Monk Zhu Shixing, a great Wei monk in China during the Three Kingdoms period, was born in 203 A.D. and died in 282 A.D. Its legal name is "Eight Rings", and its ancestral home lies in Yingchuan, which is now Yuzhou, Henan. In the second year of Jiaping, in 250 A.D., the famous Indian legal teacher Tan Ke Jia Luo came to Luoyang to translate the scriptures and set up an ordination altar in the White Horse Temple. Zhu Shixing was the first to ascend this ordination altar to receive the holy ring, becoming the first Han Shamen in the history of our country.
Mr. Liang Shengyou's "Collection of Records of the Three Tibets", the thirteenth volume of which records Zhu Shixing's life deeds. He has been described as a man of "pure ambition, strong temperament, steadfastness and integrity, unwavering in persuasion and discouragement." When he was a teenager, he had great ambitions and was determined to abandon the world. After becoming a monk, he focused on studying the scriptures, taking the spread of Buddhism as his responsibility and mission, and often taught "The Tao of Prajna" in Luoyang.
However, it is regrettable that this scripture translated by Zhu Foshuo at that time is concise and concise, the meaning is difficult to fully understand, and the meaning of the context lacks coherence. Mr. Zhu Shixing often sighed: "This is the essence of Mahayana Buddhism, but the translation is not perfect. Therefore, he decided to go to the West alone in search of a more complete book.
In the fifth year of Wei Ganlu in 260 AD, he set out from Yongzhou and began his journey to the west. At that time, the road to the Western Regions was extremely difficult and difficult, after a lot of hardships, the wind of the void and the ship of the desert, all kinds of hardships and hardships, he finally arrived in the Hotan area of Xinjiang, and sought the large book "Prajna", a total of 90 chapters, more than 600,000 words. He originally planned to return the book to the land of China immediately, but unfortunately he was plotted and hindered by Hinayana scholars, and finally failed to do so.
Why, then, did the Hinayana scholars harm Zhu Shi Xing? This stemmed mainly from their denial of Mahayana Buddhism, which they regarded as a Sanskrit book, and they petitioned the king of Khotan to prohibit the circulation of this sutra to Han China. They told the king: "The Han monks are trying to use Sanskrit books to disturb the orthodox Dharma, and if they do not ban it, it will lead to the severance of the Dharma." "The so-called Brahmanical book is the Sanskrit book. For the Sanskrit book, there is a detailed explanation in the third volume of the "Biography of the Temple of Mercy and Grace": "The origin is long, I don't know where the author is, at the beginning of each eon, the Brahma king tells and teaches to the heavens and mankind, so it is called the Sanskrit book." It is rich in writing, with a million verses, which is the Vigara in the old translation".
In the face of the difficulties of the Hinayana scholars, Zhu Shixing was greatly distressed, so he tried to prove to the king that he had a plan to check the authenticity by burning the scriptures, and finally obtained the king's approval. The king ordered firewood to be placed in front of the main hall, and the scholar swore frankly in the face of the blazing flames: "If this sutra is favored by the mandate of heaven and is circulated in China, then it will definitely be able to resist the invasion of flames and be safe and sound." He then threw the book into the fire, and when he finished speaking, the flame dissipated and the book was intact.
The king and his ministers were amazed, revered the brave and pious teacher, and at the same time were impressed by the profound teachings of the Dharma. Zhu Shixing copied the large book "Prajna" locally, and copied a total of 90 chapters, totaling more than 600,000 words. In the third year of Jin Taikang, he sent his apprentice Fu Rutan and others to send the copied scriptures back to Luoyang, and he was still stationed in Khotan, where he finally died.
After Zhu Shixing's death, the monks incinerated his body on the flames, and to their surprise, the body was not damaged at all, and everyone was extremely shocked. A Dharma master chanted a mantra aloud and told Zhu Shixing's body: "If the monk truly understands the Dharma, let the body be destroyed immediately to meet the expectations of the public." As soon as the words fell, Zhu Shixing's body instantly turned into a piece of fly ash and drifted away.
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