Legend of Dawu Temple|The mystery of the founder’s empty tomb
Abbot Lokong opened the north-south passage of Dawu Temple; Master Niikong set up a line to diagnose the emperor's illness. The former is clearly engraved on the lotus stone; the latter is famous all over the world for diagnosing the pulse with a hanging thread.
A Zen master who founded the Zen Mountain was in the sky (True Four), and a walking miraculous doctor was in the sky (True Five). For hundreds of years, the tombs of the two eminent monks have been associated with magical legends and left many unsolved mysteries.
Dawu Temple is located at the mouth of a bell, and the tomb of the miracle doctor Nikora is located in the phoenix shape behind the temple. From a Feng Shui perspective, this golden phoenix with spread wings attached to the bell-shaped waist is indeed a Feng Shui treasure. Unfortunately, in the first month of 1596 AD, Xu Buzheng, a brothel, was blocked by heavy snow. He took out the sitting vat of Zen Master Sun Kong, who had been buried for two hundred years, and buried his father in the main cave. The Zen master moved his burial to Down.
In the late 1960s, the tomb of Xu Buzheng's father was actually pried open, and all the mercury was scooped out of the coffin. Not half of the treasure was found, only a piece of silk and a pile of broken bowls. Golden bones have been placed on the soil for many years, stone monuments have been built as bridges, and some of the stones for worship have been removed. In the mid-1970s, the locals felt sorry for the tragic situation and restored the tomb of Xu Buzheng's father.
I went to Dawu Temple twice, and then met several elderly people. After asking around, I didn’t know where the founder of the temple was buried. According to them, there is a monk's tomb at the entrance of Dawu Temple, that is, at the back of Mingtang. There are also monks' tombs around many houses, but there are no stone tablets and no pagodas.
It can be seen from this that the tomb of the empty abbot in Kaishan is still a mystery.
It seems like a coincidence. I visited Lilongtan Wanjian. Wanjian was originally called Wanjian because it is located in the northeast of Wangong Mountain (Tianzhu Mountain). Here are the descendants of Zhen Yigong, the fifth ancestor of the Yang family who moved to Qian. I had the honor to meet Mr. Yang Jisheng, the chairman of the Yang Family Clan Council, and read through the first and last volumes of the "Yang Family Genealogy" and excerpted some cultural and historical materials. The relevant content caught my attention, and I told him that just opposite the old house of Xuhuawu in Yangsi Village, across from Dawu Temple, there are three tombs of monks with three coffins, both of which have stone pagodas. Among them, the middle pagoda has a fang-shaped stone surface with carvings The words "Abbot's Pagoda" are written on it. The stone of the pagoda is the same as the stone of the Nikko Pagoda behind Dawu Temple. I also forwarded the article "Monk's Tomb" to him. After reading it in detail, he was shocked. He thought: "This is very possible. It is the empty tomb of the founding founder, Zhen Si Gong.”
One day later, Yang Jisheng and the old party secretary visited the monk’s grave in Yangsi Village, and I took the time to accompany them. After passing several field ridges, the three-coffin monk's tomb was right in front of them. They took photos and sighed. The three pagodas are generally similar. The middle one is slightly taller and thicker. The strangest thing is that there is a circular hole on the back side of the pagoda. This hole exactly corresponds to the circular hole in the middle of the regular hexagonal stone slab at the base. I told them that I had detected that this hole was three feet deep. The people of Xuhuawu did not know how many stones they had thrown away.
According to the legend of the local elders in Huayu, before 1949, monks from Dawu Temple came to worship every year, and they all said that the monks buried in the tomb were eminent monks from Dawu Temple.
What does the deep hole in the base of the "Abbot's Pagoda" mean? Is the eminent monk sitting on the vat behind the pagoda or under the cave? I visited several elderly monks at Sanzu Temple, but they had no explanation for this.
We have been analyzing for a long time, but we can't find any root cause to prove that the "Abbot's Pagoda" is the tomb of Master Kong Kong. This mystery still needs further research.