Why did Wu Zong destroy the Buddha? What was the real reason for Tang Wuzong s destruction of Buddha

Because Buddhism was developing too fast at that time, hundreds of thousands of monks and nuns and their slaves and maids did not serve as soldiers, did not produce, did not pay taxes, and did not even have children! It also occupies tens of millions of hectares of fertile land that does not pay grain (the ancients often used the approximate number, indicating that they occupy too much land). In order to avoid military service, taxes, and conscription, many households also joined the temple gates.

In this way, the problem of Buddhism undermining the social, economic, and military development of the Tang Dynasty became a huge problem that bore the brunt of and had to be solved.

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".

It is because the development of Buddhism has affected the development of the country, occupying a large amount of land and not paying taxes.

I think the real reason why Tang Wuzong destroyed Buddhism was that Buddhism imprisoned people's minds and made people more backward, so they wanted to destroy Buddha.

A large number of temples occupied a large amount of available land, which was not conducive to planning the development of the imperial court, and the number of temples increased, the number of monks who became monks also increased, the number of cultivators decreased, and the taxes decreased, which affected the national fiscal revenue.

Wu Zetian advocated Buddhism in order to consolidate his political rule; Tang Wuzong's destruction of Buddhism was also for reasons of political rights.

Only Buddhism, which preaches the equality of all beings, is the most suitable for Wu Zetian's ideological rule, and based on the above considerations, Wu Zetian finally chose Buddhism. She even found her reasonable reasons for ascending to the throne from Buddhist scriptures, packaging herself as a mythical figure. So in general, Wu Zetian's promotion of Buddhism was mainly to consolidate his rule and build momentum for himself.

What's more, the economy of Buddhist temples is not directly under the state, which also makes Tang Wuzong angry. Based on these reasons, Tang Wuzong believed that the contradictions between Buddhism and Taoism had reached the point where they would shake the rule, and that if left unchecked, it would cause polarization and even threaten the country's finances and his own rule, so Tang Wuzong launched an extermination of Buddhism.

Wu Zetian advocated Buddhism in order to maintain the stability of the women's ruling dynasty, and the main reason why Li Yan of Tang Wuzong destroyed Buddhism was also to maintain the rule of the dynasty. Li Yan is the fifteenth emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Buddhism at that time in the Tang Dynasty can be described as a tree with deep roots, under the support of the imperial court, after more than ten generations of development has penetrated into all corners of the Tang Dynasty, from the side, Buddhism for the imperial court at that time, has threatened the stability of the imperial court.

During Wu Zetian's period, Wu Zetian was the first female emperor, and her reign was very difficult. First of all, the most troublesome problem is that the people do not recognize her, and if she is not popular with the people, she will not be able to win the world, soIn order to win the hearts of the people, Wu Zetian ordered someone to compile a "Great Cloud Sutra", in which there are many stories of women becoming emperors, and Wu Zetian is said to be the reincarnation of Maitreya Buddha in the scriptures. As a result, Wu Zetian gradually stabilized the hearts of the people among the people.

With the support of successive emperors, Buddhism developed rapidly. First of all, after each emperor took office, he would reward Buddhism and build temples. This kind of behavior consumes a lot of national strength, but the national strength of the early Tang Dynasty was strong, and the ones consumed are nothing at all.

After that, Buddhism became more and more influentialThe imperial court exempted Buddhism from taxes, and the area around a temple was planned as a Buddhist territory. Monks could grow food around the temple without paying taxes, or they could lease the fertile land to the common people, who would then collect a certain amount of taxes from the common people. In fact, it is equivalent to a super-small country within a country.

With the development of time, the territory of Buddhism became larger and larger, and the national power of the imperial court gradually weakened. At this point, the drawbacks are revealedThe weakened Tang Dynasty only discovered at this time that Buddhism had occupied a large amount of fertile land, and the income brought by these fertile fields was already comparable to the income of the national treasury. In other words, Buddhism is already rich and rivals the country.

Therefore, when it came to Emperor Li Yan of the Tang Dynasty, in order to strengthen the rule of the country and fill the treasury, he planned to take back the territory of Buddhism.

That's because during the Tang Wuzong period, many places in the Tang Dynasty were in the temple, and there were many monks in the temples, who did not farm, did not work, and did not pay taxes.

Because of the close relationship between Tang Wuzong and the religion of the time, he did not want Buddhism to continue to grow.

"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!