Farming by day and practicing asceticism by night
Farming by day and practicing asceticism by night is the method that working is done or doctrines are preached during the daytime and asceticism is done at night.
Supreme Patriarch Sangwol Wongak and his followers practiced farming by day and practicing asceticism as they did hard works like building the temple and repairing roads during the daytime and devoted themselves to do Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva continuously at night after registering the religious group.
Among the three indicators of Tiantai Buddhism, Living Buddhism is to create good fortune and do with the productive and practical attitudes by realizing that Buddhism and living are not two. Therefore, temples of Tiantai Buddhism is always open to make believers visit them and practice asceticism for 24 hours. The places to practice asceticism freely after work for workers re prepared because everybody can do it any time. So, you can easily find the persons who cultivate yourselves morally or religiously and devote themselves in Buddhist sanctuaries after dark.
△ The monks that dry rice
△ The monks that devote themselves to practice asceticism.
Farming by day and practicing asceticism by night is the method the method
that working is done or doctrines are preached during the daytime and asceticism
is done at night as the tradition tha has been around from Chinese Tiantai Buddhism
in the past. Supreme Patriarch Sangwol Wongak and his followers practiced farming by
day and practicing asceticism as they did hard works like building the temple and
repairing roads during the daytime and devoted themselves to do Avalokitesvara
Bodhisattva continuously at night after registering the religious group.
The temples of Tiantai Buddhism are located in the downtown areas
that you can go by public transportation, not the heart of mountains. They have
several requirements for good places for the persons who cultivate themselves
morally or religiously and Buddhists. Like this, the characteristics of the
temples of Tiantai Buddhism are the asceticism community that the persons who
cultivate themselves morally or religiously and the persons who became Buddhist
monks practice asceticism at the same place by getting rid of limited access to
the temples and opening asceticism space to all of them.
The temples of Tiantai Buddhism that become the asceticism places for the four classes
of the persons who follow Buddha's teachings, farming by day and practicing asceticism by
night, and oneness of monks and believers(승속일체) realizes the realities of popular Buddhism
suitable for modern times and are thought to implement the propagation policy that suits the
time.
This open policy could make the public participate in all kinds of events
as well as Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva and Vassa for a month actively and became the driving
force and foundation that Tiantai Buddhism could continue to grow.
