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Traditional Culture of Guiyuan Temple in Ancient Chang 'an

Form: Sit facing people, lean forward slightly, put your left hand on your knee, press your handprint with your right hand, with heavy eyebrows and big eyes, strong posture, compassionate expression and a slight smile.

Poetry: The disaster is caused by negligence, but when it is about to succeed, it fails because it does not pay attention to details. If God wants you to shoulder heavy responsibilities, then you should encourage yourself and never give up. .

500 arhats and 292 statues

Huai Su (634-707) was a man who respected Tibetan laws. Monks in the Tang Dynasty. Jingzhao (Xi 'an, Shaanxi) is a native. The common surname is Fan.

The venerable person "is only good at Puni (Dharma) and good at all houses (Tibet)" is smart and generous since childhood. At the age of twelve, Xuanzang became a monk, specializing in Confucian classics. After being ordained, he learned the "four-part method of banknote law". After the transfer method, disciple Daocheng learned to divide into four parts. Sigh that the ancients' benevolence and righteousness failed to fly out, and find another way to express their opinions. On this basis, they wrote a 20-volume "Introduction to Four Laws", which corrected the old mistakes and summarized them as sixteen mistakes, instead of getting married. At that time, people called it "new thinning" to distinguish it from the quartering method. The new theory put forward by the venerable nature is called the East Pagoda Method, which is divided into three types: Taoism and Legalism. His theory is very popular in the four districts and the northwest, and there are many disciples. He first lived in Hongji Temple in Chang 'an, and in the third year of Shang Yuan (656), he was ordered to live in Xitaiyuan Temple, giving lectures and gathering many scholars. Later, in the first year of Jinglong, he was silent and lived for 74 years. He is the author of Narration, Religious Narration, Four-point Narration of Monks, and Monks' Abstinence from Kun, etc.