Dharma, one of the gatekeepers of the Moxia Catalogue

Bodhidharma (-535), also known as Bodhidharma, referred to as Bodhidharma, was born in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the first patriarch of Buddhism and Chinese Zen sect, and was honored as "the first generation patriarch of Dongtu" and "Bodhidharma patriarch". Together with Bao Ji Zen Master and Fu Dashi, they are known as the three great scholars of the Liang Dynasty.

"Bodhidharma" means enlightenment, Bodhi originally means enlightenment, and Bodhidharma originally means "Dharma".

Legend is the author of the Yijin Sutra, the creator of the Shaolin 72 stunts, the evangelist who brought the Buddhist Zen sect into China, the figure with many magical legends, and the first patriarch of Chinese Buddhism.

Bodhidharma's life story has many legends in later generations. The disciple Yu Lin said that he was originally the third son of the king of Nantian Zhuxiang, and later became a monk. However, the "Luoyang Jialan" records that he is a Persian from the Western Regions.

Bodhidharma is the twenty-eighth generation disciple of Shakyamuni and the twenty-eighth generation patriarch of the Tianzhu Zen sect. Once, Bodhidharma asked the master where he would go to preach after receiving his Dharma truth.

The master told him to go to China and told him not to go to the south, because the southern monarch was so happy that he could not comprehend the true teachings of Buddhism.

Bodhidharma traveled by boat to Nanyue (present-day Guangzhou) during the Liu Song dynasty (470-478) during the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

There is a monument of "the beginning of the west" at the landing place (that is, the area of Xilai Zheng Street on the north side of Xiajiu Road, Liwan District, Guangzhou City, which was a port in ancient times). There is a Bodhidharma "Washing Bowl Spring" in Guangxiao Temple, commonly known as "Bodhidharma Well".

And there is a thousand-year-old "Hualin Temple" (originally known as "Xiraian"). The stone pagoda in the temple contains 21 relics of the true body of the Buddha Shakya), which is said to have been built by Bodhidharma.

According to the Records of the Teachers of the Ranga. After Bodhidharma arrived in China, he became a disciple of the Seeking Nabhadra and belonged to the Nantianzhu One Vehiclea Sect (also known as the Ranga Sect).

In the twentieth year of the Song Yuanjia of the Southern Dynasty (443 AD), he translated the four volumes of the Ranga Abhadra Sutra.

Later Bodhidharma taught his disciples with this four-volume Ranga Sutra. In addition to the "Ranga Sutra", Bodhidharma also attaches great importance to the "Prajna Sutra" and "Vima Sutra", which may be due to his life in this area of Jiangnan and the influence of Jiangnan Buddhism.

Traditionally, Bodhidharma came to Aurora by sea. It is said that Emperor Wu of Liang believed in Buddhism. So he went to Jinling (now Nanjing, Jiangsu) to discuss with him.

Due to the disagreement between Bodhidharma and Emperor Wu of Liang's Buddhist philosophy, the "one reed crossing the river" ended at the Shaolin Temple in Songshan, and faced the wall in the temple for nine years, called "Wall View Brahmin". In the stone cave, the "Yijin Sutra" and the "Washing the Pulp Sutra" were left.

Bodhidharma before 478 AD. From sea to Nanyue, China (present-day Guangdong on the other side of Hainan Island). Taught by Khūnabhatra. As one of the Ranga masters at that time, he was also proficient in Zen and stayed in the Jiangnan area for a long time.

After that, he crossed east to the Northern Wei Dynasty. "Youhua Songluo", teaching Zen method. The Zen method he taught was very controversial at the time, and the main disciples were only Daoyu, Hui Ke, and Shu Lin.

There is no record of Emperor Wu of Liang and Bodhidharma meeting in the "Continuation of the Biography of the High Monk" and the "Records of the Teachers of Lenga". According to the "Continuation of the Biography of the High Monks" written by Daoxuan in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, Hu Shi's two articles in "Bodhidharma Examination" and "After the Examination of Bodhidharma" prove that Bodhidharma came to China before the fall of Liu Song (479) at the latest, when the Liang Dynasty had not yet been established.

Later generations of Buddhists took "not preaching outside the religion and not establishing a written language" as the symbol of Dharma Zen.

The lineage of Zen sect established in later generations is: the first ancestor Dharma, the second ancestor Huike, the third ancestor Seng Can, the fourth ancestor Daoxin, the fifth ancestor Hongren, and the sixth ancestor Huineng. However, the lineage is still controversial. Legend has it that Bodhidharma left a straw shoe to recognize the second ancestor Hui Ke.

The Zen teachings taught by Bodhidharma were mainly written by his disciple Shu Lin because of the lack of information.

The theory of two into four elements is its main theory, which is centered on the method of "wall viewing". First of all, he taught Mahayana Buddhism, the so-called "initiation of the path", that is, the pleasure of entering the Bodhi path.

The method of entering the Mahayana path, in a nutshell, is to enter by reason and by practice.

"Zong" is the "self-sect pass" mentioned in the "Ranga Sutra", self-proof of the holy religion, but to "enlighten the sect", you need to "borrow teaching".

"By teaching", according to Trulin, is "the belief that there is the same true nature of existence, but it is the dust of the object, and cannot be revealed", which is also the Nyorai Tibetan thought held in the Ranga Sutra.

From the belief in Tibet, the faith of "renunciating delusion and returning to the truth" is initiated, and the "contemplation of the wall" is initiated.

