Chapter 1,397 Diamond Cliff

November, Qingtang City, Jingangya Temple.

The history of Tibetan Buddhism can be divided into two periods. After Padmasambhava brought Buddhism to Tibet, and after Songtsen Gampo and a series of Tibetan monarchs praised it, it took about three hundred years for Buddhism to flourish. During this period, it is called

It is the "Qianhong period".

By the time of Emperor Wuzong of the Tang Dynasty, like the Han region, the conflict between Tubo Buddhism and royal power, secularity, and local religions became irreconcilable.

Tubo Zanputama began to exterminate Buddhism, monasteries were closed, Buddhist scriptures were burned, and Buddha statues were destroyed. Monks were either forced to return to secular life, abandoned the Buddha and returned to their roots, or were forced to hunt.

This act of extermination, which fundamentally destroys Buddhism, is undoubtedly a devastating blow to Tibetan Buddhism, which has not been widely spread for a long time and has a weak foundation.

Because he destroyed Buddhism, Buddhists believed that he was the lower realm of the Bull Demon King, so they added the word "ox" before his name and it became Langdama.

Such suppression is unprecedented. Buddhism, which was introduced to Tibet during the Songtsen Gampo era, and formed after more than three hundred years of development, suffered a devastating blow.

Since then, Tibet has experienced a non-Buddhist era for more than a hundred years.

It was not until the early years of the Song Dynasty that Lu Mei and others went to Xikang to study Buddhism and returned to Tibet to regroup the Sangha and promote Buddhism.

Xikang is the hometown of the great monk in red and the Living Buddha Ji Duo Gyaltsen in the Songpan area of ​​Erlin, Ya'an.

Since then, Tibetan Buddhism has never been interrupted. For the former Hong period, this new era of Buddhism is called "Tibetan Later Hong period Buddhism".

During the Later Propagation period, Buddhism re-entered Tibet, mainly through two routes.

One is represented by the Indian monk Atisha, who came from India. This road is called "the upper road to propagate the Dharma".

This road retains a strong color of Tibetan native Buddhism, revives the Tantric Buddhism introduced by Padmasambhava, and combines it with the Tibetan Bon religion, so it is also called "New Tantric".

And the other one is that when Langdama destroyed the Buddha, the monks Mar Sakyamuni, Zangrao Sai and other three people were practicing in the mountains of Bachupali in the southwest of Lhasa. One day they suddenly saw a monk wearing cassocks.

After hunting and asking, I found out about the incident of destroying the Buddha.

So the three of them took the Buddhist scriptures and traveled to Khotan in the Western Region. They fled to Jianzha, Qinghai, and continued to practice in the Hualong area. In their later years, they accepted Mussaba as a disciple, and named them after the three monks, calling them "Sakyamuni".

Wa Rao Sai".

Sakyamuni Gawarasai inherited the legacy of his three predecessors, studied the teachings with great concentration, vigorously promoted Buddhism, and more and more people followed him to become a monk.

In the early Song Dynasty, Xi Gyaltsen, the abbot of Samye Monastery, funded and sent ten people including Rumei Chuchen Xi Rao and Lodun Dorje Wang to Xining, Qinghai Province to study Dharma and obtain Buddhist scriptures.

After Lu Mei and others arrived in Qinghai, they studied Buddhist classics under Sakyamuni Raosai and received bhikkhu ordination.

During this period, people took turns going to Xikang. During this era, they were undoubtedly influenced by the "ancestral temple scholarship" in Erlin area that integrated Buddhism, witchcraft and Confucianism.

After these people returned to Tibet after completing their studies, they built monasteries on a large scale, ferried monks, and preached religion. They honored their teacher Sakyamuni Raosai as "Lal Gongpa Raosai".

At the same time, they continued to send monks to Erlin to obtain Buddhist scriptures. They were deeply influenced by Chinese Buddhism and were closer to Mahayana Buddhism and Zen Buddhism. They were called "Xialu Dharma".

This sect pays more attention to precepts, rituals, and laws, and the inheritance of precepts passed down by it is also called "Xialu Law Tradition."

In his later years, Lale Gongpa Raosai went to the Jingangya Temple in the northwest of Qingtang City to practice Buddhism until his death. Later generations built a temple there to worship Lale Gongpa Raosai, his three teachers, and the monks who attended him.

Statues of two other Han monks during the ordination ceremony.

This temple had a huge influence on the Qing, Tang and even Tubo. The Erlin Ancestral Temple vigorously exported culture here and donated a large number of scriptures and books to Jingangya Temple, making it a Buddhist school with Jingangya Temple as its core.

The ancestral home of Xialu Hongchuan.

Today, the host of the place is Yi Xiyang, the inheritor of Tubo Zen Buddhism.

The founder of Tubo Zen was Mahayan, his disciple was Kongzang, and the disciple of Kongzang was Yixiyang.

Yi Xiyang and Bai Min of the Erlin tribe, Mr. Fan's disciple and Atunmi's husband, and they studied Buddhism together in the Erlin Ancestral Temple at that time. Today's Ningxia Living Buddha Ji Duo Gyaltsen has a very deep connection.

These were actually some casual chess pieces that Su You laid out at the time, but today, twenty years later, these casual chess pieces began to take effect spontaneously.

