Monks have always regarded compassion as their duty and universalizing the world, and one of the most famous mantras of the Buddhist family is: Saving a person's life is better than creating a seven-level floating slaughter. As the monk we are most familiar with, Tang Monk's various tragic and compassionate behaviors on the West Heaven Road touched us deeply, and we believe that Tang Monk is a kind monk, even if he once put a tight curse on the deception of Sun Wukong. However, there are also good and bad monks, there are monks who save the world, there are also monks who are greedy for money and beauty, and there are a very small number of monks who are extremely popular and courtiers, stirring up the storm above the court.
Yao Guangxiao was born in Jiangsu in 1335, and his family has been practicing medicine for generations, and decades of good deeds have accumulated virtue, so that the Yao family has accumulated a lot of fame in the local area. As the only child in the family, Yao Guangxiao not only did not inherit the ancestral medical skills of the family, but became a monk, and since then he has cut off the incense of the Yao family. From the traditional point of view, Yao Guangxiao is completely unfilial, but Yao Guangxiao does not think so, and after he became a monk at the age of 14, he worshiped the Taoist priest Xi Yingzhen as a teacher, concentrated on learning yin and yang techniques, and devoted himself to cultivation.
In 1375, the 40-year-old Yao Guangxiao was already proficient in Buddhism, so he prepared to go out of the mountains to take the exam, and strive to seek an official and a half-position above the court, and mixed with the abbot. However, Yao Guangxiao was not awarded the position of "monk official" by Zhu Yuanzhang, and could only be ignored among the monks. In 1380, Yao Guangxiao came to run, and he was recommended by others to successfully enter the Celestial Realm Temple and become one of the high monks recognized by the imperial court. Two years later, Empress Ma died of illness, and Yao Guangxiao was selected by Zhu Yuanzhang to recite the sutra and pray for blessings, and Yao Guangxiao also took advantage of this to catch the line of Zhu Di, the King of Yan.
Zhu Di admired Yao Guangxiao, and Yao Guangxiao also believed that he could only have the opportunity to display his talents under Zhu Di, so after Yao Guangxiao prayed for blessings, he followed Zhu Di back to Beiping and served as the abbot of Qingshou Temple. As an ambitious monk, Yao Guangxiao often went to the Yan Palace to conspire with Zhu Di, and many of Zhu Di's orders were given by Yao Guangxiao's affirmation. In 1398, Emperor Jianwen succeeded to the throne, and as soon as he ascended the throne, he could not wait to implement the strategy of cutting the domain, and the kings of the clan were convicted one after another, and Zhu Di was very worried about his position, so he consulted Yao Guangxiao about the matter.
Yao Guangxiao suggested that Zhu Di rebel and seek a glimmer of life, Zhu Di was worried that this move would not go along with the will of the people, yao Guangxiao said coldly: The subject only knows the heavenly way, regardless of the people's will. After Zhu Di received yao Guangxiao's support, he began to train soldiers and horses, build weapons, and under the cover of Yao Guangxiao's secret, their every move was not detected by the imperial court. In 1399, Zhu Di rebelled and launched the famous Battle of Jingnan in history. In this battle, the Ming Dynasty soldiers lost 500,000 yuan, and this result can be said to be indirectly caused by Yao Guangxiao. In 1402, Zhu Di proclaimed himself emperor, and ordered Yao Guangxiao to be the monk Zuo Shanshi, and two years later he was appointed as the Prince Of the Crown Prince.
After Yao Guangxiao became an extremely popular subject, he refused Zhu Di's kindness to make him vulgar, and still insisted on being a monk. Later, during Zhu Di's expedition to Mongolia, Yao Guangxiao had been doing his best to assist the crown prince and help him learn political affairs and culture, hoping that he, like Zhu Di, would become a capable emperor in the future. In 1418, the "poison monk" Yao Guangxiao died of illness at the age of 84.
Yao Guangxiao, who was originally a doctor, became a monk, but he should have saved the world, but he assisted Zhu Dixing in the rebellion, causing the killing of 500,000 soldiers, and his life was changeable, but so.