But after enlightenment, it is necessary to issue it to deny oneself and altruism in the world with the four elements. Bodhidharma's Zen method, concise and profound, shows the true face of Indian Mahayana Buddhism, and carries out the precursor of Chinese Zen Buddhism.

The focus of the four elements is to persuade people to get rid of all love and hatred in their daily lives, and to work hard according to the teachings of Buddhism. Reasoning belongs to theory, and practice belongs to practice, that is, the combination of Zen and teachings, that is, the simple Zen method of Bodhidharma.

Nanjing Yuhuatai Gaozao Temple, according to legend for the Bodhidharma Patriarch here to listen to the presiding Shenguang preaching, shaking his head not to think so, Shenguang surprised, after following at least the room mountain, the snow broke the arm to seek the law, and finally became the second ancestor of the Zen sect Hui Ke.

There is Bodhidharma Cave under the Shogunate Mountain on the side of the Yangtze River in Nanjing, it is said that Bodhidharma crosses the river from here; Changlu Town of Liuhe, Jiangbei has the ruins of "Changlu Temple", built to commemorate the Bodhidharma Patriarch crossing the river with a reed, the successive dynasties have been repeatedly abandoned and built, and are now being rebuilt in other places; there are the ruins of Dingshan Temple in Pukou, Jiangbei, which is the first temple to stay in Xi after Bodhidharma crosses the river with a reed, there are relics such as "Bodhidharma Rock", as the ancestral court of Zen Sect is earlier than Shaolin Temple. The temple is currently being rebuilt.

Xiao Lin's "A Brief Distinction of the Four Elements of the Mahayana Path and Its Preface": "A native of the Southern Tianzhu Kingdom in the Western Regions, he is the third son of the Great Brahmin King. 」

"Luoyang Jialan": "The Shamen Bodhidharma of the Western Regions, the Hu people of Persia. 」

"The Biography of the Continuing Monk": "At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, Nanyue, and finally to the north to Wei. Let it be as it goes, and teach it with Zen."

"The Records of the Ranga Teacher": "Bodhidharma, the master of the three Tibetan masters of the Wei Dynasty, promised to ask for the three Tibetan queens of Nabhadra. 」

"The Biography of the Continuation of the Monks" "Hui Ke Biography": "At the beginning, the Dharma Zen Master gave a four-volume Ranga grant and said: I look at the Han land, only this scripture, the benevolent person follows it, and lives the world with satisfaction. 」

Pray that Nabhadra is the first ancestor, Bodhidharma is the second, and Shenxiu is the seventh.

Emperor Wu of Liang was an emperor who believed in Buddhism, and after he ascended the throne, he built temples, wrote scriptures, ordained monks, and made many images, and he asked Bodhidharma very conceitedly, "How much merit do I have for doing these things?" Bodhidharma said, "There is no merit." Emperor Wu then asked, "Why is there no merit?" Bodhidharma said, "This is a meritorious thing, not a real merit." Emperor Wu couldn't understand that Bodhidharma crossed the river into Wei. Remembering the anonymous "Chronicles of the Magic Weapons of the Dynasties" unearthed in Dunhuang

"Huiyuan Daruma Chapter": "Daruma lives in Songshan Shaolin Temple, sits facing the wall, and finally says silent. People are unpredictable, and it is called a wall-view Brahmin. 」

"Liberation Orthodoxy": "If the true law alone is reassuring, it is also said to be a wall view. "The guest dust is delirious and does not enter the wall. 」

Zhu Lin's "A Brief Distinction of the Four Elements of the Mahayana Path and the Preface": "Those who are silent and silent do not convert to faith, and those who take the same view are born to slander. 」

"Liberation Orthodoxy": "The Zen sect, the first Bodhidharma, went far beyond the barren mountains and came from this land. At the beginning, there was no saying that there was no text, and Nanquan made a vow, and began to sing and become a Buddha without standing words. 」

"Biyan": "Daruma looked at this soil from a distance and had Mahayana roots, so he came from the sea. Convey the heart seal alone, and explain the lost. does not set up words, but directly refers to people's hearts and minds to become Buddhas. 」

"Preface to the Collection of Zen Yuan Poems": "Bodhidharma teaches people to feel at ease with the clouds with wall viewing, stop all the fate outside, have no breath in the heart, the heart is like a wall, and you can enter the Tao, isn't it the way to sit on Zen?"

"Passing the Lantern Record": "Speaking for the two ancestors, only teaching and saying, the external rest of the fate, the heart is like a wall, and you can enter the Tao"

The Diamond Samadhi Sutra says that the principle is "enlightenment", and "wall view" is the unique meditation method transmitted by Bodhidharma.

Xiao Lin's "A Brief Identification of the Four Elements of the Mahayana Path and Its Preface": "Those who enter the path are the so-called four elements, and the rest of the lines are all included in this line. What are the four elements? One is to repay grievances, the other is to follow fate, the third is to do nothing, and the fourth is called the Dharma. 」

"Continuation of the Biography of High Monks and the Study of Zen": "The Mahayana wall view, the highest achievement, the stream of learning in the world, and the return to the city. (To be continued......)

PS: (On Saturday, when I was about to go out, there were already a lot of guests, so I had no choice but to continue to lie down and read Zhang Ailing's book, which was also the previous three pages, and she could talk a lot about women's clothes, and it was a woman, but her eyes were very sharp.)

I lost 50,000 yuan yesterday, and I only continued to sleep. )