"In the first year of Tongzhi, Fawang Temple built four more mountain gates for defense. In the tenth year of Tongzhi, Fawang Temple was finally completed. Guoshan ordered his junior brothers Guo Duan, Guo Qin and others to take advantage of the danger and travel far away to accompany them on expeditions and report to the capital.

Please, Your Majesty, grant the scriptures and give the temple the word ‘imperial gift’.”

Temples in ancient times were divided into levels. The highest level was "imperial construction". The royal family allocated special funds to build and maintain the temples. The monks inside ate "imperial food". Their tasks were of course to host royal-related ceremonies and be responsible for the royal family.

Religious affairs, high status.

The next best thing is the "Edict-gifted" temples, which are temples designated and protected by the royal family. The royal family will not contribute money to such temples, or it will not fully fund them. It is more of a name for the temple to have a relationship with the royal family.

This kind of relationship is also diverse. Some are places for praying for the country, some temple abbots are the ordination masters of royal family members, and some are family temples of royal relatives, etc.

"Zen Master Guoshan took advantage of the fact that he asked the abbot of Fawang Temple to practice on Cixi's behalf, and he received the imperial plaque of 'Fawang Zen Temple' and a set of "Longzang Sutra", which made Fawang Temple famous and eventually became one of the most famous Buddhist temples in southern Sichuan.

In the jungles of Shifang in northern Guizhou, the annual income was 3,700 stone, and there were hundreds of monks living in the temple, which created the most prosperous situation of Fawang Temple."

Teacher Yuan and Manager Fei looked at Zhou Zhi with different eyes. This... this is the local chronicle of Jiachuan that is walking like crazy!

No wonder Mr. Gu likes him so much!

Gu Youwen knew that this boy was helping his godfather with the literary and historical work in Jiachuan County. According to Zhengping, this boy grew up studying the old county chronicles at his uncle's house, so he didn't find it strange at all. He waved his hand and said, "Say "

The origin of the Dragon Tibetan Sutra, is it Cixi and Tongzhi who gave it to them in the Qing Dynasty?"

"It's not such a good thing." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "The reason why the "Dragon Tibetan Sutra" has the word 'dragon' is because it is the most sophisticated Tripitaka that two generations of emperors paid personal attention to and ordered people to supervise the work.

, the printing and binding are extremely exquisite. Cixi gave half of Luanjia's flowers, which is estimated to be several hundred taels of silver. Compared with the Huanghuang rare book that contains more than a thousand Buddhist classics, it is obviously not as good as the boss."

"This matter has been recorded in detail in the county, and it is actually an interesting story."

"At that time, Guoduan Guochen followed the path of Dazongzheng, and what he finally got was nothing more than the title of 'Edict' given by Fawang Temple and the 'permit' of printing scriptures."

"The matter was then transferred to Seng Lusi."

"But at that time, the Senglu Division had long been reduced to an empty department with a salary. The few great monks who led the department had no idea about this matter. They didn't even know that the withered version of "Longzang Sutra" was in

where."

"Is there such a thing?" Gu Youwen was greatly surprised: "The Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties attached great importance to the version of the Dragon Tibetan Sutra. How dare they be so careless?"

"Actually, from this incident, we can see how corrupt the official institutions of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were at that time." Zhou Zhi said, "What should we do? Guo Duan Guoqin had no choice but to report again and ask the court to search for the Dragon Tibetan Sutra.

》The destination of edition.”

"After receiving the emperor's instructions, officials from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household Affairs spent three months searching for the previous handover information. They learned that this edition of the "Dragon Hidden Sutra" was sealed after the first printing of hundreds of volumes, and was finally published in Qianlong's reign.

At the end of the year, it was sent to the Berlin Temple on the outskirts of Beijing for storage."

"After getting the news, the two people rushed to Berlin Temple. However, when the monks of Berlin Temple opened the warehouse, they found that the shelves where the scriptures were stored were still there, but the "Longzang Sutra" box that was supposed to be on top was missing.

there is none left."

