In the world's impression, monks are all benevolent, have no quarrel with the world, and never kill with their hands. However, when the country was in crisis, the monks also went on a killing spree and intervened to protect their families and protect the country. In Chinese history, there have been two large-scale examples of monks rising up from Rong. When the country is in trouble, do not care about the rules and precepts, take up the sword and gun, and resist foreign enemies.
The first time was during the Ming Dynasty, during the Jiajing period, the southeast region of the Wukou rampant, the then Southern Central Overseer Wan Biao, worried that the soldiers and horses under his command were neglecting the war and could not defeat the Wukou, he asked the abbot of the Shaolin Temple, at first the abbot did not agree, and later received the request of the imperial court and saw the Wukou rampage to hurt innocent people, he agreed to let the warrior monks under him go to help fight against the Wukou and send the best thirty-one disciples to go.
The leader is the famous moon sky monk, the main weapon they use is the gun and stick, and the martial arts are strong, in the face of the main Force of Japan, the Wokou, three or five times to repel them, in some film and television dramas there are many moon sky monks adapted from this, once one person enemy hundred, so that the Japanese Kou smelled frightened.
The most widely spread is the Battle of Baisha Bay, more than a thousand Wokou and more than a hundred monks encountered, under the leadership of the Moon Sky Monk, a hundred monks fought the Wokou abandoned their armor and fled into the wilderness, after the war statistics, the Moon Sky Monk alone killed 70 Wokou. After this lesson, Rikou's behavior in the southeast region also retracted a lot, and Niko's proud Oriental sword skills became vulnerable in front of the martial arts of the Shaolin Temple, dealing a heavy blow to the arrogance of The Kirito. Later, he cooperated with the Qi family army to completely drive the Wokou out of China and defend the motherland.
After all, the monks and soldiers are outsiders, although they have repeatedly performed miraculous feats, they are not greedy for merit and rewards, and the "First Victory of the Monks and Soldiers" says: "The monks and soldiers are brave and brave, and they do not discuss merit at the first level." Therefore, when the Ming Dynasty began to sweep up the Wokou on a large scale, the situation of the anti-Wukou improved. The monks and soldiers silently chose the class teacher, "when the Dao Mo and the gong, but only the silver medal, retreat to the mountain brake."
The second large-scale monks from Rong was during the War of Resistance Against Japan. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in China in 1938, the Wutaishan Temple established an anti-Japanese self-defense force composed of young monks. Taking advantage of their special status and specific circumstances, they actively participated in the anti-Japanese resistance in various forms, and tried every means to rescue the Eighth Route Army and the masses imprisoned by the Japanese army.
A company of monks and soldiers at Mount Wutai
1938 lunar calendar august 16. When the Japanese army attacked the Wutai Mountains, Master Ci Yin, the leader of the Monks' Self-Defense Force, led more than 100 monks' self-defense troops, together with more than 300 people from the Eighth Route Army and the Peasants' Self-Defense Forces, to ambush in the Jingangling and Shegou areas of the Wutai Mountains. The enemy entered the ambush circle, and the Eighth Route Army and the Self-Defense Forces took advantage of the favorable terrain from above, rolled boulders, smashed into the enemy group, plus rifles and grenades, and hit more than 300 Japanese troops to lose their armor and have nowhere to hide. Local people call the monks of Mount Wutai "revolutionary monks." Later, the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region specially organized these monks and monks and established a company called the "Monk Company."
Monk Lian
Several famous temples in Chongqing, Sichuan Province, have details of monks joining the army and congrong. It is understood that during Japan's all-out war of aggression against China, many temples in Chongqing organized monks and soldiers to fight against the Japanese army. In the face of national difficulties and national righteousness, all pure rules and precepts can be ignored for the time being. These monks who participated in the war were many highly respected masters and leaders, witnessed the brutality of the Japanese army, and chose to take up the staff in their hands to protect the innocent people on one side. In 1942, the monks and nuns of Chongqing's Ba County, Master Guangming and Master Haifang, resolutely unloaded their monks and joined the army; in 1943, 14 people from the South Bank Ciyun Monastery participated in the expeditionary army transport team set up by the Nationalist government at that time, and some monks died in foreign countries; in 1944, the monks ci Neng and other monks of the Chongqing Han-Tibetan Catechism (Jinyun Temple) Monastery, and the monks of chongqing Luohan Monastery continued to join the front; in early 1945, the manifest master who came to Chongqing also joined the army and went to India to participate in mechanized troop training, although they did not have time to participate in the battle, but " Monks joining the army" was already big news at the time.
In March 1940, Master Optimism and Chengyi, the abbot of Ciyun Monastery on the south bank of Chongqing, organized the famous Tsz Yun Monastery monk rescue team to rescue the compatriots who were killed in the bombing, and many monks from other places also joined the team. In two years, they saved more than 500 people.
In Shanghai, far to the east, since the Lugou Bridge incident, the "Shanghai Monk Rescue Team" has also been urgently organized. VIII· When the Shanghai War of Resistance broke out, the Shanghai monks' ambulance team went to the front line of Wusong to rescue the wounded in the rain of bullets and bullets from the enemy." According to historical records, the monk ambulance team saved 8273 wounded, sick and refugees in the Songhu War. Newspapers in Shanghai hailed them as "heroic monks" and foreign-language newspapers called them "enemies of the god of war."
The monks paid attention to abstaining from meat, killing, and blood, but in order to save people, the monks were all broken. It can be seen that the Buddha is not in the scriptures, but in the heart. The so-called killing is to protect life, and cutting karma is not killing people, which is the power of true religious belief.