The Origin of Buddhist Culture According to historical records, archaeological research findings, and arguments in ancient Buddhist scriptures, the origin of Buddhist culture is in China, about after the Three Emperors and before the Five Emperors. During the period of the Three Queens, a great saint was born. He was the Qingdeng Ancient Buddha, the leader of the ancient Posuo sect. Qingdeng Ancient Buddha cultivated the righteous path in Zhongnan Mountain (Kunlun), China. He was the earliest practitioner to promote Buddhism recorded in Buddhist scriptures and historical books. He already had a deep cultural foundation at that time, and a large number of practitioners and lay people followed him to practice Buddhism. According to the later scholars Shi Xingxiu who has studied Buddhism for many years and researched Buddhist scriptures, it is inferred that the flourishing period of Chinese Buddhist culture should be during the Qingdeng Ancient Buddha period, which is about 6 to 7 thousand years earlier than the current Buddhist calendar. In ancient times, China, as the world's first super ancient civilization, had already carried out farming, invented medicine, and formulated a calendar to guide farming during the Shennong period (the calendar it produced was called the lunar calendar). During the Three Emperors period, the development continued with the turtle-back characters, the innate eight trigrams, the swastika mantra, and the five calendars and five tones, the eight trigrams and eight rhythms, and the thirteen tunes (called thirteen-color lotuses in Buddhism, called Brahma music). Therefore, China is the birthplace of world culture, and Xi'an is the birthplace of world Buddhist culture. Qingdeng Ancient Buddha summarized China's Sanskrit sounds, five calendar sounds, eight trigrams and eight laws, thirteen tunes, twenty-four festivals, ten heavenly stems, twelve earthly branches, twenty-eight constellations, and the Big Dipper into ancient Buddhist scriptures in Chang'an. The Sanskrit culture spread to all parts of the world. Tribes formed today’s Sanskrit culture (i.e. Buddhist culture). The lunar calendar (lunar calendar) is the calendar of the Shennong period in China and is also the earliest calendar in the world (still used today). The Babylonian calendar is a calendar developed by Babylonian priests (the New Year is also called the Sowing Festival). Pope VIII calculated the Gregorian calendar (also called the solar calendar) in 1582 (Christmas is the birth day of Jesus). New Year's Day is the solar year. The Buddhist calendar was formulated by Sakyamuni Buddha after his enlightenment, and the rules are basically the same as the Chinese lunar calendar. Tibet itself is a tribe in China. It learned the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams of the Book of Changes from the Xia Dynasty. After evolution, it only used the Kalachakra calendar in 1027 AD, also called the Tibetan calendar. (The Tibetan New Year falls on the winter solstice). The five calendars recognized in the world all use the sun, moon and stars, the ten major stars, the Twenty-eight Constellations, the Big Dipper, the Four Seasons, the Eight Festivals, and the December. The five elements, five calendars, five tones, eight sections, eight rhythms, and thirteen tunes are called the music of Brahma, also known as the music of the universe and the language of the universe. One, three, six, mountains and flowing water are called fairy music. Five calendars and five Buddhas, eight sections and eight great Vajra kings, thirteen tunes and thirteen colors of lotuses (also known as the thirteen levels of practice, fruition Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, gods, and immortals). The three thousand worlds in the universe have the same origin, and all dharmas have one root. The I Ching, the Eight Diagrams, the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the Dharmas are Buddhist Dharma, and they are all Dharma according to the laws of transformation of the universe, and there are eighty-four thousand Dharma doors (mathematical calculation methods). The Buddha said that there is a world beyond the three thousand worlds. The Buddha said: As the world changes, Buddhism and the universe change. The thirteen spaces are integration, and are also changes in the history of human development, and the process of civilization from the development of science and culture to the present. The Buddha said that when the world is broken, other worlds will exist and grow. This means that there are still great changes in our current earth, and birth and death are the laws of nature. The Buddha said: All living beings are constantly being born and dying. Our Shennong ancestors were the earliest pioneers of science, culture, and civilization on earth. Humanity develops from the strongest to the weakest, and from the weakest to the strongest. The Buddha said that there will be Buddhas and sentient beings for billions of kalpas. The development of the universe is endless, and the human beings on the earth are also endless. They have been changing, growing, arising and dying, good and bad for hundreds of billions of years. Resources are endlessly growing, constantly decreasing, and constantly dying. We Chinese only know about Shen Nong, the Three Sovereigns and the Five Emperors, but we don’t know that we have the great Buddhist practitioner Qing Deng Ancient Buddha who was born in China. In other words, Buddhism, Shennong, the Three Sovereigns and the Five Emperors are both the ancestors of Chinese civilization and the ancestors of world civilization. They are a complete classic of the universe. In the history of Chinese cultural development, due to human factors, Buddhist scriptures, I Ching, Bagua, spells, Buddhist music, fairy music, etiquette, casting, construction, management and other cultures were lost to various tribes and nationalities, resulting in various factions, conservativeness, selfishness, Destruction, prejudice, fighting each other. The factions are constantly fighting, dividing