Archaeological Notes:
Wanchun Temple Cao Dong Sect Zheng and Vice Sect
The Wanchun Temple under Baiyun Mountain in Hanbin District, Ankang City, Shaanxi Province, was founded in the Tang Dynasty, and it is said that the Golden State Huai Rang monk Zhuo Xi was located. Through the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, many high monks and abbots. Rebuilt in the 40th year of Ming Jiajing (1581), there is Wanchun Cave (also known as "Baiyun Cave") in front of the temple, and there are Tang, Song and Ming people's cliff inscriptions inside and outside the cave. And with Silla Temple, Tenseong-ji Temple, Sungai-ji Temple and called the four jungles of Ankang, it is a county scenic spot.
Baiyun Cave
From the end of Ming Chongzhen to the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, there were high monks and masters such as Baiyun Zen Master and Benevolent Shangren who served as abbots, exquisite Buddhist principles, and passed on ordination to disciples, which was extremely prosperous. In the fourteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1675), san francisco advocated rebellion, xing'an prefecture (ankang) for Wu Sangui's pseudo-marshal Wang Pingfan stole six counties in a prefecture for five years, the monastery was abandoned, the mountain flood rose, the Buddhist temple fell, and the mountain gate was not strong for more than 80 years. In the fifteenth year of The Qing Dynasty (1835), there were monks from the north, Rulong, who persuaded them to donate and raise repairs, and they rose up in decadence and prosperity. Because of his determination to seek cure and revitalize the sect's style, there were many converts for a while. By the time of Guangxu, it became the seat of the monks' association in Xing'an Province. At the beginning of the Republic of China, there was no one after that, and the mountain gate returned to loneliness. After liberation, the monastery was abandoned, and it became a training militia site for the Armed Forces Department of Ankang County, and renamed Baiyun Mountain as Armed Mountain. In 1978, the Ankang District Cultural Administration will transport back the Ming and Qing inscriptions of Wanchun Temple for safekeeping, most of which are sung poems by officials and scholars, and no text recording the history of Wanchun Temple and the sectarian style has been found.
In the summer of 2014, his friend Qu Xiaoming searched in many ways, and finally found a stone stele painted with "The Whole Map of Wanchun Ancient Temple and the Main and Vice Sect of CaoDong" in an abandoned secret room of Wanchun Temple. The stele is 1.85 meters high, 0.70 meters wide, the head of the relief double phoenix chaoyang pattern, no monument year, do not know when to engrave, but in the upper left of the stele carved Wanchun Temple location schematic map, the text under the figure records the temple four to the boundary; the right side of the stele is engraved "Cao Dong Zhengpai" school text, its text is said: "Fu Hui Zhi conscious, the circle can be enlightened." Zhoujipu Guangzong, Daoqing Tong Xuanzu. Pure as the sea, cham silent pure virginity. Virtue is always constant, and myomoto is always hoarded. The heart is deep, and the ming is admired. Sincerely, good and happy, earnest and willing to cross. Xueshan is the mentor, leading Ru back to the path"; the lower right is engraved "Cao Dong Vice Sect": "Xinglong Transmission Anti-Eye, East Zhou Sand Boundary Hanging." Spring melts the fish and dragonizes, and the appreciation of life is indeed true. The flowers are frequently dipped in grease, and shoulu is always entangled. Let go of the treasure land, and the law and rain are lucky to have both. Yuzu re-discovers and stops looking at Tun Chin-hyun. Yan Hong's seal is printed, and the interests are even more unhappy. The spirit machine gathers and disperses, and the moon's shadow shines in the sky. To the enlightenment of karma, Shao Jiyi interpretation. Jiuding heard and thought, and it should be a lamp Zen. When the sun is empty, the ten thousand factions will be at the source."
The inscription Wanchun Temple", "Cao Dong Zheng Pai", is similar to the Ancestral Court Sect of the Shaolin Temple under the Song Mountain under Cao Dong. The shōnen-ji sect is: "Fukuhui Zhizi jue, the original circle can be enlightened." Zhou Hongpu Guangzong, Daoqing Tongxuanzu. Pure and true as the sea, Cham Silent Pure Virgin. Virtue is eternal, and the body is always strong. The heart shines deeply, and the kiln is clear. Sincerely good and zen, I wish to be generous. Xueting is the teacher, leading Ru to the Xuanlu Road.". According to this, it is known that the Ankang Wanchun Temple is not a Linji Sect Monastery of the Nanyue Huairang Lineage, but a Cao Dong Sect Monastery of the Qingyuan Xingsi Lineage.
Nanyue Huaizhi and Qingyuan Xingsi were both high disciples under the Seat of the Six Ancestors Huineng, and later the Huai rang lineage was divided into the Linji Sect and the Huanyang Sect; the Qingyuan Xingsi lineage was divided into three sects, namely the CaoDong Sect, the Yunmen Sect, and the Fayan Sect, and the two lineages were divided into five sects. Later, the Huanglong and Yangqi factions were divided from Linji, and a total of five sects and seven sects were combined before and after, and they flourished for a while.
