Gender: male
Year: Song Dynasty
biography
Niuxin Temple, the abbot of Mount Emei in the Song Dynasty, was born in Yaozhou (now Yaoxian County, Shaanxi Province), and was originally a monk in Tianshouyuan, Tokyo. At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, Taizu wanted to imitate the great move of seeking dharma in the Western Heaven in the Tang Dynasty, but he sent monks to India to seek dharma on a large scale. In the second year of Gander (964), he sent 300 people, including his successors, to seek the Dharma in the Western Heaven. This is the largest Buddhist activity in the history of China. Ji Ye and his party left Jizhou (now Wudu County in the southeast of Gansu Province), entered Xinjiang via Lanzhou and Hexi Corridor in the northwest, passed Hami, Turpan, Yanqi, Yutian and Shule, entered Dashi (that is, Dashi, which is an Islamic country in Central Asia), and then went south to the lush mountains and snow-capped mountains in the northwest of India. After traveling to five places in India, he arrived in Nepal, then returned to China by the old road in northwest India, and entered the Song Dynasty from Jizhou. In the twelfth year of Shang Dynasty, when Emperor Taizong ascended the throne (976), he presented Buddhist scriptures and relics. He chose a famous mountain to study, followed in his footsteps, and built the Niuxin Temple in Emei Mountain. He is 84 years old. Since then, the Buddhist activities of China monks in the West have come to an end.
In 964, Zhao Kuangyin, Song Taizu sent Ji Ye and others from Wudu County, Gansu Province 157 people to India to learn from the scriptures. On the way, Ji Ye often wrote what he saw and heard at the end of the Nirvana Sutra he read that day. He returned to Kaifeng, Henan Province in 976, which lasted 13 years.
After returning to Kaifeng, he continued to live in Niuxin Temple, Emei Mountain, Sichuan. When Ji Ye was alive, people didn't know this The Journey to the West. Shortly after his death, a man named Fan Chengda stumbled upon the Nirvana Sutra, which he inherited, and then he discovered that he had gone to the Western Regions, so he incorporated it into his book Wu Luchuan.