Is there a fortune teller in Tiantong Temple?

Is there a fortune teller in Tiantong Temple?

Tiantong temple.

There is a through train from Asoka Temple to tiantong temple. Less than ten kilometers, that is, half an hour.

The surrounding environment of Tiantong Temple is better than Asoka Temple. Tiantong Mountain, where Tiantong Temple is located, is a national forest park. Get off at Tangsan Village by bus, and you can see Tiantong Temple surrounded by mountains on three sides. Although the mountain is not steep, the scenery is still beautiful.

In particular, you can see a pagoda on the mountain and the Python Tower in Wufo Town. It is said that there was a python here during Huichang period in Tang Dynasty, which often hurt passers-by and pilgrims. A monk in Tiantong Temple turned the stone on the mountain into steamed bread, induced the python to swallow it, killed it, and built a tower to suppress it. Because there are five Buddha statues enshrined in the tower, this tower is called the Python Tower in Wufo Town.

Passing an empty villa area-Japanese town, there is an unmanned ticket office in front. Further on, there is an ancient mountain gate. That ancient mountain gate looks like Amin and Qing Dynasty buildings at most, and there is nothing strange about it.

Crossing the ancient gate is the way for children. When Wang Anshi was the magistrate of Yinxian County in Song Dynasty, he wrote poems describing the scenery here:

Every village is green and floating. In spring, the wind blows at the mouth of the valley.

Twenty Marie Laure Gigon, castle peak holds out the Vatican Palace.

The celestial passage that Wang Anshi walked more than 900 years ago does not seem to have changed much. Walking on the path of heaven, bamboo leaves cover the sky and pine trees cover the road. At the end of the pine forest, Tiantong Temple has Wangong Pool, Zhaobi and Tianwang Hall.

After entering the temple, I walked for an hour. I feel that Tiantong Temple and Asoka Temple are the same. The scale and pattern are the same.

The same one was built in the Jin Dynasty, and no tickets are needed. There is a zhaobi in front of the Tianwang Hall, a Wangong Pool, seven small stone pagodas in the south of Wangong Pool and a Luohan Hall. The difference is the writing on the front wall of the swimming pool. Tiantong Temple is a "southeast Buddhist country" and Ashoka Temple is an "ancient temple in the Jin Dynasty". The main hall of Tiantong Temple is "Buddha Hall", and the main hall of Asoka Temple is called "Mahayana Hall". The 1,000-year-old tree in front of the Buddha Hall of Tiantong Temple is Tang Bai, but I can't remember the names of the two ancient trees in front of the Daxiong Hall of Asoka Temple. The third temple in Tiantong Temple is called "Tibetan Scripture Building", and the third temple in Asoka Temple is called "Relic Hall".

Also, everyone knows a legend and sees a kind of loneliness.

During the Yongkang period in the Western Jin Dynasty, a monk named Yixing traveled here. Seeing the beautiful scenery and sparsely populated here, I decided to build an exquisite house here and practice.

When Yixing was moving bricks to build a fine house, a boy came to give him water and firewood every day, which moved Yixing very much. Soon, the fine house was built, and the boy said to Yixing, "I am Taibai Venus, and the Jade Emperor turned me into a boy to help you build the fine house. Now that you have finished, I want to say goodbye. "

Later, the mountain here was named Taibai Mountain, and the Zen Temple was also named Tiantong Temple.

The so-called loneliness I saw was the relic that I wanted to see most, but I didn't see it at all.

My understanding of Taoist Zen master comes from the Japanese film Zen I saw ten years ago. The Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese character "Zen" in the movie is very similar to Chinese, similar to "Zeng", which makes me feel very cordial in Japanese. Also, in the part of the movie where Daoyuan was in China, all the characters talked in strange Chinese. Although there are subtitles, I always try to understand their conversation when I watch movies. This biographical film is very difficult for me to watch.

