Chapter 5: The Taoist Priest Descends the Mountain (II)
According to the old Taoist priest, when he found Fang Yi at the gate of the Taoist temple, Fang Yi was all naked from top to bottom, and he didn't even have a swaddling clothes to wrap his body.
At that time, the only thing on Fang Yi's body was the pendant hanging around his neck, which was being swallowed in Fang Yi's mouth and down his stomach at that time, and his little face was flushed.
However, the old Taoist priest didn't seem to be very interested in this bone pendant, although he told Fang Yi that the pendant was found from him, but he never allowed Fang Yi to wear it, which made the young Fang Yi very strange, and inquired about the origin of this pendant.
After a drink, the old Taoist priest told Fang Yi that this pendant, which was only slightly larger than a thumbnail and carved with a seemingly simple line, was actually a Buddhist weapon, and it was also a special ritual instrument of Tantra, which was called Gabala in Tibetan.
The so-called gabala refers to a rosary or ritual vessel made of human bones, and in all religions, only Tantra in Buddhism is used.
Tantra, also known as Shingon Buddhism, is one of the sects of Buddhism, spread in Tibet, Qingdao and other places, because of its practice with highly organized spells, rituals, Buddha-figure belief and worship as the characteristics, so it has always had the characteristics of mysticism.
Tantric ritual tools mostly use human bones, of course, human bones and prayer beads are used in human bones, not everyone can, it must be the bones of lamas and monks, just like the Tibetans who died in the popular sky burial, feeding their corpses to the eagle, in order to achieve the Buddhist realm of the ancestors cutting shares and feeding the eagle, ** has become the food of living beings, and the bones are donated to the magic device.
The most human bone rosary is the finger bone and eyebrow bone, because Buddhism pays attention to karma, the monk's fingers are naturally used the most, and the eyes are the place to read the Buddhist scriptures and the world, these two parts can be said to be the most caused, is the bone with understanding, of course, it can become a magic weapon to open the wisdom of future generations.
Generally speaking, it is easier to make a rosary made of finger bones, and generally a pair of rosary beads can be made of ten finger bones, while the eyebrow bone is relatively hard, so a pair of rosaries may be made of the eyebrow bones of more than a dozen monks.
Imagine how precious a small rosary would be for a Buddhist to have the karma of more than a dozen eminent monks in it.
And the making of human bone rosaries or ritual instruments is very complicated, because all are handmade, so the monks must have very high skills, and they have to grind out their luster every day, which may take more than ten years, and at the same time to make up all the eyebrow bones of a pair of prayer beads, it is necessary to wait for more than a dozen monks to pass away, so that a pair of prayer beads may take fifty, sixty years, or even a hundred years.
Only human bone rosaries made of finger bones and brow bones can be called gabala, while rosaries made of human bone zuò such as calf bones can only be called human bone beads and cannot be called gabala, and gabala made of human bones of high monks is very rare.
Due to geographical limitations, before the seventies and eighties, there was relatively little contact between Tibet and the hinterland, and Tibetan Buddhism has always been very mysterious in the eyes of the world.
According to Master Fang Yi, this Gabala contains pure mental power, which should be made by a monk or even a living Buddha's eyebrows, but the Buddha has a different path, although the old Taoist priest is open-minded, but he also does not want his Taoist disciple to wear Buddhist weapons.
Fang Yi was raised by his master since he was a child, and he was very filial to his master, so although he knew that this Gabala magic weapon had a great relationship with him, he had never worn it, and only occasionally in the dead of night, he would take it out and play with it.
"Cut, why are you so nervous? Anyway, I haven't seen anything about you?"
Seeing that Fang Yi didn't let himself touch the pendant, the fat man couldn't help but scream, and said: "Fang Yi, is it that the fat man, I have been a soldier for a few years, which girl did you hook up with? Honestly, is this a token of love given to you by the girl?"
It is also strange to say, Fang Yi grew up in the mountains since he was a child, and sometimes followed his master into the mountains to collect medicine, often sleeping in the open air, but Fang Yi was fair-skinned and handsome, except for the calluses on his palms, he didn't look like a child who grew up in the mountains.
When Fang Yi and Fat Man and others were thirteen or fourteen years old, Fat Man and San Pao sometimes brought some little girls from the village to play with Fang Yi.
"A token of love, thanks to your kid to think of it......"
Hearing the fat man's words, Fang Yi said with some tears and laughter: "This thing is a magic weapon, called Gabala, which is made of human bones, and the girl in your village will give this thing when she sends a love token?"
"Hell, didn't you say it earlier?"
