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The incident of destroying the Buddha in the Three Martial Arts and One Sect had a great impact on the development of Buddhism, and the reason for this incident can indeed be said to be that Buddhism moved the royal cake. In these four dynasties, the development of Buddhism was corrupt, the monks did not need to pay any taxes, and they also got some preferential policies, and the monks also had a lot of interests entangled with the world, and the most important thing was that Buddhism at that time affected the thinking of the common people, which greatly shook the emperor's imperial rule, because of the most important political reason, the three martial arts and one sect of Buddha extermination incident occurred.

The Sanwu and one sect exterminated Buddhism and restricted the development of Buddhism by several rulers in ancient times, and the three martial arts refer to Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and Emperor Wuzong of the Tang Dynasty, and Chai Rong of the Later Zhou Dynasty is the one referred to. The period when these four rulers destroyed Buddhism all had a common characteristic, that is, they were all new to the throne, their rule was not yet stable, and Buddhism occupied an absolute dominance in various ideas. This was intolerable to the imperial power, not to mention the fact that the world was still unstable, and in order to maintain their rule, measures were taken to restrict the development of Buddhism.

The political reasons for the destruction of Buddhism by the four rulers were the same, because Buddhist ideas influenced the rule of the imperial power, and the economic reasons were somewhat different. Some of them were due to the prosperity of Buddhism, and there were too many courtyards, which occupied a lot of land, which affected cultivation and agriculture, and hindered the development of agriculture-based productive forces at that time. In some cases, the economic situation of the country deteriorated because young men left their homes in order to evade taxes or enjoy happiness, because the state supported monks at that time.

However, the methods adopted by the three martial arts were too brutal, which made the already unstable rule even more shaky, and on the whole, the incident of the destruction of Buddhism by the three martial arts was negative. Although to some extent, it has promoted the development of other ideas, but in the final analysis, it has done more harm than good.

It was because the momentum of the Buddhist family had surpassed the momentum of the royal family, so it was destroyed.

This is indeed the case, at that time, the Buddhists could be said to have the upper hand of the royal family, so in the end, the Buddhists also caused the disaster of killing.

Because Buddhism prevailed, the royal family was conflicted, so Buddhism was finally destroyed.

Indeed, Buddhism at that time competed for the interests of the royal family, so in the end it ended up like this.

In Chinese history, there were four people who carried out large-scale extermination of Buddhism, collectively known as the Three Martial Sects, namely Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Emperor Wuzong of the Tang Dynasty and Shizong of the Later Zhou Dynasty.

Buddhism has developed rapidly since it was introduced to China, but the reason for the large-scale destruction of Buddhism is not that there is a problem with the faith of Buddhists, and the emperor who destroyed Buddhism did not have a deep hatred for Buddhism itself.

Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and Shizong of the Later Zhou Dynasty were all in an era of war and chaos, and there was the greatest shortage of soldiers and grain and grass; The political situation at the time of Tang Wuzong was relatively stable, but the system of moderation led to a lack of financial revenue.

So it was wealth that brought disaster to the Buddhists, because the emperor was short of money and people. In many cases, behind the lack of people is the lack of taxpayers, which is still equal to a lack of money.

The emperor set his sights on Buddhism because Buddhism held three important things. In times of lack of money and people, these three things can allow the ruler to take the opportunity to redistribute benefits and expand the country's fiscal revenue.

To put it simply, these three things are labor, land, and money.

1. Buddhist monks in Buddhist temples. Each monastery has a large number of young monks who do not work and do not pay taxes.

2. The land of the Buddhist temple. According to tradition, the land owned by the Buddhist temple is exempt from tax, and if the tax burden is too heavy, the peasants are even willing to give the land to the temple, and then give the temple land for a living, and the annual harvest is more than the land they own.

3. Bronze statue of Buddhist temple. After the Han Dynasty, it was stipulated that only ** coinage could be minted, but copper was required to mint money, and there were a large number of bronze statues in Buddhist temples.

The large-scale extermination of Buddha is a big cake for the short-term increase in fiscal revenue.

Taking Tang Wuzong's achievements in destroying Buddhism as an example, after the destruction of Buddhism, 260,000 monks and nuns returned to the laity, and 150,000 slaves and maids hired by the temple returned home, and these 400,000 people became two-tax households (according to the two-tax law formulated by Tang Dezong).

At the same time, * recovered tens of millions of acres of fertile land from the temple, and after the confiscated bronze statues were cast into money, it once led to a large price **.

In all dynasties, many emperors used Buddhism when they lacked income, but the four who destroyed Buddhism were the most powerful.

