave her the dharma name "Hongjing". Hongjing is a homonym for the Red Army, and pilgrims call her the Red Army Master

One of the secrets of Huiyuan's excellent medical skills: picking herbs must be in the right season. If the season is right, the grass is the medicine. If the season is not right, the medicine is also the grass.As long as she is willing to learn, he will teach her all his skills. One day, he was telling her about a kind of herbal medicine, when he suddenly saw her holding the herb in her hand, with tears in her eyes, looking down the mountain absent-mindedly.Amitabha, teaching medical skills still needs to heal heart disease, Huiyuan stopped talking and let out a long sigh. In the past, he strictly forbade her to engage in Buddhist rituals, and in order to save this clever female disciple, he was determined to break the precept.

"You read these two scriptures." That night, Huiyuan gave her a dose of heart medicine, which was "Diamond Sutra" and "Diamond Sutra".He said: "In the future, there will be insufficient staff in the Taoist temple, so you can play a role." Since then, when there are Buddhist events in the temple, she will fill in a role, and when she is free, she will read scriptures.She is a literate person, and she recites the "Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra" and "Diamond Sutra" by mouth and heart. As she reads, she reads it into her heart. Don't be irritable, calm and relaxed.

Master Huiyuan took the Dharma name for her: "Hongjing".Locally, the word Hongjing and Red Army are homophonic.Therefore, lay Buddhists and pilgrims who knew or didn't know called her "Red Army", or called her Red Army mage and Red Army nun.From then on, Shi Hongjing became a double apprentice of Venerable Huiyuan. After she was ordained, she wore a collarless nun dress, and she looked even more white, tender and red, and extremely beautiful.