After a long sleep and being moved, I couldn't bear the excitement of Buddha's heart. I pondered for a long time and said a few true words.
"The Chongchuan abbot of the Nanzen Temple of the Rinzai Sect and the Tianhai people of the Enryaku Temple of the Tiantai Sect are all waiting eagerly for you to return and seek justice.
Nichigen, the head of the Nichiren Sect Honnoji Temple... In recent years, the Nichiren Sect has developed rapidly in the Oda family's castle towns and the army, and I don't know how much thought was hidden.
At that time, the Tendai Sect took advantage of the civil strife in the samurai family and the emptiness of Kyoto. They sent nuns from Mount Hiei to the capital to strangle the Nichiren Sect. Twenty-one temples of the Nichiren Sect were burned, and the followers of the sect were massacred, and they were forced to withdraw from Kyoto.
The Nichiren sect took advantage of the fire and robbed them, leaving the Nichiren sect with no choice but to take refuge in castles, towns and commercial ports. The orthodoxy declined and was almost destroyed.
Nowadays, the Oda family has defeated the Ichibuki sect and its power has collapsed, and Master Mianjo is forced to withdraw from Ishiyama Honganji Temple and live in seclusion in Kii Province to save his life.
The Nichiren Sect believers were obviously very powerful in the Oda army, but they never showed off their strength. Only His Highness Oda showed his domineering attitude and displayed his fangs, which aroused the fear of various sects.
I can't understand Honnoji Nichigen's thoughts, so I asked the sage to be careful about her.
The blood feud between the Nichiren sect and the Ichijo sect has been avenged. Although the Tendai sect is suffering from the fire of Mount Hiei, it is still flourishing. The Nichiren sect may not be able to let go of the hatred in its heart.
The Nanman sect has come to bully us, and the various Buddhist sects are already fighting among themselves, which is really causing pain to our relatives and happiness to our enemies."
Master Nagakaku is not a person who likes to gossip. She has been guarding the Kofuku Temple to maintain the situation of the Yamato Buddhist Kingdom over the years.
But her eyes are not blind, and her ears are not deaf. As the saying goes, bystanders know better, and she has her own unique insights into the changes in the situation.
In the past, she would have been tight-lipped and would never have mixed things up.
But today, Yiyin's few words aroused her unsteady heart. While she was grateful, she also revealed a few true words.
Han Buddhism entered the island country in the Tang Dynasty, developed and grew together with the imperial court of the Asuka Period, and has taken root in Nara for thousands of years, with a profound foundation.
But by this time, the thousand-year-old foundation had long been rotten, and beneath the beautiful skin, all kinds of ugliness already stunk.
These days, heretics are not necessarily the most terrifying, on the contrary, heretics kill people without blinking an eye.
The rise of the Nichiren sect and the Ichijo sect were forcibly suppressed by the Tendai sect. If they could not succeed in debating scriptures, they used force to physically eliminate them.
Enryaku-ji Temple on Mount Hiei was founded 800 years ago and gave birth to Buddhism in the island nation. It is revered as the father of Buddhism and the Nichiren sect. All the founders of the Nichiren sect came from Mount Hiei.
However, this ancient temple with high morals and high prestige could not tolerate the child he had conceived. Master Shan went down to the capital and massacred the believers of other religious groups. Even the shogunate couldn't stand it and issued a condemnation afterward.
Even though all the Buddhist sects are nervous about the Nanman Sect at the moment, the Buddhist sects themselves have never let go of the fact that they are stabbing each other with knives.
There is nothing wrong with attacking heretics outside and killing heretics within, preferably all of them.
Compared to the whirlpool in Kyoto, the Shingon sect in Koyasan is relatively peaceful.
Even when the old sect and the new sect broke up and the new sect left Wakayama and established a new temple, it was not as ugly as the temples in Kyoto.
Of course, the new sect of the Shingon sect is not easy to mess with. After being persecuted and running away, they established the Shinyi Shingon sect and opened a base to come to the temple.
Yes, Genlai Temple is the religious monastery of the mercenaries who are particularly good at using muskets.
Therefore, the peaceful coexistence of various Buddhist sects is often guaranteed by strong force.
People in the world always think that the Taoist monks hold meetings to debate scriptures and listen to whoever has the right, but this does not exist in reality.
If a problem can be solved with physical destruction, the nuns never mind using swords, guns and iron cannons to silence the other party completely.
Master Changjue was also worried that the saint's pure mind would be used by people with ulterior motives, so he took the initiative to expose some of the inside stories.
Which one is more fuel-efficient, Nanzenji Temple Soden or Enryakuji Tenkai?
There is also Honnoji Hingen, who is secretly doing things behind the scenes, and these Buddhist monks, who knows what they are thinking about.
Yiyin smiled bitterly and nodded.
"Master Changjue, if you are willing to say these words to me, it will not be in vain for you and me to have a relationship."
In fact, there is no need for Master Changjue to remind him that Yiyin also knows the virtues of various Buddhist sects. He is no longer the foolish Baitian who first entered the political arena, and he is very aware of these attainments.
Before he went to Kanto, Nanzenji Shoden and Enryakuji Tenkai had a secret fight in front of him.
Over the issue of whether Bishamonten came as a Myojin or as a Gongen, the two had already begun to compete for the right to interpret the religious interpretation of Gigin Shinto.
There is also the restless Nichiren sect. When Yoshigan and Oda Nobunaga supported Ashikaga Yoshiaki in going to Luo, the Oda army actually displayed the Buddhist flag of the Nichiren sect when they entered the capital.
