The first ambition of this master's life is to promote Buddhism, cultivate the talents of monks and develop Buddhism. Artistic and cultural activities such as poetry, couplets and calligraphy only promote Buddhism in their spare time. However, the talent and efforts of this master, although he has no intention of creating poetry couplets, have made remarkable achievements. If he is listed as a modern poetry couplet, it is completely worthy of the name.
Among the master's literary works, Roar Hall Collection is the most important one, and it is also valued by scholars. However, the mage still has a large number of widely circulated couplets, and still lacks intentional collection and in-depth researchers. In fact, most people may not have read Yuan Ying's poems, but in many Buddhist niches, there are Yuan Ying's inscriptions. If you have been to Gutian Gokurakuji, there is no one who doesn't know the title of Shanmen Yuan Ying. "It's bliss to be here, and I don't know where the west is". In view of this, this paper focuses on Yuan Ying's achievements in the art of Buddhist couplets, and appreciates Xiu De's literary talent.
China's poems and couplets are inseparable. Scholars' poems are often accompanied by couplets, but some of them are independent books based on couplets. There is "Disciple Ming" in the series of Yuan Ying Fa Hui. Gyeonggi "Roaring Hall Couplets Collection". " Collection * * * Received 44 couplets 144 written by Yuan Ying, including 43 couplets of elegiac couplet, congratulations couplet and temple scenery couplet. 25 pairs of five-character couplets, 56 pairs of seven-character couplets and 20 pairs of eight-character couplets. Compared with Yuan Ying's couplets collected by the author over the years, there are still more than 20 pairs that are not in the book. It can be seen that Yao Ji is not the complete works of master couplets, but it is also the essence of master couplets, which can generally reflect the main achievements of master couplets. The following two aspects from the content and art, combined with the author's collection but not part of the couplets, discusses the master's creation characteristics of couplets.
First, the content of Master Yuan Ying's couplets
Xiao Zhijin said in the preface to Poems of the Tang Dynasty: "Poetry is Zen, and Zen is poetry." [2] It can be borrowed as "Zen is right, Zen is right". Almost all Yuan Ying's couplets are related to Buddhism, and their contents can be roughly divided into four categories: temple couplets, funeral couplets, gift couplets and self-titled couplets. The following examples illustrate them.
(1) Si 'antang Alliance
This kind of couplet is the most popular and influential, with nearly 50 pairs. Most conjunctions can be combined with the historical geography of this field to write characteristics. For example, tiantong temple, the abbot of Yinxian County, has more than 10 sub-titles [3], among which the Shanmen couplet:
◎ Tracing back to the Jin Dynasty in the mountains, Taibai Deng was sent overseas after Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties;
Looking back from Buddhism, I counted the Han people and Manchu people in Tibet several times, as well as Shi Yao, a gifted monk who was alive.
Based on the history of temples, this federation writes its own characteristics. According to Tiantong Temple (300), it was founded in the first year of Jin Yongkang. One-star monk went to the East Valley of Nanshan. He became a monk when he saw the beautiful mountains and water here. Sometimes a boy pays his salary every day, and when he says goodbye, he claims to be the embodiment of "Taibai Venus". From then on, the mountain was named "Taibai" and the temple was named "Tiantong". 1225, the 23rd founder of Cao Dongzong, Zen master Rujing, abbot Tian Tong, was a Japanese monk Daoyuan, who traveled across the ocean from Rujing to Cao Dongzong and then returned to China to establish Cao Dongzong in Japan. Therefore, Cao Dongzong, a Japanese Buddhist, honored Tiantong Temple as his ancestral home. Another example is the couplet in the Hall of Ursa Major:
◎ The Zen Forest in Yang Yang, Zhejiang Province, was the first to depict exquisite historical sites;
The four seas are called Buddhist countries, and the group pushes Taibai famous mountains.
◎ If it is wonderful and solemn, the main companion is in full swing, and Lingshan is there;
Originally, the Buddha's body was clean, saints and mortals were integrated, and Bodhi Road was now rounded.
Another example is the Maitreya Temple Trade Union:
◎ A big belly can contain a lot of troubles; Smile, forming an infinite joy.
