Learning from the West

Monkey King's water curtain cave in Huaguo Mountain is near the mountain to save his mother. It's not that Zhangjiajie people are too far fetched to put together the journey to the West. It's a coincidence that Yang Jie, the director of the "journey to the west" and other actors, such as Tang Seng, Zhu Bajie, sun Houzi and Sha Seng, say with certainty that the location is all over the country. Only Zhangjiajie is really the world of immortals and demons in the "journey to the west".

Learning from the West

Sutra seeking from the West refers to the legendary adventure story in journey to the West. It describes the legendary adventure story of Monkey King, pig Bajie, monk Sha and little white dragon protecting Tang Monk Sutra seeking from the West and going through ninety-nine and eighty-one difficulties.

Journey to the West describes the story in the author's imagination, but it does have its own story in history. Gao Yuxiang, the founder of the contemporary Yinyang Yi Bian school, commented on the journey to the West: "the journey to the west is full of tribulations. At last, I have a strong will. I am willing to be a bodhi tree and help all living beings."

Why

Journey to the west is one of the four classic works in China. It was compiled by Wu Chengen, a novelist in Ming Dynasty.

This book describes the Legendary Adventures of Monkey King, Zhu Bajie and monk Sha, who protect Tang monk from the West and go through the ninety-nine and eighty-one difficulties.

Explanation of words

[pronunciation] x ī Ti ā n Q ǔ J ī ng

[interpretation] it refers to the story of Tang Seng, Monkey King, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Seng's disciples who went to the west to seek the Sutra. Now many metaphors are not afraid of difficulties to learn advanced experience from others. There are many difficulties and dangers that can't stop Tang Monk and his disciples.

history

The West sky refers to India. Because of the underdeveloped transportation in ancient times, people thought that India was already the west of the sky. It is a real thing in history that Tang monks learn scriptures. About 1300 years ago, in 629, the third year of Emperor Taizong's Zhenguan reign, Xuanzang, a 29 year old young monk, led a disciple to study in Tianzhu (India) after leaving Chang'an. After leaving Chang'an, he passed through Central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan. When Gaochang state was established, the residents respected Buddhism very much. The king was very happy to see that they were monks from the Tang Dynasty. He was willing to make them protectors, plus 100 taels of gold and 1000 horses. The disciples wavered and finally stayed in gaochangguo, while Xuanzang slipped out and fled to the West. Unexpectedly, Gao Changguo soldiers stopped him. Unexpectedly, they came to escort Xuanzang to the west to get scriptures. The soldiers gave Xuanzang a white horse and some documents. Xuanzang was very grateful. He bowed to the palace and rode West. Xuanzang went through many difficulties and finally arrived in India. He studied there for more than two years. He was a lecturer in a large-scale debate on Buddhist scriptures. He was praised and brought back many scriptures from Tianzhu, contributing to the development of Buddhism in China. In 646, the 47 year old Xuanzang returned to Chang'an and brought back 657 scriptures. In the impression of Chinese people, the Tang monk (Xuanzang) in journey to the West seems to be the first person to learn from the Scriptures in the West. Some scholars have pointed out that in fact, the Northeast monk tanwujie and his party of 25 people set out from Youzhou Longcheng (now Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province) in 420 A.D. This is 209 years earlier than that of Tang monk. Dong Gao, a senior researcher at Chaoyang North Tower Museum, told reporters that according to historical records, Tan WuJie, also known as FA Yong, was born in Longcheng, Youzhou, with a common surname of Li. He became a monk when he was more than 10 years old. He often lamented that the Buddhist scriptures were incomplete. He also heard that the eminent monk FA Xian and others had gone to the Buddhist kingdom in the west, so he vowed to follow suit. In the 12th year of Taiping (420 A.D.) in northern Yan Dynasty, Tan WuJie recruited 25 monks like-minded monk Meng and master Tan Lang to go west to learn Buddhist scriptures. They passed through today's Qinghai, Gansu, Xinjiang and other places, crossed the snow mountains, deserts, cliffs and abysses, and finally reached today's Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and other Buddhist temples. Among the 25 northeast monks who went westward to collect the Scriptures, 12 fell off the cliff and died, and 8 died of starvation. In the end, only five of them returned to China, including Tan Wuji, who brought back and translated a Book of the Sutra of Guanyin. According to Dong Gao, the 25 monks, such as Tan WuJie, traveled to the west to learn Buddhist scriptures 21 years later than the Eastern Jin Dynasty monk FA Xian, who was the first person to study in Tianzhu, but more than two centuries earlier than Tang Monk Xuan Zang. In terms of Buddhist status, Tan WuJie only brought back one Buddhist Scripture, while Xuanzang brought back and translated 75 Buddhist scriptures, 1335 volumes, and Faxian brought back and translated 6 Buddhist scriptures, 24 volumes. His historical achievements are far less than those of FA Xian and Xuan Zang. According to the reporter, in the 1999 edition of Ci Hai, both FA Xian and Xuan Zang have entries, while Tan WuJie does not.

List of learning

There are 400 volumes of Nirvana Sutra, 360 volumes of Bodhisattva Sutra, 20 volumes of void Sutra, 30 volumes of shoulengyan Sutra, 40 volumes of Enyi Sutra, 40 volumes of decision Sutra, 20 volumes of treasure Sutra, 81 volumes of Huayan Sutra, 30 volumes of lizhenru Sutra, 600 volumes of dabanruo Sutra, 50 volumes of jinguangming Sutra and wuyoujing Five hundred and fifty volumes, thirty volumes of the VIMA Sutra, forty-two volumes of the San Lun BIE Sutra, one volume of the Vajra Sutra, twenty volumes of the Zhengfa Lun Sutra, 116 volumes of the Buddha's line Sutra, twenty volumes of the five dragons Sutra, sixty volumes of the Bodhisattva's commandment Sutra, thirty volumes of the Daji Sutra, one hundred and forty volumes of the Mojie Sutra, ten volumes of the fahua Sutra, thirty volumes of the Yoga Sutra, and thirty volumes of the Baochang Sutra There are 170 volumes of the Sutra, 30 volumes of the Sutra on the West heaven, 110 volumes of the Sutra on sengzi, 1638 volumes of the Sutra on Buddhism, 50 volumes of the Sutra on Qixin, 90 volumes of the Sutra on dazhidu, 140 volumes of the Sutra on Baowei, 56 volumes of the Sutra on Benge, 10 volumes of the Sutra on Zhenglv, 14 volumes of the Sutra on dakongque, 10 volumes of the Sutra on Weizhi, 10 volumes of the Sutra on jushe On the ten volumes of the classic.

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