The Six Patriarchs of Chinese Zen Buddhism are the largest sects of Chinese Buddhism. Dharma began to spread Zen Buddhism in China, "pointing directly to the human heart, seeing nature to become a Buddha, not establishing a script, teaching others to pass on", which was vigorously promoted by the Erzu Huike, the Three Ancestors Monk Xuan, the Four Ancestors Daoxin, the Five Ancestors Hongnin, and the Six Ancestors Huineng, and finally a flower and five leaves, blooming in the secret garden. Later generations honored Dharma as the first ancestor of Chinese Zen Buddhism, and respected the Shaolin Temple as the ancestral court of Chinese Zen Buddhism.
Dharma began to spread Zen Buddhism in China, "pointing directly to the human heart, seeing nature to become a Buddha, not establishing writing, teaching others to pass on", through the Erzu Huike, the three ancestors of the monks, the four ancestors of daoxin, the five ancestors of Hongnin, the six ancestors of Huineng, etc. vigorously promoted, and finally a flower and five leaves, blooming the secret garden, becoming the largest sect of Chinese Buddhism, posterity will respect Dharma as the first ancestor of Chinese Zen Buddhism, and the Shaolin Temple as the ancestral court of Chinese Zen Buddhism.
Huineng received the mantle of the Five Ancestors of Huangmei, Hongnin, and inherited the Dongshan Dharma Gate, becoming the sixth ancestor of Zen Buddhism, known as the Six Ancestors of Zen Buddhism. Tang Xianzong posthumously honored the Great Zen Master. He is one of the most influential Buddhist monks in Chinese history. Chen Yinkei praised the Six Patriarchs: "I hereby put forward the will to point directly to the human heart and see the nature of becoming a Buddha, sweep away the monks' cumbersome study of chapters and sentences, destroy the Qingqing, send out deafness and excitement, and consolidate a major event in the history of Buddhism in our country!"
Rokuzu Huineng's true body is the earliest and most famous incorruptible flesh (more than 1,200 years) that has survived. The flesh is not bad, the whole body is relict. In Japanese Buddhist circles, it is often called the Buddha of Concentration, the Buddha of the Flesh, or the Buddha of the Body. In fact, since the Wei and Jin dynasties of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there have been many such cases in China. For example, Jin Haoluo (Yang Fanren), Shan Daokai (Dunhuang people, born about the middle of the fourth century), Sui Zhiyan; Tang Fashun, Shan Fearless; Ming Shan Deqing, Tongtian monk; Qing Qifan; and even the Republic of China Jingshan, and Taiwan's Cihang are all examples of flesh that are not bad. Among them, the body of Huineng (638-713) of Nanhua Temple in Guangdong is the oldest surviving example. The Six Ancestors Huineng was really dressed and painted, and enshrined in the cupboard on the altar of the Six Ancestors Hall in the temple.
As for the reason why the Six Patriarchs Huineng was truly incorruptible for a thousand years, science could not explain it now, but only with a respectful heart.
Since his ordination, Master Huineng of the Six Ancestors has been passing on the mantle of the Six Ancestors and concentrating on cultivation, which is beyond the reach of my generation. Wu Zetian's edict reads: "Hate not to accompany the next position, listen to the sound on the side, pour out the source of separation, and step high at the top of the Miao Peak." ”
The relics of the Six Ancestors Huineng are still sitting in the main hall of Nanhua Temple, and every day Buddhist believers and tourists from all over the country and even around the world worship the true body of the Six Ancestors Huineng, who has been intact after more than 1,200 years of ups and downs.
However, the world's oldest human body relic, the world's oldest human body relic, is actually not really "intact", but "looks very beautiful" - its body has suffered serious trauma, bone internal organs, etc. have also been seriously damaged, and what people see now is the carefully repaired six ancestral Huineng real body. While people worship, how many people know that Liu zu Hui can really lay under the gorgeous robes, while covering up and containing a fierce and ugly history?
The Six Ancestral Tantras: "And asked, 'Is it difficult to be in the future?' The Master said, "Five or six years after my death, when a man comes to take my head." Listen to my memories: Raise relatives on the head, eat in the mouth, and meet the difficulties of fullness, Yang Liu is an official. ’”
The prophecies of the Six Patriarchs on their deathbed are said to have been confirmed one by one: there was a Goryeo monk who wanted to steal the head of the Six Patriarchs to his own country to offer offerings. This monk was named Jin Dabei, and he hired a man in Hongzhou named Zhang Jingman.
Jin Dabei used a little money to let Zhang Jingman steal the head of the Sixth Ancestor Master. At the time of the incident, the assassin's surname was Liu, called Liu Wucheng, and the county official's surname was Yang, and his name was Yang Kan, so it was said that "Yang Liu was an official".
After a thousand years, the six ancestors Huineng really lived, and they have been sitting in the Nanhua Temple, and the dynasties have not infringed on it, but have great respect for the true body of the six ancestors Huineng. When the Japanese invaded China, he suffered a disaster - one day, several Japanese soldiers came to Nanhua Temple, accompanied by doctors. They suspected that Liu Zu Huineng's real body was fake, and they had to cut it open to see what was going on.
When the Japanese used a scalpel to cut a small hole in the back of The Six Ancestors, and looked into the small hole, they saw well-preserved bones and internal organs, but the surrounding environment did not have very perfect protection measures. Perhaps because of the horror and the belief habits of the Japanese, these Japanese soldiers had to marvel at it, and finally had to believe that this was the true body of the bodhisattva, and they were frightened and retreated in worship.
The Japanese scalpel did not cause serious damage to Rokuzu Huineng's real body, and thus preserved the integrity of the Nanhua Temple to a certain extent - just think: if the Japanese did not believe in this, it is likely that the entire temple would have been looted and burned.
Huineng's real body has suffered a lot of injuries, and there are thousands of holes in the back of the seemingly complete real body, and his bones and internal organs have been seriously damaged. When the Japanese invaders invaded China, they inflicted some damage on Huineng's true body, and Master Huineng was mainly based on harmony, and this concept was a silent rebellion against the invasion of China by the Great Japanese Empire.
Japan's pro-Japanese plan at the time of the invasion of China was to make Chinese forget its own culture, and how could it tolerate the true identity of Master Huineng under such circumstances, so the destruction became certain.
Huineng's true body was worshipped by many monks, and it was because of this incident that Shaoguang in Guangdong became a sacred place of Buddhist culture in the world. Every year, thousands of people pay homage to Huineng's true body. It can be said that Huineng's true body is a symbol, a symbol of Buddhism, a symbol of wisdom, and a symbol of all things in the world, and it is only natural that he is worshipped by people, and his contribution to the spread of Buddhism cannot be described in words alone.
Huineng's true body is now constantly being protected, because this is the need to build a harmonious world and an inevitable requirement for inheriting, developing, and promoting Chinese culture. This is a kind of human civilization, we say that a city has a city landmark, civilization has a civilization landmark, the Six Ancestors Master's Vajrayogini body is a symbol of buddhist wisdom immortality, a symbol of Buddhist truth, and a sign of the positive energy of the rejuvenation of Chinese national culture.