Yan Cong is really a Buddhist wizard. When Yan Cong was not a monk, he was very smart and insightful. Later, he went to the frontier mage, when he was less than ten years old. The border master was puzzled by the child, thinking that he had come to the temple to play and didn't mean to say anything he didn't understand. But the mage can look at Yan Cong's childish face again. His expression was serious and sincere, and the mage was slightly moved. Master Bian Guan tried to get Yan Cong to read Buddhist scriptures, with nearly 7,000 words. He finished reading it in one day. He was asked to read Generosity and other classics, and Yan Yan only finished it in a few days. Master Bian discussed with him the classics he had read, and Yan Cong answered like a stream. The border mage was shocked by the boy. You know, Dafang and other sutras are the general names of Mahayana Buddhist sutras. It is a miracle that Yan can read so many classics in a few days at a young age. At the age of ten, the border master made Yan Cong officially become a monk and named him Daojiang. This is the hope that his wisdom is endless, just like a flowing river.
Yan Cong gave a lecture on great wisdom in Jinyang and invited Jing Changyu and other guests to attend the lecture in person. YanCong beside quoting classics, Kan Kan and talk, all the ministers. Upon hearing this, they all praised YanCong:
"The mage said that we have never heard of it."
Soon, the Empress Dowager Qi arrived in Jinyang accompanied by the emperor. When they learned about Yan Cong, they invited Yan Cong to Xuandetang to teach King Ren Jing.
On the day of the lecture, Xuande's hall was crowded with people. In front of the main hall, the queen mother and the emperor were surrounded by maids and eunuchs. Further down, there were civil and military officials, followed by 200 monks, who came to listen to the lecture on orders. The whole hall was silent, and everyone was waiting for the arrival of Yan Cong.
After a while, I saw a teenager coming at the entrance of the main hall. He wore a clean cassock, held his head high and held out his chest, and walked steadily in the crowd. He is not tall, only reaching the audience's chest, but the solemn expression on his face makes the people present secretly admire him. In front of the hall, there is a high-backed chair and a table. Usually this is the throne of the emperor, but now it has become a lecture place for Yan Cong. The emperor had already asked assistant minister Gao Yuanhai to stand beside the throne to wait on Yan Cong. Yan Cong walked to the lecture stage, and Gao Yuanhai quickly stepped forward to hold Yan Cong and help him sit at the table. This throne is still a little high for Yan Cong. Gao Yuanhai is over half a century old, and his hair and beard are fluttering, while Yan Cong has fine eyes and is only ten years old. If this scene is not in the lecture hall, it will certainly attract everyone's heart.
Yan Cong sat on the throne, facing the dark audience below. He is fearless, natural and bright-eyed. The lecture began and his childish voice echoed in the hall. The lecturer looked at each other and was shocked by Yan Cong's knowledge.
At the age of sixteen, Yan Cong's father died. Yan Cong went home to offer condolences. He used this time to read classics such as Subsets of Classics and History, and interacted with people who read widely in North Korea.
Buddhism declined after the Zhou Dynasty. Knowing that Yan Cong was knowledgeable, Emperor Wu of Zhou invited him to the palace to talk with him about Taoist Hyunri. Yan Cong's Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism are all interlinked. What he said to Emperor Wu was very agreeable to him. Emperor Wu granted him a bachelor's degree in paragraph view. At this time, Yan Cong talked with Liang Wudi about Taoism on the surface, but he still held Buddhist scriptures in his heart. He wore layman's clothes outside, but monk's clothes inside, and changed his name to Yan Cong.
Emperor Wu of Zhou vigorously preached Taoism, while Xuan Di inherited the practice of Emperor Wu, made many dojos and often stayed up all night. Yan Cong was invited to preside over the Dojo because he knew the family classics like the back of his hand. When talking about Taoism, Yan Yan added Buddhism to his lecture, which made the audience unconsciously accept Buddhism.
When Emperor Wu of the Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Buddha, Hui Yuan bluntly refuted it in the main hall, and thick monks and others stayed away from other places in order to save their strength. Yan Cong's practice is to preach Buddhism under the cloak of Taoism. In the early days when Buddhism was introduced into China, the translation or preaching of Buddhist scriptures was initially explained by Taoism and other metaphysics in China. Now Yan Cong is doing the opposite, which can be said to be a pioneering work in spreading Buddhism.
