During the Song Dynasty, there was a monk in Linhai County, named Chu Xian, the common surname Wang, the word should be Zhi, and he was also a native of this county, living in the Chongshan Temple on the mountain. However, this temple was very dilapidated and withered, and seeing that he could no longer live in it, he was ready to move to another Buddhist temple to live.
On this day, Li Tingzhi, the commander of Linhai County, dreamed of a fairy at night and told him: "Under the stage of the five ancestors, the dragon head ninety-nine monks, it is urgent to see them." ”
He woke up inexplicably and thought to himself, what do the gods mean by this?And he told them to the people of the county government.
One of his students named Chen Bai thought for a while and then told him: "The Fifth Ancestor should be the fifth-generation Patriarch Empowerment Master of the Tiantai Sect, and he used to live in this mountain, so this place is also called the Five Ancestors Platform. He was born on September 9, and the Ninety-Nine Supreme is a dragon. Could it be that this dream is asking you to go to see the Xian monk in Chongshan Temple?”
Li Tingzhi immediately woke up, so he came to the mountain to meet the monk Xian, saw the dilapidated appearance of the temple, and finally knew what the gods meant. He mobilized everyone to rebuild the temple and revitalize the temple.
Later, the monk lived in the White Lotus Courtyard again, and two days before his death, he said goodbye to the public. Yang Jie, the minister at the time, commemorated him.
Linhai County Chronicles
During the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a monk of Faning in the Zhaoqing Temple of Huating in Jiading, because he had lived on the horse mountain in Yizhou, so he called himself a horse, and he was originally the son of the Li family in Mizhou, Shandong. At first, he relied on the monk Miaokongming of Tianning Temple in Yizhou to become a monk, and served the monk Miaokongming for a long time, and he was interested in the purpose of Yunmen.
Later, he went out of the mountain to live in Yizhou Jingju Temple, the purpose of the Dahong Xue Dou Zen Master. One day during the Shaoxing year, he traveled by Huating Qinglong Town.
Gao, the mother of the local judicial judge** and judge Zhang Gon, had a dream the night before, and a god told him: "The ancient Buddha is here, why don't you hurry up and greet Peifu?"”
The next day, Gao took his son to guard the road, and when he saw the monk Faning coming, he immediately invited him to make offerings, and they bought the garden of the Qian family, built a fine house here, and invited the monk Faning to live. During the excavation of the foundation, many iron chimes, broken monuments and Buddha statues were excavated.
After Liu Yue, the county governor of Huating County, learned about it, he asked the court to rebuild the Buddhist temple here, and the court agreed to give it the name Jingju Temple.
The Biography of the Ming High Monk "Ningbo Tiantong Temple in the Northern Song Dynasty, there is a famous Hongzhi Zhengjue Zen Master, who was originally the son of the Li family in Xizhou, Shanxi. Before he was born, his mother dreamed that a monk from Mount Wutai took off an armband from her arm and gave it to her and put it on her right arm. Since then, she has not been able to eat meat and fishy food, and she is also pregnant.
When his mother gave birth to him, she saw that there was a ring-shaped bulge on the baby's right arm, and she felt that this dream was really strange. And he was also born smart, and at the age of seven he could recite thousands of words a day.
His grandfather, Li Lian, and his father, Li Zongdao, often consulted Zen Master Buddha Xun for Buddhist teachings. One day, when the young enlightened saw the Buddha Sunsun Zen Master, the Zen master pointed to the enlightenment and told his father: "This son of your family knows at a glance that he has a deep path, I am afraid that he is not a person in the world, if he is allowed to become a monk, he will become a Dharma weapon one day." ”
Later, he became a monk at the age of eleven and indeed became a generation of high monks. As a disciple of the Caodong sect, he created the silent meditation method. It is as famous as the Great Hui Zong of the Rinzai Sect, and the people of the time called them the Erganlu Gate.
On his deathbed, he wrote a verse:
Dream of empty flowers, sixty-seven years.
The white bird is smoky, and the autumn water is in the sky.
So he threw his pen and died, and after seven days in the niche, his face was still the same as before.
Five Lantern Huiyuan".
The monk Cizhao is a person surnamed Mao in Kunshan, and he is called Wanxiu. His mother, Chai, dreamed that a Buddha came to her home and gave birth to him the next day, so she named him Buddha.
When his mother died early, he went to Yanxiang Monastery to become a monk and learn the meditation method. One day he was in meditation when he heard the crow of a crow and realized it. After that, he specialized in teaching people to recite the Buddha and live in the Pure Land.
Suzhou Mansion Chronicles" monk Huaishi, is the son of the Shangyu Ren family, and is a monk in the Chengxin Temple of Huiji. Because of his reckless qualifications and not very smart, he was asked to go to Shouchang Temple to learn meditation. He meditated for a hundred days, and suddenly he became cheerful, as if he had opened a skylight.
The temple was going to build a Buddhist pavilion, so he was told to go to Tiantai Mountain to cut wood. When he came to the mountain, he saw that there were many trees, but they were too far away from the temple to be removed.
He filled it with a liter of sesame seeds and began to recite the Great Compassion Mantra, taking out a sesame seed every time he recited it, and kept reciting it from morning till night.
He recited for a long time, and when he was about to finish reading the liter of sesame seeds, he dreamed that the mountain god on the rooftop told him, "*Just go back to the temple and wait, and I will send these pieces of wood to the temple." He also told him the specific time and told him to wait by the river in Tangjiao Village.
Huaishi ran back to the temple, and the monks asked him where the tree wasHe said he'd send it in a few days. When people heard this, they burst into laughter, and scolded him after laughing, why are you still so stupid?Didn't grow at all!
On that day, he ran to the riverside of Tangjiao Village, and he was followed by a group of people who were laughing and laughing at the jokes. I didn't want to be pouring rain and flooding at this time, and after a while, a lot of timber floated on the river, and as soon as it rushed to Tangjiao Village, it didn't move, and made up a big pile and looked closer, it was the timber he cut down on the mountain.
The timber was brought back to the temple and the pavilion was built.
The village of Tangjiao has always suffered from flooding, and every time there is a flood, it will collapse the riverbank. Huaishi built a tower on the bank, and since then the tide has not been harmed, and the river bank has never collapsed.
Huaishi later lived to be one hundred and twenty years old and died without illness.
Shaoxing Mansion Chronicles