Anecdotes of abbot zhengci

Returning to the temple made the abbot of Zhengci embark on a road far away from "scholars and monks" and practice Buddhism to the society. He put forward the concept of practicing human Buddhism based on culture. Honghua Temple has a long history of cultural heritage. There has always been a school in the history of the temple, which has trained a large number of talents and Buddhist monks. According to the examination, more than 50% of the scholars, juren, scholars and abbots in Daye County came from this school. The teacher also learned a lot of Confucianism, and the lowest one was a top three scholar. Inheriting the mantle, Master Zhengci started to give lectures and study; Hold a large-scale exhibition of Buddhist calligraphy and painting, invite scholars and scholars widely, and let people meditate and realize Taoism in art and culture. At the end of 2000, the 1000 exhibition hall with a historical span of nearly 2000, based on the Biography of China Monks, broke ground, which will be an exciting stroke in the construction history of Honghua Temple, and will also add rich colors to the development model of "cultural" Buddhism. The bronze bell of heaven and earth is a symbolic embodiment of Honghua Temple culture promoting education. At the arrival of the new millennium, a pair of bronze clocks of heaven and earth, which were initiated by Li and supervised by Master Zheng Ci, were cast in Guangji Temple and Honghua Temple in Beijing respectively. At the turn of the Millennium, there are two symphonic temples in the north and south, where heaven and earth celebrate together and the Buddha sounds melodious. These two kinds of chimes are out of print now. In 2004, Master Zhengci edited the Buddhist Records of Orient Mountain, which won a high reputation in the local government and the Buddhist community. In this regard, abbot Zhengci said: "With the development of modern science today, how to combine Buddhism with modernization and how to adapt to socialist society requires us to constantly practice and sum up, and keep pace with the times before Buddhism can have vitality."