Introduction to master xu yun

　　Xuyun zen master (1840--1959), a native of xiangxiang, hunan province, whose common surname was xiao, his first name was guyan, and his courtesy name was deqing.Virtual cloud zen master, 19 years old home, 20 years old according to fuzhou drum mountain yongquan temple miao lotus old monk with sufficient ring;40 years old hair heart toward wutai mountain, to repay parents deep grace, from the general courtyard heart incense, three steps a worship suffer hunger and cold and daoxin lang, three years wish;Later in central yunnan province for nearly twenty years;Return cao xi at 95, rebuild south China, zhongxing cloud gate.

The life of master xu yun

Virtual cloud zen master, common name xiao guyan, word deqing, alias fantasy swim.In 1840, he was born in quanzhou, fujian province. His mother died at birth and was raised by his mother.Father xiao yutang gonghuang tour fujian, yongchun in the state government staff, then hired into quanzhou house.When he was young, he began to read Confucian books. At the age of 17, he left hunan to fujian. At the age of 19, he became a monk at yongquan temple in gushan, fujian.The following year, miaolin (1824-1907) was ordained.

In the 18th year of the reign of emperor guangxu of the qing dynasty (1892), monk yu miaolian received the mantle of linjizong and monk yu yaocheng received the mantle of cao dongzong.Become a monk and practice asceticism.When he was 27 years old, he left gushan and visited the elders in the famous mountain temple of jiangsu and zhejiang successively, studying buddhist scriptures and studying zen Buddhism.After that, he visited zhongnan mountain in shaanxi, mount emei in sichuan, three major temples in Lhasa, and from Tibet to India, Ceylon (today's Sri Lanka), myanmar and other countries to pay homage to the Buddha.After returning from myanmar, I made a pilgrimage to jizu mountain in yunnan, went to guizhou, hunan, hubei and other places, and then to jiuhua mountain in anhui province. Then I went to gaomin temple in yangzhou to participate in the seven-dharma meeting of zen.

In 1901, he went to zhongnan mountain for two years of meditation.After the chicken foot mountain presided over the alms bowl nunnery, from nanyang and other places to raise yuan temple, to xuantong first year (1909) from Beijing please get "dragon" all back to alms bowl nunnery sacred temple for the protection of the country.

In 1912, the republic of China was founded.< / p > < p > yunnan army division commander personally overseers the mountain to catch the virtual cloud, the virtual cloud alone with reason, was convinced and changed the original intention to support the virtual cloud.In the seventh year of the republic of China (1918), the virtual cloud invited the jade Buddha from nanyang to return to the temple and rebuild the temple.Later, at the request of the military and political leaders of yunnan, guangdong and fujian, he moved the huating temple of kunming, abbot gushan, and revived the nanhua temple of the six ancestors of caoxi.In the winter of the thirty-first year of the republic of China, I went to chongqing to preside over the great mourning session for protecting the country, which lasted more than three months.In the winter of the thirty-second year of the republic of China, the plan was made to revive the shanjue temple in yunmen, northern guangdong.

In April 1952, xu yun left cloud gate and went north. In November, he attended the initiator's meeting of the buddhist association of China in Beijing and was promoted as the chief initiator.On June 3, 1953, the buddhist association of China was formally established, and xu yun was elected as the honorary President.That year, xu yun was hired as a member of the national committee of the Chinese people's political consultative conference.On October 13, 1959, master xuyun died in zhenru temple, yunju mountain, jiangxi province.Live 120 years, quit wax 101.

In the history of modern Buddhism, he has persisted in ascetic practice for more than a hundred years, sitting in 15 ashrams, reanimating six ancestral courts, and inheriting five zen schools.