Sitting on the ground.
Li Xuanba waited for a while and blinked. Is this over? Why didn’t he continue asking?
Xuanzang was still very quiet.
Li Xuanba couldn’t hold it in his own way and asked, “Don’t you ask about your future?”
Xuanzang said, “Practitioners are united in knowledge and action. I either succeeded in traveling west and created my own Taoist dynasty; or I died on the way to travel west and had nothing to ask.”
It was Li Xuanba’s turn to be silent.
After a while, he sighed: “It is indeed the unity of knowledge and action.”
Next, Li Xuanba put away the arrogance of the time traveler and sincerely asked the young master for Buddhist knowledge.
He only had a little understanding of religious knowledge when he was an online store partner, so as to make customers happy. Even if Xuanzang is less than twenty years old now, it is too simple in front of Xuanzang.
However, the Han Buddhist schools were gradually formed since the Tang Dynasty. Now Buddhism is still in the early stage of localization. Schools such as Zen and Pure Land Buddhism were all established by the Tang people, so some of Li Xuanba’s Buddhist theories also inspired Xuanzang.
Religion is also philosophy.
Buddhism attaches importance to debate and logic. If a debate fails in the Buddhist aspiration, it is not just about admitting defeat. Even changing the party is a trivial matter. If a formal debate loses, it will be a slash. Central Plains Buddhism does not have this harsh environment, but after inheriting the tradition of Buddhism, it also attaches great importance to speech.
A cold knowledge, from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Yuan Dynasty, presided over several Buddhist debates, and all of them were great victory in Buddhism.
There is also a cold knowledge, Taoism and Taoism are different. Taoism regards Huang Lao as his ancestor, which means Li Tang respects Lao Lao as his ancestor.
The Taoist classics before the Southern and Northern Dynasties were either teaching people how to rebel (crossed off) to support the country, or how to refine elixirs. The one who is very good at debate is the Taoist in various schools of thought. Only after being beaten by Buddhism did Taoism attach importance to logical debate and classical repair.
The allusion of “Laozi’s transformation into Hu” commonly used in later online literature is that Wang Fu, a Taoist scholar in the Western Jin Dynasty, and the monk Bo Yuan, repeatedly lost, wrote the “Laozi’s transformation into Hu Sutra”, claiming that if Laozi was a Buddha, he wanted to reconcile with Buddhists.
Buddhists say that reconciliation is OK, but Lao Tzu can be a Buddha, but Lao Tzu is a disciple of the Buddha.
“Laozi’s Sutra to Hu Jing” was added all the way by later Taoists as they escalated with the verbal war with Buddhists. Volume 10 “Laozi’s Sutra to Hu Jing” is already a work of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
Buddhists use their strength to fight and follow the “Laozi’s Hu Sutra” to recognize Lao Tzu’s position as a god in Buddhism, saying that Lao Tzu was reincarnated in the East to preach, but instead took advantage of the east wind sent by Taoism to gain a foothold in Taoism. There is a detailed description in “Hongming Collection”.
When Li Xuanba and Xuanzang talked about the dispute over Buddhism and Taoism, Xuanzang’s eyes were full of contempt, and he acted as if Taoists were defeated by his subordinates.The spirit of Li Xuanba made him laugh in his heart.
He knew why Xuanzang went all the way to debate while traveling west, which made the Western monks’ heads roll. This master is really proud.
However, when Li Xuanba and Xuanzang talked about the dispute between Confucianism and Buddhism, Xuanzang shut up and just agreed.
Li Xuanba felt even harder to hold back her smile.
After Taoism lost the debate with Buddhism, Confucianism originally ignored the matter between these two little shrimps, but Buddhism is a religious rule in the West, and now it also wants to intervene in the court.
Confucianism is full of question marks.
I, a Confucian disciple, emerged from all schools of thought, and the sages are open and tolerant. Your Buddhist philosophy is very interesting. I allow you to integrate into the sages. Are you not enough, and you want to rob the master? !
So Confucian disciples rolled up their sleeves and ended up, and Buddhism was full of faith in participating in the debate.
Confucian disciples: “You Buddhist disciples do not follow filial piety when they become monks!”
Buddhist Gangbalabala took out a lot of debates.
Confucian disciple: “Your Majesty! Buddhists say that the people of the world will disrespect filial piety!”
The emperor: “Huh?”
Buddhists: “I’m not! I don’t!”