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Anonymous Sat Jul 23 01:53:48 2022 No.20721048 [Reply] [Original]

To destroy the body as the way to sever one's relation with this
world is another motive behind certain cases of religious suicide.
Under this category, the following are worthy of mention.
Monk Fa-k'uang (d. 633), a native of Hsien-yang (in present
Shensi province), "had an uncommon moral integrity in his youth.
He was more inclined to the Confucian ideals of conduct." Some
years later, when he became a monk, he used to live strictly
according to the monastic discipline. He often said: "Only because
of birth and death am I involved in the endless wheel of transmigration." He therefore "constantly felt dissatisfaction and
wished to abandon [his body]. On the twenty-first day of the
second month of the seventh year of the Chen-kuan period (April
5, 633), he entered into the Chung-nan mountain. When he arrived
at a place about forty li inside the Charcoal Valley (T'an-ku), he
hung his clothes on a tree, cut his throat," and thus ended his life
in this world.24
There was an anonymous monk of Fen-chou (in present Shansi
province) who "disliked birth and death. It was difficult for him
to pass days in this evil world, so he vowed that he would abandon
his body. At first, he gradually limited his food and took incense.
When the occasion of his meeting death came, monks and laymen
were assembled. Incense, flowers, banners, and umbrellas [were
offered to him] and arrangements were made for his escort.
People followed him to the Tzu-hsia-hsiieh cliff. At the top of
the cliff, the monk faced towards the west, with a solemn
expression on his face. People sang 'Hail, hail!' as a farewell to him
for his happiness. The monk then let his body fall from the overhanging cliff. After he had fallen to the ground below the cliff, he
was found in a sitting posture. When people rushed to see him,
they found that he had already passed away." 25
Another example concerns two sister-nuns of Ching-chou (in
present Hupeh province), who "read the Lotus Sutra together and
deeply disliked their bodies." Both of them therefore burned themselves to death in the same flame after performing religious
ceremonies.26

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