Zhejiang and Jiangsu are the main areas of Master Xi's activities. As far as footprints are concerned, there are many sentences. For example, Guanyin Cave in Lingyanshan, Suzhou, according to the preface of the master's inscription, because of its "Guanyin Bodhisattva appeared many times", later generations carved stones on the rocks. Therefore, these two questions are:
◎ silently pray for the cash body, and don't give up the great sorrow and show the wonderful phase;
The holy name calls to the heart, that is, to educate and comfort the public.
◎ All over the world, words are born, and the lotus wind vibrates;
Since San Ji, pavilions have been built to protect rocks, and the pure land is open.
There is another question about Ling Yanshan and her party:
◎ Practice a line, wholeheartedly, but in the name of a flood, go to the pure land of bliss;
With the three capitals, I have crossed the three realms and realized the secrets of the three virtues, which is proved by Amitabha.
There are also clouds praising Guanyin Bodhisattva:
◎ With thousands of hands and eyes, you can see the dharma world, protect all sentient beings, and be at ease.
Won two special victories, showing the general door, busy with the dust brake, everything should be exhausted.
In the late 1930s, when the master went to Xiangguang Temple in Erjia Town, Nantong, he also talked about Li Anyun in the auditorium:
◎ Without me, no one is comfortable, and seeing the Buddha is not empty or not.
Other temples in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces have inscribed couplets, such as Fahua Tanlian in Rushu Ningbo Guanzong Temple:
◎ The first thread followed Siming, forgetting the hard work for the law; The wonderful machine integrates the three views into one, blowing the family style into the xuanshu.
The mage has been preaching dharma in Shanghai for a long time, so there are many hands in the Buddhist temples in Shanghai. For example, Yuanming Lecture Hall was founded by Master 1933, and its 10 copies are engraved in the present Buddha Building and Master Yuan Ying Memorial Hall. [4] Good sentences such as:
◎ Spring breeze turns into rain,
Zen poetry teacher.
◎ Three sticks to open Hebei purport,
A glass of wine shocked Lingnan School.
◎ urging Li to shake the wind in the shadow,
Strange flowers pour water to send incense.
The second couplet of the sutra depository was written by Yuan Ying. Disciple Ming? To supplement this book, the joint sentence is:
◎ The treasure is solemn, and thousands of volumes are cut in dust;
A letter of support is the only way to build a perfect system.
◎ Great compassion, thirty-two should be Zhou Chen brake;
Save the suffering, a million rings.
Another example is the inscription of Longhua Temple in Shanghai with stars. Such as the Association of Buddhist Churches:
◎ Extremely superior practice, honestly chanting Buddha;
Solemn land, free life.
◎ Longevity and longevity are caused by culture;
Fitness is nothing more than planting fruit.
Another example is the three temples and two associations:
◎ Master and apprentice are solemn, attracting all beings and returning to Elysium;
I am willing to succeed, beyond quality, kindness and respect.
◎ A pious line, blessed with a great name, died in a blessed land;
Full of three treasures, it is a secret collection of three virtues.
Master Yuan Ying is from Fujian, so he also wrote many couplets in the temple of his hometown in Fujian. For example, Quanzhou Kaiyuan Temple Tan Jie Federation:
◎ Buddha is the loving father of all beings and should be a mage like you.
1926 Title Maitreya Temple in Xiangfeng, Fuzhou:
◎ Always smile to the end, measure the law of tolerance;
After a long period of practice, Bodhi succeeded.
Besides Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai and Fujian, there are also some monks living in temples. For example, yunmen temple Zen Hall in Ruyuan County, Guangdong Province:
◎ Take care of the woman, don't love her, celebrate the party, and play bamboo sticks;
Stay away from delusion, Heshan may get the drum, and Xuefeng may get the ball.
Another example is the Sichuan Emei Mountain National Security Temple Alliance:
◎ Turn over the books for the eyes of the future, ask questions first.
Another example is Jiuhuashan in Anhui:
When you have a profound experience, you know the world. When you realize it, you are naive.
Li 'an, formerly known as Ding Hui 'an, was one of the east squatters of Huacheng Temple during the reign of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty. Xianfeng was destroyed by soldiers. During the Tongzhi period, the abbot and monk began to rebuild. 193 1 year, when abbot Ruixiang expanded the temple, he asked Yuan Ying to write an inscription.
