was born on October 26th in the eighteenth year of Guangxu in the Xunqing Dynasty in the home of Huang surnamed in Hui'an County, Fujian Province. Because of a cold family background, his brother had no money to marry a wife. His teacher was four years old. His parents sold him to the Li family outside the south gate of Jinjiang County as an adopted son, his father Li Shu, and his mother Lin Cai. The teacher
has been frail and sick since he was a child, but he has a wise root and follows his mother as a vegetarian. Slightly longer, the adoptive parents passed away one after another, and the land left behind was coveted by close relatives. The teacher feels that the world is impermanent, and the idea of becoming a family suddenly emerges. So he distributed the fields to his close relatives and cast them into a monk at Chengtian Temple in Quanzhou.
The abbot of Chengtian Temple went up and down to the old monk, and ordered his master to convert to the top of asceticism, Master Ruixiafang, and Ruigong ordered the master to perform outpod ministry, such as planting vegetables and weeding. Later, due to special circumstances, he went to Nanyang for several years and returned to Chengtian Temple. He was thirty or six years old. Fang was shaved under the seat of Master Shang Rui Xia Fang. His name was Zhao Jing and the word Guangqin was written. After the teacher became a monk, he devoted himself to cultivating hard work, cannibalize and do not eat, do what others do, often sit and not lie down, and focus on Buddha.
In 1933, I learned from the old monk Miaoyi of Cishou Temple in Nangshan, Putian County, and asked for precepts. He was forty-two. After returning from the precepts, the teacher decided to further cultivate. So I got the consent of the old monk Chen Zhuan, brought simple clothes and more than ten kilograms of rice, went to Qingyuan Mountain in the north of Quanzhou City, and found a rock cave in the middle of the mountain as a safe place. The teacher sits in deep caves in meditation and recites the Buddha. The rice is exhausted, that is, manioc and wild fruits are used to fill the hunger. There are many monkeys and tigers in the mountains. For a long time, humans and animals get along without fear. Then there are apes and monkeys offering fruit and tigers converting. "Teacher"...The elegant name is spread like wildfire.
The teacher often enters Dhamma for a certain number of months without eating, or even having no breath. Everyone mistakenly said that the teacher was dead, and asked the abbot to prepare for cremation. Master Hongyi of Shilvzong, Zhuo Xiyongchun Puji Temple, heard about it, rushed to Chengtian Temple, and then went up to the mountain with the abbot, Zhuan Xiachen, and several others to explore it. Master Fang Xiao was in Dingzhong and was very admired. , Please make a decision.
Fanzi years have passed thirteen years. In 1945 (Yiyou), the teacher went down the mountain and returned to Chengtian Temple. The following autumn, he hung up in Xiamen Nanputuo and lived in the stone cave of Houshan to worship the Buddha. In 1947 (Dinghai), the division year is fifty and six. On June 15th of the lunar calendar, he took the British Airways ferry from Xiamen to Taiwan. Arrived in Keelung at noon on the 16th. Hang up at Shengsi Temple and other places. In early July, go back to Taipei Zhishanyan, and after Mid-Autumn Festival, go to the Japanese-style empty house on the south bank of the Xindian Suspension Bridge. It is often to and from Taipei Fahua Temple, where there are Japanese ghosts at night. Things.
In the spring of 1948 (Wuzi), I drilled a rock cave in the back wall of Xindian Street and named it Guangmingyan (now Guangming Temple). In 1951, he carved "Amitabha Buddha" on the upper right side of the stone wall. "The big stone statue, a stone cave in the lower left (now Tianjun Hall in Guangzhao Temple); the big Buddha niche has a total height of two feet and six feet, a width of one foot and nine feet, and a depth of nine feet. The height of the Buddha is two feet and one foot, and the rosette is eight feet wide and six feet deep. , Three feet high, was the first to open up the Taiwanese stone-cutting Buddhist ethos.
In November 1951 (Xinmao), there was a natural ancient cave on Chengfu Mountain at the junction of the Three Gorges of Tucheng City, Shiwen, and led four people to climb the vines. The result was a large stone cave with a height of more than two feet. It is several feet long and two feet deep. The teacher lives alone in the cave at night, the entrance of the cave faces east, the sun and the moon rise, the light enters the cave, so the teacher is named after the "riyue cave". There is a spring on the top of the cave, and the spring water is clear, and the drink is delicious and refreshing. Since then, the teacher has returned to the life of seclusion, and in May 1952, he began to build three wooden houses outside the cave, with the icon of the "Ksitigarbha" in the middle. The teacher stayed in the mountain for three years, and built another shed on the top of the cave to attract disciples and fellow practitioners. In February 1953, the division went up to the top of the mountain and set up a small shed to live in.
In March 1955 (Yiwei), the believers in Banqiao purchased land for their teachers at Tucheng Volcano in Beixian County, where Chengtian Temple is now located. The place was originally a bamboo forest and was rarely visited. The teacher entered the forest from the path, cut the bamboo about three feet square, and woven the cut bamboo into a bed, covered it with fine grass, and sat on it, saying: “It’s great to sit here, and you can go back.” May In between, a tiled house was built on the ground to enshrine the Buddha. Go back to Guangzhao Temple in Xindian the following year.