However, without a healthy and long-term fiscal and taxation system, the destruction of Buddhism will only solve the problem of lack of money and people in a short period of time, and will not be able to achieve reunification and prosperity, nor will it be able to save the fate of going downhill.

The destruction of the Buddha in Huichang refers to the reign of Li Yan of Wuzong of the Tang Dynasty (840-846), which implemented a series of policies of "exterminating the Buddha", culminating in the edict issued in April of the fifth year of Huichang (845), which Buddhists called "Huichang Fa Difficult".

"Three martial arts and one sect" refers to Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty Tuoba Tao, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty Yuwen Yong, Tang Wuzong Li Yan and Later Zhou Shizong Chai Rong. "Three Martial Artists Exterminating Buddha" refers to the collective name of the three events of Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and Emperor Wuzong of the Tang Dynasty. The names or temple numbers of these incumbents all have a martial character.

If you add the destruction of the Buddha during the Later Zhou Shizong, it is collectively called "the misfortune of the three martial arts and one sect". In Chinese history, these emperors once launched an incident to destroy Buddhism, which dealt a great blow to the development of Buddhism in China, so it is called "Dharma Disaster" and "Three Martial Arts and One Sect" in the history of Buddhism.

Buddhism is a foreign religion, the development of Buddhism, to the temple and monks to bring huge economic benefits, plus Buddhist temples often enjoy tax exemption, land, maids, slaves and other privileges, which caused a great concentration of social wealth to Buddhist temples, seriously affected the social and economic development, the Tang Dynasty will Chang extinguish the Buddha said "ten world wealth, and the Buddha has seven or eight." In addition, monks did not produce and did not perform labor, and also had a large number of servants and maidservants, which had a more obvious impact on the social, economic and military affairs in ancient times, when human resources were scarce. The excessive development of the economic power of the monasteries finally aroused the strong dissatisfaction of the secular ruling class, and the behavior of the monks who did not abide by the precepts and occupied the fields and fish and meat accumulated a large number of social contradictions, and when the contradictions were intense, the ruling class solved them through political means.

The difficulty of the so-called "three martial arts and one sect" in the history of Chinese Buddhism is also the result of the intensification of this contradiction and struggle.

After these large-scale extermination campaigns, the two important branches of Chinese Buddhism (Southern Buddhism and Western Buddhism) were severely attacked, and only the Pure Land and Zen Buddhism of the eight schools of Han (Northern Buddhism) still retained great influence. Zen Buddhism has the least to lose in these movements because of its special canon (self-cultivation). Since then, it has quickly become an important sect of Chinese Buddhism, and Tibetan Buddhism, which has since come with the Mongols and Manchus in the Central Plains, is faintly on a par with it.

The Sanwu and one sect exterminated the Buddha incident is an event in ancient Chinese history in which several national rulers took restrictive measures for the development of Buddhism, among which the three martial arts refer to the three emperors with the word martial in their names, namely Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and Emperor Wuzong of the Tang Dynasty, and one sect refers to Chai Rong of Shizong of the Later Zhou Dynasty.

At that time, other schools of Buddhism used a large number of copper tools and Buddha statues, and copper was used for coins at that time, which led to the collapse of the country's finances. In addition, Buddhist monasteries occupy a large amount of land, and do not pay taxes at all, the canons are not strict, there are many lawless monks, and several emperors of the Tang Dynasty at that time began to destroy Buddhism in order to rob the wealth of Buddhism. And Zen Buddhism has strict precepts, rarely occupies land, and there is no messy personnel, so no one goes to Zen Buddhism!

Everything is cause and effect. Master Xuanhua said that because during the Jin Dynasty, the mainland sent troops to the Western Regions to rob a high-ranking monk, whose name was Kumarosh. This is the cause, and the later destruction of the Buddha is the effect.

It is normal to destroy the Buddha, the criminals shave the degree to avoid the crime, some monks are not good people, the monks collect a lot of sesame oil money but do not pay taxes, and the temple also has private land, and fool the peasants, even if it is a fraud of the peasants' land, and do not pay taxes, therefore, the Buddha resists the laws of the country, bullies the people, does not pay taxes, accumulates troops (warrior monks), reduces labor force (farming becomes knocking on wood and fish, does not marry and give birth). All of them are working against the country, who will you destroy if you don't destroy them?

The wheel of history, if the world believes. It's too peaceful. In less than 150 years, the planet will be better. If you don't work, you will fool people. If you want to cross others, you must first save yourself.

