Why is it said that Fa Xian is the first person to learn scriptures from the West?

More than 200 years earlier than Tang Seng, there was also the first person in Chinese history to go to the West to learn scriptures, he was the 65-year-old Eastern Jin Dynasty monk Master Faxian. What's even more amazing is that while returning to Nanjing to translate the scriptures, he also wrote China's first travel book "The Story of the Buddha's Country", which describes the mountains, rivers, landforms, and customs of Central Asia, India and the South China Sea at that time.

At the age of sixty-five, Fa Xian finally made up his mind to go to Tianzhu with like-minded friends. Dozens of monks traveled through the northern, western, central and eastern Tianzhu, and experienced hardships and obstacles.

Fa Xian is indeed the first person to learn scriptures in the west, he was born more than 200 years earlier than Tang monks, and after returning from the scriptures in the west, he also wrote "The Story of the Buddha".

Because when the saying went to the West to learn scriptures, Sanzang in the Tang Dynasty had not yet been born, even hundreds of years earlier, and earlier than Kumarosh who came to China to preach during the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Fa Xian Zen Master is more than 200 years earlier than Tang Xuanzang, no matter his experience or contribution, Fa Xian is actually not under Tang Xuanzang

The main reason is that he went overseas to learn scriptures very early, earlier than Kumarosh who came to China to preach during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and earlier than Tang Sanzang, so he has such a title.

The reason why it is said that Fa Fa Xian was the first person to learn scriptures in the West is because he went overseas to learn scriptures very early, hundreds of years earlier than anyone else.

Because he went overseas to learn scriptures very early, not only hundreds of years earlier than the Sanzang monks in the Tang Dynasty, but even earlier than Kumarosh who came to China to preach during the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Because Fa Xian brought back and translated 6 Buddhist scriptures in 24 volumes. And when he found that there were many errors and incompleteness in the existing scriptures, he already had the idea of going to the west to learn the scriptures.

As early as August 411, Fa Xian completed the task of learning from the scriptures and seeking the law, and sat on the merchant ship and returned to the east along the sea. So in fact, he was earlier than Xuanzang.

The main purpose of the four Tang monks and apprentices to go to the west to learn scriptures isSo the question is, why is it said that the purpose of learning scriptures from the West is to spread Buddhist culture?

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First, because the Buddha has been spreading Buddhist culture during his lifetime

Everybody knows,Before the Buddha became a Buddha, he had already begun to travel around the world to spread and learn Buddhist culture, and when the Buddha passed away and became a Buddha, I think he must still want to continue to fulfill his unfulfilled wishes.

In "Journey to the West", on the surface, it seems that Sun Wukong, Sha Seng, and Zhu Bajie were relegated to the mortal world because they violated the rules of heaven. In fact, I think it was Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Seng who were deliberately selected by the Buddha, because the characters of their three wild people are very special, and their personalities are the epitome of the characters in our world.

And the Buddha carefully selected these people for Tang Seng, the main thing is to train Tang Seng, if Tang Seng can make these three personalities of people good, then no matter what kind of people he meets in the future, Tang Seng can do well. On the way to the West Heaven, Tang Seng used his profound knowledge of Buddhism not only to change the personalities of Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Seng, but also to let the countries along the way see the charm of Buddhism.

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2. Buddhist culture prevailed in the Tang Dynasty

The Tang Dynasty was prevalent in Buddhist culture at that time, and the Tang Dynasty wanted to have a deeper understanding of Buddhist cultural knowledge, and higher Buddhist cultural knowledge was only available in Western countriesSo the leaders of the Tang Dynasty selected Tang Seng after many screenings, the purpose was to let him bring back deeper Buddhist books, which coincided with the end of the story of "Journey to the West".

Xuanzang was a monk of the Great Ci'en Temple in Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty. Since he became a monk at the age of 13, he has studied Buddhism seriously. Later, he studied with teachers everywhere, and soon became proficient in the Buddhist scriptures, and was revered as Master Sanzang.

Later, Xuanzang found that there were many errors in the original translated Buddhist scriptures, so he decided to go to Tianzhu to study the Buddhist scriptures.

Neiyin: Let's put it this way, even if Tang Seng stops people to learn scriptures, he will succeed. Because there is the backer of the Buddha behind him.

