Tripitaka Master Jnanabaisajya-Mummified Body.
Mar 7, 2010 13:30:36 GMT 1
Post by Shi Da Dao on Mar 7, 2010 13:30:36 GMT 1
The Indian Founder of Pao Lin Monastery.
At the Fa Hsin monastery, Kuang Chou, (Canton City) - the place of the 6th Patriarch's ordination:
'The altar used for the ordination was built in the Sung dynasty by the Indian tripitaka master Gunabhadra (394-468CE) who also set up a stone tablet with an inscription predicting the ordination there of a Bodhisattva in flesh and blood.
In the first year of the T'ien Chien reign (502CE) of the Liang dynasty, another Indian tripitaka master Jnanabhaisajya came by sea from West India with a bodhi tree which he placed by the side of the altar. He also predicted that some 170 years later, a flesh-and-blood Bodhisattva, a true Dharma lord of the transmission of the Buddha mind, would expound the Mahayana under the tree and would liberate an uncountable number of beings.
As for Pao Lin monastery, its construction was decided upon long ago by the Indian triptaka master Jnanabhaisajya who came from India, and who, during his journey from Nan Hai (now Canton City), passed through Ts'ao Ch'i where he drank its water which he found pure and fragrant, He was surprised and told his followers: "This water is exactly the same as that in West India, there must be at its source some place of scenic beauty on which to build a monastery." Then he followed the stream and saw mountains and rivalets encircling one another with wonderfully beautiful peaks. He exclaimed: "It is exactly like the 'Precious Wood' on the mountains in West India." Then he said to the villagers at Ts'ao Hou: "You can build a monastery here; some 170 years later, the unsurpassed Dharma treasure will be expounded here and those who will be enlightened will be as many as the trees of these thickets. It should be called "Pao Lin".
At the time, magistrate Hou Ching Chung of Shao Chou reported the Indian master's prophecy to the emperor who then ordered the monastery to be built and conferred the epitaph "Pao Lin" to it. Thus the building of the Pao Lin monastery began in the third year of the T'ien Chien reign of the Liang dynasty (504CE).'[/i]
Ch'an and Zen Teachings Third Series - By Charles Luk Pages 16-17.
At the Fa Hsin monastery, Kuang Chou, (Canton City) - the place of the 6th Patriarch's ordination:
'The altar used for the ordination was built in the Sung dynasty by the Indian tripitaka master Gunabhadra (394-468CE) who also set up a stone tablet with an inscription predicting the ordination there of a Bodhisattva in flesh and blood.
In the first year of the T'ien Chien reign (502CE) of the Liang dynasty, another Indian tripitaka master Jnanabhaisajya came by sea from West India with a bodhi tree which he placed by the side of the altar. He also predicted that some 170 years later, a flesh-and-blood Bodhisattva, a true Dharma lord of the transmission of the Buddha mind, would expound the Mahayana under the tree and would liberate an uncountable number of beings.
As for Pao Lin monastery, its construction was decided upon long ago by the Indian triptaka master Jnanabhaisajya who came from India, and who, during his journey from Nan Hai (now Canton City), passed through Ts'ao Ch'i where he drank its water which he found pure and fragrant, He was surprised and told his followers: "This water is exactly the same as that in West India, there must be at its source some place of scenic beauty on which to build a monastery." Then he followed the stream and saw mountains and rivalets encircling one another with wonderfully beautiful peaks. He exclaimed: "It is exactly like the 'Precious Wood' on the mountains in West India." Then he said to the villagers at Ts'ao Hou: "You can build a monastery here; some 170 years later, the unsurpassed Dharma treasure will be expounded here and those who will be enlightened will be as many as the trees of these thickets. It should be called "Pao Lin".
At the time, magistrate Hou Ching Chung of Shao Chou reported the Indian master's prophecy to the emperor who then ordered the monastery to be built and conferred the epitaph "Pao Lin" to it. Thus the building of the Pao Lin monastery began in the third year of the T'ien Chien reign of the Liang dynasty (504CE).'[/i]
Ch'an and Zen Teachings Third Series - By Charles Luk Pages 16-17.