Luo Busheng was born on the third day of the eleventh lunar month in 1914 in Xiaoshan Village, Huna County, Qinghai Province. This village is located at the northeastern end of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, connected to the southwest foothills of the Qilian Mountains, more than 30 kilometers away from Xining, with little alpine land, and people mainly live on animal husbandry.
Robson's father was a loyal and industrious Tibetan herdsman, and his mother was a brother and sister of the sixth Zhangjiahutuktu. When Robson was three years old, he was chosen as a reincarnated spirit child by the Temple of Sui Nai Moqi. Of course, this pair of three-year-old children has nothing to touch, but their parents are full of joy and anxiety, happy that there is a reincarnated living Buddha in the family, worried that the flesh and blood relatives are about to disperse, who knows what will happen to him in the future.
The Naimoqi Temple, located in the north of Guisui City, two miles from Xili Tuzhao and Dazhao, is a small Yellow Sect temple built in the late Kangxi Dynasty, with more than 30 lamas at that time. When Rob Sheng was five years old, the temple submitted a newspaper to the Mongolian and Tibetan Academy for approval, and three lamas headed by Batuna Sheng were specially sent to the small mountain village of Huna County, Qinghai, with gifts such as Hada, coral rosary beads, and silk satin, to invite Rob Sheng back to the Naimoqi Temple to be trained as a juvenile "Hubilhan".
After entering the monastery, he received the Shami ordination and bhikkhu ordination in front of the statue of Shakyamuni Buddha. The great lama of the monastery was very concerned about him and took care of his living, eating and drinking. After a few days, according to the instructions of Zhangjia Hutuktu, the great lama of the Naimoqi Temple decided to send Rob Sheng to the Qinghai Hunah Sileku Temple to study. According to the temple rules, during the period of study, strict precepts should be adhered to, the study of the scriptures should follow the order, and the discipline of the monastery organization should be emphasized. This is undoubtedly a bit harsh for a five-year-old. Little Robson felt miserable, and the Khenpo Lama was very strict, so he had to follow suit.
Four years later, Robson was able to read through Tibetan textbooks, so he began to study the Dulebu, Lingbumu, The Precepts, and the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra, which was concise and easy to recite, widely circulated, easy to recite, but there were many places that were not understood. In addition, every morning, noon and evening, we will prostrate ourselves to the statue of Maitreya Buddha and pray with incense. When praying, the fingers flick the rosary beads on the necklace and keep chanting the six-word mantra. All afternoon and afternoon, sit quietly and recite scriptures. Every year in the first month, April, and October, three temple-wide festivals are attended, and all the lamas and disciples participate. Before and after the menstrual meeting, it is necessary to turn the prayer wheel outside the temple like a wooden barrel, and the prayer wheel should be written on the outside of the prayer wheel, and the six-character mantra of Ma, Ya, Mi, and Mo should be written on the outside of the prayer wheel, and the Yellow Sect classic scrolls should be filled inside. Turning this wheel of chanting means that the sutra will be recited, equal merit.
In the summer of his tenth year (1923), Robson and his master arrived at the Taal Monastery in Rushar, Huangzhong County. This is the second large lamaist monastery after the Potala Palace in Tibet, built in honor of Tsongkhapa, the founder of the Yellow Sect, and is called "Gongben" in Tibetan, which means 100,000 Buddha statues. Tsongkhapa's real name is Lobsang Zappa, a Native of Huangzhong, known in Tibetan as "Dzongkha", so called Tsongkhapa, and it is said that his father was "Daru Huachi" at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. Master told the story of Tsongkhapa and Thar Monastery:
In the Nanchuan area on the shore of the Huangshui River in Qinghai, a Tibetan baby was born, named Lobsang Zaba. After he became an adult, he studied the Buddhist scriptures assiduously, and traveled to Tibet and India, where he achieved great achievements. At that time, Lamaism was the prevalence of red religion, believers wore red clothes and red hats, could grow their hair, marry wives, and use mantras as their creeds to call the wind and rain, and their end flowed into adulterous illusions, and the canons were abolished. Seeing the ills of red buddhism, Rosanzapa advocated the reform of lamaism. He formulated a series of pure rules and precepts, rejected magic, forbade taking wives, and practiced asceticism from Shang, forming a new Yellow Sect (Gelug school). After he became famous, people called him Tsongkhapa, which means "Huangshui ren" in Tibetan. Tsongkhapa had many famous disciples, such as Helabudji, Zaraseb, etc. After his death, these two disciples were reborn as "Hubilhan" (incarnations) and passed on their mantle, which became the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama. Tsongkhapa gradually changed from a man to a god and was enshrined, and his birthplace became a holy place for Lamaism, and stupas were built, and the Great Golden Watta Temple, the Little Golden Watta Temple, and the Large and Small Scripture Halls were built as the Taal Monastery.