"This..." Gu Youwen couldn't help but dumbfounded: "Such a national treasure, with the hard work and financial resources of the two dynasties, was actually given to them for such a child's play?!"

"Fortunately, an old monk from Berlin Temple recalled that one year because the roof of the warehouse needed to be renovated, those scriptures were transferred to Zhihua Temple for safekeeping."

"The two rushed to Zhihua Temple, where they finally found this precious set of withered plates."

Although they clearly knew that this matter was finally done, everyone still breathed a sigh of relief unconsciously when they heard this.

Zhou Zhi then said: "Finding the withered version was still the first step. By this time, Guo Duan Guoqin's money had been used up. Fortunately, the monk relied on alms, so the two of them ran around to raise printing funds, and finally spent a lot of money.

After three months, I finally collected some money, recruited workers, and purchased paper materials. Finally, after September, I completed the printing of the Dragon Tibetan Sutra."

"Since the printing volume of the Dragon Tibetan Sutra is very small, the words on the sutra board are sharp and sharp, and it is as complete as new. The printed new sutra is very perfect."

"Guo Duan Guoqin did not feel that he was working hard. Instead, he was grateful for the emperor's great kindness. He also added a page that he asked someone to process on the title page of each sutra. Therefore, Fawang Temple's "Dragon Hidden Sutra" is the same as the first edition of "Dragon Hidden Sutra".

The difference between the Tibetan Scriptures and the Tibetan Scriptures is that each volume has a newly added seal of 'Long Live the Tenth Anniversary of Tongzhi' at the beginning of each volume."

"Have you seen this set of books?" After listening to Zhou Zhi's detailed description, Teacher Yuan couldn't help but feel a glimmer of hope.

"No." Zhou Zhi shook his head: "I read these from the book "Fangwai" in the old county chronicle. I thought it was interesting at the time, so I wrote it down."

"Oh." Teacher Yuan couldn't help feeling a little discouraged.

"What's the status of this temple now?" Gu Youwen asked.

"It's hard to see." Zhou Zhi shook his head: "The eleventh generation abbot of Fawang Temple is Dongfang, the 45th generation of Linji Zongzong. He practiced martial arts in Gaopeng Mountain since childhood and was good at martial arts and medical skills. After traveling around the world and practicing Zen in Shaolin, he was hired as

The abbot of Fawang Temple, and later the Duke elected him as the abbot."

"He revitalized Fawang Temple again. During the Anti-Japanese War, he also founded Fawang Temple Buddhist Academy, appointed Master Taixu of the Sino-Tibetan Catechism Academy as the honorary president, invited Master Yinshun from Jinyun Mountain in Chongqing as his instructor, and Master Yanpei as the academic director.

He opened schools every year, taught Buddhist philosophy and common sense, and trained many monks and lay talents. He also served as the president of the SC Provincial Martial Arts Association and spread the martial arts and qigong of the southern Sichuan school."

"But because his reputation was too loud, he had a conflict with the Guizhou warlord. Li Chuyun, the bodyguard of the Guizhou warlord Zhou Qilong, was a master of the inner family. The two of them held a competition under the instigation of Zhou Qilong's conspiracy."

"Zen Master Dongfang was already old at the time. After the competition, he lost a move and hit Li Chuyun's acupuncture point. Li Chuyun said to Dongfang that as long as you admit defeat, I will untie it for you."

"Dongfang Zen Master is a proud and arrogant person. He just said indifferently, 'Life and death are determined by destiny, and a poor monk will not bow to someone who helps the evildoers.' Then he returned to Fawang Temple."

"Three days later, a hidden disease broke out, and he vomited blood and died."

"Li Chuyun later learned that he had been used by Zhou Qilong to kill a great virtue. He was ashamed and ashamed, and abandoned his post in anger, and has been missing since then."

"The Fawang Temple has been in decline since then. After the founding of New China, the temple with only five monks left was disbanded. I heard that there are only two old nuns who have returned to secular life. According to the local township government

Although registered as a five-guarantee elderly person, Fawang Temple is actually just a dilapidated nursing home now."
Chapter completed!