At the end of 1958 (Hundred Days), the division returned to the volcano. The following year (Jihai) added a few more huts. In April of 1996 (Gengzi), the Daxiong Hall was built to commemorate the ancestral court, named "Chengtian Temple", and the volcano was named "Qingyuan Mountain". The Three Temples were built in 1962.
in 1963 (Guimao), I was 72 years old, and I was invited by the good faith to live in Tianxiang, Hualien for a few months, and built Xiangde Temple. The position), Xuan responded to the request of the disciples from the central part to go to Nanliao on Longjing Mountain in Taichung to establish Guanglong Temple. One nine six fourIn the year (Jiachen), the division returned to Chengtian Temple in Tucheng. At the end of the year, the mountain gate was built and the hut was converted into a reinforced concrete abbot’s room. The zhai hall and kitchen were built in September 1965. The initial construction of Chengtian Temple carry out.
The brick houses in the early days of Chengtian Temple were built in a hurry. Over time, the foundation collapsed and the walls cracked, so in the spring of 1976, reconstruction began. First, the female squatters in front of the Three Holy Temples were converted into two-story reinforced concrete buildings. In the autumn of the following year, the mountain was opened to prepare the ground, and the old three holy halls, zhaitang, kitchen, Daxiong Hall, male shack, and abbot’s room were demolished. In the spring of 1978, on the original site of the Daxiong Hall, a three-sacred hall and a two-story hut were built. Then, based on the hillside terrain, the Zushitang was built; on the original site of the Zhaitang, a two-story hall and kitchen were rebuilt. The construction of the new hall was started in 1979. In 1983, the foundation of Da Bei Building was laid under the hillside on the right side of the new main hall. Today, the structure of Da Bei Building has been completed.
In 1967, the division created Guangcheng Rock at the right rear of the Tucheng Township Office. In 1978, the Huazang Pagoda was rebuilt on the rock. Later, the Daxiong Hall, the Hatchback Zen House, the basement, the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, the Arhat Hall, the lecture hall and the upper and lower Buddhist temples were also built one after another. Later, the Dizang Hall was turned over to complete the present New look. The construction of Guangchengyan is controlled by Master Chuanbin.
In September 1982 (Renxu), the teacher sent his disciples who had been attending for more than ten years to rumor that the Master went to Baolai Village, Liugui Township, Kaohsiung County, to establish "Miaotong Temple." So far, the Daxiong Hall, the Wuguan Hall, the Hall of Ninth Buddha, and the women's hut have been completed, and the "Lingshan Pagoda", which is about to provide the spiritual bones of the teacher, is also under construction.
In July 1984, the teacher moved to Xiqai Monastery, and in October 1985, he taught the three altars of the precepts, the four disciples of asking for precepts, as many as thousands, and the establishment of the water and land Dafa conference. All beings, the grand occasion is unprecedented.
The teacher’s life is simple, easy-going, and modest. He is nearly a hundred years old. He does not need a stick or people to walk. He is light and healthy and has agile movements. When he lives, he often sits or not, and sometimes sits outdoors, in the open air, or under the eaves. . The food was changed to liquid since the age of 78.
At the end of 1985, the teacher was anxious to return to the north under the name of seeing the Great Compassion Building of Chengtian Temple. On December 25th of the lunar calendar, Master Chuanhui went south, and on the 26th, he welcomed the teacher back. Tiansi, the four people in the north were all swarming when they heard the news. In the early morning of the first month of the following year, the teacher gathered the responsible disciples from each branch and the public of Chengtian Temple and ordered them one by one, saying that they would be cremated after passing away, and their spirit bones were offered to Chengtian. Temple, Guangchengyan, and Miaotong Temple. After early fasting, they signaled that they wanted to return to Miaotong Temple, and the people thought that the teacher's intention was strong, and they did not dare to stay, they sent the teacher south. After the teacher
arrived at Miaotong Temple, he chanted the Buddha day and night, sometimes hitting wooden fish himself and asked his disciples to recite the Buddha together. On the fifth day, the teacher looked clear, calm and serene. There is nothing unusual. At around 2 o'clock in the afternoon, he suddenly told the audience that there was no coming nor going, nothing happened, and he nodded and smiled to the disciples, sitting and closing their eyes. After a short while, everyone saw that the teacher did not move, and moved forward to observe carefully, knowing that the teacher was already chanting Buddha, and passed away peacefully.
The whole life of a comprehensive teacher is poverty and loneliness, perseverance and simplicity, the budding of wisdom, the hard work, and the complete enlightenment. Crossing the sea and coming to Taiwan, the meditation sun twice, animals and animals are tamed, and Zen Yue is used instead of fire food. For half a lifetime, it shows the model of practice and practices the regular principles of Tutuo's asceticism, which is worthy of praise with Gude. It is a pity that all beings are blessed, and it is a sudden silence. I hope that I will not give up my compassion and wisdom, and then drive the compassionate flight, broaden the fascination, lead back to the pure land, and become the supreme bodhi, and those who pray and pray with infinite fragrance.
Chengtian Zen Temple, Guangqin old monk Passing Passion Commendation Committee February 28, 1986
