(One Daily "Chinese Cultural Historic Sites" Issue 1134) We mentioned in the previous issue that Monk Zhaozhou left his last 11 words before his death-"There is no tomb after the death, only Tapi is enough." . In other words, Monk Zhaozhou hopes that everything will be simplified after death. The people are already suffering. Don't waste manpower, material and financial resources to build the tomb tower for him. Just Tubi-burn it in one go.
(Tower of Zhaozhou National Teacher, taken at Berlin Temple in Zhaozhou in the 1920s. Photo copyright of this agency)
Although Zhaozhou’s last wish is based on the compassion of the Buddha, it is due to the prestige of Zhaozhou It was too high. After he passed away, he alarmed King Zhao and built a tomb tower for him. According to "Chinese Cultural Historic Sites" in 1941 ("Atlas of Famous Places in China in the Late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China" by our agency), at the age of eighty, (the monk of Zhaozhou) began to practice materialization in Zhaojun and practiced the way of meditation. The Wang clan was really determined to be handsome, resisting the imperial order, but he turned his mind to the monk Zhaozhou. When the monk Zhaozhou finally sat down, he handed over the scorpion to the Wang clan, saying that "the old monk can never use everything in his life." Whatever is promoted, it is passed down to the world, and it is called Zhaozhou Fadao. The "Quotations from the Monk of Zhaozhou" is a big hit and is precious to the world. The monk preached at the age of 80, and fell silent at the age of 120. King Zhao built the wild goose pagoda and erected a monument, posthumously known as the "Pagoda of Zhenji Zen Master Guangzu".
What does this tomb tower look like? According to the 1941 "Chinese Cultural Historic Sites" ("Atlas of Famous Places and Historic Sites in China in the Late Qing and Republic of China" by our agency), above the bottom entrance of the big brick pagoda of Berlin Temple, the title is "Special gift to the ancient Buddha of Zhaozhou in the Great Yuan Dynasty. ". This tower is obviously a building in the Yuan Dynasty, but I am afraid that it has been repaired several times in later generations. In the construction of the brick tower, a double-layer square altar was built first, with an octagonal base on the base, and the base was extremely ornately carved, and then a lotus platform was built on it, and a seven-story brick tower was erected on the lotus platform. The height of the bottom of the brick tower is the highest, and the height of the second and above floors suddenly decreases. The more it rises, the narrower the tower. Each floor of the brick tower is built with a middle arch supporting the double penthouses, and the whole building is brick structure. On the top of the tower, there is a phase wheel. The phase wheel is pointed at two ends and large in the middle, similar to the wooden pagoda of Tianning Temple.
Thank you for your impetuous headlines and attention to our unpopular academic articles on cultural relics (in order to adapt to the amount of Internet reading,I had to bow my head slightly to the headline party, and the reading volume may be single digits too serious. We have done more than 1,000 issues). Wish you gain, Daan.
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