How powerful were the yin and yang masters in medieval Japan?

In Japan's Middle Ages, the powerful among the yin and yang masters claimed to be able to manipulate ghosts and gods with incantations. In the first year of the Emperor's reign, there was a great drought throughout Japan, and the minister Su-me Ezo was busy with it. Emperor Huangji ordered to turn in each temple to read the Mahayana Wonderful Code, repentance will be, to the temple gate to worship the Three Jewels, the Prince, the kings, the group of ministers each degree a person, in the great fasting meeting, forbidden to eat cattle, horses, chickens, and dogs of meat.

In his later years, Emperor Tenmu issued an edict to the kingdoms: "Every family builds a Buddhist house, puts a statue of the Buddha and sutra scrolls, worships and makes offerings, and the six fasts of the month begin." Probably in the Tenmu dynasty, Buddhist temples and monks and nuns already had such a practice. After the construction of Yakushiji Temple, Emperor Cormorantzara recovered from her illness. As a result, she made offerings to a hundred monks and then assisted Emperor Tenmu in his devotion to Buddhism.

After the death of Emperor Tenmu, Empress Komono-sannyo wore the Emperor's clothes, sewed robes, and donated them to 300 monks, who then made seirei (refined rice) at the time of the funeral ceremony. Seirin is a meal in which no fish or meat is used. This was the beginning of vegetarianism at funerals. The Imperial Daughter Cormoranto Zangara opened the Mukyokai in Okun, Hidetori, Kawahara, Kogenta, Toyoura, and Sakata. These were all large temples near Hidetori Shrine.

Hidori-ji is Genheiji, also known as Jodoji. Kawahara Temple was in Emperor Tenno's Kawabe Palace in Saito. During Emperor Tenmu's death, ministers from the Prince down came to this temple to pray for Emperor Tenmu's recovery. Toyoura-ji Temple in Kogenta was originally a Mukaihara dojo built by Suga Inami and became a governmental temple during the reign of Emperor Pushko. Sakata-ji Temple was originally built by Simata and others to promote Buddhism.

In addition, after the death of Emperor Tenmu, the imperial court also granted hinokuma-ji, daiwa-ji, karu-ji, and juso-ji fiefs. Although there were already many Buddhist temples of various sizes in the vicinity of Hidetsukyo, during the reign of Emperor Jotsu, the imperial court further promoted Buddhism by giving alms to the Shamen of Anjou, giving 100 copies of the Golden Light Sutra to the various countries, spreading Buddhism all the way to Osumi Ado, inviting the castle-raised Ezo Ezo Shamen Sharikunanmaro and Tetsuzaku of Ruio to serve as Shamen, and bestowing the statue of the Buddha upon the Ezo Ezo Shamen Dosshin.

In the second year of the Sangha's introduction to Japan, Emperor Bunmu appointed the monk Eshi to be the Sangsho, Jiben to be the Shoin-du, and Zengyo to be the Lawyer. These positions were supposed to be commanders of the monks and nuns and advisors to the great government. At first, Emperor Tenmu's monk, Jitsu, entered the Tang Dynasty during the Qiming Dynasty and returned home after studying the Dharma Sect with Xuanzang. Jitsu promoted the Dharma Sect in Japan.

The Tang monk Daorong prayed for rain several times and composed hymns. During the Tien Wu dynasty, Dao Rong was still alive. Afterwards, the monk Yiyuan went to Tang and got the secret of Dharma Sangha under Zhi Zhou and preached Dharma Sangha greatly after he returned to his home country. In December of the second year of Emperor Bunmu's reign, Emperor Bunmu rewarded Yoshihiro's learning by giving him 10,000 bunches of rice. In the third year of Dabao, Emperor Bunmu appointed Yoshifuchi as the head monk. In this way, the Dharma Sect was vigorously promoted.

The monk Michisho was the son of Funari Keishaku, a native of Danbi-gun, Kawachi Province. In the fourth year of the White Pheasant Period, after becoming a monk, Daozhao accompanied a Tang envoy to Chang'an and also studied Dharma-characterization with Xuanzang. Xuanzang appreciated Daozhao very much and said to him, "When I was going to the Western Regions, I was halfway hungry and had no villages to eat, but suddenly a monk handed me a pear in his hand, and after I ate it, my strength increased day by day.

