The Big Wild Goose Pagoda is close to the new village where I live, and it's only two or three stops away. Standing in Leyuan Scenic Area and looking southwest, the 64-meter-high Big Wild Goose Pagoda stands tall in the historical sky. I often think that the spiral staircase connecting the tower with the sky is the way for Tang Priest to learn from the West. Those grinded bricks and stones are the classics brought back by Tang Priest.
Tang Priest has a long way to learn from the scriptures, and there are a vast number of translated classics, including classics, dharma books and papers. The profundity and mystery of Buddhism are beyond my comprehension. However, his fighting spirit, unshakable faith and courage in the marked army stirred my heart again and again like the waves of the sea. ...
In fact, it was not the Tang Priest who first went to the Western Regions to seek dharma. From the Three Kingdoms to the Jin Dynasty to the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there were 170 people who left the eastern land to go to the Western Heaven for Buddhist scriptures, but only 43 people were able to return home unscathed, and most of them died on the road. In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court forbade people to leave the customs without permission. In August of the first year of Zhenguan, Tang Priest "ventured beyond the appointment and went to Tianzhu privately". Starting from Chang 'an, it's a long journey day and night. At Yumenguan, the white horse that Tang Priest rode died. Now there is a White Horse Pagoda beside Shule River, and there is a big willow tree that used to tie a horse at the entrance of the temple. He bought an old and thin red horse and brought an apprentice named Shipanto. I have been to that place, a lonely rammed earth platform with only a few broken walls. In front of it, there are beacon towers scattered all over the Gobi desert, which the locals call Bai Dunzi. After walking for several days and nights, we arrived at the fifth and last beacon tower. Hu Er, who is called Shipantou, knows that there will be no birds, animals and aquatic plants further on. This Hu Er wavered, thinking that assisting in smuggling was guilty, and thinking that he died too late, he moved the idea of killing the teacher with a knife. However, the Tang Priest sat with his eyes closed, chanting beads as usual, and his calm dignity put this ordinary person in the sheath.
On the 800-mile-long Mohe Rock, an ascetic monk of the Tang Dynasty walked alone in the west. In the yellow wind and yellow sand rolling all over the sky, the water bag carried by Tang Priest accidentally fell on the sand. Water is exhausted, life is exhausted. He led the horse back, but suddenly remembered that he had sworn never to look back until Tianzhu. He would rather die in the west than return to the east. In this way, he walked west for four days and four nights. On the fifth day, his will could no longer support his body and he lay down. Maybe there is a Buddha in the shadow, and the old and thin red horse dragged him away. In front of him is a green field, covered with weeds. In this way, out of the quicksand. This man went all the way to Wan Li, all the way to the west. Crossing Peacock River, crossing tiemenguan, crossing Baishan Heiling, crossing Heze River ... The pile of matches didn't kill him, the butcher knife tied to the altar didn't kill him, and the robber's robbery didn't kill him. The saying of Nalanduo Temple made his chest stand higher, and he was saved from falling into the water in the stormy river. In this way, after 18 years of hardships, a monk of the Tang Dynasty returned to the motherland with 357 Sanskrit classics. On the 25th day of the first month in the 19th year of Zhenguan, "Welcome Taoism and customs, let's go to the city" is a scene of how the whole country embraces each other.
I know that this tower, which stands in the west courtyard of Jean Temple, was built by Tang Priest "after carrying bricks and stones for two years and finishing his work". I also know that this pagoda is called Big Wild Goose Pagoda, because it is said that the goose that died at the expense of itself in "The Tale of the Western Regions of Datang" was as merciful as a bodhisattva. On the magnificent shrine of stupa gate, there are the Preface to Tang Sanzang by Emperor Taizong and the Preface to Sanzang by Emperor Gaozong. Chu Suiliang, a calligrapher in the early Tang Dynasty, presented books with both hands. The line sculpture on the lintel of Shimen was made by Yan and Wei Chiyi. The Big Wild Goose Pagoda in Chang 'an, Hongfu Temple, Ximing Temple and Yuhua Temple in Yaozhou were once the translation fields for Tang Priest to concentrate on Sanzang. Standing in the shade of a locust tree, I looked up at the light of the sun and the moon for a long time and realized a harmonious wisdom.
This man was born in 602 AD and died in 664 AD. In his youth, during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, he traveled all over Gansu, Sichuan, Jing and Zhao, visited Buddhism and Taoism, and lived in half of China. In the prime of life, it is a great feeling to venture alone, passing through East China and Central Asia, to visit the wonders, study various ministries, visit sages and seek Brahma. In his later years, he "guarded the gate and expounded the legacy law", advocated the new rules of translation of classics loyal to the original works, and wrote "The Story of the Western Regions of Datang" 12, which included the history, geography, religious myths, customs and customs of the Western Regions 138 countries, which was extremely precious in the history of Buddhism and the history of Sino-Western exchanges.
A Journey to the West made this person a household name, and a big wild goose pagoda also made this person immortal. The man's common name was Chen Yi, and his legal name was Xuanzang, and he was given the name "Monk Sanzang". This man lived to be 62 years old, and the Big Wild Goose Pagoda was 64 meters high. What a big Tang priest! Every time I stand in Leyuan Scenic Area and look at the southwest, I feel that the towering tower is a person. Some people say that the Big Wild Goose Pagoda is a seal in the hearts of Xi people. I think the Wild Goose Pagoda is still a national character or China spirit with exemplary significance.