Xuanzang walked 108,000 miles to the West Heaven to learn scriptures, where does the West Heaven ref

For this question, there should be two answers, one is "Journey to the West".

said, the other is Master Xuanzang in history.

A true destination for learning from the scriptures.

** said

As for the statement of **, as long as you have read **, it will be very clear that the west sky is the Great Leiyin Temple of Lingshan. Xuanzang often said on the road: The poor road came from the Tang Dynasty in the east and went to the west to seek the true scriptures.

The so-called West Heaven is where the Buddha lives, that is, the Da Lei Yin Temple of Lingshan, where Xuanzang's master and apprentice got the scriptures.

So where is the Great Leiyin Temple in the West Heaven? According to **, Lingshan Da Lei Yin Temple is located in Xiniu Hezhou.

On the spiritual mountain of the Western Heavenly Bliss.

The real situation in history

At that time, Xuanzang was from Chang'an City, the capital of the Tang Dynasty.

Set off, all the way to the west. In fact, he didn't know that Buddhism originated in India, he only knew that Buddhism was introduced from the Western Regions, and it had to go all the way to the west to trace the origin. So he crossed the Hexi Corridor.

Cross the Xingxing Gorge and the Liusha River (Moheyan Moraine), enter Hami, and then cross the Turpan Basin and the Tarim Basin to ascend the Pamir Plateau.

to Central Asia. At this time, after exploring all the way, Xuanzang learned that Buddhism originated in India, so the route turned south. Climb over the Hindu Kush Shandaban and enter the territory of India.

After many hardships, Xuanzang finally arrived in many Buddhist monasteries in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India to practice. In fact, Xuanzang's ultimate goal is Nalanda Temple, which is a great temple in the north of the royal palace of Magadha, the capital of Magadha in ancient Central India, which is about 11 kilometers north of Rachakir in Badagao, in short, in today's India. When Xuanzang arrived at Nalanda Temple, Nalanda Temple had passed its heyday and gradually declined.

Unity with history

At that time, the king of India was the king of the ring of the sun, and he was stationed in the city of Qunu, which is now Kanaoji, India. That is, the location of the king of Tianzhu in **, and the story of the fake princess takes place here. But the king of the day is not a Buddhist (is a Brahman), at that time the center of Buddhism in Magadha, that is, the former Gupta Dynasty of the former capital of the Gupta Dynasty of Fahrenheit, now India Patna, there is the highest Indian Buddhist Nalanda Temple, that is, the ** in the Lingshan Da Lei Yin Temple, such as the Buddha.

of the location.

It refers to today's India, the birthplace of Buddhism, which was called Tianzhu in the Tang Dynasty, and people called it "Xitian".

Xitian refers to the current India, Xuanzang has never been to India, he believes that India is the origin of Buddhism, and he can obtain the scriptures there, so he is not afraid of hardships and dangers, and must go to the West Heaven to learn the scriptures.

Daileiyin Temple. Da Lei Yin Temple is the place where the Buddha lived, and it was here that Xuanzang master and apprentice got the scriptures.

Xuanzang's scriptures are real, so Xitian actually refers to ancient India, and Xuanzang was ordered by Tang Taizong to go to ancient India to get the scriptures for preaching.

As early as the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Buddhist academic community began to debate whether sentient beings have Buddha nature or not. By the time of Xuanzang, the long-popular "Nirvana Sutra", "Chengshi Sutra" and "Vitan" studies in the north and the "Treatise on Regency" and "Kusha Treatise" translated and transmitted in the south constituted the mainstream of Buddhism in the north and south at that time. However, through study, Master Xuanzang deeply felt that the translation of ancient virtues such as the true meaning was not good, resulting in vague principles, different understandings, and different commentaries, and great differences on some important theoretical issues, which were difficult to integrate.

In particular, at that time, the two schools of Regency and Earth Theory had different opinions on the aspects of the law, so they had the intention of going to India to seek Maitreya's teacher.

In view of the differences between the formation of physiognomy in the north and the theory in the south, how to integrate the two has become a problem to be solved by Xuanhui. In the ninth year of Wude (626), at this time, when the Tianzhu monk Bopo arrived in Chang'an, Xuanzang heard that the Indian ordination sage taught the "Yoga Treatise" in Nalanda Temple, so he vowed to go west to seek the Dharma, explore the original scriptures, and re-translate them, in order to unify the differences in Chinese Buddhist thought. This is the feat of Tang monks who have learned scriptures through the ages.

The reason why Tang Seng went to the West to learn scriptures in Journey to the West:

1. On the emperor's side: he has been harassed by unjust souls and needs Mahayana Buddhist scriptures to purify unjust souls.

