They argued that adults ought not to encourage children to leave home. Yet many others held that children were better off learning Buddhist ways in a temple than being led into trouble out in a world beset with social ills. Not age but spiritual fiber During the Tang dynasty, the famous poet Li Shangyin heard Wuda lecture on the sutras when Wuda was only 13.
大人不應灌輸孩子這樣的觀念，甚至讓他出家；但也有不少人認為，孩子在寺廟中接受佛理薰陶，總比在外面複雜的環境中學壞要來得好。