Tang priest is a disciple of Tathagata. He was reincarnated as the son of the top scholar. What was his legal name after becoming a monk? Why was he blocked after becoming a monk?

Tang Priest is the son of Chen Guangrui, a disciple of Tathagata, and reincarnated as the champion. After becoming a monk, he was named Xuanzang and was named the Buddha of merit.

The golden cicada under the Buddha was demoted as the son of Chen Guangrui by the Buddha because he was lazy in attending classes. The golden cicada was reincarnated as a child and was proficient in Buddhism. When he grew up, he was hired by Emperor Taizong to give lectures.

On the way to lecture with Emperor Taizong, the Tang Priest met a beggar selling cassock. Emperor Taizong wanted to buy the cassock and give it to Tang Priest. Who knows, the beggar said that the cassock was only given to the predestined person, and this predestined person was the Tang Priest.

And those beggars are the Avalokitesvara incarnations who came to enlighten Tang Priest. Guanyin gave the Three Treasures to the Tang Priest, and told him to go to the Buddhist Leiyin Temple to get the true scriptures.

The Tang Priest got the Tao, collected the three treasures, bid farewell to Emperor Taizong, and embarked on a long journey to learn from the scriptures. On the way to learn the scriptures, Tang Priest accepted three disciples who made a big mistake. Disciples protected his safety along the way, and Tang Priest educated him along the way.

The four disciples went through eighty-one difficulties, and their merits were boundless. Because the Tang Priest kept doing good deeds on the way to learn from the scriptures, they were finally named as the Tathagata Buddha.

Extended data:

Xuanzang returned to Chang 'an in Zhenguan 19, bearing the reputation of being famous for five seals and carrying a large number of scriptures. After Xuanzang returned to China, all his Buddhist activities were always strongly supported by the Tang Dynasty.

Emperor Taizong especially appreciated Xuanzang's academic talent and temperament and thought that he had great political potential. Therefore, he twice advised Xuanzang to return to secular politics, but Xuanzang politely refused.

The purpose of Xuanzang's initial western expedition to Buddhism was to overcome all difficulties, seek the original intention of Sakyamuni Buddha, and unify China's different Buddhist views, so as to better promote Buddhism in the middle earth.

The only way he founded was to know the Sect by law, which was not only confined to Chang 'an and Heluo, but also disappeared completely after several decades.

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