The Tang Dynasty monk Tan Zang was a native of Hongnong Huayin, born in a prestigious family, but he had the ambition to seek Buddha. When he was fifteen years old, a warlock who looked at him said that he did not live long and that he had died young, and his parents were very sad, so they betrothed him early and prepared for marriage.
But he didn't want to marry a wife and have children at all, and he was worried that he would not be able to beat his parents, so he ran out of his house overnight and came to the deep mountains and rivers. In the dark night, he was very scared and didn't know where to go, and he was in a strange place, so he had to chant Guanyin Bodhisattva vigorously.
After a long time, a man with a very dark face drove two oxen by and asked if he could follow him to spend the nightThe black-faced man told him, "Go west, and there is a temple not far away, and you will be able to stay." ”
He walked west for a while and heard the temple bell, and when he saw the Buddhist temple again, his heart was greatly settled, so he went in and asked to be ordained a monk, and finally his wish was granted.
However, when the monks in the monastery had finished shaving him, they immediately sent him out of the house and did not let him live in the monastery. People sent him out of the temple gate, he walked more than 100 steps and looked back again, behind him is a vacant land, where to come to the Buddhist temple?He didn't go away anymore, knowing that it was safe, so he waited here for a long time until dawn.
The next day, he continued to go west to Longshang to seek the Dharma. Later, he returned to Chang'an, listened to the Dharma and received ordination in Jingshan Temple, listened to many scriptures, and comprehended. He went to the temple on the other side of Shandong again, where the monks vied to keep him and asked him to talk about "The Record of the Righteousness of the Earth" and "The Treatise on the Ten Scriptures". Since then, his fame has reached the seaside in the east and the Huai River in the south, and no one can compare with him.
When he returned to Chang'an to live in the Guangming Temple, he said that the Fa was even more famous. When Empress Xian died, the court invited him to enter the palace. He has a magnificent bearing, a serious demeanor, and the Taoist customs respect him very much, and the dignitaries and nobles often ask him to say the Fa.
After the construction of Huichang Temple, he was invited to take the throne and preach the precepts for the monks and laymen. When translating the scriptures during the Zhenguan period, he was asked to testify to righteousness. At that time, people thought that he could be the abbot of Huichang Temple, but he modestly refused, so he had to recommend Master Run of Lantian Huagan Temple to take office.
At that time, the prince was seriously ill, so he invited him into the palace to receive the Bodhisattva vows for him, and the next day the prince recovered from his illness, gave him hundreds of pieces of silk and clothes, and let him save 3,000 people and build Puguang Temple. Soon he asked him if he could be ordained in a distant placeHe replied, "It says that if you don't have a precept teacher by your side, you can also get the bodhisattva vows by making a vow. ”
When the queen was sick, she invited him to the palace again, and because of the illness of her waist and feet, she carried him to the queen's bedroom in a sedan chair to confer ordination, and received many rewards, and he gave them all to the temple as merit.
On March 18, the ninth year of Zhenguan, he passed away in Huichang Temple, at the age of sixty-nine, the queen of the two palaces was extremely sad, and came to mourn twice. People buried him in Xiyan Village, and built a tower statue, the East Palace Zhan Shi Liyang Gong Yu Zhining made an inscription for him, and erected a monument by the tower.
Continuation of the Biography of High Monks" Tang Dynasty monk Hong Man, surnamed Liang, a stable person. When he was fifteen years old, he was not yet a monk, and he suffered from cramps and curled up of his legs, and he couldn't **, so he recited Guanyin Bodhisattva every day.
After three years of doing this, one day a monk suddenly appeared in front of him, standing with a bath jar and not speaking. Hong Man asked, "Who are you, from **?"”
The monk replied, "Because you have often called me, I have come to treat you." ”
Hong Man was surprised and delighted, but unfortunately he couldn't stand up, so he kowtowed on his stomach and asked, "*What karma did you create in your previous life that made my legs look like this?"”
The monk replied, "Because in your previous life you lived with ropes, you caused the calamity to continue to this day." Now all you have to do is close your eyes and let me ** for you. ”
Hong Man closed his eyes as he said, and only heard a sound on both knees, as if each knee was pulled out.
A nail six or seven inches long feels relaxed. Then he opened his eyes and thought of bowing down to thank him, but there was no monk in front of him.
He was immediately able to stand up and walk freely, knowing that it was Guanyin who had come to his rescue. From then on, he did not marry a wife and start a family, and practiced Buddhism sincerely. Then one day he was very deep in zazen meditation, and he was in meditation for three to seven days.
In the early years of the Sui Dynasty, he became a monk, lived in the Salvation Temple, and he came to Fahai Temple during the great cause, and died in three years at the age of eighty-three.
Continuing the Biography of the High Monk "During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there was a monk's mana, and its origin is no longer known. He practiced diligently and sincerely, and wanted to go to Ludi to preach the Dharma and establish a retreat, but the money was insufficient, so he took Shami Mingchen and the two of them went to Shanggu to get a cart of hemp back.
On their way back to the temple, they passed through an empty forest when they suddenly encountered a fierce fire, and their car was at a disadvantage, and it was bound to be burned.
At that time, Mana was very tired, lying on the car and did not find the fire coming, but the fire had already burned to the side of the car, so he blurted out a "view", before he could pronounce the word "Shiyin", the wind immediately blew the fire to the other side, and the flame was immediately extinguished, and they were able to return to the temple safely.
There was also a monk named Fa Zhi, who was walking alone in the wilderness before he became a monk, when he suddenly encountered a fierce fire and rushed towards him on all sides, and he could not escape. Knowing that he would inevitably die, he lay on the ground and kept chanting Avalokiteshvara.
Strangely enough, he heard the sound of burning flames, but he did not feel the burning pain, and when he looked up, the wilderness was burned clean, except where he lay down and could only be alone, and it was not burned at all, and when he stood up, he saw that there was a human figure on the ground that had not been burned. From then on, he realized and became a monk.
Another monk was kidnapped by two robbers while traveling in the West Mountain of Shouyang, and he was tied to a tree to be killed. He could only concentrate on chanting Guanyin Bodhisattva and wait for death.
The robber struck him with his sword, but instead of hurting him, he fled in terror and frightened, so that he was able to escape, and afterwards told people about his adventures.
There was another monk, Fazen, when he and other monks were walking in the mountains, they encountered bandits robbing them, he recited the holy name of Guanyin, and the bandits opened their bows and arrows to shoot them, but they couldn't pull the bows away, so they had to throw their bows on the ground, thinking that they were immortals, and turned around and fled.
Continuation of the Biography of the High Monk".