If you are lazy to eat, do not produce, and do not pay taxes, it is me and I who will destroy the Buddha.

He was already about to be shaken, and he informed that the emperor was about to run out of food, and you said that he could not destroy them, and as long as religion did not rebel, the rulers generally turned a blind eye.

As long as the foundation of the country is shaken, as long as the interests of the imperial court are shaken, then it can happen at any time.

Because some monks did not abide by the rules and robbed the emperor's favored beauties, they were killed.

The Buddha is born of demons, and the country and the people are harmed. The heat and yellow are thousands of autumns, and they should be extinguished.

Idle people, people who are not engaged in productive labor, pure consumption groups, a group of waste, so they must be destroyed.

As we focus on the emptiness of human life and consider the vastness of prosperity and riches, perhaps we are settling into our own lazy nature (David. Hume). The human heart is deceitful above all things, and wicked to the extreme, who can understand it?

For the sake of laziness, the deceit of the human heart is enough to discern evil things into good deeds, and when a certain thought becomes an excuse for laziness, and makes laziness rampant, it will inevitably lead to the decline of the country, the ruin of the family, and the ruin of the people....According to the Buddhist concept of good and evil, this kind of thinking should be evil because it is extremely detrimental to sentient beings! With a history of more than 2,000 years, it is an indisputable fact that we look at the world.

Buddha, the Tao is not a profession, you can practice there!

At present, the productive forces are highly developed, and less than 1 percent of the population in the United States is engaged in agricultural production, which not only feeds the whole United States, but also exports grain to the whole world.

Thanks to Yuan Longping's modern agricultural technology, we can basically be self-sufficient, but in the hearts of every older generation, there is a painful memory of lack of food.

In ancient times, the cyclical law of Chinese dynasties was based on the ratio of food to population - war, population decline, new dynasty was established, land was enough, population increased, land began to be insufficient, war again, dynasty was destroyed, population was sharply reduced, and a new cycle was entered again.

The essence of this change cannot be changed, but there are always smart emperors such as the three martial artists who see a certain stage of the phenomenon of things and will make some targeted changes. To put it simply, it is to increase the proportion of the agricultural population, reduce the proportion of people supported by the government, let the people who farm more and let the people eat less rice. Not only the three martial arts, but also many dynasties implemented measures such as army reclamation and reducing the expenditure of the administrative team, even if there is no cure for the root cause, it can also delay the aging of the dynasty's life.

Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and Emperor Wuzong of the Tang Dynasty, like Obama, put forward the slogan of change, and the target was Buddhism (Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty even put an end to Taoism).

These guys are so hateful, holding foreign scriptures, gathering a large number of believers, eating and drinking, cheating money and sex, not doing agriculture, and widely occupying the countryside, and also playing a very bad role model. If you don't work yourself, the majority of believers also run to chant, where does all this time come from? Shouldn't they spend their time plowing the land and weaving in the courtyard?

Would the diamonds used in the construction of the stupa be more useful if they were used for water conservancy projects or border facilities?

Is the concept of cutting meat and feeding eagles, hanging the body with iron hooks, peeling the skin of the scriptures, and burning the body to make offerings to the Buddha is incompatible with filial piety, loyalty, courtesy, righteousness, and shame?

How good would it be if their slaves were used to enrich the army?

With these imaginations, Sanwu ordered the destruction of the Buddhist hall, the return of monks and nuns to the laity, the cultivation of those who should be farming, and the weaving of textiles.

Among the three martial arts, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty was the most successful in destroying the Buddha and breaking the road, he transformed the monks and Taoists who accounted for one-tenth of the country's population into farmers carrying hoes and soldiers carrying guns, laying a solid foundation for the enhancement of national strength, and later the Northern Zhou Dynasty successfully destroyed the Northern Qi, and the Sui who inherited the inheritance of the Northern Zhou Dynasty also successfully destroyed Chen, completing the great cause of unification.

Unlike Europe, the Middle East, and Japan, China's historical religious forces could not compete with secular forces, because they could not achieve the unification of secular forces, and the secular rulers of this land lacked universal respect for religious leaders, so they lacked the soil for religious leaders. To put it simply, if the religions had to put forward a leader similar to the pope of Europe, or he would rebel and become a secular ruler, he would be killed like a freak by the secular ruler.

Because Buddhism is not engaged in productive activities, and is very greedy, it occupies a lot of wealth and land, and does not help the state finances at all.

Buddhist temples occupy a large amount of land, and Buddhism is not close to women, which is not conducive to the development of productive forces and the reproduction of population.