2. On the Buddha's side: The tenth tribulation of the golden cicada is over, and it is time to come back.

3. Personal: Master Xuanzang himself also has this great wish, which is also the real reason of history.

4. Guanyin: Jiaocha, by the way, I dug up a few people who originally belonged to Taoism: Monkey King, Marshal Tianpeng, General of the Rolling Blind, and Prince of the Dragon King.

Xuanzang went through 110 countries to learn scriptures from the West.

The 12 volumes of the Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty describe the mountains, rivers, places, products, and customs of 110 countries and 28 countries that Xuanzang experienced during his journey to the west. On the way through Lanzhou to Liangzhou (Guzang), followed by day and night, to Guazhou, and then through Yumen Pass, crossed Wufeng, crossed the quicksand, prepared for hardships, arrived at Yiwu (Hami), to Gaochang Kingdom (now Turpan County, Xinjiang). Received the courtesy of Gaochang King Ko Wentai.

Later, it passed through Quzhi (now Kuqa, Xinjiang), Lingshan (Yemsul Ridge), Broken Leaf City, Kabi Trial State, Chi Jianguo (Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan), Sa Mo Jianguo (now the east of Samarkand City), Green Mountain, and Iron Gate. Arrive at the hometown of the country of Luoluo (now the west of the green ridge and the south of the Wuhu River).

It traveled more than 13,800 miles to the country of Kashmir (present-day Kashmir) through the country of Bondage (present-day Balkh in northern Afghanistan), the country of Jiezhi (present-day Qaz in Afghanistan), the country of Daxueshan, the country of Brahana (present-day Bamiyan in Afghanistan), the country of Gandhara (present-day Peshawar in Pakistan and the adjacent eastern part of Afghanistan), and the country of Uvona (the Swat region of Pakistan), and arrived at the country of Kashmir (present-day Kashmir).

Xuanzang went to the West to learn scriptures through the main countries introduced

1. Gao Changguo.

Gaochang is a Buddhist country in the Western Regions, located in the southeast of Gaochang District, Turpan City, Xinjiang, and was a transportation hub in the Western Regions in ancient times. It is along the north road of Tianshan South Road, when the east and west intersect the traces of the key to the future, and it is also one of the political, economic and cultural centers of ancient Xinjiang. Gaochang historical documents, there are "New Tang Dynasty Books: Gaochang Biography" has a more detailed record.

From the middle of the 5th century to the middle of the 7th century, there were four independent kingdoms of the Han Chinese in this narrow Turpan Basin.

2. Broken Leaf City.

Broken Leaf City is an important town set up by the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions, located in the east of Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia, near Tokmak City in the Chu River Valley, and is the farthest border city fortified in the western region of Chinese dynasties. It is also an important town on the Silk Road. It is known as the "Four Towns of Anxi" in the Tang Dynasty together with Qiuzi, Shule and Khotan.

The city wall has been built many times, and the Tang Dynasty Broken Leaf City was built in imitation of Chang'an City.

3. Flexion. Qu Zhi, also known as Qiuzi, Guzisen, Kuci, Guizi, Chuzi, Quzi, Kuxian, Quxian, Kucha, etc., is the ancient Qiuzi language kutsi, Sanskrit kuci transliteration, now called Kucha. Its national border corresponds to the area around present-day Kuqa County, Xinjiang.

After the Hantong Western Regions, Qiuzi belonged to the Western Regions Metropolitan Protectorate. In the twenty-second year of Zhenguan of Taizong of Tang Dynasty (648 AD).

Xuanzang went to the West to learn scriptures and passed through 110 countries. This has to start with Xuanzang from Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, during the Zhenguan period of Taizong, individuals could not leave the country without permission, of course, Xuanzang's application to the state was not permitted, and it is not like "Journey to the West" that Li Shimin sent him. But for the sake of his own rough thinking, he secretly set off from Chang'an and quietly passed the Heshou Yumen Pass.

So Xuanzang began his journey west.

Looking through the historical materials, we learned that Xuanzang first passed through Hami, Xinjiang, and walked west along the foot of the Tianshan Mountains. The first country was the kingdom of Agnini, followed by the kingdom of Kuzhi, and then the kingdom of Valuja. After living in these countries, Xuanzang crossed Lingshan again, Chanzhou came to Broken Leaf City, and then came to Sa Mo Jianguo after leaving Broken Leaf City, and then turned over the iron gate and entered Tocharo.

He turned south and set out, crossed the Great Snow Mountains to the country of Brahana, then went east to the country of Gandhara, and finally came to Tianzhu, the holy land of Buddhism, which is now India.

Because of the large number of small countries in India at that time, he visited more than a dozen countries to learn Mahayana Buddhism, and then traveled north from present-day Pakistan, through Afghanistan, to the Tarim Basin, and finally to Chang'an.