Chapter 122: Buddhism in the Western Regions
In the Western Regions, Buddhism is everywhere, and there is no other power, which is also a special place in the Western Regions. The people of the Western Regions are simple and kind, which also has a great relationship with the influence of Buddhism. Buddhism pays attention to the equality of all beings, sweeps the floor without hurting the lives of ants, and cherishes moths and gauze lamps.
As the only great religion in the Western Regions, Buddhist temples are widely distributed and deeply loved by the people. Everyone here will regularly enter the temple to burn incense and worship the Buddha to seek safety, and the monks in the temple will also travel all over the world, experience in the red dust, and help the people solve difficulties at the same time.
Tianlei Temple, the largest Buddhist temple in the Western Regions, has many Buddhist disciples, and is the first of the Buddhist temples in the Western Regions. On this day, not far from Tianlei Temple, a pair of grandchildren came, the old man is no different from ordinary people, it is worth noting that the girl who followed him, although the long eyebrows are clear and beautiful, but the pair of double axes on the back that is about to have her big is a little weird.
"Grandpa, is that the Tianlei Temple?" the girl said, pointing to the Hongda temple group in front of her. "That's right, that's the largest Buddhist temple in the Western Regions-Tianlei Temple!" the old man was also full of respect when he spoke, which showed that the influence of Tianlei Temple was not only in the Western Regions. "It's so much better than the rest of our clan!" the girl looked at the huge complex in front of her, and compared her own group again. "How can our clan be compared to the Heavenly Thunder Temple!" the old man said with a smile.
"Grandpa, let's go over quickly!" the girl took the old man's hand, a little impatient. "Okay, Rutong, you slow down, grandpa's old arms and legs are about to be pulled apart by you!" the old man said as he followed the girl unhurriedly.
"Wow, what a high step!" When I arrived at the foot of the Tianlei Temple, I knew how magnificent the Tianlei Temple was. A full one hundred and eight steps are made as the foundation to lead directly to the gate of Tianlei Temple, and the entire Tianlei Temple is lifted high, and the girl stands under the steps, looking up at the gate of Tianlei Temple. "It is worthy of being the number one sect in the Western Regions!" the old man obviously came for the first time, and he couldn't help but nod when he saw this. "Grandpa, let's go up then!" The girl took the lead and ran up the steps, and the old man followed him up the steps to the Tianlei Temple.
"Knock knock~" The girl came to the gate of Tianlei Temple first, and wondered why no one could see it, so she patted the two big rings in front of the gate. "Squeak!" After the girl slapped a few times in a row, the gate of Tianlei Temple slowly opened a one-person-wide gap. "Donor, who are you looking for!" came out of the crack in the door, a monk who was guarding the door, asked the girl suspiciously. I wondered who the girl was and why she was carrying two such big axes.
"It turns out that the Buddha Gate is really bald!" The girl saw the doorman monk who came out, and he actually came up with such a sentence. As soon as the girl's words were finished, the monk in front of her had a black line, but in the face of a girl, she couldn't say anything about her, so she had to call a Buddha name and say, "Donor, please speak!"
"Am I wrong? You're really bald!" said the girl, looking innocently at the monk. The monk who walked out of the door was very helpless at this time, where did a girl come out of this, and actually came to Tianlei Temple to laugh at him, you must know that in the Western Regions, no one dared to come to the door of Tianlei Temple and say that they were all bald. It's just that such a girl seems innocent, but what she says is extremely shocking.
"Master, please stop being angry!" The old man also came to the door of Tianlei Temple at this time, pulled the girl over to prevent him from talking nonsense, and apologized to the monk who was guarding the door. "The little benefactor is young and ignorant, so why blame him!" said the monk with his hands folded. The girl was about to speak, but was hurriedly grabbed by the old man, for fear that she would say something disrespectful.
"I don't know what the old benefactor meant?" asked the monk at this time. "Master, that's right, I'm here this time to ask the Venerable Master Kuci for something!" the old man hurriedly said. "Patriarch Kuci?" the gatekeeper was shocked when he heard this. The five great masters of Tianlei Temple, Ku Ci is one of them, he does not show up at all on weekdays, and most of the monks below have only heard of his name and have never seen him.
