Zibai master Daguan Zhenke, is a famous Buddhist monk who lived in the Ming Dynasty from Jiajing to the early Wanli period, he and the lotus pond master Qihong, Hanshan master Deqing, and Lotus Yi master Zhixu, were called the four great monks of the late Ming Dynasty. Master Zibai was also known as the "Second Master" together with the famous thinker Li Zhen. As a high-ranking monk in the Buddhist world, Master Zibai rarely opened a lecture in his life, and never served as the abbot of a certain monastery, but he traveled the world and preached the DharmaPresiding over the engraving of the Tripitaka book;He presided over the revival of more than a dozen monasteries and other ways to revitalize Buddhism in the late Ming Dynasty. Master Zibai actively befriended the government and the opposition throughout his life, and was enthusiastic about saving the world, he opposed the Wanli Dynasty's policy of mine supervision and taxation, and was finally implicated in prison until death because of political disputes in the imperial court.
Zibai (1543-1603), commonly known as Shen, is Zhenke, the word is Daguan, and the evening name is Zibai. His ancestral home was Juqu, Jiangsu, and he later moved to the shore of Taihu Lake in Wujiang. Born on June 12, 1543, the 22nd year of Jiajing. Zibai has been smart since she was a child, but by the time she was 5 years old, she couldn't speak. One day, a monk passed by his house, stroked the head of Zibai, and said to his father, "This son is a monk, and he should be a heavenly teacher". Zibai then began to speak. Zibai was not a person who followed the rules and kept to himself when he was a teenager, but had lofty ambitions and ambitions that ordinary people did not have. In the thirty-eighth year of Jiajing (1559), the 17-year-old Zibai bid farewell to his parents and traveled far away in order to make meritorious contributions. Traveling to Suzhou Changmen, the sky suddenly rained rain, Zibai in the rain, when sheltering from the rain, met the monk Mingjue of Huqiu Temple, this encounter changed Zibai's life.
In the middle of the night, Zibai heard Mingjue reciting the names of the eighty-eight Buddhas, and immediately felt very happy in his heart, so he had the idea of becoming a monk. In the early morning of the next day, he visited Mingjue, untied the coils around his waist and Mingjue, and asked for fasting and ordination. Since then, Zibai has become a Buddhist monk from a frightened young man. In the forty-first year of Jiajing, the 20-year-old Zibai was ordained by a lecturer. Forty-four years after Jiajing, the 23-year-old Zibai bid farewell to Mingjue and traveled to study the world. Later, Zibai worked hard to learn Xiangzong and Zen Buddhism in Lushan and Wutai Mountain for 6 years, and went to Beijing in the early years of Wanli. In Beijing, he successively visited Master Siam in Zhangjiawan, Master Li of Thousand Buddha Temple, and Master Bao of Western Nunnery. Finally, he visited Venerable Panrong of Fatong Temple.
In the second year of Wanli (1574), after Zibai returned to Suzhou Huqiu Temple after a 10-year absence, he got acquainted with Fu Guangzhai, a native of Liaocheng, the county commander, in Wu County, and Guan Zhidao in Tianchi, and the two became friends of Mo Zhi. In July of the 14th year of Wanli, the mother of the Ming God Sect, who believed in Buddhism, the Empress Dowager Cisheng, printed the fifteenth part of the "Great Collection", Zibai and Lu Guangzu, Feng Mengzhen, Zeng Tongheng, Qu Ruji and others agreed, engraved as a square book. In the seventeenth year of Wanli, it was opened by ** Dao Kai, Ruqi and so on, and it was engraved in Wutai Mountain, Shanxi. In the twentieth year of Wanli, Zibai arrived in Beijing again. After the Empress Dowager Cisheng heard that the purple cypress had arrived in Beijing, she immediately ordered the attendant Chen Ru to introduce the purple cypress into the inner hall and set up a fast to worship. The Queen Mother gave Zi Jiali a special gift, and Zi Baiwan thanked her. Zibai's entry into Beijing this time, while being famous among the princes and princes, also caused some people's dissatisfaction. In particular, he took advantage of the power of the Queen Mother to redeem the Wangong Pagoda Courtyard in Shijing Mountain with the silver given by the Queen Mother, which offended some powerful families in Beijing.
In March of the thirtieth year of Wanli, Yushi Kang Piyang once went to the ** Zibai and asked Emperor Shenzong to clean him up. In the following thirty-first year of Wanli, Zibai was implicated in prison due to the case of the continuation of the demon book in Jingshi and died. After Zibai passed away, Deqing wrote "Daguan Master Tower Ming" for him, * Lu Fu wrote "Biography" for him, and Dong Qichang and Qian Qianyi also wrote articles to praise it. Zibai's writings were organized by Deqing as the twenty-nine volumes of "The Complete Works of Zibai Venerable";Qian Qianyi also "compiled" four volumes and one appendix of the "Zibai Venerable Collection".
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