Like the second year (the year of Emperor Jing of the Northern Zhou Dynasty), Sui Wen became prime minister, and Buddhism rose slightly. Later, Yan Cong and Tan Yan invited the emperor together and continued to shave their hair and become monks. After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Wendi of Sui believed in Buddhism and set up a Buddhist lecture hall in Beijing, which lasted for four seasons. Yan Cong collaborated with Xue Daoheng and others to compile the Collection of Interior Point Law. Yan Cong also wrote a guide to singing for monks, which was handed down to later generations.
After the reign of Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty for three years, Emperor Wendi visited Daotai, and all he saw were images of Laozi's Hu Du Buddhism, which was very strange. So he ordered the monk to discuss the matter with the Taoist priest. At this time, Yan Cong participated in the discussion, and the discussion has not yet begun. Taoist priests all admit that this matter does not belong to anything. Yan Cong wrote an article "On Religion", accusing Daoyao of being unreliable. Buddhism has gained the upper hand since then.
The dispute between Laozi and Nothing is the key issue of the dispute between Buddhism and Taoism in the history of China. This incident is recorded in the Taoist classic Old Zi Hua Hu Jing. In the Western Jin Dynasty, Taoist Wang Fu and Shang Yuanbo argued about the good and evil of Buddhism and Taoism. Wang Fu created the theory that Laozi went west to Tianzhu to turn Hu into a Buddha, and educated Hu people into pagodas, from which Buddhism came into being. This is an argument that Taoism rejects Buddhism in the struggle between Buddhism and Taoism.
In the same year, Yan Cong traveled eastward with Wendi. Yan Cong was treated by the King of Jin (Yang Guang) when she traveled eastward. Soon, Qin Wang, who was guarding Taiyuan, invited Yan Cong to Taiyuan to talk with him about Buddhism.
While in Taiyuan, Yan Cong had a dream. In the dream, YanCong saw a gold man three feet tall, holding a glass bowl for him and said:
"This bowl is wine, please drink it."
Yan Cong took the bowl on his knee and said to Ren Jin:
"Thank you for giving me jewelry. But wine is forbidden by Buddhist law firms, so I dare not drink it. "
When he woke up, he didn't understand what happened in the dream. When the king of Qin showed Yan Cong the Guanyin he had painted, Yan Cong was surprised to find that the Guanyin on the statue was exactly the same as the man of God in his dream. Yan Cong is glad that he can keep the law in his dream. Guanyin is testing him.
In the twelfth year of Emperor Wen, Yan Cong entered Beijing again. Later, he was assigned to be responsible for the translation of Buddhist scriptures and lived in Daxing Temple.
At this time, Yang Guang, King of Jin, built Riyan Temple in Beijing and asked Yan Cong to be the abbot. Most of the high officials and dignitaries in the imperial court went to visit and listen to Yan Yan's sermon, which enhanced Yan Yan's confidence. Yan Yan changed the past practice of teaching Buddhism directly in Sanskrit with translated Buddhist scriptures, so that learners can understand the true meaning of Buddhism.
At the beginning of Renshou (the title of Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty), Emperor Wendi ordered Yan Cong to send the relics to Bingzhou (now Taiyuan, Shanxi). At that time, Bingzhou was guarded by Hanwang, who built a temple pagoda in the city to welcome the arrival of the relic. When Yan Yan sent the relics to the pagoda, the sky was overcast. At noon, when the relics are to be buried, the clouds will open and the sun will be clear, and there will be colorful auspicious clouds around the sun.