Spreading the West to the East, and promoting Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty in the East is a strategic decision of the Buddha, which can only succeed and cannot fail. Under this premise, the process of learning scriptures from the four Tang monks and apprentices is nothing more than a game to hide people's eyes, or a show. If you easily obtain the true scriptures, not only the Tang monks and apprentices will not cherish them, but even the people of the Tang Dynasty will not cherish them, so that the effect of the true scriptures in the east will be greatly reduced.

Based on this, the Buddha set up nine hundred and eighty-one difficulties for Tang monks and apprentices, the purpose of which was to make the four of them suffer some hardships, so that they could understand that the true scriptures were not so easy to get, and they needed to go through a lot of hardships to get them, and good things needed to pay a price. The true scriptures that have been obtained through a lot of hardships must be regarded as treasures and extremely pious. In fact, it took 14 years for Tang monks and apprentices to go through countless hurdles before they retrieved the true scriptures, and finally their merits were consummated.

External causes: The success of learning from the scriptures is the result of the unity of the four Tang monks and apprentices and sticking to their original intentions.

The four-person team composed of Tang Seng, Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Seng has gone through vicissitudes in the process of learning scriptures, encountered countless difficulties, dangers and tests, and finally survived, and it can be said that their performance is very good. A team like theirs has been teaming for a long time, encountered many difficulties, and traveled a long distance, which can be called "the world's best"!

In the end, they were able to succeed and successfully complete the task due to the close cooperation, clear division of labor, mutual support, mutual understanding, and unity of the four people. But these qualities alone are not enough, their success is based on the spiritual dimension of not forgetting their original aspirations and sticking to their beliefs. It can be said that the power of faith is the ultimate magic weapon that allows them to persevere until the end until victory, and faith allows them to minimize contradictions and maximize consensus.

Summary: The internal cause of the success of learning the scriptures is the result of the Buddha's internal determination; The external cause is a common belief that unites the team of four into a powerful force.

The ancient "learning from the scriptures" is equivalent to the exchange of modern society, and its main significance is as follows: 1. Promote cultural exchanges;

2. Promote the progress of civilization;

3. Enhance mutual understanding;

4. Promote people-to-people exchanges;

5. Promote business and trade exchanges;

6. Promote economic development;

7. Expand international vision;

Learning scriptures from the west is to represent the return of all things to the place, in exchange for a piece of pure land in the heart.

The Journey to the West refers to the legendary adventure story in "Journey to the West", which describes the legendary adventure story of Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Sha Monk, and Little White Dragon protecting Tang Seng and learning scriptures from the West, and going through nine hundred and eighty-one difficulties.

"Journey to the West" describes the story of the author's imagination, but there are indeed events in history. The founder of the contemporary Yin-Yang School of Easy Identification, Yu Xiang, commented on "Journey to the West": "After all the hardships of the journey to the west, I finally saw that I was strong-willed, and I was willing to be a Bodhi tree and purify all sentient beings." ”

The meaning in Journey to the West is that the success of the Buddha's preaching made animal Buddhism flourish in the Tang Dynasty. Li Shimin can also make his country more consolidated (in fact, he was frightened by Rulai's arrangement and swam around the underworld. ）。

Tang Xuanzang's Western Heaven learned from the scriptures to spread the Tang Dynasty culture and absorb outside knowledge.

In Journey to the West, it is said that Hinayana Buddhism can only cross the living, and Tang Seng takes the Mahayana Buddhism, which can cross both the living and the deceased. After 9981 difficulties and 108,000 miles, it took hardships to achieve positive results!

Hello, only Tang Seng has experienced nine hundred and eighty-one difficulties among the four masters and apprentices, and the meaning of learning scriptures is not to pass the Buddhist scriptures to the southern Ganbu Continent, so that everyone in the Tang Dynasty can believe in Buddhism, what other meaning can there be. The above is mine, a total reference.

The meaning of learning scriptures in the west is that people in the world have gone to study, and you have brought some textbooks and some knowledge

The significance of learning scriptures is to transform the Southern Ganbu Continent and let Mahayana Buddhism spread to the Tang Dynasty, nothing else.