Over the past 300 years, not only pilgrims from Qinghai, Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Sichuan and other places have been pouring in an endless stream, but also many Buddhists from many Asian countries such as Nepal, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, and Japan have often come to study Buddhist scriptures. During the Kangxi and Qianlong dynasties, there were 3600 lamas.
When Rob Sheng and Master came to the Great Golden Wa Temple, they saw many trees growing two or three feet high, which were different from the poplars common in Qinghai, with curved trunks, oval leaves, and slender front ends. The master told him it was a Bodhi tree. It is said that Buddha Shakyamuni walked alone to a Bipa luo tree, laid out auspicious grass, sat cross-legged toward the east, and swore, "If I were not to be in the heavens today, I would rather let this body shatter than be able to bear this seat." In this way, he pondered the path to liberation under the tree, and finally in one night, he overcame the last obstacle of trouble, attained enlightenment, and became a Buddha. Since then, this place has been called Bodhi Field, and the tree has been called Bodhi Tree. Bodhi means "enlightened" in the Buddhist language. Robson listened very well, and from then on his young mind was imprinted with the glorious images of Tsongkhapa and The Buddha. Master asked him to touch the Bodhi tree, and then asked him to pick up a few leaves, saying, "In this way, the Buddha's light can shine and achieve infinite happiness." They walked into the hall of the Great Golden Watta Monastery ("Selton" in Tibetan), and there was a large golden Buddha statue in front of it, with a radiant and serene look, and several small Buddha statues on either side. In front of the Buddha statue is a long incense case, on which are rows of gold and silver butter lamps of different sizes, and are engraved with very exquisite patterns. The ghee flames are bright, the Buddha incense is high, the cigarette smoke is pouring, and it is slowly rising, and Rob Sheng feels that the soul is also going to float up. Turning to the back of the Buddha statue, there is a stupa that is more than a foot high, solemn and solemn. Master said that this was the tomb of Tsongkhapa, which contained his ashes, the earliest building of the Taal Monastery. Then, they entered the large prayer hall where the living Buddha Lama preached, there was a tall bronze gilded Buddha statue, on the right was a seat specially set up for the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama, and the three-foot-high pillars in the hall were all wrapped in tapestries, and the tapestries were full of colorful embroidery and three-dimensional "pile embroidery", on which were painted Buddhist story figures, vivid.
When they arrived at the Little Kinwa Monastery, the two masters and apprentices raised their hands above their heads in front of the statue of Tsongkhapa, and then slowly fell to their chests, and then their hands reached forward and their whole bodies fell to the floor. Robson saw two long deep grooves grinding out of the floor. After prostrating the "long head", they walked outside, and the four corners of the temple cornices were slowly swinging, and the sound of clanging was incessant.
After turning to the Taal Temple, they went up the tree-lined Lotus Mountain, overlooking the temple, the prayer hall, the stupa, and the monk's house, which had a different flavor. After staying at the Taal Monastery for a few days, Robson's master invited several lama friends and led Rob Sheng to Huangyuan Sun Moon Mountain. Up to the top of the mountain, to the east is Huangshui, barley fields, to the west is the lofty mountains, a green vast grassland, Huangyuan Sun Moon Mountain is worthy of the throat of the sea. A great lama told the legend of Sun Moon Mountain: Princess Wencheng of the Tang Dynasty accepted the marriage contract of the Tibetan prince Songtsen Gampo, married from Chang'an in a palanquin, traveled thousands of miles west, and came to this mountain. On this steep and difficult mountain, she saw that the sun was different from Chang'an's, and the moon was also different from Chang'an, causing infinite acacia. Therefore, in order to dispel his daughter's worries, Tang Taizong specially cast a round of golden sun and a round of golden moon to send to this mountain. On the twentieth day of the same year, Rob Sheng completed his study period at the Temple of Sileku, bid farewell to his master and brothers, and returned home.
By this time he was already a "Hubil khan" who had studied the scriptures for six years. He spent the New Year with his family, and on the fifteenth day of the first month, accompanied by Batu Nasheng and several other lamas, he left home on a camel and went to the Temple of Guisui Nai Moqi.