At the end of Renshou, Wendi asked Yan Cong to send the relic to Fuzhou (now Mianyang, Hubei) to visit the temple. At that time, the filial piety courtyard was very deserted, but the place was wide enough to build a stupa. Yan Cong told people to get rid of weeds and prepare to build a tower. Suddenly, Yan Yan felt itchy on her head. He scratched his head with his hand and got a relic. The relics are shaped like millet and brightly colored. Knocked twice with an axe, everything beside it was broken, but the relic was not damaged at all. If you hit the spine again, the color of the relic will be more vivid. Digging seven feet underground, I found a box made of silver and copper hidden in a brick, and the fragrant mud wrapped in the box was still fragrant. There is only one box full of water in the box, but there is no relic. It can be speculated that the relic in this box is the one Yan Cong found on his head. To put the delivered relics and the found relics in the tower, we must find a big stone box, but there are no big stones nearby. Yan Yan closed her eyes and remotely sensed that there was a stone in Jingling County, which could be used as a stone box. After polishing, the stone suddenly turned into jade, and the inside was clearly visible. People nearby found many Buddha statues in the stone. Put the stone box in the tower, and immediately a swan flew to the place where the box was put, snuggling up next to the stone box, gentle and intimate. When I saw the geese flying, I didn't follow them. After driving them away, they flew to the stone box again. I stayed for ten days. When the relic was buried, the goose flew around the tower several times and then flew away.
I feel the fish and turtles in the pool in front of the tower again. They leaned out together and looked north at the stupa. Yan Cong explained to them that it was the day before they disappeared.
The well water nearby naturally overflowed within fifteen days and stopped after the stone box was buried.
On April 8, the sky was covered with dark clouds. At noon, when the relics are about to be buried, the clouds have disappeared. Only above the tower, there is a colorful cloud, as round as a lid, shining in the sun. After burying the relics, the colorful clouds floated away.
Yan Cong was very happy with these auspicious signs, and told the overjoyed Wendi about it, and ordered someone to record it and hide it in a secret cabinet.
In the second year of Renshou, Emperor Wendi asked Yan Cong to write a catalogue of classics, and Yan Cong divided the classics into five categories: single translation, retranslation, different fate, doubt and forgery, and attached volumes.
At this time, Yan Cong dreamed that he went to hell and saw all kinds of hardships in life. He read Buddha at any time in hell and was free. Later, he was sent to the mountain again, and the scene he saw in hell reappeared. Some famous monks who preached with him are suffering. They told him their sufferings and said ten good things were good for him. It was a long time before he woke up.
When Emperor Wen heard about this, he asked Yan Cong to write it out and give it to the monks and nuns as a warning.
In the second year of Daye (Yang Dinian), monks such as Du Dong and Yan Cong were sent to pay their respects. Yang Di called Yan Cong to the palace and talked with him about Buddhism. Emperor Yang was very interested in what Yan Cong said, and they talked for several nights. Yan Cong told Yang-ti about the translation of scriptures and showed Yang-ti his ode poems, which made Yang-ti have a further understanding of Buddhism.
Yang Di ordered the establishment of a prayer-turning hall in Shanglinyuan, Luoyang, and Yan Cong presided over the translation work. In Xinping Lin Yi, I got more than 564 Buddhist scriptures and more than 1350 scriptures, and many pear leaves written by Kunlun. Emperor Yang Di ordered these Buddhist scriptures to be sent to Zhuanjing Hall for Yan Cong to read, compile a catalogue and then translate them step by step. Yan Yan then wrote a five-volume, seven-body catalogue, namely: classics, law, praise, argument, prescription, speech and miscellaneous books. More than 2200 volumes of Chinese classics have been excavated.
Yan Cong often understands the translation of Sanskrit Buddhist scriptures, so he can express Sanskrit wonderfully. Translators from ancient times to the present are often based on nothingness, and even fewer are in line with pronunciation, writing and exegesis. To this end, Yan Cong wrote Dialectics as a standard for the translation of Buddhist scriptures. Yan Yan's article summarizes the shortcomings in the translation of Buddhist scriptures since Daoan, and puts forward ten problems that should be paid attention to in translating Buddhist scriptures and the conditions that translators should have. The translation of Buddhist scriptures has been standardized.
Yan Cong has been suffering from deficiency-cold syndrome, and has been suffering from dysentery during the attack. At the age of 54, he died in the translation hall.
On the morning of his death, Yan Cong was weak but full of energy. YanCong asked his disciples:
"hasn't lent arrived yet?"
Disciple replied, "No."
Yan Yan closed her eyes and sat quietly. After a while, Yan Cong looked up and looked at the sun from the door. Knowing that it was time to eat, he said to his disciples:
"I'm leaving."
Wash your hands and burn incense. Please take out the statue of Maitreya and look at it carefully with your hands crossed. Open your eyes for a while and close them for a while. Not long after, Yan Cong died.