(2) Mourning the Teachers' Friendship Association
The objects of elegy made by the mage are mainly Buddhist teachers and friends, mostly jungle virtues. For example, there are six couplets * * *, all of which are relatively long. One is:
◎ The experience of benefiting others' wishes, lives and learning from oneself has spread from Sanxiang to Siming, spreading Buddhism and light widely, repaying the president and rejuvenating Brahma for 20 years, which is really admirable.
Take a quick look at the road, pull out the grass and watch the wind, not afraid of traveling a thousand miles, stick to the seven pagodas, guide the staff in the meditation hall and change clothes in the Zhang room. Once the dark clouds suddenly disperse, the disciples will lose their support.
Qita Temple, located in Baizhang Street, Jiangdong, Ningbo, is one of the four jungles in eastern Zhejiang. It was founded in the 12th year of Tang Dynasty (858), and seven pagodas were built in front of the temple in the 21st year of Qing Emperor Kangxi (1682). So it is commonly known as "Seven Pagodas Temple". In the 16th year of Guangxu reign (1890), Master Ciyun was appointed as the abbot, and the whole temple was rebuilt and expanded on a large scale, making Panyu one of the new places, where many people gathered. 1895, Ciyun made a special trip to Beijing to seek scriptures, and was named "Seven Pagodas Hongzhi", which made great contributions to the rejuvenation of the Seven Pagodas Temple. Later generations set up "Ciyin Hall" to commemorate. Yuan Ying, Dao Jie and other great virtues have been approached and taught by Ci Yun. Give another couplet:
Appear in front of the world as a major event. Chang Geng, chairman of Chongshou Zhongxing, turned to Yunzhou and set sail alone.
More than ten years have passed, and I have been a teacher, and I have been accepted tacitly. Now? Sing who lights the torch and who shines on the faint road.
In this Federation, the traces of kindness and Zen are listed, and the feelings and feelings of inheriting the teachings are expressed. "Chang Geng" means Taibai, which refers to Tiantong Mountain in Ningbo. "Chongshou" is the old name of Qita Temple.
Another example is 19 12. At the end of the year, the first president of the Chinese Buddhist Association, Eight Fingers Zen monk, passed away, and Yuan Ying made four elegiac couplets, which were used for four memorial services in Tiantong, Ningbo Branch, Shanghai General Association and Beijing. Among them, the Shanghai General Association commemorated Li Anyun:
After more than 60 years of spring and autumn, it is known as the pillar of Buddhism. Ever since I was in Hongdong, Zhejiang, Nanyue Road, I have been thinking about drinking it myself. Until now, it still hurts;
Contact hundreds of thousands of monks, arrange Buddha's utensils, save the day for the overall situation, and even finally see the spirit.
Another example is 194 1 year, which was linked by Master Bao Jing of Guanzong Temple in Ningbo, saying:
After 20 years of in-depth research and teaching, I have been referring to the mystery everywhere;
I have been writing Buddhist stories in my dreams all my life, and now I have given up my fantasy and returned to the truth.
Baojing (1899- 194 1), a native of Tiefeng, Shangyu, Zhejiang Province, with a common surname of Wang, is the youngest outstanding monk in the "Guanzong Society" founded by the master in 19 18 in Guanzong Temple, Siming Mountain, Ningbo. After the society was changed to Dafa Research Association, Bao Jing was appointed as the deputy lecturer. Later, Bao Jing preached in Hong Kong, Macao and Guangdong many times.
Another example is 194 1 year Master Alliance:
◎ Macroscopically explain the pure Sect, and only the teacher is the most important; Gordon Lotus products are close to Buddha.
Engraving master (1861-1941): The common surname is Zhao. Shaanxi Yanghe people. After becoming a monk, the dharma name is holy and the word is printed. A famous monk in modern times, the thirteenth ancestor of Pure Land Sect.
In addition, there are some couplets in the elegiac couplet that hold non-religious people who have contributed to the Buddhist cause. For example, 1925, he made a couplet for Quanzhou holding Huang Xiu:
◎ The three students made an appointment and hit it off at first sight. They were generous and had long merits.
I will meet you in half a month, and I will never forget it. You can easily remove the dust net, which is typical of the evening incense hall.