Although the movie was ugly, I was moved by the spirit of the Zen master. At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Daoyuan, a Japanese monk, went through all kinds of hardships to come to China, visited famous temples and sought the true meaning of Buddhism. However, at that time, the temples were attached to various political forces for their own incense, and the truth was hard to find all over the world. After several twists and turns, Daoyuan got to know and worshipped Tiantong Temple as a teacher, and finally realized the Tao and returned to China.

Daoyuan spread Cao Dongzong's mantle to Japan, founded Yongping Temple, and slowly carried forward Cao Dongzong in Japan. ...

Cao Dongzong is one of the five schools of Zen. Zen Buddhism was introduced to China from India by the founder of Shaolin Temple Dharma. The so-called five cases of Zen refers to five methods of practicing Zen. Cao Dongzong was founded by Ryosuke Yuanshan and his disciple yohji yamamoto in the Tang Dynasty. Cao Dongzong has a strong sense of meditation when practicing. It is believed that only through long-term meditation and meditation can enlightenment become Buddha. Japanese believe that Tiantong Temple in China is the ancestral home of Cao Dongzong.

There was a scene in the movie that left a deep impression on me. Daoyuan, who had been meditating for a long time in the dark meditation room, suddenly had a flash of light and realized the truth of Buddhism: "nose straight and eyes horizontal." The word "straight nose and straight eyes" is the graduation thesis of Daoyuan who studied Zen in Tiantong Temple for three years.

Personally, I think that Dao Yuan's great personality and compassion are the reasons why so many people follow him when he stays in the future and inherits Cao Dongzong's mantle. Ordinary people like me can understand the meaning of "straight nose and horizontal eyes", after all, it is still a minority.

From the west to my ancestors, I spread to the east, fishing for the bright moon in Yun Geng and enjoying the ancient style;

The secular world of mortals can't fly, in the grass temple on a snowy night in the mountains.

I'd better slowly realize the Zen.

To tell the truth, after reading this Zen, I have seriously considered whether I should turn to a religion, Buddha or Christ. Unfortunately, it is still less than fate.

In my opinion, no religious belief and no faith are two different things. Everyone has faith. Speaking of Yu Hua's novel "Living", Fu Gui, an old man who enjoyed the happiness of the world for half his life and suffered the hardships of the world for the rest of his life, chanted the names of his dead relatives to the old oxen who plowed the fields: Hill, Affection, Jia Zhen, Xia Feng and Fu Gui in a peaceful tone, and had no complaints about their fate. Do you dare to say that Fu Gui is not the highest Zen master in the world?

Next to Yingzhen Pavilion in Tiantong Temple, there are several stone tablets. After reading it, there was a piece that read: "Cao Dongzong's high-impedance Taoist Zen Master visited the Dharma Search Office to commemorate." The signature is "Cao Dongzong Institute of Relations Students' Friendship,1March 24th, 998". This monument should be made by Japanese because the words in it are written in Japanese.

Now there are two monuments left. In 2002, the 750th anniversary of the death of Daoyuan Zen Master, delegations from Ozawa University in Japan and Zongmen Relationship School in Cao Dongzong, Japan visited Tiantong Temple.

There is also a monument to Zen master Chetuo Yoshisuke, the founder of the mountain, in Dacheng Temple. At the end of the Song Dynasty, Zen Master Che Jie came to Tiantong Temple to study. Churen Yoshisuke also belongs to the Japanese Cao Dongzong School.

These monuments next to Yingzhen Pavilion may be Tiantong Temple and Japanese Cao Dongzong, which are related to the last point of Daoyuan Zen Master. For Japanese Cao Dongzong, Daoyuan Zen Master and now Tiantong Temple, it is just a place name. In addition to the landscape of Tiantong, the Tang Bai tree in front of the Buddhist temple was the only one that Daoyuan Zen master had contacted in those years.

Fortunately, compared with Asoka Temple, I also saw some pilgrims in Tiantong Temple worshipping Buddha, although not many. However, these pilgrims before the Buddha, what they bow down to is only their own desires.