The fat man's hand stretched out to Nagabala hurriedly retracted, and he hurriedly said: "The old Taoist priest will engage in these strange things, and such evil things as human bones dare to hang on his body, I said you take this thing to me farther away......"
The fat man can be regarded as having grown up with the old Taoist priest since he was a child, and he knows that although the old Taoist priest is usually a little crazy, he is actually a hidden master, and he also has a lot of things in his hands that ordinary people do not understand, so he only thinks that this Gabala is passed on to Fang Yi by the old Taoist.
"You know what a fart......" Listening to the fat man's nonsense, Fang Yi couldn't help but laugh and scold, "Gabala is made of the human bones of a high-ranking monk, and it can drive away evil spirits and take refuge, how can it become evil in your mouth......
Fang Yi didn't bother to say more to the fat man, this guy was a chatter, and he didn't know it at all, so he took Nagabala in his hand at the moment, rubbed it carefully, and then hung it around his neck.
As the only clue to his life experience, Fang Yi naturally attached great importance to this Gabala, in the past, when the master was there, Fang Yi would not wear it in order to take into account the master's feelings, but now that the old Taoist priest has returned to the west, Fang Yi naturally wants to keep it close to him.
"I am an authentic Taoist descendant, wearing Buddhist instruments, which is indeed a little unreasonable......"
Feeling a trace of coolness from the Gabala magic weapon on his chest, Fang Yi's heart was also a little awkward, but the reason was that when the old Taoist priest was alive, he did not arrange the current Buddhism, they were all people who sold dog meat with sheep's heads, and there were few monks left.
"Okay, let's go, let's go to the master's tomb to pay respects, and then we can go down the mountain......"
After putting away Gabala, Fang Yi slapped his palm, he and his master were both outsiders with no long things, except for a few strings of Dao beads used in daily practice, there were only a few shabby Dao robes, and even the small wooden box that Master left for him could not be filled.
"Well, we weren't there when the old guy died, so we should go and kowtow to him a few times......"
After hearing Fang Yi's words, the fat man's attention suddenly shifted from Gabala, although he didn't have much respect for the old Taoist priest verbally, but since he was a child, he had eaten the old Taoist priest's wine and meat, and he also respected him very much in his heart.
"When I have money one day, I will definitely come back to rebuild the Shangqing Palace......"
Carrying the box and the fat man out of the Taoist temple, Fang Yi looked back, a trace of reluctance appeared on his face, although he felt lonely and cold living here every day, but once he wanted to stay away at this moment, the thought of leaving home came to Fang Yi's heart.
"Okay, isn't it okay for the fat master to rebuild this place with you in the future?"
After seeing the reluctance on Fang Yi's face, he grabbed Fang Yi's shoulders and said, "Hurry up and go to see the old guy's cemetery, I want to see, what feng shui treasure place he chose for himself?"
When the old Taoist priest was alive, he often lamented that he had the ability to be able to point points, but he suffered from having no descendants, even if he chose a good feng shui point, it would not be able to benefit future generations.
"You kid, don't have any crooked thoughts......"
Seeing the fat man's sleek eyes, Fang Yi couldn't help but slap him on the head, and said angrily: "Master once laid out a formation, but anyone who dares to invade his cemetery will die without a place to die, not to mention that there is nothing in Master's tomb, you kid don't have to make up your mind......"
"Hey, I said Fang Yi, don't wronged me, where do I have that kind of thought......" was slapped by Fang Yi, and the fat man suddenly exclaimed: "If I want to do that business, I will also go to our own ancestors, just like the old Taoist priest, what good funeral goods can there be?"
"Okay, your ancestor doesn't know who it is, don't talk nonsense here......" Fang Yi laughed at what the fat man said, the fat man's surname is Wei, his big name is Wei Jinhua, and the fat man's nickname is called Jinhua, when he was young, he fought with people because of this nickname.
However, according to the fat man, the people of their clan were not originally surnamed Wei, but surnamed Cao, and were descendants of Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms period.
The fat man's words are not untargeted, because they have a genealogy in their clan, which can indeed be traced back to that period, and the old Taoist priest also went to check the genealogy back then, and came back to Fang Yi to say that the people in the village under the mountain are very likely to be the descendants of Cao Cao's lineage.
It's just that a few years ago, the ancestral hall in the village lost a fire, and all the genealogies in the ancestral hall were burned to ashes, which made the fat man in the army at that time very distressed, because he was determined to find the seventy-two doubtful graves of his ancestor Cao Cao since he was a child, but this fire cut off the fat man's idea.
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