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"Brother Zhuang, Zhongchuan said that when he came to China this time, he would worship the Buddha, and these three Buddha statues would be worshipped, so he asked us to go around first......

After Yan Translator told Zhuang Rui's words to Zhongchuan, Zhongchuan muttered something again, and always knelt on the ground on his knees facing the Buddha in front of him, looking very pious. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhuang Rui thought for a moment and said, "Peng Fei, you follow him, Brother Ren and I will go to the back to see ...... first."

This should be a Buddhist temple built in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the architectural style is very rare in the mainland, Zhuang Rui now just wants to see it, and he is too lazy to talk to Zhongchuan, and he explained a few words to Peng Fei at the moment, so that he can take care of Zhongchuan.

Peng Fei and Zhuang Rui have been together for several years, and there has been a tacit understanding between the two, he understood what Zhuang Rui meant, nodded immediately, and said: "Brother Zhuang, don't worry, with me watching, he can't play anything......"

"Okay, you pay attention, let's go back and turn around a little and come back, and we'll survey it tomorrow......"

It's already past four o'clock today, seeing that the sun has set in the west, the light is already a little dark, and it is not because Zhuang Rui, who deals with the corpses of the ancient tomb all day long, if he is a timid, he will not dare to walk around in this unoccupied place at all.

However, he couldn't see anything at night, Zhuang Rui just wanted to have a general understanding of the architectural composition of this ancient temple, so that he could start surveying tomorrow to see if he could find anything valuable?

After explaining to Peng Fei, Zhuang Rui and Dr. Ren, as well as a few graduate students of Beijing University, walked out directly through a dilapidated side door in the Daxiong Treasure Hall.

Outside the side door of the Daxiong Treasure Palace, there is a small courtyard, and there is also a building at the end of the courtyard, but there is no door plaque on it, but it is directly carved with the three big characters of "Mida Pavilion".

"This ...... This is actually a stone pavilion......"

Walking closer, Zhuang Rui and others found that it turned out that this Mida Pavilion was all carved from mountain stones.

In the west, especially near Dunhuang, the stone pavilion is not uncommon, the famous Mogao Grottoes are all carved out of the mountain, but in the desert to see the stone except the yellow sand, it is very surprising.

"Zhuang Rui, have you noticed it, the terrain here is gradually going up, it should have been a mountain before, let's go in and have a look......"

The temples of the Sui and Tang dynasties and even some earlier periods were mostly built on the mountains, such as the White Horse Temple in Luoyang and the Shaolin in Songshan, and it seems that this abandoned ancient temple has not been out of this category.

After taking a closer look at the periphery of the stone pavilion, Dr. Ren sighed: "The ancients really didn't ask the common people to ask the ghosts and gods, spending such a big price to build a temple, just to seek peace of mind, how much financial and material resources would be wasted?"

This Mida Pavilion is very exquisitely built, and there is a half-cliff on it, making it look like a flying pavilion in the air, like a hanging.

Open the iron gate of the fence that has long been rusted, you can clearly see that there is a statue of Mida carved on the middle wall of the pavilion, with a dirty face, a smile, and the form is very realistic.

In the middle of the stone pavilion, there is a patio, Zhuang Rui took a flashlight and shone it, the dark and swarthy could not be seen low, and it was estimated that it should be at least more than ten meters deep.

The stone around the patio is very smooth, presumably caused by the monks in the early years of the temple to draw water, but the water in the well has long since dried up, otherwise this place would not have become an empty temple.

Zhuang Rui looked back and found that the four big characters of "Qiongya Dripping" were carved on the lintel of the back door of the stone pavilion, and he couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Qiongya Dripping, the artistic conception is good, presumably this place was also a place where the trees were shady and the ancient trees were obliquely born, but no one would have thought that there would be today's decay, right?"

"It's like the change of dynasties, there are always ups and downs, but it's a pity that such a thousand-year-old temple is buried in the desert......"

Although I haven't been able to get a glimpse of the panorama, but just from these two temples can see its scale, if it is placed in the Central Plains or the south of the Yangtze River, the reputation is probably above the Songshan Shaolin.

Due to the late day, Zhuang Rui and his party did not delay, and continued to walk towards the back door, only to find that this thousand-year-old temple was far beyond their imagination.

After the Mida Pavilion, followed by the Thousand Buddha Pavilion, the Panlong Pavilion, the Luohan Courtyard, the Zhongtian Courtyard, the Calling Immortal Pavilion, the Better Pavilion, the Longquan Pavilion and so on, the corridor shuttles, the floors are stacked on top of each other.

Although the place that catches the eye has long been dilapidated, it is conceivable that when the incense was at its peak, people from all over the Western Regions and China gathered here to worship the Buddha.