Huang is a descendant of Huang Shougong who built Kaiyuan Temple in Shesang Garden in Tang Dynasty. 1924, when Yuan Ying presided over Kaiyuan, Huang's descendants were responsible for the cost of rebuilding the Fatang and Dongxi Pagoda. Among them, the West Tower was built by Huang Xiuyou.
Another example is 1934. When Yang Shuzhuang, Chairman of Fujian Province, joined:
◎ Serving the party and the country and enjoying Peng Ling forever can be regarded as a mainstay;
It is Buddhism, but it is expected that Russia will sleepwalk in Zhuang, but it will lose its internal teaching.
Yangshuzhuang (1882- 1934), a native of Minhou, Fujian Province, was the commander-in-chief of the navy of the National Revolutionary Army and a member of the National Government. He served as the chairman of the Fujian provincial government from 65438 to 0927, and later died in Shanghai. 1929, master Xu Yun was invited by Yang to preside over the reorganization of Yongquan Temple in Gushan, Fuzhou, and Yuan Ying took over. Therefore, Lianzhong has praises such as "protecting the law".
(3) Inscriptions to celebrate couplets
Many congratulatory couplets by Yuan Ying are also related to Taoist couples in Buddhism. For example, Master He Changxi's abbot Hengshan Nanyue Daisanji Alliance:
Zhong Ling's seven towers and another crutch; Sanxiang Huaying, long-distance transmission of gossip array.
Another example is the Qita Temple Trade Union hosted by the He Daoheng brothers:
◎ Vertical strokes are unintentional, and Zhenxi once swam to Heng Yue; It's hard to take off the cloth, but the floating cup still crosses Dongting Lake.
Press: Elder Dao Heng became the abbot of Qita Temple in Ningbo in the third year of the Republic of China (19 14).
How to unite the master's 60th birthday couplet;
After 360 years, he became a bodhisattva and began to rejuvenate. Living people are not counted;
Round into 84 thousand practice, to live long, to save the world and save the good.
Master Lian Sheng is the abbot of Yongming Temple in Ningbo, and his medical skills are superb. Therefore, there are praises such as "coming back to life, regardless of the living" in couplets.
The inscription "Pray for Peace in Jiangsu and Zhejiang" belongs to Buddhist activities:
◎ Have broad compassion, give alms to hundreds of sentient beings, and avoid the disaster of swords and soldiers; Sure enough, he was resourceful and ingenious, won fourteen fearless and saved the victims in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
There is only one couplet in the collection, "Lin He Shengjun expanded pharmacy opened", which is regarded as the master's commercial entertainment couplet, but the content is still inseparable from the original intention of the compassionate bodhisattva. The couplet reads:
◎ Seek ambition in seclusion, seek business in obscurity, and pursue a hundred miles in high winds; Wonderful products rejuvenate children, magical medicine changes bones, and Shao Shennong, the great cause of the Millennium.
Did you use "baili" in the Spring and Autumn Period? The story of Dr. Thyme; "Shennong" is the legendary ancient emperor who tasted a hundred herbs.
(4) Self-topic association
In terms of quantity, Yuan Ying wrote the most self-titled couplets in his life, and Ji Jie collected nearly 100 couplets. These couplets range from five words to thirteen words. The content is to talk about Zen by borrowing scenery, or to talk about Taoism by borrowing things; Or release Zen and express your heart; Or by analogy, advocate compassion and persuade goodness. Its conjunctions are plain, poetic and philosophical, coupled with stable antithesis and harmonious melody, so it has high artistry. Some couplets were selected by later generations and engraved in temples, which became the universal couplets of Buddhism. This shows that the mage likes to express his feelings in the traditional form of couplets. Here are a few examples to illustrate this point.
◎ Buddhism says that life is like a dream.
◎ Talking about Buddha and talking about Buddha is a proof of Zen for the moon.
◎ The dharma body lasts for thousands of months, and it smells like a bell.
◎ Originally, the heart was a Buddha. Who am I?
◎ Where the Buddha goes, where the Tao goes.
◎ Meditate on the Thousand-Sound Buddha and read some books.
When there was nothing, where could I find Sanxin?
◎ Stay away from all sentient beings and initiate bodhicitta.
If you wish to do what you have achieved, your merits will be solemn.
