"According to the instructions of Heaven, I accept the instructions given by You. All gold, silver, copper, iron, etc. can be used to make money, make utensils, and things that are beneficial to the country. You cannot occupy the Buddha's throne high and occupy resources. Any height, width, or thickness exceeds three feet.

Buddha statues can only be made of gold lacquer and stone at most. If there are donations from good believers, one household can donate up to ten taels of silver to the same temple within one year. Anyone who exceeds the limit will be severely punished. All temples in the world are ordered to report Buddha statues that exceed the specifications to the hall.

, make a book and check it."

"There is Jing Nian Monastery in the southern suburbs of Luoyang. It is known as the leader of the White Way and should be a model for Buddhism in the world. Li Shentong, Yu Wenshang, You Chuhong, Dugu Feng, etc. are specially ordered to go out of the city at noon and lead soldiers to inspect Jing Nian Monastery. If they encounter anyone who violently resists the order, they will

All will be thrown into jail."

An imperial edict was issued, and soon, Yu Wenshang, You Chuhong, and Li Shentong gathered outside the south city gate, leading 1,000 soldiers and horses to the suburbs.

Among the crowd, except You Chuhong who rode in a car, the rest of the officials rode horses.

Riding his horse while walking in the countryside, the leader of the Yuwen Clan, Yuwen Shang, suddenly sighed with emotion.

"At the beginning, the two religions of Buddhism and Taoism were eliminated, and all the scriptures and images were destroyed. I dismissed the ascetics and Taoist priests and ordered them to be returned to the people. I also ordered that the blessings and wealth of the Three Treasures be scattered among the ministers, the temples, pagodas, and temples were given to the princes."

The passage he read was the order given by Emperor Wu of Zhou when he exterminated the Buddha thirty years ago.

During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Zhou Dynasty, the economy was greatly influenced by Buddhism. There were many monks and many temples, which harmed the common people and society. Buddhists occupied farmland, gained something for nothing, and could avoid taxes and labor.

During the drought in Guanzhong, Emperor Wu ordered households to sell their food rations. Not only did the two million Buddhists and 30,000 monasteries not respond positively, the monks also borrowed money at usury during the famine. At that time, I walked through thousands of temples and probably all

I can't find a truly virtuous monk.

There are many reasons why Emperor Wu ordered the extermination of Buddhism. As for the Taoist sect, it was because the monks and Taoists were mixed up at that time. They were regarded as vain people by those in power and were useless for governing the country. There were also many lawless people who protected the Taoist sect.

and was targeted.

Nowadays, Taoist masters live in seclusion and rarely go out, such as Sun Simiao, the real king of medicine. Almost people only remember his identity as a doctor and forget that he is a Taoist priest. The only Taoist who is famous enough, Ning Daoqi, also became famous as a warrior.

What he does basically has nothing to do with the various schools of Taoism.

However, Buddhism has the appearance of reviving its old ways.

Li Shentong was riding on the horse and heard the words and said: "Your Majesty's orders are much more merciful than Emperor Wu. If it was to destroy Buddhism 30 years ago, now it is just to help Buddhism go on the right track."

"Speech should be reduced to be straightforward; elders and children should be kind and kind to advance virtues; learning should be diligent and practical as the entry point; cause and effect should be understood as no fault; old age and death should be impermanent as a warning; Buddhist practices should be precise and strict; hospitality should be sincere as an offering.

The gate of the mountain is solemn with elders. It is easy to do everything in advance. It is reasonable to treat everyone with humility..." You Chuhong in the car looked at the "Buddhism" that had just been issued to them by the supervisor.

"Qinggui", the emotions in my heart are very complicated.

Her lung disease was caused by the backlash of her own true energy, which sucked away the essence in the Evil Emperor's relics and fundamentally strengthened her physical body's energy and blood.

The skills and skills are expected to be further improved.

In this way, the old lady's resentment due to the death of Dugu Ba was eliminated a lot. After carefully inquiring about the emperor's changes during this period, and thinking about the strangeness of the evil emperor's relics and the method of using them, You Chuhong

The family finally discovered that they had never been able to see through Yang Guang.

At this time, seeing this book of Buddhist rules that could obviously not be compiled in a day or two, these people were extremely wary of Yang Guang's foresight and the city's ability.

Li Shentong also received such a book of Buddhist rules. Listening to the old woman in the car reciting, he said: "I heard that this book of rules was written by His Majesty himself and then ordered to be printed and distributed by the supervisor. It only took less than

long time."

Everyone's thoughts are mixed. The various changes in the court in the past two months, and today's Buddhist regulations are like the last stone, rising from the golden and jade-like palace to a thousand-foot-high mountain. Gradually, there is a sense of respect.

Emotions take root in their hearts.

No longer just fearing the power of the emperor, but truly only because of Yang Guang.

After marching in silence for about half an hour, everyone dismounted their horses, walked through the dense forest, and saw Jing Nian Zen Monastery in the distance.

It is a temple hidden deep in the woods. Due to the clever terrain chosen by the builders, looking from outside the forest, one might think there are only a few temples, but if one comes closer, one will be surprised to find that the temple is huge in scale.

, there are more than hundreds of buildings in the temple, just like a small city.

The main buildings in the Jing Nian Temple are arranged in sequence on the central axis facing the temple gate, with a copper hall as the center of the temple, with a complete and uniform scale.

The copper hall is about ten meters wide and deep, and more than five meters high. The walls, roof, floor tiles and steps are all made of brass. Such a hall not only consumes a lot of gold and copper, but also must be supervised by a rare skilled craftsman in the world.

Completed, there is probably only one like this in the entire Sui Dynasty.

Except for the Bronze Hall, all the buildings in the temple are covered with three-color glazed tiles. The color is as new as new, but I don’t know whether it is because the monks in the temple are diligent in cleaning or the quality of the tiles. Especially the peacock blue among the three colors is the most dazzling. It can be imagined that in

A brilliant scene under the sun.

In front of the Bronze Hall, there is a platform square about 340 meters wide, made of white stone and surrounded by white stone railings. In the middle of the white stone square is a bronze statue of Manjusri Bodhisattva, riding on the back of a golden lion, which is more than seven meters high.

, there are also three Buddhas such as Medicine Master, Sakyamuni and Amitabha next to the niche. Colored sculptures and gold ornaments are quite impressive, but it also feels a bit inconsistent with the conventions of ordinary temples.

On the four sides of the white stone platform, in addition to the four entrances and exits of the stone steps, there are five hundred Arhats evenly distributed, all made of gold and bronze. Each one has a different look and posture, but whether they open their eyes and protrude their foreheads, or lower their eyes and keep inward, they all have a different look.

It is lifelike, no different from a living person. The other buildings are based on the main hall on the axis as a whole, distributed in all directions in an orderly manner, separated by forest roads, and have a solemn and sacred atmosphere.

The troops and horses from the imperial court came unexpectedly, but the monks on the mountain had already seen it. Several great monks saw that they were evil and were already prepared.

More than two hundred gray-robed monks, led by the four Dharma protectors of no greed, no anger, no ignorance, and no fear, were distributed on more than 800 stone steps up the mountain in front of the monastery.

"Amitabha, all the donors are so aggressive. I don't know why they are here?"

ps: Although you usually watch TV and see beauties playing the pipa in various romantic places, in fact, the pipa was a very widespread instrument in ancient times, especially in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, ranging from palace bands to folk artists.
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