The crimes of the White Lotus Sect: confusing the ignorant people, causing the White Lotus Sect followers to become crazy superstitious and murderous, and each one of them lost their self at all. He is a true martial emperor, thinking that he can really live forever and be invulnerable.
The White Lotus Sect is a secret religious association that has spread among the people since the Tang and Song Dynasties. Originated from the Pure Land Sect of Buddhism, it is said that the founder of the Pure Land Sect, Shi Huiyuan in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, met with Liu Yimin and other members of the White Lotus Society at Donglin Temple in Lushan Mountain to recite the Buddha's name together, which was regarded as a role model for later generations of believers.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, pure land Buddhist associations became popular, often called White Lotus Society or Lotus Society. During the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty, Mao Ziyuan (Dharma name Cizhao), a monk from Kunshan, Wu County (now Kunshan, Jiangsu Province), founded a new sect based on the popular Pure Land Society, called the White Lotus Sect, or White Lotus Sect.
The early White Lotus sect worshiped Amitabha, advocated reciting the Buddha's name and observing precepts, and stipulated that believers should not kill, steal, engage in sexual misconduct, lie, or drink alcohol. It calls on believers to worship their ancestors and is a secret group that is half monk and half secular.
Its teachings are simple and its scriptures are relatively easy to understand. It is accepted by the lower class people, so it is often used as a tool to organize people to resist oppression. During the Yuan and Ming dynasties, the White Lotus Sect organized peasant uprisings many times.
It spread to the early Qing Dynasty and developed into an anti-Qing secret organization. Although it was repeatedly brutally suppressed by the Qing government, by the first year of Jiaqing (1796), the White Lotus Sect uprising had developed to the scale of the Jiaqing period. The largest uprising.
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Among the hundreds of White Lotus sects in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the most influential ones were the Wuwei sect and the Huang sect that emerged in the Ming dynasty. Tiandao, Mahayana, Hongyang, Tiandimen, Bagua, Zili, Xiantian, etc. that appeared in the Qing Dynasty.
The most famous figures in the world of folk secret religions in the Ming and Qing Dynasties include Luo Qing (Luozu), Li Bin (Pu Mingzu), Wang Sen (Stone Buddha), Han Taihu (Piao Gaozu), Dong Jisheng (Teacher Dong), Liu Zuochen (Master Shengdi), Yangzai (Yangzu), etc. The folk secret religious theorists who played an important role in the final formation of the White Lotus religious theoretical system were Luo Qing, Gong Chang and Mu Ren.
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