The massacre Fa Qing lived in the Northern Wei dynasty. He was a monk who did not follow the monastic rules of
Buddhism and had a wife named Huihui (惠暉). Fa Qing proclaimed himself as the “new Buddha”, and founded the “Mahayana sect” (大乘教), that also known as Mahayana Maitreya Sect (彌勒大乘教). The so-called “new Buddha” was to quote Buddhist scriptures that “Maitreya descended to become a Buddha”, and “Maitreya Buddha replaced Shakyamuni Buddha to save the world”. Fa Qing revised the doctrines of the Wisdom Perfection School in Mahayana Buddhism. {{blockquote [Faqing taught his followers] that one who has killed one man will be a bodhisattva of the first stage, while killing ten men will make him a bodhisattva of the tenth stage. He also mixed narcotic drugs and ordered his followers to take them. [As a result the minds of his followers became disturbed such that] fathers, sons, and brothers did not recognize each other and had nothing in mind but killing.
Rebellion and death In June of 515, Fa Qing, with the support of Li Guibo, gathered an army in Jizhou (present-day
Hebei) to rebel against the rule of the Northern Wei Dynasty in the name of Buddhism. The number of his followers at that time reached more than 50,000. == References ==