"The donor said that he was looking for the patriarch of Kuci, I don't know what kind of token there is?" What is the status of Kuci in Tianlei Temple, how can he see it when he sees it, so the monk who guards the door has this question. "Oh, that's right!" the old man took out a Buddhist bead from his clothes at this time, handed it to the monk and said, "This is a token from the Master Kuhang of your temple to my clan master, saying that he can ask to see the Venerable Master Kuci. "Is it the Kuhang Patriarch who has been wandering outside?" The monk took the Buddha beads, and there was a great shock in his heart, what is the origin of this old man, he can actually take out the token of the Kuhang Patriarch.
"You wait!" Whether it was true or not, the monk did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly ran into the Tianlei Temple with this Buddhist bead.
On the main hall in the middle of Tianlei Temple, a monk wearing a robe took the Buddha beads held in the hands of the gatekeeper monk. The Buddha beads were plain and unremarkable, and there was a warmth in his hands, and the monk used the qi in his body slightly, only to see the Buddha beads bloom with a devastating golden light, sweeping away the previous appearance. "Quick, please sit down, I'll come when I go!" The monk in the robe withdrew the qi in his body, and the Buddha beads also returned to their previous plainness. "Yes!" the janitor monk hurried to ask for someone, and the monk also hurried to the back of the main hall.
"Donor, please drink tea, my master will come in a moment!" The gatekeeper invited the old man and the girl into the main hall and poured tea for the two. And the monk in the robe walked out of the back door of the main hall, kept walking forward, walked in front of a small courtyard in all directions, pushed the door and entered.
The small courtyard is very simple, with a small flower bed, planted with some flowers and plants, and it grows very luxuriantly. The monk stood in front of the door of the house through the flower bed and said, "Master, someone is asking to see you with a token of Uncle Kuhang!" Soon after the monk finished speaking, the door of the house opened, and an old monk with kind ears came out, he saw the Buddha beads in the hands of his apprentice at a glance, took a look at it and said: "It is indeed the Buddha beads of your Uncle Kuhang, please come here!"
The old man was drinking tea in the main hall, and the girl was idle in the main hall to look here and there. "Rutong, be careful, don't break things!" the old man reminded. "Got it, grandpa!" said the girl, as she secretly touched the golden Buddha statue in the main hall with her hand.
"Two donors!" At this time, a monk in a robe came from the back of the main hall, who was the master mentioned by the gatekeeper monk. "Master!" the old man got up and beckoned Rutong to come over. "My master, the Venerable Master Kuci, knows that you are asking to see you, please come with me!" the senior monk finished speaking, and motioned for the old man to follow him.
The three of them left the main hall and, under the leadership of the eminent monk, came to the courtyard of the Venerable Master Kuci, who did not return to the house, but was pruning the flowers and plants in the courtyard. "Master, someone has brought it!" the monk led the old man and the girl into the courtyard, and went out with a notification, closing the courtyard door.
"I've seen the Venerable Master Kuci!" said the old man, patting the girl. "I've seen the Venerable Master Kuci!" the girl had to say. "No need to be polite!" The Venerable Master Kuci put down his work and looked at the old man and the girl, and when he saw the girl, the Venerable Master Kuci's eyes showed a look of surprise.
"Since you are holding the token of my junior brother, it seems that he has seen you, and he doesn't know what he means by looking for me!" The Venerable Master Kuci knew that they were not from the Western Regions, so he asked. "The two of us are from the Southern Wilderness Barbarian Clan, and the Venerable Master Kuhang once went to our clan as a guest, and at the same time knew the cause of Rutong!" the old man said and glanced at the girl, and continued: "The patriarch of my clan asked the Venerable Master Kuhang to heal him, but unfortunately the Venerable Master Kuhang had no choice, and finally he said that the Venerable Master Kuci specialized in the art of saving people, so he gave him a token and asked him to come to the Tianlei Temple to ask the Venerable Master Kuci to take a look!"
"That's right!" the Venerable Master Kuci glanced at the girl. "My junior brother actually went to the Southern Wilderness and threw me such a big problem. I also have a relationship with your barbarian patriarch, you can give it a try, as for whether it succeeds or not, it is the will of God!"
"Thank you Venerable Kuci!" the old man hurriedly thanked him, and if the Venerable Master Kuci could help heal, there might be hope, which was the old man's greatest wish.