◎ Who is chanting Buddha when there is no me?
◎ Buddhism and Taoism do not seek from the outside, but wait and see.
◎ All laws are empty and clear, and spotless is Zen.
When you are idle, you consciously have nothing to do, and you won't know the truth until you realize it.
◎ Poetry is full of Zen, and empty body is dharma body.
Reading without reading will return to true thoughts. If you can't keep your heart, purify your heart.
◎ Realizing the concept of Ming is the true meaning, and turning the normal heart into the Buddha's heart.
◎ Being wet in the world is beneficial to life, to love things, and to hold a bow to cultivate morality, which is a kind.
◎ Huigen planted bodhi, and the tree kept opening.
◎ If you want to transcend the Three Realms, you can recite Buddha and go to Jiulian.
◎ The world is full of vicissitudes, but who knows the dream of life.
◎ Brahma is full of solemnity, and the moon is full of thousands of rivers.
I feel that the sea is deep, but I believe that the Taoist source is not far away.
◎ Don't abandon the world to seek the true meaning, you know, a normal mind is a Buddha's heart.
◎ Wen, it is convenient and fast to apply for a certificate;
Believe in what you want to do and breed pure land resources.
◎ Fu Hui is solemn and supreme;
Compassionate, people are predestined friends.
◎ Jiazi is re-established, and the German sound is hairy;
Before the spring and autumn period, I took the Go test.
◎ If you miss Buddha's heart, you can't bear it;
Teach pure land and have a good relationship with people.
◎ Outstanding talent, showing the sky;
Majestic and upright, full of vicissitudes.
◎ When the manna gate is opened, three altars give and receive;
Shock without thunder, seven people worship.
◎ Take six pictures and look at them one by one;
Great wishes make success.
Second, the artistic features of Master Yuan Ying's couplets
Among modern eminent monks, few people can compare with Master Yuan Ying except Yin Guang and Master Hong Yi in both quantity and quality of couplets. Although the master's couplets are only Buddhist works, their categories are still very wide and their artistic level is quite high. Many excellent works and couplets are beautiful and simple, with more philosophy and less mystery, and have their own subtle warnings.
(a) broad categories
Yuan Ying wrote couplets on temples, Buddhist scenic spots, teachers and friends, congratulations and friends. And self-titled couplets are the most, such as see above. It can be said that couplets have become an important carrier for the master to explain Zen and express his mind.
(2) Various forms
The couplets made by the mage have various forms and different lengths. Its combination is five words, and the elders are more than forty words. For example:
You know the law without me, so you should learn from precepts.
Mountains and lakes are proud of you, and the wind and moon help you sing.
When you sit still, you often think about yourself, or you can talk about others. (Yuanming Lecture Hall Association)
◎ You should retreat into the quiet light in the whirling world. (1942 changed lanes with the abbot of Fuxing Quanzhou Kaiyuan Temple, succeeded the abbot, and joined hands with Master Hongyi)
◎ The moon is the ancestor of the breeze, and the distant mountains are near the water to send poems.
◎ Clouds pass without a fixed place to live, and Shuiyue League practices self-study.
◎ Bamboo and yellow flowers are Tathagata, and white clouds and mangroves are Zen machines.
◎ The taste of the world is not as good as the taste of books. How can people be more peaceful than Buddha's heart?
◎ He is a famous bodhisattva, and he has no place to live. If you can change things, you will be like the Tathagata.
◎ Morality is a teacher, and benevolence and righteousness are friends; Compassion is Buddha, leisure is immortal.
◎ Honest and sincere, life is safe; Compassion and help others, morality-oriented.
◎ Buddha's nature is the same, and the same life is safe; If you rest wildly, rest is bodhi.
◎ Courtesy, righteousness and shame are old morals; Compassion and happiness are the Buddha's heart.
◎ Listening to Nanhai Sanskrit, stubborn stones also produce goodness; Look at the purple bamboo in lorca. Guanyin is a person. (Zhejiang Putuo Mountain Fusai Jitang Alliance)
◎ The road is inseparable, as long as the light returns to its original place; The dharma body is original, and if it can be transformed, it will be like a Buddha. (Tiantong Temple Daxiong Baodian Lotus)
◎ Cherish the spirit and leave this as a Dafa; Time flies, ask when to repay.
