This story comes from Tubo, the west neighbor of Datang. As we all know, the Tang Dynasty once married Princess Wencheng to Songzan Gambu. Songzan Gambu is said to be keen on developing Buddhism. There are three Zapp like him in * * *, which is called "the three kings of France". But * * * itself, at that time, there was a local religion "Bonism", which naturally clashed with foreign "Buddhism", just like "Taoism" in the Tang Dynasty.
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As far as the times are concerned, the once powerful Tang Dynasty in the Central Plains at this time has declined because of the Anshi Rebellion, and the Tubo on the plateau has also embarked on the road of disintegration because of this religious conflict.
In the language of Buddhists, "Niu" came to Tubo in this era and became Zaplandama (in fact, his real name is Dama, because Buddhists say he is a descendant of Niu, so a "Lang" was added before his name, which means "Niu" in Chinese.
Slightly different from the prince inheritance system in the Central Plains, Rondama is not his father's eldest son, but his fourth son, and his eldest brother is Zangma. He became a monk very early because of his Buddhist beliefs, and his second and third brothers died early one after another, so Langdama, who ranked fourth, became the king of Tubo.
Rondama believes in the "local religion" of Tubo, which is different from his eldest brother. At that time, a so-called "seven domestic monks" system prevailed in Tubo, that is, seven families took out assets to support a monk, and there were more and more monks, and the burden of Tubo people became heavier and heavier, and their resentment deepened.
So after Rondama came to power, a movement to destroy Buddhism was quickly pushed away, and a large number of Buddhist temples under construction were shut down, while famous temples such as Jokhang Temple were closed, and Jokhang Temple simply became a cowshed (this may be the direct reason why Rondama was regarded as Niu Wangmo).
The statue of Buddha Sakyamuni in The Journey to the West brought by Princess Wencheng when she got married in the Tang Dynasty was almost taken down and thrown into the river. And Princess Wencheng herself is said to be "reincarnation of Luo Cha"-yes! That's Niu's wife rogue in A Chinese Odyssey. Even at that time, the murals in Buddhist temples were erased, and many monks were painted drinking and having fun in broad daylight. Monks were expelled from temples, and some fled to India (but the problem is that Buddhism in India also declined at this time, facing a strong challenge).
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What about the monks who stayed in Tubo? Then there is only one way, follow the hounds, hunt with bows and arrows, and beat the drums of Bonism. In the monk's view, these are naturally a great shame. So, there was a monk named Sijiduoji who vowed to kill Rondama.
It is said that the monk found a white horse and painted it black (this record is very strange, isn't there a black horse in Tubo? ), he rode this horse to the Potala Palace and danced a wonderful and strange dance. It happened that Zanparama came out at this time, and the monk "danced and walked near the king"-probably because similar incidents rarely happened in Tubo before, and Zanpa was unguarded, so he let the monk get close to himself and recited a poem for him:
"The wind around the earth, water around the earth, water to put out the fire ... Buddha wins the lion king, and I also kill the king as scheduled."
Speaking of the last sentence, the monk Siji Duoji aimed at Zap's chest and shot a deadly arrow on the spot.
However, to the monk's surprise, Rondama's death not only failed to revive Buddhism at that time, but made the Tubo royal family and Bonism more angry with Buddhists, and a large-scale massacre began. It is said that none of the Tibetan monks survived. To the surprise of Siji Duoji, the originally unified Tubo dynasty also embarked on the road of division. For more than a hundred years, there was no Buddhism or Tubo dynasty on the plateau, and the melee lasted for nearly a hundred years. It was not until the late 10 century, that is, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in the Central Plains, that Buddhism gradually revived in the plateau.
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In a similar era, Tang Wuzong, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, also launched the so-called movement to destroy Buddhism, which Buddhists called "the difficulty of prospering the country when encountering the law", but for the Tang people, this was the last small prosperity of the national movement: Li Deyu, a famous figure in the Tang Dynasty, presided over the movement.
However, compared with Tubo, the demise of Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty eased a lot. In fact, he didn't want to arrest all Buddhists, but demolished too many temples and eliminated too many monks and nuns (the reason is very simple, monks and nuns don't have to pay taxes, everyone becomes nuns, and Datang goes bankrupt). Even at that time, there was a ban, that is, monks and nuns were not allowed to possess too many handmaiden, and a monk could only have one handmaiden and one nun.
In particular, Tang Wuzong prohibits believers from sending money to temples and monks from accepting alms. Once found, believers who send a dollar will be beaten with 20 sticks; Monks or nuns who collect money will also be beaten with 20 sticks.
It is said that during the whole Wuzong period, more than 4,600 temples were demolished, 260,000 monks and nuns were ordered to return to secular life, and tens of millions of hectares of fertile land owned by temples were confiscated (by the way, Zoroastrianism was also destroyed, which was regarded as a sideline of Buddhism, and thousands of believers were ordered to return to secular life, as was Nestorianism, a Christian Assyrian church in the East).
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Du Mu, a poet, is a supporter of Wuzong's movement to ban Buddhism. He once wrote an article saying that the emperor destroyed Buddhism because he was poor in my world (Buddhism made Datang poor). Why did he say that? To provide you with a data, there were more than 260 thousand monks and nuns who were ordered to return to the secular world at that time. How many people were enslaved by these monks and nuns? That's more than twice. In this sense, since the attack is not really Buddhism, but those who make a fortune in the name of Buddhism, there are many such people!