the complete universe classic left by the Chinese ancestors into pieces. After the birth of the Buddhist calendar, Chinese practitioners and Indian ascetics spread knowledge and developed each other (through the Silk Road and the Porcelain Road). The great Sakyamuni Buddha creatively developed Buddhism to a heyday. (After research, the incomplete ancient Chinese scriptures that have been passed down are basically consistent with the scriptures that many ancient monks brought to India from China to communicate with each other in history). According to historical evidence, ancient India was still a tribal people. The tribal prince Gautama Siddhartha practiced Taoism under the Bodhi tree and became the Buddha, Sakyamuni Buddha. Since then, there has been a Buddhist calendar, around 464 BC (Buddha Still in use today). Ancient Buddhist scriptures, ancient Yi Jing, and ancient Bagua are constantly studied by eminent monks and scholars of all ages, and the development of human history is also constantly evolving and advancing. Just as the Buddha said: There are good and bad in the world, and the development of human civilization is endless. The wheel of history is rolling forward, and time has entered the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The scattered sects produced many practitioners. China's famous sage, great philosopher, Confucius, the respected Confucian, and Laozi, the respected Taoist, were born during this period. Sakyamuni Buddha said that he had not preached a single sutra for forty-nine years (the great ancestor of ancient Buddhas had already taught the sutras that Sakyamuni Buddha had realized the true meaning of).
Sakyamuni Buddha preached the mysteries of the universe after his great enlightenment. Sakyamuni Buddha, whom Buddhism now worships, talked about the birth of the seven ancient Buddhas (recorded in the scriptures) and the residence of ancient Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the Eastern Dynasty (China) in the Avatamsaka Sutra. In the Avatamsaka Sutra, it is said that there are ten thousand billions of Buddhas born in the three thousand worlds, and Buddhas and Bodhisattvas who have lived in various worlds. Later, through the exchange of Chinese culture and the culture of Sakyamuni Buddha, the Buddhist scriptures taught by Sakyamuni Buddha were combined with the Chinese Buddhist scriptures. The cultures of Confucius and Laozi also have some similarities. China has the first modern complete Buddhist scripture Tripitaka Twelve Part (a classic that has been taught by thousands of ancient Buddhas). Sakyamuni Buddha preached the process of his cultivation and attainment of Buddhahood, which happened to be somewhat similar to the sermons of ancient Buddhas in our country. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, monks from various Indian tribes and some small countries (collectively referred to as Westerners) came to China to study ancient Chinese Buddhist scriptures and Chinese culture and supplement each other. As time went by, he became accustomed to Chinese customs, water, soil and climate, stayed in China, built temples in China, practiced and enlightened, and was accepted and respected by Chinese monks and scholars. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the monks Master Faxian and Master Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty went to the Western Regions and visited dozens of small countries and tribes in India, where they taught the Dharma, preached, and studied, and returned to China more than ten years later. After returning to China, Master Xuanzang was ordered by the King of Tang to sort out and collect the language and culture of various regions, tribes, and other small Asian countries, tribal temples, and translate, correct, and integrate the classics that were lost among the people. At the order of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, he unified the characters and tones in the official language of the time, and compiled and translated a complete set of twelve classics of the Tripitaka, which is today's Buddhist scriptures (each classic is marked at the beginning with the Tang Tripitaka and Pre-Qin Kumarajiva). Correcting the pronunciation and words of the translation) led to the development of Tang culture, which brought Buddhism to its peak in the Tang Dynasty and reached the peak of Tang politics, economy, and culture. Since several dynasties in the late Tang Dynasty, due to several wars, various sects and sects have emerged within Buddhism. They are unwilling to give in to each other, are selfish, prejudiced, conservative, and fight each other. They are invaded by other factions. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, they were invaded by foreign cultures. China The decline of Buddhist culture has led to the decline of China's local political, economic and cultural. It is precisely because the local culture has been forgotten and the religious soul has been lost that other tribal countries have taken the opportunity to invade our country, leading to the vicissitudes of the Chinese nation for hundreds of years. (There is no distinction between Mahayana and Hinayana in the Twelve Parts of the Buddhist Tripitaka, no distinction between sutra and esotericism, no distinction between sects, no distinction between precedence, no distinction between men and women, no distinction between big and small, no distinction between nationalities, and no distinctions about skin color. All Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, gods, and immortals will return to the other side to revive the spirit and soul of the Chinese nation, build a harmonious society, unify the motherland, realize a harmonious world, and move towards the future together. . I ask you all the great scholars to study the history of China carefully, slowly comprehend the mysteries of the twelve volumes of the Tripitaka, think about Journey to the West and the List of Gods, and then make a statement and decide whether it is right or wrong. Please correct me, all eminent scholars.