Chapter 473: Loma Rinpoche
Xiao Feng took the bank card and asked, "How much?" I said that after deducting Mr. Bai's travel expenses, I would swipe 15,000, which is enough. Mr. Bai asked her to directly brush 20,000 yuan, saying that when the time comes, we will be tired of booking air tickets, and the Buddha brand shop must often undertake this kind of business to Thailand to cast spells and ask for licenses, and there must be a way to book air tickets, I said no problem.
At this time, the thin lady suddenly asked, "I also want to go and have a look, okay?" Mr. Bai looked at me and asked if it was convenient, I said no problem, three people are not too many, it's okay. Tell Luo Li to swipe 25,000 and issue a receipt. After paying the money, Mr. Bai and the other three got up to say goodbye, and asked me to book a ticket and send him an itinerary.
"Leave me your contact information. I asked. Only then did Mr. Bai remember, and took out a hard card from his pocket and handed it to me. The reason why it is said to be a hard card and not a business card is because this is a hard card, the size is as big as a business card, but it is much harder, like the material of the ID card. The front is printed with the "Chinese Living Buddha Certification Card", and there are two lines of words, namely "Loma Rinpoche" and "Tibetan Nagqu XXX Temple Sitting Living Buddha", all of which are equipped with Tibetan characters under the three lines, and the background is also lined with a shallow * pattern, and the overall design is very exquisite. Looking at the back, there are also a few words of Buddhist scriptures that I don't understand that I don't understand, and there are the names and mobile phone numbers of two disciple assistants below, one surnamed He and the other surnamed Bai.
I suddenly opened my mouth wide: "You are a living Buddha in Tibet?"
"My master is, his old man is a living Buddha who practices in Tibet. Mr. Bai replied with a smile, "My name is Bai Hua, I am a disciple of my master Loma Rinpoche, and I am also an assistant, this card can be given to you, it has my phone number on it, and Bai Assistant is me." I smiled and said okay, holding the card, the word living Buddha seems to be similar to a fairy in my understanding, since this person is an apprentice of a god, isn't it a half-immortal? I said with a smile that I don't know much about Tibetan Buddhism, and the Living Buddha is not a very powerful master.
Mr. Bai said, "You are an expert in Theravada Buddhism. It seems that I have spent a long time in Southeast Asia and have not had time to learn about Chinese Mahayana Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism. I quickly apologized, saying that my knowledge was too short.
"It's normal, it's normal, many people don't understand Tibetan Buddhism, let alone what a living Buddha is. Mr. Bai replied, "That's not what anyone can appoint themselves, you have to be a monk who had a relationship with the Buddha in a previous life and had a great practice to be called a living Buddha." "I said that's that, I thought no wonder the old beeswax he wore was so authentic, it turned out to be for the living Buddha, can it be bad?
The thin lady next to me also chimed in, "Master Loma Rinpoche is the reincarnation of Puxian Bodhisattva!" and I was even more surprised.
Mr. Bai smiled and said: "Please don't underestimate this card, it was opened by my master, the mana is boundless, and the words on it are all plated with 24K pure gold, don't lose it." I nodded again and again, put the card into the metal business card case carefully, and Mr. Bai left with the two ladies. As a sign of respect, Luo Li and Xiao Feng and I walked out of the Buddhist brand store to see them off, and saw that the three of them were riding in a red luxury car, not Mercedes-Benz or BMW, the cars I knew at that time were relatively popular, and the logo of this car had never been seen, it was a pattern similar to a harpoon. But judging from the appearance and temperament, it seems to be more high-end than Mercedes-Benz BMW.
The car drove away far away, and Xiao Feng sighed: "It's really rich, drive a Maserati!" Luo Li and I hurriedly asked what kind of car it was, how much did Luo Li say, is it more expensive than a BMW? Xiao Feng looked at her and said You really don't know, this car costs one or two million at least, at least it can be worth three or four BMWs. Not only Luo Li, but even I was stunned.
I asked, "What about Rolls-Royce?" Xiao Feng said that it was about the same, the grade was the same. I thought to myself that this was Mr. Bai's car, or one of the two ladies, I really didn't expect it to be so rich. Back in the store, Xiao Feng and Luo Li both competed to see the gold-plated living Buddha card to study whether it was really plated with 24K pure gold, and Luo Li also said that they would scrape off some gold dust with a knife and send it for testing. I hurriedly put the card away, for fear that she would come to the real thing.
During the meal, we were still studying who Mr. Bai asked for the Buddha card to use, and the first thing we can be sure of is that this Buddha card is not worn by Mr. Bai and the two ladies, but it should not be their master. That's a living Buddha, according to the thin lady's words, what Loma Rinpoche is the reincarnation of the Bodhisattva, and he still needs to wear a Buddha card to bless himself? The Tibetan Living Buddha wearing a Thai Buddha card sounds awkward, there must be someone else. Maybe it's for a friend of theirs, Mr. Bai is a disciple and assistant of the Living Buddha, and naturally he is not an ordinary person, he is willing to go from Beijing to Thailand to help his friend ask for a license, and the luxury car driven by the two ladies is also very expensive, it seems that this friend of theirs is definitely not simple.
To make a long story short, Tuo Huang Chengxin helped the three of us book a discounted ticket to Thailand, about 65% off. The round-trip ticket that Mr. Bai paid me for the three people was almost at full price, and I only spent two-thirds of the money, that is to say, I could earn five or six thousand from the ticket alone, which was higher than the profit of asking for a Buddhist card. I was overjoyed, thinking to myself that this money was so easy to earn, worthy of being a high monk, and I could earn a lot more money by doing things with his disciples, could this be the realm of a living Buddha? In order to make more people live happier lives? It seems that I really know more about it.
After searching for information on the Internet, I learned that "Loma Rinpoche" is not a Tibetan name, the first two characters Loma are names, and the latter "Rinpoche" means Tibetan treasures, and in Tibet and Qinghai and other regions, believers are accustomed to using this word to refer to Tibetan Buddhist monks who have practiced. I checked the "living Buddha" again, and found that it was not a proper noun for Tibetan Buddhism, but a title for people who practiced Tibetan Buddhism in the Central Plains, and even after the reincarnation of a monk, which seemed to be a title given by the emperor from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. In addition to these two titles, there are also titles such as Vajra Guru, Guru, Allah and Lama, which are basically honorific titles for this Tibetan Buddhist monk. And those who make offerings to these high monks are called donors or laymen.
At the same time, I also found a lot of posts criticizing "Rinpoche", and many netizens ridiculed that there are far more fake living Buddhas in China than real living Buddhas, especially in Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which are economically and culturally developed, but there are very few in Guangdong. These Rinpoches were fed by many rich people and celebrities, and they lived a very prosperous life, but they had nothing to learn, and some of them had not even read Buddhist scriptures, and they were pure deception.
After checking for a long time, I really felt more and more complicated, and I couldn't understand it, so I simply didn't check it. Although I don't know if Mr. Bai's master Loma Rinpoche is true or not, I am still very happy in my heart, I have been in the amulet business for more than two years, and my customers are really all over China, all kinds of industries, poor people, rich people, and now there are more disciples of high monks and living Buddhas. I thought to myself, if I could take a photo with Mr. Bai, a disciple of the Living Buddha, and then put the photo in QQ space, it would be regarded as another layer of gold on my face. Suddenly, I thought, wouldn't it be more powerful to take a photo with the living Buddha directly?