Why did Tang Seng become a monk What is Tang Seng s reason for becoming a monk?

Tang Seng: The common family name is Chen, the milk name is Jiangliu, the legal name is Xuanzang, the first monk in the Tang Dynasty, so he is called Tang Seng. When traveling west to learn scriptures, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty Li Shimin gave the Dharma name Sanzang.

Tang Seng was a monk at the age of eighteen and converted to Buddhism, often read at night, studied the Buddhist classics continuously, and had a very high understanding, and at the age of 20, he was named Chinese Buddhism, and was loved by Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. Later, he was secretly selected by the Buddha to go to the west to learn scriptures, and gave three treasures, namely a robe, a nine-ring tin staff, and a golden hoop mantra. Tang Seng is tall, elegant, kind and kind, and has a very high attainment in Buddhist scriptures.

He traveled west to learn the scriptures encountered 9981 difficulties, always infatuated with the help of Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Sha monk, after a lot of hardships, and finally retrieved 35 scriptures from the West Tianleiyin Temple, made great contributions to the promotion of Buddhism, and has been talked about by people so far, not forgetting his historical achievements.

This is the character in **, not a real person, I think you are asking Xuanzang (602-644 664), the famous Sanzang master of the Tang Dynasty, the greatest translator in the history of Chinese Buddhism. Commonly surnamed Chen, whose real name is Yuan, he was born in Luozhou, Luozhou, Henan Province (now the southern border of Yanshi City, Henan Province), and is the founder of the Buddhist Faxiangzong. He is a high monk, a Buddhist scholar and traveler, known as one of the three major translators of Chinese Buddhism and one of the founders of the Enlightenment Sect.

Xuanzang, a monk at an early age, was poor, and his parents died early. He became a monk at the age of 13, and then visited famous Buddhist teachers, and successively learned the "Mahayana Treatise", "Miscellaneous Abhidhamma Theory", "Attainment Theory", "Kusha Theory" and "Great Nirvana Sutra" from Huixiu, Daoshen, Daoyue, Fachang, Sangha, Xuanhui, etc., and his attainments became deeper. Because of the differences in the doctrines of various schools, it is difficult to reach a conclusion, so he decided to go to Tianzhu to study Buddhism.

In the first year of Zhenguan (627), Xuanzang married Chen Biao, please allow him to go west to seek the law. However, it was not approved by Tang Taizong. However, Xuanzang's determination has been determined, which is to "cross the charter and go to Tianzhu privately", starting from Chang'an Shenyi and finally Wangshe New Town, a long journey of more than 50,000 miles.

At that time, he was still very young, and there is no record that it was because of his poor family or because he was enlightened by some master, in short, he was related to the Buddha, and his understanding was very high, and he made a great contribution to the introduction of Buddhism to China and its subsequent development.

Because his parents died, he was raised by monks and received a different education.

There are two main reasons why celebrities become monks

1. Disheartened because of setbacks and hardships in the world, escaping from reality and pursuing a pure life in a different world.

2. Impressed by the breadth and profundity of Buddhism, they develop a strong renunciation and set their hearts to solve the problems of life and death. This is a matter for a husband, and it is not within the power of the emperor. Admirable. Most of them should be in this category.

I have encountered hurdles that I can't get over, and I have seen through the red dust.

Seeing the warmth and coldness of the world, there is no obstacle.

In ** "Journey to the West", Tang Seng's young father was killed by river thieves, and his mother sued Zheng Dou for drifting away from the river, so he was called Jiang Liu'er.

Tang monk in the previous life for the Buddha's two apprentices Jin Chanzi, because of the contempt for Buddhism and was relegated to the lower realm by the Buddha, under the guidance of Guanyin Bodhisattva, the purpose of the Tang Tai, not far to the West Heaven to seek the true scriptures, on the way to receive Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujing three apprentices, experienced eighty-one difficulties, and finally obtained the true scriptures to return to the Tang Dynasty, cultivated to the positive fruit, by the Buddha as "Zhan Tan merit Buddha shouting".

Because the ancient Buddha of the burning lamp had already handed over the position of the master of the Buddha to the hands of Shakyamuni Nyorai long before the immeasurable eons of eons. Therefore, if Tang Seng first went to worship and light the lamp after arriving in the Western Heaven, it would be disrespectful to Sakya Rulai; After the master and apprentice got the Sanzang Sutra, the most important thing was to return to the Tang Dynasty, so they did not take the initiative to visit the lantern. The latter, as an old and virtuous Buddhist ancient Buddha, did not blame them.

We all know that in Journey to the West, there is a highly respected and unfathomable Buddha Zheng Duji. He is known as the ancestor of all Buddhas, and he is the first of the three Buddhas in the past Buddha and the Buddha;

Even with the authority and mana of the leader of the Western Heavens, he still succumbed to the second place among the three thousand Buddhas, and he was under this mysterious Buddha. That's right, this great power is naturally the "Ancient Buddha on the Lamp". **, his seniority and status are real, and he often goes to Daomen Taishang Laojun, Yuan Shi Tianzun and others to catch up;

It turned out that the old gentleman and the ancient Buddha of the lamp were preaching on the three-story high pavilion Zhuling Dantai, and all the fairy children, fairy generals, fairy officials, and fairy officials all stood left and right to listen.

However, what is more interesting is that the status of the lamp is actually similar to that of Lao Jun, and the two of them represented the Taoist Gate and the leader of the Buddhist Gate before; However, due to various reasons, he retired from the background and became an unactual ruler.

Therefore, after the Tang monk and his entourage arrived at Lingshan, the first Buddha to pay homage to is, of course, the leader of the contemporary Lingshan, the leader of Buddhism, Sakyamuni Rulai; Subsequently, the four of them followed Ananda and Jiaye to get the Sanzang Sutra, and when they returned to the Tang Dynasty, they did not take the initiative to find the ancient Buddha who burned the lamp to see them.

Of course, in fact, Randen also understands that these juniors don't respect themselves at all; In fact, if Tang Seng and a few people crossed over to find the lamp to meet them, it would be disrespectful to Buddhism.

So instead of blaming them, the lamp burns it.

Because Tang Seng is a monk, he is a figure of faith, so he doesn't believe in others, only her own, this is Tang Seng's personality.