[MULTI SUB] “護法神” 的輪迴故事

3 00:00:05.470 --> 00:00:09.960 There was a distant and vast celestial system that Within it were limitless layers of universes and countless heavenly worlds. This celestial system had a supreme ruler, the Lord of this celestial system. This Lord has the appearance of vajra majesty and possesses unlimited divine powers. He is the most powerful god in that celestial system. Under this Lord, there is a goddess. She is wise and compassionate and is responsible for assisting her Lord in the management of all beings in the celestial system. They live freely in the highest Heavenly world of that celestial body. managing that celestial system together They lived for a long, long, long time, for which they can hardly remember. Until their celestial system, too, deviated with the old cosmic law of formation, Stasis, Degeneration, and Destruction It became less beautiful. In order to save the beings of their celestial system. This Lord decided to follow the Creator down into the world and remake Divine body. The goddess, his follower was also eager to follow the Creator to descend to the earth However, as soon as she thought of giving up all the power and intelligence of God. and plunging into the confusing and sinister world of human. She was afraid that if she went down alone, she would be lost in the earthly world, never to return again. But this was the only chance to save their heavenly world. So, despite her fear, she was determined to go down to the mundane world. That she might not be lost in the world of humen. So the goddess went toasked her Lord to come down to the earth in company with her. to remind and help each other even in the treacherous world. The Lord was touched by the compassion of the goddess and decided to go down with her. She made a vow to pour out all her abilities to protect the Buddha Law The two gods also made a mutual agreement that after they went down to the mundane world, they would help each other and never leave each other, they will accomplish the mission of saving all living beings and return to heaven together. Because this Lord has taken an oath to protect the Dharma, for the sake of convenience in calling him we will call him the Protector of the Dharma for the time being. They traveled down through the layers, and after a long period of time, they were reborn on earth. On earth, they experience countless times of reincarnation. Due to the characteristics of life's origin and the oath made at the beginning. This Protector God has been a famous general who has fought in the battlefield. He has also been an emperor who has been expanding the territory, and has been on the military horse for almost all his lives of reincarnaton. Around the time of Qin Shi Huang in China. This Dharma protector was reborn as a king in India, the famous Ashoka in history. Ashoka was primus inter pares, staunch and bold. His life was divided into two distinct periods. Black Ashoka in the earlier period and White Ashoka in the later period. Black Ashoka, after purging his obstacle and ascended to the throne, he launched a large-scale military expedition against all the tribes of India, He eventually unified India. This paved the way for the full spread of Buddhism in India. After the unification of India by the later White Ashoka. In the last brutal campaign, he witnessed the tragic scene of corpses everywhere. He was stunned so much The Buddha nature in the essence of his life began to awaken. Later, inspired by the Dharma, he repented and formally converted to Buddhism and declared Buddhism as the state religion. He declared Buddhism to be the state religion and began to promote Buddhism throughout the country. He built Buddhist temples all over the country and sent many Buddhist disciples to neighboring countries to propagate the Buddha teaching. Buddhism eventually reached unprecedented prosperity in India and began to spread to the world. Ashoka was honored by the Buddhists as the Dharma Protector. In this life, the Dharma Protector Goddess honored his vow of protecting the Dharma before his descending, and that goddess was reborn as Ashoka's queen, named Shan Wu Xu, who was meek and kind and believed in the Dharma. and assisted Ashoka wholeheartedly. The world has changed. In the late Northern and Southern Dynasties, during the Northern Zhou Dynasty. This Dharma protector was reborn as Yang Jian, Emperor Wen of Sui, and was born in the Prajna Monastery. When this Dharma Protector was reborn, the room was filled with violet light. One day, his whole body was covered with Dragon scales, protruding horns when he took out his feet, he appeared to be a real dragon. At that time, there was a nun in the Bonjouru Temple who was a Daoist of high realm She predicted that Yang Jian was an extraordinary person by future-telling capacity and that he would be able to ascend to the throne of the dragon and revive Buddhism in the future. So the nun asked Yang Jian's parents for permission to raise the young Yang Jian. She gave Yang Jian the birth name “Narayan”, which means “Vajra Unbreakable” in Sanskrit. From the time he was born until he was twelve or thirteen years old, Yang Jian followed the nun for more than ten years, eating fasting and praying to the Buddha. Since he was young he had formed a deep bond with the Buddha, and the Buddhism had already taken root in his heart. When Yang Jian was still seven or eight years old, the nun instructed her: “You will be very noble and come from the East. When Buddhism is extinguished, it will be revived by you" These are not myths or legends intended by the ancients, but true accounts of the miracles of the time. More than twenty years later, in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, there was Zhou Emperor Extermination of Buddhism incurred Emperor Wu of the Zhou Dynasty banned Buddhism, destroyed Buddhist scriptures and temples, and forced monks and nuns to return to secularism. Buddhism, which had once flourished during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, was undergone devastating ruin Emperor Wu of Zhou himself died at the age of thirty-five, having committed infinite sins by destroying Buddhism. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, due to the long reign of the Hu people in the central plains, the Han canonical system and traditional culture were declining. Yang Jian endured the humiliation and set his mind when he was a young boy. on ending the Hu rule and reviving the Han rule in China After ascending the throne, Yang Jian unified China by millitary power and created the Sui Dynasty. He issued an edict to revitalize traditional Han culture and restore Han rule. He issued an edict to revive Buddhism, spread the teachings of the Buddha, and build pagodas. He built Buddhist temples, honored monks, and fulfilled his mission of protecting the Dharma. Yang Jian finally created the “Kaihuang Dynasty” through his political, cultural and military achievements. The goddess was reincarnated as Empress Dugu, who assisted Yang Jian in ruling the country, and was known as the Two Saints in the court. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Goddess of Protection was reborn into a poor family of Zhu, who was later known as Zhu Yuanzhang. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the society was in turmoil by the tyrannical government and heavy labor. and the people did not have enough to live on. Under the arrangement of the heavenly will of “one eye of the stone man, stirring up the Yellow River and the whole world to rebel”, The people had formed volunteer armies all over to resist the tyranny of the Yuan Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang, who joined the volunteer army, showed his outstanding military talent and gradually rose to be the commander-in-chief of a volunteer army. Zhu Yuanzhang raised the banner of “expel the cruisers and restore China”. He subdued the rebel armies in different parts of the country and gradually gained power, eventually unifying China. When Zhu Yuanzhang was still in his mother's womb. Yuan Dynasty, some people projected that there would be a true emperor-to-be born in Anhui Province, When he grew up, he would rise up to destroy the Yuan Dynasty. The emperor of the Yuan Dynasty ordered all pregnant women in Anhui to be killed. People with pregnant women fled for their lives. Zhu Yuanzhang's parents were forced to flee and beg along the road. Unexpectedly, they met a group of Yuan soldiers on the road, and Zhu's parents were dressed in rags, just like beggars. The Yuan soldiers laughed around Zhu's mother, who was six months pregnant, and mocked them, saying. The poor beggar can still give birth to the real son of heaven, what a big joke. After some ridicule, they left, Zhu family managed to saved their lives, As saying goes, “the to-be-king would not died since the beginning of time”. Later, the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty made many attempts to assassinate Zhu Yuanzhang. They sent assassins to assassinate him, and poisoned his tea and rice. Every time he was in danger, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was blessed by heaven, was able to escape unharmed. For the safety sake, the goddess Queen Ma, who was reborn as the mother of the nation, had to personally take care of Zhu Yuanzhang's food and living every day. They are truly affectionate. Due to his poor family background, Zhu had been wandering around with his parents since he was young. After his parents died of hunger, in order to survive. As a teenager, Zhu Yuanzhang became a monk in a Buddhist temple, chopping wood and carrying water. chopping wood and carrying water, listening to the morning bell and the evening drum, and forming a sacred Buddhist bond. Later, due to a famine, the temple was dissolved Zhu Yuanzhang had to travel arround to beg. For several years, Zhu Yuanzhang had to go begging in the clouds, enduring hunger, wind and dew, He ate all the bitterness of the world, but also honed his strong will. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, due to the consecutive years of war. Monks from all over the world fled, and many monasteries were broken and destroyed, and Buddhism in land of Divine was seriously damaged. After Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor, he began to fulfill his mission of protecting the Buddhism. promoting Buddhism, building monasteries, all over the country Wide-ranging pujas are held to promote good and eliminate evil So that Buddhism in Land of Divine quickly recovered and flourished again. Who will this guardian deity be reborn as in his next life? Let's leave a little bit of suspense, and we will talk about it later. Life is a big drama, turning and reincarnating. Playing the roles arranged by history, waiting for the final salvation of the Creator.