◎ The Dharma Body has nowhere to go and nowhere to come, living in silence; Virtue is true and random. (Xiamen Nanputuo Company)
◎ People who are not far from the road should not recognize the heads of fans and look out; The heart was originally a Buddha, but later it came back to light and accepted it directly. (Tiantong Temple Daxiong Baodian Lotus)
◎ Deeply compassionate, with a big belly, can tolerate things that are intolerable in adversity;
Knot a wide knot happily, laugh all over your cheeks, and laugh at the ridiculous people in Vanity Fair. (Tiantong Temple Mile Temple Alliance)
The longest couplet made by the mage should be the Beijing commemorative couplet written at the end of 19 12 to commemorate the Eight Fingers Zen Master. The couplet is 90 words, saying:
◎ Answers are allowed. Fight when you should, and raise your salary when you should. Of course, you have an obligation to keep your property. If * * * and the country's political system are, it's all because of the division of manners and customs, autocratic power and constant speed.
If you are in trouble, you should burn a meat lamp, strive for personal progress, sacrifice yourself, take care of the overall situation, look forward to the Buddhist community, continue to work hard, and finally be free to believe in religion.
Ji Chan (1851-1912), whose real name is Jing 'an, is from Xiangtan, Hunan. Huang, a common surname, became a monk at the age of 18. He used to worship the relics at Asoka Temple in Ningbo. In order to show his sincerity, he gouged out a few pieces of arm meat and poured oil for the Buddha to burn, and rekindled the second finger of his left hand, because it was named Eight Fingers Zen. Revolution of 1911, the country changed greatly. 19 12 Buddhists from various provinces in China held the inaugural meeting of the Chinese Buddhist Association in Liu Yun Temple, and Ji Chan was elected as the first president. At that time, there were cases of looting and destruction of Buddha statues in various places, and monks could not cope with it and reported to the Buddhist Association one after another. In view of the grim situation at that time, Ji Chan wanted to save it fundamentally, so he arrived in Beijing in June 1 65438+1October1that year, and went to the Interior Office with his successor disciple Dao Jie to meet Du Guan, the director of manners and customs. According to the contract law, he asked the government to order that all localities be prohibited from encroaching on temple property, but the conversation failed. He resigned angrily and died in Fayuan Temple in Beijing on the night of June+February 2, 65438. Yuan Ying 1903 went to Tiantong Temple to meditate and gained a lot. When she heard the news that there was no news of Master, she was both sad and angry. Then he wrote four poems and four elegiac couplets, which were used for four memorial services of Tiantong, Ningbo Branch, Shanghai Federation and Beijing. There is a long preface before his elegy, which expresses his deep mourning for Zen. During the elegiac couplet, he sent Zen several times to raise salaries for the revolutionary army, petitioned in Beijing to destroy the Buddha and seize the property, and finally died heroically. The language of elegy is almost vernacular, but full of love and words.
(C) borrow things to chant ambition
Master couplets are good at using various natural images to create artistic conception and increase the aesthetic value of couplets. Many couplets seem romantic, but in fact they are metaphors of Zen, vivid and interesting. For example:
◎ Zen is a cypress tree in front of the court, and poetry is a beauty in the snow.
◎ The trees are floating green and fragrant.
◎ Spring mountain contains ancestral meaning, and autumn moon prints Zen mind.
◎ The wind and cloud view the state of the world, and Shui Yue proves Zen.
◎ The Zen window is quiet and the flowers are overflowing.
◎ Poetic window before the month, Zen after the rain.
◎ Cui Lifeng shakes the net, and the strange flowers reflect the water and send incense.
◎ The sound of the courtyard is suspected to be rain, and the moonlight is like frost.
◎ Yellow flowers and autumn rain have three paths, and red leaves and small smoke forests.
◎ The moon is the ancestor of the breeze, and the distant mountains are near the water to send poems.
◎ Clouds pass without a fixed place to live, and Shuiyue League practices self-study.
◎ Bamboo and yellow flowers are full of ancestors; Green mountains and green waters are all exposed.
