Wensen Si, an old monk, practiced dharma for snow, and Empress Dowager Cixi was moved to tears and bowed down.

? In the 26th year of Guangxu (1900), foreign enemies invaded Beijing and the capital was in chaos. The emperor, empress dowager, ministers, eunuchs and ladies-in-waiting fled to Chang 'an (now Xi 'an). Prince Qing heard that the old monk Xu Yun was a monk. He asked the old monk Xu Yun to accompany him to the west to ensure peace. It was August, rotting corpses smelled bad, and the plague was prevalent in Chang 'an. At this time, Chang 'an was hungry and cold, the living ate dead human flesh, and rotten bones were everywhere.

Xu Yun, an old monk, immediately appealed to the emperor, forbidding the living to eat the dead, and mobilized rich households to donate their own grain reserves and set up porridge factories to help the victims. Xu Yun, an old monk, has pity on all sentient beings. He is willing to organize a 7-day snow prayer meeting in Wolong Temple, hoping that the dragon will look down and the rain and snow will eliminate disasters. In advance, a good-hearted person privately dissuaded him: "The disaster is extraordinary, and the cause of all beings cannot be violated. If the snow doesn't work, Long Yan will be furious. Wouldn't it be counterproductive to sentence you to pull out and behead? " But if you want nothing, you'd better leave. You'd better leave. "

The old monk Xu Yun ignored life and death. With the help of monk Eastern Xia, the abbot of Wolong Temple, all the monks in the temple began to work together in Qi Xin to build a platform and prepare instruments ... The moral hope of Xu Yun inspired nearly a thousand monks in Xi' an temples, and the masters who lived in seclusion in Zhong Nanshan all the year round also came out to help. People who believed in Buddhism heard the news and came from all directions. ...

The stupa is 30 feet high and 30 feet wide, and is dedicated to Buddha Sakyamuni, Buddha Amitabha, Bodhisattva Guanyin and Bodhisattva. Two tall flagpoles are erected on both sides of the stupa, and a 30-foot-long golden Buddha flag is hung on it, which reads "Emperor Wu of the South has exhausted the Dragon King and Bodhisattva" and "Emperor Wu of the South should accompany Fang Pu to visit Xuelong and Zhongshengwang Bodhisattva".

? The Buddhist platform is covered with yellow cloth, and flowers, fruit offerings and incense sticks are readily available. Xu Yun led nine magicians in red robes to sit on the stage and seal and cast spells for seven days and nights. There were 108 monks on both sides of the audience, chanting the Dalagni Snow Mantra day and night, 360 monks led the believers to worship the Great Compassion, and the rest of the monks and nuns led the believers to recite Tommy's name until 6 o'clock.

? On the morning of the 7th, it was cloudy. It snowed heavily in the afternoon. After the heavy snow, the monk and the nun returned to the temple. Virtual cloud is still sitting around the unobstructed platform holding spells and casting spells. He can't get up. The drought in Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Shanxi cannot be solved by heavy snow for an hour or two. Yersinia pestis in Chang 'an needs continuous snowfall and low temperature to be completely eliminated.

? If he comes, the snow will not stop, and the effect of praying for snow to eliminate disasters will give up halfway. The snow is getting heavier and the temperature is getting lower and lower. On the 7th, it was freezing thousands of miles inside and outside Chang 'an, and it snowed in Wan Li. The continuous freezing of heavy snow in Chang 'an eliminated plague and drought. Empress Dowager Cixi sat in her eight-sedan chair, accompanied by maids and guards, and braved the heavy snow to Wolong Temple. She will personally visit the old bodhisattva who can share the worries of the imperial court, eliminate disasters for the people and call the shots.

? When I saw with my own eyes that in the snow and ice, the old monk Xu Yun continued to meditate on the unobstructed altar around him, holding spells and casting spells. The "Lafayette" who had never been worshipped by the whole people was moved to tears, kneeling in the snow and knocking off the noble head of the "living Buddha".

? Because she is convinced that the old monk Xu Yun is a bodhisattva. Prince Su and Prince Qing asked him to return to Beijing to live in the palace in the future so as to consult Buddhism. One morning in October, Xu Yun, an old monk who regarded fame and fortune as a cloud, quietly left Chang 'an and lived in seclusion in Zhong Nanshan. I stayed focused for 23 consecutive days and shocked the world. The old monk Xu Yun is a living Buddha, so he will come back with a desire to help all beings.

? In the twenty-seventh year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (62 years old), in the middle of winter, the mountains were covered with snow and the cold was biting. The old monk lives alone in the thatched cottage, and his body and mind are clean. One day, he sat in the taro pot, waiting for the taro to be cooked, and he didn't feel settled. By the first month of the following year, the neighboring shed in the mountain had not seen the face of the old monk for a long time. When I came to Mao Peng to pay a New Year call, I saw tiger tracks everywhere outside the shed, but no footprints. When he entered Mao Peng, he saw the old monk settle down, so he made a quiet start. Q: "Did the old monk eat?" Answer: "No, I'm cooking taro. Probably cooked. " When I opened the lid, I saw that the mold was very high. "You must have been cooking for more than half a month," the teacher said in surprise. Xiangxiang cooked snow and taro and left with a smile.