Thou art he who holds the pear of the salmon." Xuanzang also taught, "The tenets of the sutras are so profound and subtle that it is impossible to fully exhaust them; learn Zen and propagate it in Eastern Japan." So, Daozhao studied Zen meditation, and at first realized a little more. When Daozhao returned home, Xuanzang took out the relics, sutras, instructed "good to promote" and then awarded to Daozhao. Daozhao thanked and cried goodbye. After returning to China, Dao Zhao in the Yuanxing Temple in the corner of the Zen garden and live.

Thereafter, there were many Zen students. Later, Daozhao traveled all over the world, drilling wells by the roadside and building bridges and boats in various ports, which provided a lot of convenience for people. He traveled for more than twelve years. After being summoned to the temple by Emperor Jitsu, Dojo returned to Wonheiji and stayed in the original Zen garden. In March of the fourth year of Emperor Bunmu's reign, Daozhao passed away at the age of seventy-two. Emperor Bunmu sent an envoy to pay his respects, and by his last order, he was cremated in Kurihara.

The cremation began at this time. Two years later, in the second year of the Dabo era, Emperor Jitsu died. In the third year of the Daiho era, Emperor Bunmu cremated Emperor Jotsu at Hidorigaoka in accordance with Emperor Jotsu's last decree, and cremation became the customary practice after that. According to the Nihonshoki, the construction of Uji Bridge by Michiaki was actually a mistake by Doden. The "Bridge Stone Inscription" states, "There was a scholar named Doden, from the house of Yamajiri Emitsugu, who constructed this bridge in the year of the second year of the Daiwa era, in the year of the Propaganda, to help people and animals."

It is said that the bridge stone of Uji Bridge still exists in Uji Tsunemitsuji Temple. According to the Nihon Reiki, "Doden, a Goryeo student, was a monk of Wonhyoji Temple and came from the family of Yamabe Eiman. He built the Uji Bridge in the second year of Daehwa. When he traveled to and from Nara, there were skeletons in a mountain stream in Nara, and when he saw them being trodden on by people and animals, he mourned them. Doden asked his follower, Manabu, to place the skeleton on a tree. On December 30th of that year, someone came to the temple gate and met Wanlou, saying that although he had been blessed by Daitoku's kindness, he would not have been able to repay his kindness if not for this night.

The man accompanied Wanlou to his home. The first thing I did was to go into the house and set up a lot of food and drink*** food. To the night after the night, Wan couple suddenly heard a male voice: 'kill my brother to come, quickly go.' Wanlou felt strange and asked, the man said: 'I once went to trade with my brother, I got forty pieces of silver, my brother was jealous and killed me to get the silver. My brother was jealous and killed me to get the silver. People and animals stepped on my head, but the Great Virtue let me out of my misery, so I am repaying him this night.

At this time the man's mother and eldest son *** worshiped the spirits. Wanlou came in. They were astonished and asked Wanlou the reason for his coming. Wanlou told them in detail what had happened before. The mother scolded the eldest son: 'Woo-hoo, you killed my beloved son, and there is no other thief.' The mother scolded her eldest son: 'Woe to you for killing my beloved son and no other thief. Wanlou came back and told this to the master. The master said that the white bones of the dead spirit are still like this, let alone the living, how can they forget their kindness." This would have belonged to a spiritual account.

The Japanese Spiritual Record was compiled in the middle of the Hirohito year by the Nara Shamen, Jing Jing, and was recorded as an anecdote of Doden. Xuanzang went to Tianzhu and embraced the Dharma Sect. The Dharma Sect is also known as the Sense Only Sect. It was only after Xuanzang's return that he began to propagate the Dharma Sect. Daozhao in order to receive this law into Tang. He was followed by Zhitong and Zhifeng, who propagated the Dharma Sangha. Although Zen Buddhism was a part-time practice of Daozhao, it also began at this time.

At first, the Vimalaya Sutra, which was annotated by Prince Shengde, was one of the sutras of the Dharma Sect. When Nakashen Kamatari was planning the execution of the Suga clan, he made a wish to build a statue of Shakyamuni, which he placed in the Yamakko Tawara Seika, and opened the Vimalaya. Probably because Buddhism is so profound, as Xuanzang said, those who are committed to it are naturally devoted to it. In the fifth year of the Keiyun era, Fujiwara Fubi and others hired a monk, Jiho, as a lecturer at the Tawara Seikyo, and asked Jiho to preside over the seventeen days of the Vimalaya here.

