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In 828, the second year of Tang Dynasty, Guanghui Zen master built Caoyan Temple on Caoyan Mountain. This temple is the earliest Buddhist temple in Heiwa Prefecture, 17 years before Sampei-ji Temple. Guanghui Zen Master, where is the person? Where did it come from? Who did he study under? And why did you come here to build Caoyan Temple? All the doubts can not find the relevant records, but from his legal name and the act of building the Yuangongtai, it can be inferred that he was a devout disciple who both admired Yuangong and a practitioner who regarded Yuangong as his lifelong cultivation benchmark.
Yuan Gong (遠公), also known as Hui Yuan (334-416), was a high monk of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He was eager to learn, bo comprehensive six classics, Youshan Laozhuang, after learning from Dao'an ordained, and then chose Bu to live in Lushan for more than thirty years, not leaving the mountain. In this study of the Pure Land Voidness, he was revered by posterity as the first ancestor of the Pure Land Sect because of his vigorous promotion of the Pure Land Dharma. Guanghui Zen master should have deeply read the collection of Huiyuan Zen masters, sighed with emotion, hated himself for not being born at the right time, failed to see Huiyuan in person and left regrets in vain, but in his heart he admired his transcendent cultivation, in order to realize his long-cherished wish, he chose a place similar to the environment of Lushan Yuangongtai——— Caoyan Mountain, built Caoyan Temple, named himself Guanghui, Xiuyuan Gongtai as his zen room, and did not go out of Caoyan Mountain Gate for life to show respect for Yuangong!
The Yuangongtai and the Zen Room are connected together, separated by a small winding path about one and a half meters wide, which looks like a five-crowned Buddha (Pilu hat) from a distance, but looks like a connection between heaven, earth and people at close range. Yuangongtai pointed directly at the Tianhe River, but the Zen room sat quietly on the earth like an earthly peach orchard, and during this period it also accepted many ordinary people. The Zen room is a stone cave composed of a natural boulder, which can accommodate more than 100 monks to meditate; the Zen room opens a middle gate and two side households, out of the middle door can climb the far public platform, out of the side of the house can directly lead to the back mountain rock group cave; the middle door and the side corner have spring water flowing down from the mountain from the bottom of the cave, for the monks to drink. The two windows to the caves in the rock group on the mountain can be used as ventilation and gas gathering. Sitting in the cave, you can hear the sound of the tinkling spring water, like a natural accompaniment to the monks chanting. Immersive, you can make people unconsciously produce a lot of thoughts! The stone cave is still the same cave more than a thousand years ago, but I can no longer see the scene of the monks in the past chanting the sutras and chanting the Buddha here with Guanghui Zen Master... After a thousand years of washing, the cave door is still open, the cave is still open, and the spring water is still flowing under the cave... But around the cave, there were already vines and grasses, and only the many birds in the mountain were still singing so softly, as if to tell people that the sound of the Buddha for a thousand years was still passing on! Zen Master Guanghui chose to live here, to die here, and it is not known what mysteries there are. If you want to unravel the lineage of the Zen master and the detailed history of CaoYan Temple, you may not be able to really reveal it until you have the opportunity to see the golden body or relic of Zen master Guanghui. Can it be inferred that the golden body or relics of Guanghui Zen master should be stored in the rock group caves on the mountain behind the Zen room? I hope that the day when I have the opportunity to see the true Buddha can come soon!
Original author; mountain man miscellaneous