The Erlin tribe is now extremely wealthy, so Jingangya Temple has a steady stream of "money to support monks" sent from Erlin. It is not like Shanglu Hongzhuan, which requires seven people to support one monk, and the conflict with the secular world is much lighter.

It is precisely because of this that for the people of Tubo and Qingtang, Jingangya Temple is a place that only gives unscrupulous requests. Its influence in this time and space is more centripetal than that of Shanglu Xinmi.

After the trade route between the Qing and Tang Dynasties was cut off, the life of the people became even more difficult. The contradiction between monks and secular people suddenly became prominent, and more people chose to believe in the laws of the lower road.

Dong Xiang is dead. Qiao and Ali Gu came today to invite Yi Xiyang into the palace to hold a funeral for Dong Xiang.

Before he dared to mourn, Qiao had already sent orders to all the tribes of the Qing and Tang Dynasties in the name of Dong Fei, asking them to come with their families to pay their respects. They were preparing to put these leaders under house arrest and threaten their wives to coerce them to recognize Ali Gu as the master of the Qing Tang Dynasty.

But this pressure is very great. Externally, the only areas that Qingtang can control now are Qingtang City, Huangzhou, Kuozhou, and Jishizhou.

After Lanzhou was captured by the Song Dynasty, the iron triangle of Xi, He, and Lanzhou echoed each other, making it impregnable, and the Qing and Tang Dynasties had no chance to take advantage of it.

To the west of Lanzhou and to the east of Huangzhou, the forces of Lin Bubi and Wen Xixin are still entrenched, and they are constantly encroaching and growing.

People need to eat. Zhuoluo City, an important node of the Silk Road, has Lanzhou in the back and Hexi Silk Road in front. The Tibetan people all know that there is food to eat there.

Wen Xi was devoted to the Song Dynasty, and now he is very determined. When he heard that Wen Yanbo had returned to Xijing after becoming an official, he specially wrote to the court and donated five famous horses to the court this year, one of which was called "Manchuan Flower". Because he admired Wen Yanbo as a person, he hoped that the court could

forwarded to Duke Wen.

This was a diplomatic incident caused by his personal charm. Zhao Xu was overjoyed and ordered the painter Li Gonglin to paint "Five Horses" to comfort Wen Xi.

Not only did Wen Xixin agree with Wen Yanbo's request, but he also specially issued an edict to Wen Yanbo: "I am the emperor of the imperial court. I am the official of the clan. I have a great reputation, a wolf-like heart and a black tongue, and I know that I am sincere in offering you. I refuse the Qiang with Zhang Huan."

It is not as good as a traveling mastiff to show your virtue. I have already asked the border officials to give it to you, and I will give it to you now, until you can take it."

In this Pingxia battle, Qingtang also contributed a lot, but because Ali Gu's troops were about to return halfway, Ali Gu and Qingyi formed a ghost seal and dutied their grandfather, so they had no choice but to serve as defense envoys.

However, because Wen Xixin and Lin Bubi participated in the whole process, they used Pingtiandu to transport grain and fodder, defend Lanzhou to Liangzhou, and Yingli closed the two lines of grain roads, built a cowhide Hunduo, and allowed the army to raid from the waterway. They won the victory in three days.

Due to Ping Xingqing's achievements, Lin Bubi became the Duke of Ningsai, Wen Xixin became the Chongban of the inner hall, the envoy of Xitou, and Miaochuan Jiedu stayed behind.

The level is far higher than that of Ali Gu.

This is called "Assisting military power, merit can be measured". If you have merit, you will be rewarded. The great Song Dynasty has always been so reasonable.

Ali Gu was cruel, fond of torture and killing, and restrained his followers with brutality. When the people worshiping in front of Jingangya Temple saw Ali Gu's flag approaching, they fled far away.

Ali Gu helped Mr. Qiao to dismount, frowned and said, "Mother, there are too many people gathered here."

Qiao didn't take it seriously: "These are just cattle and sheep. What you have to care about are foxes, tigers and wolves."

Aligu's son Xiazheng pressed his hand on the handle of the knife: "There are too many tigers and wolves in the Qingtang Dynasty. My father cannot be like Yixiyang in the temple."

This name irritated Ali Gu and he narrowed his eyes. Yixi means light. There is another person in Xingzhou who also has this name in his name.

He glanced at Xi Zheng coldly: "Is this why you killed your uncle?"

Blindness sign, bloodthirsty nature, and partial disorder.

The chieftain of the Qingtang Dynasty was worried that one of his subordinates wanted to rebel, but because he was afraid of Ji's father, Aligu's distant brother Sunan Dangzheng, who was brave and wise, he falsely accused him of treason.

Blind Zheng could not determine whether his uncle was involved. The solution was very simple, which was to suddenly raise an army to kill his uncle and kill all his subordinates.

But the end of the matter was not dealt with completely. Zhuoluojie, the youngest son of Dangzheng in southern Sunan, escaped and went to another chief, Xibawen, his father's sworn brother.

Xibawen was furious and asked his nephew and his eldest son Piaokong to lead the army to defend Xige City and no longer obey Ali Gu's orders.
Chapter completed!