1949, bid farewell to the old monk Xu Yun, went to Hong Kong to preach Dharma, and emphasized Zen, teaching, dharma, metaphysics and purity, breaking the door. And rebuild the ancient temple, seal the statue, and set up Xileyuan Temple, Cixing Temple and Buddhist lecture hall.
After living in Hong Kong for more than ten years, at the request of all living beings, he began to teach many Mahayana classics, held seven buddha, Seven Zen, confession and other dharma meetings, and founded Heart Method magazine. All day long, I am busy carrying forward Buddhism, so that Buddhism can be carried forward in Xiangjiang. In the meantime, I visited Southern Buddhism in Thailand, Myanmar and other places, hoping to communicate with Buddhism and unite its forces. 1958, the time is ripe for teachers to observe the west. In order to spread the true meaning of Buddhism to all parts of the world, he ordered his disciples to establish the Sino-American Buddhist Association (the predecessor of the Dharma Buddhist Association) in the United States. 196 1 year went to Australia to teach Buddhism for one year, 1962 returned to Hong Kong. In the same year, at the invitation of American Buddhists, he went to the United States alone and set up the Tree Correction in the Buddhist lecture hall in San Francisco. When I first lived in a damp cellar without windows, I became a monk in the grave. During the Cuban missile crisis between the United States and the Soviet Union, they went on a hunger strike for five weeks to avoid war and world peace. After the hunger strike, the crisis was solved.
1968, the time is ripe, and at the request of more than 30 students from Washington State University in Seattle, USA, a "summer vacation explanation seminar" was opened; 96 days after graduation, five young Americans begged for a haircut and became monks, setting a record for becoming monks in the history of American Buddhism. With more and more monks, the original Buddhist lecture hall is insufficient, so 197 1 established Jinshan Temple.
1976 purchased the international avenue of the holy city of ten thousand buddhas; Later, various branches of Dojo such as Jinlun Temple, Jinfo Temple, Jin Feng Temple, Huayan Temple and Dharma Holy City were established one after another. The master spared no effort to spread Buddhism, translate classics, educate and other undertakings, build Dojo extensively, train talents and set a purpose. Collecting the sincerity of four people makes the cause of Buddhism great.
In the aspect of Buddhism, the master taught his disciples to meditate every day, recite Buddhist words, make confessions to the Buddha, study classics, strictly observe the precepts, have a meal once a day in Japan and China, live in harmony and encourage each other, thus establishing a group of monks practicing Buddhism in the West to help Buddhism last for a long time. In addition, the Holy City of Ten Thousand Buddhas was opened as an international religious center, and the Law Institute was established in 1994 to advocate the integration of Buddhism spreading from the south to the north, the unity of world religions, mutual learning, exchanges and cooperation, common pursuit of truth and efforts for world peace.
"As long as I have breath, I will give a lecture." The master preached the scriptures in simple terms for decades; And try our best to cultivate talents who can preach the four laws, make fun of teaching by observing the machine, and enlighten the eastern and western mountains. He has led many delegations to major universities, visited countries around the world, and promoted Buddhism in order to guide all living beings to turn evil into good and open their own wisdom.
In the aspect of Buddhist scripture translation, 1973 International Buddhist Scripture Translation Society was established, which is dedicated to translating Buddhist scriptures into languages all over the world. Up to now, hundreds of Jade Books have been translated into English, and Buddhist books in both Chinese and English are being published one after another. There are also translations in Spanish, Vietnamese, French, German and Japanese. He also vowed to translate the Tripitaka into the languages of various countries and let Buddhism spread all over the world. King Kong Bodhi Sea magazine, with a history of nearly 40 years, was first published in pure English, and then gradually evolved into a bilingual monthly magazine. Up to now, more than 460 issues have been issued. As for China's Buddhist books, there are no fewer than 100 kinds; CD/DVD/MP3 and video tapes in many languages are also released constantly, which is a good advice for all beings to learn Buddhism.