(D) Flexible rhetorical devices
When writing couplets, the mage is good at skillfully using rhetorical devices to enhance the artistry of couplets. For example, some couplets adopt the method of embedding characters, and Xiamen Wanshiyan couplet is the first one embedded in Shiwan:
◎ Ten thousand years of ice is clear, and Zhao Hui has no resources;
The slate road is slippery, and the heel points into three grinds.
Another example is the 1947 title "Pingshan" embedded in the rock head of Pingshan, Nan 'ao County, Guangdong Province:
◎ The picture is surrounded by green hills, and the mountains and rivers are well-informed and blue.
Another example is the use of allusions. Many couplets use historical stories or Buddhist allusions, reflecting the master's profound knowledge. Such as the relic temple of Asoka Temple in Ningbo:
◎ Liu Sa and sincerely feel that the Li Yong stupa is an auspicious resort in Yongzheng;
Ba Guan's grief is incalculable, and her strength has broken the body of King Kong, which is widely appreciated by Fukuda.
This couplet uses the following allusions: Asoka Temple in Ningbo has a small wooden stupa, which is the smallest existing stupa in China. According to legend, during the Taishigong period of the Western Jin Dynasty (265-274), a man named Liu Sa He dug a small blue tower from the ground, which was "one foot four inches high and seven inches wide". The pagoda gate has a 50-fold wheel with carvings around it, which looks like a stone. He also said that this stupa is one of the 48,000 stupas built by King Ashoka, which contains the relics of Sakyamuni. In the second year of Yuanjia in the Southern Song Dynasty, Asoka Temple was built. There is a glazed tile pagoda with double eaves in the temple, and a stone pagoda is built in the pagoda. There is a wooden pagoda inlaid with seven treasures, and this small pagoda is in it, which shows that it is well preserved. It is said that the small wooden pagoda is also consistent with the biography of Buddhist scriptures. "Brahma Bodhisattva" in the second couplet is one of the names of Tathagata, which has six meanings: freedom, prosperity, strictness, fame, auspiciousness and dignity.
Another example is a short essay on this topic:
When there was nothing, where could I find Sanxin?
The first part is a set of sentences, from the poem of Huineng, the sixth ancestor: "Bodhi has no trees, and the mirror is not Taiwan." Nothing, then where did it cause dust? " The bottom line "three hearts" is also a classic. "The View of Infinite Life" says: "One sincerity, two sincerity, three sincerity. People with three hearts will be born in that country. "
(5) Make good use of running water pairs
The mage is strict in sentence meter and steady in antithesis. To the outside world, there are still a certain number of couplets that use "flowing pairs" to make them smooth and logical. For example:
◎ Buddhism and Taoism do not seek from the outside, but wait and see.
◎ To be a man, you need to cultivate your mind, and only by learning Buddhism can you realize heaven.
◎ If you want to transcend the Three Realms, you can recite Buddha and go to Jiulian.
◎ Don't abandon the world to seek the true meaning, you know, a normal mind is a Buddha's heart.
◎ To cultivate your mind, you must first understand the three truths and learn from Buddha to benefit all beings.
(6) strive for perfection
Some of this master's couplets use similar words, while others only use different words, which should be the result of their revision. It can also be seen that the master admires the attitude of learning to treat art endlessly and strive for perfection. For example:
◎ The moonlight and mountains are wonderful, and the waves and the sea are playing Zen.
◎ The moon is full of colorful shadows, and flowers and birds talk through Zen machines.
◎ Thousands of miles of Yunshan are hidden by me, and there is no dispute between the five lakes.
◎ Thousands of hills surround the Buddhist country, and the wind and moon enter the poetry bag at four o'clock.
◎ Seek happiness, wisdom and live a pure land; For man-made law, for bodhi.
◎ Seek happiness, wisdom and live a pure land; Read Buddhism and Dharma, read Sangha. (Shanghai Jushi Linlian)
◎ Listen to the midnight bell, and the sound awakens charming dreams; Try to look at the colors of the trees in front of the courtyard. They are all ancient Buddha hearts. (Yuanming Lecture Hall Association)
◎ Listening to the midnight bell, the voice awakens the master's dream; Try to see the moonlight in front of the court and dye the ancient Buddha's heart.
Title couplets and calligraphy couplets are the insights of Master Yuan Ying's life, and they are also an important part of his literary activities. His handed down works need to be further collected, and the handed down value of his couplets needs to be further studied.