Tang Priest, also known as Xuanzang, was originally named Chen Yi, who was born in yanshi city, Luoyang, Henan Province? , its first YingChuan people? . A famous monk in the Tang Dynasty, the founder of Faxiangzong, was honored as "Master Sanzang", later commonly known as "Tang Priest".
Jiang Liuer is the birth name of Tang Priest. The origin of its name: Because a bad man killed Tang Priest's father, his mother put him in a wooden basin or a board, let the river take him away, and was saved by the old monk, so it was named Jiang Liuer.
Xuanzang became a monk when he was young, and his parents died early. After becoming a monk at the age of 13, he visited famous Buddhist teachers all over the world, and successively learned the Confucian classics such as Taking Mahayana, Miscellaneous Abhidharma's Theory of Mind, Theory of Accomplishment, Theory of Giving Up All Things, and Mahayana Sutra from Hui Xiu, Dao Shen, Dao Yue, Fa Chang, Monk Debate, and Xuan Hui, and gained more and more achievements.
I decided to study Buddhism in Tianzhu because I felt that the theories of various schools were different and it was difficult to reach a final conclusion. In the first year of Zhenguan (627), Xuanzang married a couple, so please allow him to go west to seek the Dharma. However, it was not approved by Emperor Taizong. However, Xuanzang has made up his mind to "venture beyond the charter and go to Tianzhu privately", starting from Chang 'an Shenyi and ending in Wangshe New Town, and trekking for more than 5, miles.
The literary image of Tang Priest:
Tang Priest is one of the main characters in Wu Cheng'en's mythical novel The Journey to the West. He is an artistic image based on Xuanzang, a monk in the Tang Dynasty. In fact, the Tang priest in the novel has become a typical representative of the scholar class who abides by traditional ethics and religious beliefs. His deepest impression is that he is sincere and pedantic, kind and cowardly.
Tang Priest, whose common surname is Chen, is the son of Chen Guangrui in Haizhou. Chen Guangrui was harmed by others on his way to Jiangzhou. His wife gave birth to a son, put him into the river, and let him drift with the waves. Later, he was rescued by Faming monks in Jinshan Temple, and he was named Jiangliu. When he was old, he became a monk, and later became a generation of eminent monks.
Later, because Guanyin showed himself and showed him the location of Mahayana Classic, Emperor Taizong ordered him to go to the Western Heaven to learn Buddhist scriptures. On the way, he encountered numerous disasters, including natural disasters, ground disasters, man-made disasters, and countless demon disasters, including eighty-one difficult before and after, and several of them almost lost their lives and finally got the true scriptures.
These disasters are not only miraculous explanations for Xuanzang's legendary experience of learning Buddhist scriptures, but also the difficulty of getting positive results.