Only the rest of the nunnery, yao ancient teng. ...... Teachers and teachers, all the ages will not fade.
The Japanese monk Shao Yuan (1295-1364), ordained at Tofuku-ji Temple in Japan, later served as the abbot of the Yamanagin danshu Masamune Zen Temple in Japan.
He came to China by merchant ship at the age of thirty-three, in the second year of the Japanese Kaga calendar (1327), studied in China for twenty-one years, and "lived in Shaolin for a long time", and was revered by Chinese monks as "Guyuan Shangren".
That is, in the fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1327), he went to China to learn Zen. First in Fuzhou, then to Tiantai Mountain, Tianmu Mountain, Wutai Mountain to visit famous monks, the second year of the Yuan Tian calendar (1329) to Songshan Shaolin, long stay erzu nunnery. He lived under the Gate of The temple for a long time, first as the secretary of the Shaolin Temple, and then as the first one, and with a cast iron bell such as the temple.
Shao Yuan was proficient in Zen and had a deep knowledge of Chinese, and when he was the first seat, he was invited to write and write a pagoda inscription for the former abbot of the Shaolin Temple. After his death, he was invited to write the "Monument to the Path of the Zen Master of the Zen Temple" for the Zen master of the Temple, and wrote a book for the Ju'an Dharma Pagoda.
Zen master (1284-1340) was commonly known as Li (李), known as Rang (讓公). Zhending (Baoding, Hebei) was born in the 21st year of the Yuan Dynasty (1284). At the age of 13, he was ordained at Huayan Temple in Lizhen Dingfu. He was ordained at the age of 22 and studied in a wandering way. He was appointed to the Longshan Ancient Rock Pu, and then went to the Shaolin Temple of Songshan Mountain, where he served as secretary. In the second year of the Yuan Dynasty (1322), he was 39 years old. Successively abbot Luoyang Tianqing Temple, Bears Ears Mountain Kongxiang Temple, Changqing Lingyan Temple.
Yuan Shun Emperor to the second year of the Yuan Dynasty (1336), 53 years old, abbot Songshan Shaolin Temple, six years (1340), 57 years old, yuan died, the spirit bones were buried in Shaolin and Lingyan Temples respectively. When The Temple was the abbot of the Shaolin Temple, the monk Shao Yuan also held the first monkhood in the Shaolin Temple, and the two formed a deep friendship. Chuan Shaoyuan once learned Shaolin Kung Fu from The Temple.
In 1341, after the death of the abbot of the Shaolin Temple and the Zen master of the Shaolin Temple, Shao Yuan, who had left the Shaolin Temple, was invited by the monks of the Shaolin Temple to write the "Monument to the Practice of the Fifteenth Generation Abbot of the Great Shaolin Zen Temple in Songshan Zuting, Lu Dengfeng County, Henan Province". Shao Yuan once worked with the Zen master of The Temple to build a temple, get along day and night, and take care of the temple affairs together, and with sincere feelings, he compared the virtues and achievements of the Zen master of the Temple with the achievements of the Cao Dong Sect's senior monks Yiqing and Fuyu, and also praised the merits of the abbot during the Shaolin Temple. ...... Teachers and teachers, all the ages will not fade. ”
Shao Yuan also went to the Jingshi Palace as one of the hundred senior monks in the country to participate in the translation of the Great Tibetan Scriptures. Shao Yuan returned to Japan in the seventh year of the Yuan Dynasty (1347). He spent 21 years in China and wrote a strong mark on the history of Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges.
After Shao Yuan returned to Japan, he lived in Kyoto's Daisho-ji Temple, Isoji-ji Temple, Hyogo-ji Temple, and Houn-ji Temple. He is also the heir of the Twin Peaks Sect of Tofuku-ji Temple, and he has passed on the Zen Dharma of the Linji Sect.
On April 11, 1973, after mr. Guo Moruo read the stele, he spoke highly of it, pointing out: "Such a good story is willing to be widely circulated as a model for China and Japan to learn from each other." And the inscription poem reads:
The Stele is Shao Yuanwen, who asked for the Fa to come to Tang And not to let ren.
Willing to be a typical for thousands of generations, the teacher learns from each other and learns from each other.