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Two hundred years after the Buddha's Nirvana, the Buddhist monks were divided into two major sects, one was the popular and the other was Theravada.
The Vinaya of the Maha Sangha is the "Law of the Mass Division".
After Fa Xian returned to China, he translated this precept into Chinese together with Master Juexian at Jiankang Dojo Temple.
The Great Mud Sutra is a record of the Buddha's teachings before entering Nirvana between the two trees, and Fa Xian later completed the translation of this sutra by himself.
In order to promote the heart of Buddhism, Vendrup Shiri generously gifted the two sutras to Fa Xian, which gave Fa Xian great encouragement. Before leaving Palenfuyi, Fa Xian went to say goodbye to Manjushri.
Fa Xian thought that the Buddha's enlightenment and initial transformation should not be missed, and said that he might have to return to Balenfuyi in the future. Manjushri introduced the names of several eminent monks to Faxian, and if there was any need on the way to Faxian, he could ask them.
Fa Xian and Dao traveled all morning, and in the evening, a small monastery was established under a small isolated stone mountain.
When I entered the temple gate, I inquired, and I learned that there were relics of the Buddha on the lonely stone mountain.
The next day, Fa Xian and Dao went up the stone mountain. There is a stone room built on the top of the stone mountain, the door of the room faces south, and it is said that the Buddha listened to the ** god brought down by the emperor to play the piano and play music here. Emperor Tian had forty-two questions, which the Buddha answered by drawing lines on the stone with his fingers.
Fa Xian and Dao Cheng looked at the painting marks left on the stone and admired the divine power of the Buddha.
After leaving the Lonely Rock Mountain, it didn't take long for them to arrive at Wangshe New Town.
The new city of the royal house was called the new city of the royal house because the king of Magadha, King Ajanshi, first settled here. There are two monasteries in Wangshe New Town, and there are also households. Fa Xian and Dao Cheng wanted to go to the old city of Wangshe, so they first entered the temple to inquire about the situation.
When the abbot of the monastery heard that it was Manjushri who had introduced him as a guest monk, he received him hobly. The abbot told Fa Xian that there was no incense in the old city now, and if you wanted to go to worship with incense, you had to bring your own incense, flowers, oil, and lamps.
Fa Xian asked Dao Cheng to buy all the necessary offerings, and then set off for the old city. As soon as they walked hundreds of steps, they heard someone shouting behind them, Fa Xian and Dao looked back, only to see two monks walking briskly to catch up, it turned out that the abbot asked them to carry things to lead the way.
They first went southeast, then turned southwest. On the way, Fa Xian and Dao Cheng learned that an older one was called Qiu He, and a younger one was called Qiu He.
Walking out of the five-mile road, I begged forgiveness to point to the grass on the side of the mountain path and said, "Two mages, there is a red stone here that is worth seeing. ”
Fa Xian looked into the depths of the grass and could faintly see a large stone slab, which was red.
He said, "There was a bhikshu who practiced meditation here, and he practiced his body and mind intensively, but after many years, he still could not attain the right results. One day, he sighed that he had a lot of troubles, so he hated himself, and took up the knife and wanted to kill it for nothing, but when he remembered that the Buddha had made a precept that no one should commit suicide, he put down the knife again. ”
After thinking about it again, it was not himself who he killed, but the three poisonous thieves, the stinky skin where greed, poison and obsessiveness were hiding, so he picked up the knife and killed himself. At the beginning, the blade cut his neck, and he endured the pain, reaching the Sudra Fruit, and entering the Dharma stream of the Holy Path. cut the neck and cut it in half, and you get the fruit of Anaham; As soon as the neck is cut, one attains the arhat fruit, the ultimate fruit of breaking all confusion and entering nirvana forever. ”
Fa Xian knew that these fruits were the three fruits of the four "sacred fruits" of the Buddhist shravakayana. Reaching the Three Fruits with One Stroke of the Sword and entering Nirvana shows that his noble virtues have finally been practiced in an instant. The red on the slate must have been stained with the blood of this monk.
Having a request for forgiveness and forgiveness to lead the way has indeed brought great convenience to Fa Xian and Dao rectification. Fa Xian sincerely thanked the abbot and the understanding Manjushri.
More than 300 steps to the old city, there is a fine house on the west side of the road. I beg your pardon that it is the Jaranda Bamboo Garden.
At that time, the old city was the center of Magadha, with a prosperous economy and a prosperous industry, and a considerable number of people came and went, and all religions and sects gathered here. There was an elder in the old city named Garanda who had a lot of possessions. In order to receive the crooked ways of cults in various places, he gave out the big bamboo garden for the outsiders to eat and sleep.
Later, when he met Shakyamuni Buddha and heard the Dharma, he regretted that he had believed in the foreign way and gave them a large bamboo garden to live in. So he drove away the outer ways and built a monastery for the Buddha, which was called the Kalanda Bamboo Garden.
Walking through a deserted cemetery and walking 300 steps west along the Nanshan Mountain, there is a stone house, which is said to be the place where the Buddha often came to sit in meditation.
A few miles to the west, in the North Mountain Yin, there is a large stone house, called the Seven Leaves Cave, which is the place where the first assembly is famous in the history of Buddhism.
After the Buddha attained Nirvana, there were many disputes among the monks, and there was no consensus about who was right and who was wrong. The Buddha's ** Buddha
In the upper seat of the stone house, three seats were vacated by the Mahakaya. The symbol of the Buddha in the middle, the one on the left is Sariputta, and the one on the right is Moggallan. Both Sariputta and Mujianlian preceded the Buddha in their destruction. The Mahakāṇa is on the upper seat, and the next seat is on the Arhats.
There were 499 arhats present.
The Buddha's **Ananda is outside the door and is not allowed to enter the door.
Da Yingye said to him, "You have not yet cut off your troubles, you are not allowed to join the seat of the arhats, and you should go back to study." ”
Ananda was troubled, so he left the stone house and came to an empty and silent place. He sat cross-legged, and after a long time, his mind was still disturbed by all kinds of troubles and distractions. He simply threw off all desires, including the meeting, and he did not even take off his clothes, but fell asleep.
Unexpectedly, before his head fell, he suddenly felt a bright heart in his heart, and all kinds of troubles and distractions disappeared in an instant.
So he came to the stone house again and knocked on the door to report that Ananda had arrived.
Mahakāṇa said, "If you have cut off your troubles, then you should have supernatural powers." Please come in through the crack in the door yourself. ”
Ananda did as he was told, and entered the house. In this way, the number of five hundred arhats is made, so the first assembly is also called the five hundred assembly.
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