0 1, the truth can't be taken in vain. Buddhist disciples and monks in Lingshan need money to make a living. They are not really in the realm of dzogchen, and they have not given up their greed. They need money to support themselves, develop sects and expand their power just like laity. Therefore, when Tang Priest and others arrive in the Western Heaven, Ananda and Ye Jia, the confidants of the Tathagata Buddha, will come for benefits. When the Tang Priest and others returned to Lingshan to confront the Tathagata again, the Tathagata Buddha also explained:
When the monks came down from the mountain, they recited this sutra with Elder Zhao in the Vajra Mausoleum to ensure the safety of the living and the detachment of the dead, and only needed three buckets and three liters of rice gold to get it back. I also said that they sell cheaply and have no money to teach their children and grandchildren. These three barrels of three liters of rice gold, converted into cash, are 1 more than 100 million yuan. On this charging standard, the Buddha is not satisfied, fearing that his Buddha has no money to spend. At the same time, it also shows that they can't create gold, silver and jewels out of thin air, and they still need donations or sacrifices from believers.
02. Journey to the West satirizes Buddhism. You know, that's how the novel of Journey to the West is described, not throwing dirty water at will. From a practical point of view, there are long-standing phenomena in Buddhism, such as asking believers to donate money, burning incense at high prices, selling Buddha, repairing Buddha statues, temples and pagodas, and persuading people to become monks. To some extent, these behaviors will cause economic waste, the decline of working population and the decline of comprehensive strength. Therefore, in addition to the large-scale extinction of Buddhism in the past, there are still many policy restrictions. The Journey to the West, written in the late Ming Dynasty, was inevitably influenced by this factor.
For example, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Taizu who became a monk in his early years, made great efforts to rectify Buddhism after he ascended the throne, set up a monk's yamen, limited the number of monks, divided monks into three categories: Zen, Buddhism and religion, and promulgated the List of Monks' Declarations and the Avoidance Regulations to regulate his behavior and curb his means of collecting money. There are also rumors that Zhu Yuanzhang commented on Buddhism like this:
? Ethnic slackers, folk moths, and hungry ghosts are rich in Luo Cha? . Later generations of Ming Shizong and Ming Sizong also inherited these strategies, and even further burned Buddha bones, destroyed Buddha statues, secularized monks and nuns, and prohibited missionary work. In addition, Ming Sizong also valued Taoism and supported Catholicism to exclude Buddhism.
03. Respect the original beliefs of Buddhism, Do not forget your initiative mind. In fact, the founder of Buddhism, Sakyamuni, is Gautama? Siddhartha, on the other hand, opposed personality worship and idol worship, criticized all kinds of sacrifices and prayers, and rebuked superstitious activities such as sacrifice, prophecy and dream interpretation. His life contribution can be called a saint, but he suffered all kinds of misfortunes in his later years. His monks began to have different voices, and some people abandoned his theory. His two proud disciples, Sharifutsu and Omura, died first, which was a great blow. In the end, he was almost extinct, and Sakyamuni tried to stop him twice and failed.
In the future, your post-frost empire will be Buddhism? Improve? Mahayana Buddhism absorbed the elements of personal worship and large-scale statues in Greek culture, and was introduced into the Central Plains in the Han Dynasty, gradually deriving many behaviors that were contrary to Sakyamuni's thoughts, some of which still exist today, affecting the normal reputation of Buddhism.
Perhaps the author The Journey to the West wrote about the unbearable behaviors in Lingshan, including reminding people to look at themselves. Do not forget your initiative mind? The meaning of.