When Zhuang Rui and his entourage walked to the last place of the ancient temple, Zhuang Rui looked at the six ancient towers in front of him on a large grassless open space, and couldn't help blurting out: "This ...... This is a stupa?"

The stupa is used by the relics of the eminent monk Anda, and the "relics" are the crystallization of the achievements of personal precept and wisdom, which is very important in Buddhism, and is also a testimony of the achievements of the practitioners.

Like 2,500 years ago, after Shakyamuni Buddha was incarnated, when the disciples cremated his body, they obtained a parietal skull, two shoulder blades, four teeth, a middle finger phalanx relic and 84,000 bead-shaped real body relics from the ashes.

The six ancestors of Zen Buddhism in China, Huineng, and the masters of Hongyi, Yinguang, Taixu, and Zhangjia in modern times, also left a considerable number of relics after they sat down, which were worshiped by later generations of Buddhists.

In ancient times, generally speaking, non-extremely important temples could not be built relics, most of them were built by the emperor's edict, there is the existence of relics pagodas, presumably a thousand years ago Buddhism heyday of a Buddhist place.

After Dr. Ren circled around several relics stupas in the shape of a hexagonal cone and more than 4 meters high, he showed a look of disappointment on his face and said: "It's true that it's a relic, but I'm afraid that the relics of the great monks of the past dynasties have been removed......"

The relics of the monks have always been extremely important Buddhist treasures, not to mention that there are also the names and life deeds of the sitting monks written in Sanskrit on these relics pagodas, if there are relics in the tower, then this discovery is enough to cause a sensation in the world Buddhism.

After Zhuang Rui heard Dr. Ren's words, he slightly released the aura in his eyes, and sure enough, the tower was empty, and there were no relics.

Zhuang Rui looked at the sky, the sun was almost about to set the horizon, and the night had completely fallen, so he said: "Let's go, let's go back, this place is abandoned, but it can be developed into a tourist attraction, but I don't know if the local government is willing to make investment......

It is too far away from the place where human beings live, and it takes three days to walk in the desert alone, and there is quicksand in the middle, so if you want to develop it, I am afraid it will cost an astronomical amount of money, which is only said by Zhuang Rui.

After returning to the gate of the ancient temple, Mengzi and Erdan and others had already lit a fire on the ground, using poplar dead branches, and these brothers followed Zhuang Rui for a while, and also realized that they could not dismantle those temple buildings to make a fire for cooking.

"Zhuang Rui, there are not even a few ordinary tables and chairs left here, the value of excavation is not great, let's go back tomorrow......" Zhuang Rui and the others couldn't help cooking these things, so they simply sat by the campfire and discussed the next step.

Zhuang Rui took out a pack of cigarettes, and after distributing them to everyone, he nodded and said: "Okay, after going out from here, we will enter the prairie, and now the tombs of the Western Xia and Mongolian periods are more intact, I hope we can find one......

The main purpose of Zhuang Rui's trip is to preside over a field archaeological excavation, as a reference for his future doctoral dissertation, but the ancient tombs found along the way have either been stolen and excavated, or cannot be excavated like the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, Zhuang Rui is also a little anxious now.

Originally, he expected to find some objects in this thousand-year-old temple, but when Zhuang Rui passed by each palace just now, he carefully surveyed it with aura, but found that there were no valuable things left here.

Thinking of this, Zhuang Rui suddenly remembered something, and shouted to the fierce man who was busy working by the bonfire: "Brother Mengzi, ask you something......

"Brother Zhuang, what's the matter?" Mengzi turned back for some reason.

"Brother Mengzi, didn't you say that there were only three or five monks in this temple before? This is unlikely, such a large temple can accommodate at least two or three hundred monks, right?"

Mengzi said to Zhuang Rui before that this is just a small temple, but all this what he saw in front of him obviously has nothing to do with this "small" word.

After hearing Zhuang Rui's words, Mengzi also scratched his head in confusion, and after thinking for a long time, he said, "This ...... I don't know, but the old people in the town used to say that there were really only three or five monks here, and when they moved away, they passed by the town......"

"Zhuang Rui, don't get entangled, it is estimated that many monks left the temple a long time ago, and only a few people remained, maybe the era is too long, and even the people in the town don't know about it......"

Dr. Ren gave a very reasonable explanation, Zhuang Rui thought about it and nodded in agreement, but he always felt that there was something wrong in his heart.

"Brother Mengzi, let's cook some broth at night, I can't drink the soup this time, and my mouth is about to bubble......" Just as Zhuang Rui was thinking in his heart, Peng Fei's voice suddenly came from his ears.

"By the way, what did they just do?"

After Zhuang Rui heard Peng Fei's words, he found that these people actually came out of the temple, and he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, they had been wandering around there for at least more than an hour just now, and they hadn't seen Peng Fei's brother.