Tang Monk, also called Xuanzang, his original name was Chen Yi, a native of the Feng family in Luozhou (now Yanshi City, Luoyang, Henan), and his predecessor was a native of Yingchuan. A famous eminent monk in the Tang Dynasty and the founder of the Faxiang Sect, he was honored as "Master Tripitaka" and later known as "Tang Monk" in the secular world.
Jiang Liuer is Tang Seng’s nickname. The origin of its name: Because some bad guys killed Tang Seng’s father, his mother put him on a wooden basin or a wooden board and let the river take him away. He was saved by the old monk, so he was named Jiang Liuer.
Xuan Zang became a monk when he was young, his family was poor, and his parents died early. He became a monk at the age of 13. After that, he visited famous Buddhist teachers and studied "Mahayana Theory", "Za Abhi Tanxin Theory" and "Chengshi Theory" from Huixiu, Daoshen, Daoyue, Fachang, Sengbian, Xuanhui and others. ", "Kusashastra" and "Mahaparinirvana Sutra" and other sutras, his attainments are getting deeper and deeper.
Feeling that the different schools of thought were divergent and difficult to come to a conclusion, he decided to go to Tianzhu to study Buddhism. In the first year of Zhenguan (627), Xuanzang married Chen Biao and asked permission to travel west to seek Dharma. But it was not approved by Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty. However, Xuanzang was determined and "brave the charter and headed privately to Tianzhu", starting from Chang'an Shenyi and ending in Wangshe New City, a long journey of more than 50,000 miles.
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The literary image of Tang Seng:
Tang Seng is one of the main characters in Wu Chengen's mythological novel "Journey to the West". He is an artistic image created by the writer based on the monk Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty. Tang Seng in the novel has actually become a typical representative of the scholar class who abides by traditional ethics and religious creeds. The most profound impression he gives people is that he is sincere yet pedantic, kind yet cowardly.
Tang Monk has gone through many hardships in his life. His common surname is Chen, and he is the son of Chen Guangrui in Haizhou. Chen Guangrui was killed on his way to take office in Jiangzhou. His wife endured the humiliation and gave birth to a son, who was released into the river and allowed to drift with the waves. Later, he was rescued by monk Faming of Jinshan Temple and named him Jiangliu. When he was old, he became a monk and became a monk. Xuanzang later became a generation of eminent monks.
Later, because Avalokitesvara appeared and showed him the location of the Mahayana scriptures, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty ordered him to go to the West to obtain scriptures. On the way, he encountered countless disasters, including natural disasters, earth disasters, man-made disasters, and countless more. There were ninety-nine and eighty-one difficulties in the face of demon disasters, including several times when I almost lost my life, and finally achieved enlightenment and obtained the true scriptures.
These disasters are not only miraculous explanations for Xuanzang’s legendary experience of seeking scriptures, but also illustrate the difficulty of seeking true results.
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