This move caused extreme dissatisfaction among the Tendai religious group, and the group withdrew from the meeting, which led to the deterioration of the relationship between the Oda family and the Tendai sect, and ultimately became the starting point of the conflict that led to the burning of Mount Hiei.
Yoshigan was the first to not believe that there was no instigation from the Nichiren Sect behind this, but he did not know that Honnōji Nichigen was the leader behind the Nichiren Sect.
Today, Master Changjue made a point and expressed his feelings towards Yiyin.
She, the future leader of the old Shingon sect, has always been Yiyin's loyal ally in religion and will definitely stand by his side.
Yiyin shook his head and looked at Master Changjue who had regained his composure, unable to speak for a moment.
He knew that he would not have a peaceful life when he came back this time. But before he returned to the city, troubles had already hit him one after another, making him feel a little out of breath.
After Oda Nobunaga surrendered to Ishiyama Honganji Temple, he would definitely not stop. He had already begun contacting the Nanman Sect to prepare the next plan.
Kinki Buddhism will not sit still and wait for death, and the subsequent religious struggle will become increasingly fierce.
Oda Nobunaga jumped into this whirlpool on his own initiative, but Yoshigan was forced to get involved.
Kinki Buddhism has no other choice. The only person in the world who can fight against Oda Nobunaga is Yoshigoshi Shiba.
On the one hand, Yoshigan needs to cooperate with Oda Nobunaga to conquer the Western Kingdom, Shikoku, Kyushu and other places, and on the other hand, he also needs to help the Buddhist sects to resist the aggressive threat of Oda Nobunaga.
Once this kind of thing is not done well, it means that the two sides are not human, and Yiyin will also have a headache.
Coupled with the internal reform affairs of the Shiba family, the selection and restructuring of Shiba is about to come to the stage. The Shiba establishment will open its arms to the martial arts families all over the world. Who knows how much trouble it will cause.
After the demise of Shintoism, Buddhism has monopolized the cultural circle of the island country for two hundred years. Now that the Shiba family wants to support Confucian culture, does it count as a competition with Buddhist sects?
When Buddhism and Confucianism really compete for cultural dominance, and they are fighting hand to hand, where does Yiyin, the protector of Buddhism, stand? Can he still be regarded as one of Buddhism's own?
All of this made Yiyin break into a cold sweat.
When he reaches his position, he is truly responsible for the expectations of the world, and his actions can affect the whole body. Many times he can achieve peace without just thinking about it.
No matter how many people are vying for power, they can't get around him, the supreme saint. He wants to have less trouble and more peace. Will others be willing to obey?
Humans are the animals that like to fight most, and they are also the animals that kill the most people. They are hopeless animals that feel uncomfortable all over without fighting for a day.
Yoshigami took a long breath, looked at the two bald nuns, Nagakaku and Kitahata Tomato, and said with a wry smile.
"Somehow, I suddenly want to escape into Buddhism and ignore the mortal world."
Chang Jie was speechless and laughed, shaking his head in silence.
Kitahata Gujiao was still thinking about the saint cultivating his daughter and saving more wealth for the Kitahata family. Naturally, he did not want the saint to become tired.
She put her hands together and bowed, chanting the Buddha's name.
"The saint was joking. The world has been in chaos for a long time and the people are hanging upside down. Everyone is looking forward to you coming to bring peace to the world forever."
Yiyin sighed again.
Are you kidding? How can you laugh? He is just complaining. What if he really escapes into Buddhism and leaves those women and children behind? How about beating him until he bleeds like a river?
There is no way to escape. Every inch of the harem is worth an inch of blood, and you have to suffer for it.
———
We stayed at Kofukuji Temple for one day, and then headed back to Tamon Mountain Castle the next day.
It has been seven or eight years since Yoshigan first went to Kanto and handed over the task of building the castle to Nizi Katsuhisa. Tawenyama Castle has become more and more prosperous as the power of the Shiba family has increased.
Bishamonten is the king of multi-hearing, and multi-hearing means always listening to the Dharma and being proficient in the Dharma. He is a Buddhist protector and righteous god known for his merits.
I don’t know if it was God’s will that Yiyin chose to build the city in Duowen Mountain because it was well connected in all directions and had no religious significance.
Mount Tamon is the transportation hub of the Northern Yamato Land. It protects the Nara Land to the south, leads to the mountain city of Kyoto to the north, and leads to the Yamato Exit to and from Iga Country to the east.
Although Yamato Country is large, the vast mountainous area in the south is connected with Kii Country, and is called the Kii Mountains. Together with the Kii Peninsula further south, there is a whole large area of ​​hilly land with barren land.
The main plains of Kii Province are in the west near the east coast of the Seto Inland Sea, and the main plains of Yamato Province are in the Nara Basin in the north-central part.
The large mountainous and hilly area between the two is not suitable for economic development, but is suitable for praying to gods and worshiping Buddha. The poor mountains and steep mountains are where Buddhism flourishes, and there are also Buddhist holy places such as Koyasan and Wakayama.
The Shiba family's defense of Tamon Mountain is equivalent to the defense of the Nara Basin in the central and northern parts of Yamato, the most prosperous area in Yamato. This is the military significance of Yoshigan's fortification here.
And its status as a transportation hub extending in all directions makes it very convenient for Duwenshan Castle to develop industry and commerce, and the castle towns prosper.
The Nara Basin is the birthplace of the Yamato nation. Since the Asuka period, the emperor's court has sent Tang envoys to study the Chinese culture, innovate politics, and introduce Chinese Buddhism to enhance its dominance.
Since then, the sound of Buddhism in Nara has echoed for eight hundred years and continues to this day.
In order to show respect for Buddhism, many mountains in the Nara Basin have been given Buddhist names, such as Mount Tamon.
To be continued...