The Cao Dong Sect was created by the Tang monk Dongshan Liangli and his disciple Cao Shan Ben Shu, and is said to be named after the Six Ancestors Cao Xi Huineng and Dong Shan Liang Price. Shangcheng Xiqian monk's spirit of "being true as it happens" created the saying of "five kings" and restored Cao Shanben's silence and peace. There is the "Ode to the Five Lords": that is, "the middle deviation, the first night of the three more before the moon." No wonder they don't know each other, and they faintly reminisce about the old days; they are partial and right, and they miss their wives in the ancient mirror. There is nothing to see clearly, and Hugh is more confused and still from the shadow; Right in the middle, there is no way to pass through the dust. However, it can not touch the current secret, and it is better than the previous dynasty to break the tongue; at the same time, the confrontation between the two blades must not be avoided. The good hand is like a lotus in the fire, as if it has its own ambition to soar to the heavens; at the same time, who dares to make peace without falling? Everyone wants to go out of the flow, and the equivalent is returned to the charcoal to sit." These five monarchs have all come out of the sect to attain enlightenment. That is, the king is the body, and the subject is the use. Coming in the middle is the direct point of the body; the middle is the body with two lines; and the middle is the body with silence. From the relationship between directors and body use, it is explained that things are not different, and there is no obstacle to body use. After Liang's death, Ben silently lived in Dongshan's saying, and continued to talk about the "five kings", explaining that "the king is positive, and the subject is partial." The subject is partial to the king, the king is the middle to the subject, and the king is forced to join the sage and bring it." Therefore, its Zen style is known as "Huihu Meticulous", and in the Five Zen Schools, its status is second only to that of the Linji Sect.
Songshan Shaolin Temple, during the Tang and Song dynasties, was still the abbot of the Ten Fangs, and there were five monks living and practicing zen Buddhism, Linji, Huiyang, Dharma Eye, Cloud Gate and Caodong. Unifying the five houses and honoring Cao Dong as authentic is the Fuyu Zen master. Fuyu Zen master, Yuan Churen. He once worshiped the Caodong master Wan Song Xingxiu as his teacher and received his mantle. In the ninth year (1305) of Emperor Yuanchengzong (孛兒只金铁穆爾) Emperor Daedeok (1305), abbot of the Shaolin Temple, he was made the president of the capital of the province and the head of the Buddhist monasteries in Dayuan. During fuyu's presidency of the Shaolin Temple, he rebuilt the temple destroyed by the war when the Mongols destroyed the Jin Dynasty, and sharply intended to rule, revitalize the sect style, found the Authentic Sect of The Shaolin Temple CaoDong, and establish the Shaolin Monk Clan Origin Sect with the character "Fu" as the first ancestor.
The discovery of the Stone Stele of the Shaolin Sect of the Cao Dong Sect, although it cannot rewrite the history of Wanchun Temple, is puzzling. The Xing'an Zhou Zhi says that Wanchun Temple was "created in Nanyue Huairang". Huai Rang is a native of the county, so most of the monasteries in the county are Linji sects. In the early years of Daoguang, the "New Zen Forest Statute Monument" of Sungai Temple also said that "Fu Jian Cong Seat, Li Qing Regulation, Zhao from Matsu, Bai Zhangzu". Matsu is the disciple Daoyi of Huai Rang Zen Master; Bai Zhang is the Huaihai Zen master under Matsu Gate, and is a disciple of Nanyue Huai Rang, who is called Bai Zhangzu because of Bai Zhangshan in Juhong Prefecture (present-day Fengxin County, Jiangxi). It can be seen that in the Qing Dynasty, Ankang Buddhism is the World of the Southern Sect Zen Huai Rang.
Master Waijang
The emergence of the Caodong sect of Wanchun Temple should be in the middle of the Qing Dynasty Daoguang. The stele in the temple has the words "Yi Wei (Daoguang fifteen years) northern monk Ru Long persuaded to donate money and raise repairs, and became decadent and rehabilitated". This northern monk Ru Long was a monk of the "Ru" character school of the Cao Dong Sect of the Shaolin Temple. Shi Rulong has the merit of restoring the Wanchun Temple, and must have the ambition to revitalize the Wanchun Temple, and since he came from the ancestral court of the Shaolin Temple under the Cao Cave, he must have the authentic heart of the Guangda Shaolin Temple. Therefore, following fuyu's example of writing the Origin of the Shaolin Temple under the CaoDong Sect, he wrote the Cao Dong Sect Shaolin Sect Under the Wanchun Temple Sect that begins with the word "Xing". Its beginning with the word "Xing" means that the Caodong Sect of Wanchun Temple in Xing'an Province, Shaanxi Province, will surely prosper and develop, and the sect will have a long history. Unfortunately, the times have shifted, and the Wanchun Temple has no one since then, and it has passed to the beginning of the Republic of China, and it has disappeared in shape, and it has been left behind by the years of the "Cao Dong Zheng and Vice Sect Stele", which makes people think of it.
Cao Dong is sending a stele
Cao Dong is sending a stele to the local area