In terms of education, there are Yu Liang Primary School, Peide Middle School, Dharma Buddhist University, Sinhala Buddhist Training Course and other educational institutions in the Holy City of Ten Thousand Buddhas. The branch Dojo also has Buddhist classes and Chinese schools on weekends and Sundays. These educational institutions full of Buddhist spirit take the eight virtues of "filial piety, filial piety, loyalty, faith, courtesy, righteousness, honesty and shame" as the foundation of being a person; Take selflessness and compassion as the ultimate goal. Single-sex schools advocate compulsory teaching and cultivate people with lofty moral character and insight to benefit the world. Zen, also known as Zongmen, is one of the sects of Han Buddhism, which originated in Dharma and flourished in Huineng, the sixth ancestor. After the middle and late Tang Dynasty, it became the mainstream of Han Buddhism and one of the most important symbols of Han Buddhism. Most of the Buddhist sects in Han Dynasty came from India, but Tiantai Sect, Huayan Sect and Zen Sect are the three indigenous Buddhist sects independently developed in China. Among them, the character of Zen is the most unique. Zen master will use various teaching methods to achieve this state, which is also called enlightenment. Its core idea is: "don't set up words, don't teach people;" Pointing directly at people's hearts and treating nature as Buddha means grasping the truth directly from daily life through one's own practice, and finally reaching a true understanding of oneself.
The word "Zen" in Zen comes from the transliteration of Sanskrit "Zen Na", which means "meditation", "thinking cultivation" and "equal wisdom". It refers to the process of entering level meditation (i.e. Vipassana) through mental concentration (luxury, meditation, meditation and spiritual environment). It is a very important and basic practice method of Buddhism, which is called one of the three omissions and one of the Mahayana six paramita. But the so-called Zen in Zen refers not to a specific practice method, but to a state of enlightenment to nature.
In the history of China, the development of Zen can be divided into four periods, from the introduction of Dharma into China to the end of Huineng Zen, the sixth ancestor. This is the beginning of Zen, which can be called early Zen. From the sixth ancestor Huineng, Hongzhou and Shishou to five schools and seven schools. This is the development period of Zen, from the Tang Dynasty to the early Southern Song Dynasty. From the early years of Southern Song Dynasty, Lin Jizong, Da Hui and Cao Dongzong Hongzhi Zhengjue advocated talking about Zen. As for the middle and late Ming dynasty, this is the mature period of Zen, which can also be called middle Zen. As for the rise of Pure Land Sect in the middle of Ming Dynasty, the characteristics of Buddhism at this time are the combination of Zen and Purity, and the combination of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. The combination of Zen and purity stems from the fact that Zen has been widely spread in the world, and the influence of the combination of Zen and purity has reduced the influence of monks on world nirvana at that time, so they can only practice Zen, which is gradually not needed by society, also known as late Zen, from the end of Ming Dynasty to the end of Qing Dynasty. In the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, in view of the excessive decline of Buddhism, Master Xu Yun rose to revive Zen, the ancestor of modern Zen.
One of the five schools of Zen in China. Ling You, the founder of this school, and his disciple Huiji successively promoted the clan style in Weishan and Tanzhou in the west of Ningxiang County, Hunan Province, and Yangshan in Yuanzhou in the south of Yichun County, Jiangxi Province, which was later called Weiyang School. Master Ling You of Lingshan (77 1 ~ 853) was a monk in the Tang Dynasty. Admire-ancestors of ancestors. A native of Changxi, Fuzhou (south of Xiapu County, Fujian Province), his common surname is Zhao. Dharma names are spiritual. At the age of fifteen, he became a monk with the lawyer Chang Fa (also known as Fa Heng) of Jianshan Temple and was ordained in longxing temple. In the seventh year of Dazhong, the first month was silent, with a life of 83 and a life of 64. Posthumous title-"Great Circle Zen Master". There are quotations and warnings handed down from generation to generation. There are forty-one disciples of Black Law, such as Hui Ji, Hong Luan and Zhi Xian. Among them, "Yangshan Huiji" inherited the later generations and achieved great success. It is called "Yangyang Zong" internationally.