Tragedy in the history of Buddhism What was the Three Martial Arts and One Sect incident in the hi

Since Buddhism was introduced to Middle-earth by Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty, it has been glorious several times. Buddhism flourished at its peak during the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Middle and Late Tang Dynasties. The enthusiasm for Buddhism at that time was no less than an extreme nationwide cult of certain people.

Under such fanaticism, there were far more monks, nuns, monks, monasteries and monasteries at that time than now, and monks and nuns at that time still enjoyed many privileges. However, the prosperity must be opposed, and religion is the same, and there have been many anti-Buddhist movements in history. There is nothing wrong with Buddhism itself, the point is that it touched the rulers of the feudal dynasty, and at the same time, there were many believers, and it also violated the rule of the feudal kingship.

Such a large-scale event of exterminating Buddha is tragic. But history has already happened, and future generations can only learn lessons. <>

Buddhism, the world's earliest religion. As of 2010, there were about 1.2 billion followers of Buddhism in the world, making it one of the world's three major religions. In China, there are three major systems: Chinese, Tibetan, and Pali.

In the process of development, each of them formed a number of schools and sects. Chinese Buddhism mainly includes Tiantai Buddhism, Three Treatises, Faxiang, Vinaya, Pure Land, Zen, Huayan, Tantra, etc. Tibetan Buddhism mainly includes Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu, Sakya, and Gelug. In addition, there are several small factions such as Xijie, Jueyu, Juenang, and Xialu.

Among them, the Gelugpa is the largest. Pali Buddhism mainly includes the four schools of Run, Zhuangzhuang, Duolie (and the four tribes of Gongdan, Sutman, Ruijing, and Burma), and Zuo. <>

Buddhism does not produce or reproduce, but it amasses a lot of money, owns a lot of land but does not have to pay taxes, and does not destroy anyone else.

The three martial artists destroyed the Buddha was the Northern Wei Emperor Taiwu Emperor to destroy the Buddha, the Northern Zhou Emperor Wu Emperor to destroy the Buddha, and the Tang Wuzong to destroy the Buddha. Mainly because of the conflict in the ideological and cultural sphere.

They refer to the events of Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty to eliminate Buddhism. The incident of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty exterminating Buddhism, as well as the incident of Emperor Wuzong of the Tang Dynasty exterminating Buddhism. This is because the development of Buddhism has limited the development of the imperial court, and has had a relatively serious impact on the imperial court, resulting in the limited development of the imperial court, so Buddhism will be eliminated.

It's because the way Buddhism thinks and their way of thinking is different, and they want to maintain their rule by facing the Buddha.

Their names were: Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty Tuoba Tao, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty Yuwen Yong, Emperor Wuzong of the Tang Dynasty Li Yan, and Later Zhou Shizong Chai Rong.

Tuoba Tao, Li Yan, Yu Wenyong, Chai Rong, these people are very famous, and doing so can bring economic benefits.

Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty Tuoba Tao, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty Yuwen Yong, Emperor Wuzong of the Tang Dynasty Li Yan, and Later Zhou Shizong Chai Rong.

Emperor Taiwu, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Emperor Wuzong of the Tang Dynasty, and Shizong of the Later Zhou Dynasty mainly talked about these three people, who eventually influenced the development of Buddhism.

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".

The deep-seated reasons for the occurrence of the three large-scale incidents of exterminating Buddhism are similar to the fact that Buddhism has had a serious impact on the stability of the political power and social order, as well as social and economic construction, and has become a stumbling block to the overall development of society.

These three actions to exterminate Buddhism had a profound impact on the course of history, the change of religious beliefs, the consolidation of political power, and the layout and prosperity of economy and commerce.

The names of the three emperors who were the masterminds of the destruction of the Buddha all have the word "Wu", namely Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and Emperor Wuzong of the Tang Dynasty.

Although I believe in Buddhism, I feel that the behavior of the Sanwu Sect at that time was still correct:

1. It protects the orthodox status of the local Chinese civilization with Confucianism and Taoism as the core, and allows the Chinese civilization to continue to be inherited along the main line.

2. It has purified Buddhism itself in reverse, and avoided the pollution of Buddhism by some folk witches and monks, making it a cult under the banner of Buddhism; It avoided the political involvement of Buddhism and the eventual and complete extinction of Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism; It also prevented Central Plains Buddhism from going to heresy like Lamaism.

3. At that time, it still played a role in stabilizing people's hearts The purpose of Buddhism is to save the common people in the world, in order to survive the crisis of the country and solve the people's misery, it is a matter of immeasurable merit to suffer losses for oneself.

This is all caused by cause and effect, and everything has a cause and must have an effect.

It's the Fa that has come here, and it's even more of a man's trouble.