Soon after, the imperial court moved the capital to Nara and moved the Awara Seisakusho to build Kōfukuji Temple. Kōfukuji finally became the great japanese temple of the Hōjō sect. Fangjutsu and Buddhism In Japan, besides Buddhism, there were also Fangjutsu that dominated religious thought. Square arts are very complicated. Japan honors God and reveres Buddha, and believes in the three paths of God, Confucianism and Buddhism. In Confucianism, there are Yi, Yin-Yang, and Wei-Hou. In addition, there is the Taoist arts.

The source, the square art is also mixed with Indian ideas. The Buddhist monks, with their convenience in mind, accepted all the ideas such as the square arts and taught the people. In the secular society, there are many practices, cultivation methods and taboos related to the square arts. There is no explicit record of the origin of the Yin-Yang Tao. During the Chinmyo dynasty, Yiwu was introduced to Japan. In the Pushgu Dynasty, Kanrei introduced the Transported Armor Fangjutsu to Japan.

China has honored the immortals since ancient times. Immortals are the same as Western gods." Xian", as the word implies, refers to a divine practitioner who lived in the mountains and practiced Buddhism. In Japan, there have been immortals, or sages, since the beginning of the spread of Buddhism. One can often find the ruins of their practices deep in the mountains. In many cases, the fonzies also taught Buddhism. In past years, I climbed up to Rohanji Temple in Wicked Horse Creek, Bongmaeguk County, and found that the temple was built on the basis of a natural grotto.

As early as during the reign of Emperor Chimyeongmyeong, immortals lived here and practiced Buddhism. As the site of the immortal's monastic practice, a bronze Buddha, about eight inches in size, remains in the area. Judging from its workmanship, it should be an ancient object from Tibet or India. It is conceivable that there were many immortals with similar heads, and there are still many ruins of them. In the period of the Fujiwara dynasty, the most famous immortal was the Yakushi.

Among the immortals, the Yakusho was the most psychic, and was known as the ancestor of Shugen-do. A walker is a cultivator, that is, a person who goes into the deep mountains to cultivate. In the third year of Bunmu, the court exiled the Yakushi to Izu. Yakko lived in Mt. Katsuragi and was known for his mantras. In the beginning, Gwangsu of Korea, who was under the fifth person from the foreigners, was a teacher of Yakushi. Later on, the Korean Gwangsu became jealous and falsely accused him of bewitching the people with his sorcery.

The court exiled him. It was rumored that he was good at driving spirits and making them carry water and chop wood. If the spirits did not obey his orders, he would bind them with incantations. According to the Nihonshoki, Yakko is honored as the ancestor of both the Hinayana and Tantric schools of Buddhism. This shows the high status of the Yakushi. In the minds of the believers at that time, there were a lot of spiritual deeds performed by Yakusho.

According to the Ancient Records of the Spiritual World, "Yakuo Yubasai was a member of the Kamo Yakusho clan, a family of the Takakamo courtiers, and a native of the village of Kayabara in Katsumigami Prefecture in the Yamato Kingdom, who was a learned man with a great deal of experience, and who believed in the Three Jewels, and who made a career out of it." Among the lay people who believed in Buddhism, the men were called Upasai and the women were called Upasai. Then the Ancient Transmission of the Spiritual Records writes: "The servitor absorbed the qi of nourishment and, after thirty years of age, turned to live in the rocky grottoes, wearing kudzu and eating pine, bathing in the water of the clear springs, cleansing themselves of the dirt of the mundane world, practicing the peacock incantation, confirming strange experimental techniques, and driving the ghosts and gods to be at ease."

In other words, the practitioner practiced what was known in China from the weekend to the beginning of the Han Dynasty, and the practitioner also studied the Peacock King Mantra of India, which was used to drive away demons and gods and allowed him to be free. Generally speaking, in the Middle Ages in Japan, when it came to immortals, people imagined that they lived in the mountains, flew freely, and appeared as gods. The powerful ones among the immortals were claimed to be able to manipulate ghosts and gods with incantations.