Jiang's Trip to Jiuhua Mountain

Jiuhua Mountain is widely known as one of the four sacred places in Chinese Buddhism. Overseas Chinese media have recently reported on the special trip made by Jiang Zemin on June 5, 2004, to Zhantanlin Temple on Jiuhua Mountain. Jiang is the main culprit behind the persecution of Falun Gong, and June 4 was the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, in which Jiang was also inextricably complicit.

Jiuhua Mountain is located in Qingyang County, Anhui Province. There, Jiang quietly prayed to Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva. His trip caused quite a stir in the local area. Jiang Zemin's hands are stained with blood of countless innocent people. Making a trip to a sacred place at a sensitive time like this certainly makes people think.

Many people remember April 25, 1999, when, in an attempt to stop the Politburo from opposing the suppression of Falun Gong, Jiang Zemin sent a letter to the Politburo. In the letter, Jiang indicated that "The Marxism theory and materialism and atheism we communists embrace will not be able to defeat the stuff promoted by Falun Gong? If that is really the case, won't we be the biggest laughingstock of the entire world?" Atheism became the main reason behind Jiang's persecution of Falun Gong. Jiang does not let people practise Falun Gong because they believe that Buddhas and Gods exist. Yet according to a report in January 2002 by Hong Kong's Open Magazine, Jiang transcribed Ksitigarbha Sutra at home and spent huge amounts of money asking lamas to pray for his good fortune and long life. Jiang worships a Bodhisattva, yet, at the same time, he uses the excuse of the Chinese government's being atheist to persecute Falun Gong.

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva is one of the four great Bodhisattvas in Mahayana Buddhism and his temple is located in Jiuhua Mountain. According to the Ksitigarbha Sutra, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva vowed "If Hell is not yet empty, I will not become a Buddha" meaning, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva vowed to first save all sinners in Hell before he would leave the three realms. In China's history of five thousand years, people have believed in more than one or two gods. Is Jiang Zemin's "special devotion" attributed to Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's persistence in rescuing the wicked ghosts from Hell? The difference between the past and the present is huge. When a person in the past humiliated someone who practised Buddhism or Daoism, he would have committed such a serious sin that he was doomed to suffer in hell, yet one day he would be able to repay all his karmic debts; and with Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's help, perhaps he could leave that extremely dark and filthy place. But the crimes Jiang has committed against a hundred million Falun Dafa practitioners are forbidden by heaven. His sins are higher than a mountain.

Jiang Zemin has always embraced power and military force, and thought that with his great power he could do what ever he wanted and commit evil deeds at will. He once gave an order to "eradicate" Falun Gong in three months. Five years have past, yet Falun Gong is thriving, and the tide of public opinion against the persecution has grown very strong. Jiang Zemin's persecution of Falun Gong has failed completely. According to a third party commentary, Jiang has committed unpardonable sins, and his trip to Jiuhua Mountain is like a person who "never burns incense when all is well, but clasps Bodhisattva's feet before dying." He hopes that, although he is responsible for the death of thousands of innocent people, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva might let him slip through the cracks.

Faced with the fact that more people have realised the truth of the persecution, the fact that Falun Gong has spread to more than sixty countries around the world and received more than one thousand awards and proclamations from many different countries and governments, the fact that group after group of Falun Gong practitioners (who have temporarily taken detours because they were deceived and were under extreme pressure) in turn issued solemn declarations on the Minghui website to again start practising Falun Gong, the fact that lawsuits against Jiang are emerging all over the world, the fact that several accomplices who helped Jiang in persecuting Falun Gong have been sued overseas perhaps only dictators with staggering piles of bloody debts could truly understand Jiang's despair and fear.

Jiang Zemin's trip to pray to Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva on the sensitive day of June 4th indicates that everyone within the Chinese government is pointing their fingers at Jiang Zemin, and he will soon be held accountable for his crimes.

While Jiang went to Jiuhua Mountain to ask Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva for help, it is noteworthy that he continues to persecute people who believe in Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance. Nearly every day there's another death case reported on the Minghui website due to the persecution. In April and May this year, forty-one and twenty people were reported dead respectively.

It is heaven's law that good and evil are rewarded accordingly. Even though Jiang is still in the human world, he is already experiencing retribution. Power and military force no longer provide him with a sense of security. In persecuting Falun Gong, Jiang has committed limitless and boundless sins. He knows that power and military force can no longer protect him.

Jiang's fear and despair should be seen as a warning to his followers. If the main culprit behind the persecution of Falun Dafa has problems protecting himself, how can he protect his accomplices?