Chapter 577: The Golden Bayeux Sutra

...... "The Great Nirvana Sutra" belongs to the famous classics in the long part of the five parts of the Pali Tripitaka Sutra, which is the root of Southern Buddhism!

Of course, the "Great Nirvana Sutra" is not the point, the point is that this scripture is actually the "Golden Bayeux Sutra"!

The "Book of Bayes" originated in ancient India. When Buddhism was born more than 2,000 years ago, papermaking had not yet been invented. Ancient Indians collected the leaves of the Bedoro tree and used them to write Buddhist scriptures. In the first century AD, the monks of the Western Regions built the White Horse Temple in Luoyang, and the scriptures they carried were the Bayeux Sutra. Xuanzang, a high monk in the Tang Dynasty, went to the west to learn the scriptures, and what he got back was also the "Bayeux Sutra". Bayeux is wear-resistant and lightweight, and the handwriting is still legible after thousands of years.

In India, the early manuscript of the "Book of Bayes" has almost been lost, and there are very few "Book of Bayes" that circulate in China, only a small number of editions exist in the Xi'an Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Mount Emei, Mount Putuo, the National Museum of China, etc., and the "Book of Bayes" has been designated as a national first-class cultural relic.

Of course, the golden bayeux in front of you can't reach this height, and its history is only more than a hundred years!

In the history of Buddhism in Myanmar, a large-scale collation of the fundamental text of Theravada Buddhism, the Pali Tripitaka, began in the last century.

In 1871, the Burmese king Min Dong invited 2,400 monks to hold the fifth assembly in the capital city of Mandalay, and engraved the Pali Sanzang with Burmese characters on 729 square marbles based on the Vinaya Tibet, which took five years to become a stone scripture in Myanmar.

By 1954, in order to welcome the 2,500th anniversary of the Buddha's extinction, Myanmar initiated the Sixth Tripitaka Gathering, based on the Mandalay Stone Sutra and referring to various versions of the Slovak, Thai, Cambodian and Pali holy scriptures. Detailed revisions to the Pali Tripitaka. A new version of the Pali Tripitori in Burmese script was published.

During this time, Buddhism-worshipping Myanmar published a large number of books on the Pali Tripitaka.

I just didn't know that the golden Bayeux Sutra in front of me was from that Buddhist temple in Myanmar. Or a wealthy businessman who believes in Buddhism, or the royal family of Burma.

Of course, this is no longer important, the important thing is that it has fallen into the hands of Liu Dong.

After half an hour of checking one by one, there are a total of 13 volumes of the Vinaya, 42 volumes of the Sutras, and 25 volumes of the Treatise in the Pali Tripitaka, a total of 80 volumes of the Golden Bayeux Sutra, which just symbolizes the Buddha's 80th birthday!

Although it has only been handed down for about a hundred years. However, the precious materials, the special form of preservation, and the historical and humanistic value contained in them make these 80 volumes of the Golden Bayeux Sutra a national treasure!

After putting away this set of 80 precious golden bay leaf sutras of the fundamental Theravada Buddhist scripture "Pali Tripitaka", Liu Dong turned around, except for the east wall where he came down just now, because of the staircase, there was no iron frame, and the other three walls were all placed on the side of the other three walls with an iron frame that was almost the same length as the wall, two meters high, and four layers up and down.

On the iron frame on the south side are all Buddhist vessels made of gold and silver. For example, bowls, wooden fish, treasure covers, as well as jadeite, red sapphire beads, beads, etc. Together, there are about a hundred pieces, large and small.

The longest wall on the west side, nearly 9 meters, and the length of the iron frame, which houses antiques of all sizes, such as Buddhist statues carved from ivory and rhino horns, Burmese knives with different specifications of gold or ivory handles, precious Western oil paintings, and Chinese porcelain that almost all the wealthy collectors of that country own.

Adding up all the artworks on this iron frame, there are about 300 pieces, in addition to about 47 pieces of Ming and Qing official kiln ware, there are also 17 Western oil paintings, especially a portrait of Picasso's woman is worth a lot of money. The remaining 250 or so artworks are national treasures of Southeast Asian countries, including one with three male lions as the head of the club, the top of the lion's head is inlaid with a pigeon's blood ruby of about 45 carats, and the 1.8-meter-long golden scepter is the most valuable!

The scepter has always been a symbol of imperial power, and there is such a treasure in the treasure trove of rare temperature resistance!

In the eyes of Nawen, the value of these antiques is more precious than the wealth above, which is also consistent with Liu Dong's rare opinion.

In addition, if you count the antiques here, plus the harvest in the long-story secret room, as well as the furnishings in the temperature-resistant study, Liu Dong got about 1,000 antiques this time, although 80% of them are works of art in Southeast Asia, but it also greatly enriched Liu Dong's collection, allowing him to take a big step towards the road of international collectors.

In addition to these antiques, which are basically 100 years old, there are a total of 17 pieces of glass top-grade jade material on the top of the iron frame on the west side, imperial green, chanterelle yellow, purple eyes, Smurfs, cockscomb red, large and small together should be about 180 kilograms, each piece is worth a fortune, more than hundreds of millions of Chinese coins.

Of course, such top-quality materials are rare after hundreds of years of jadeite mining, and their value can no longer be measured by money alone!

And it is the first time for Liu Dong to harvest so many top-level jade materials!

Finally, on the iron shelves on the north side were sparsely placed several wooden boxes, the same size as the boxes with ruby sapphires in the secret room above.

Liu Dong casually took out one from the top and opened it, sure enough, the box was full of rubies, and each piece was more than 3 carats, although it was only a blank and not processed, but the clarity reached translucency, and under the light, there were almost no cracks inside the gemstone.

The only drawback is that the color is not up to the level of pigeon's blood red, and after taking the largest piece of rubies of about 15 carats in his hand and admiring them, Liu Dong received the box containing 79 rubies into the mustard seed space.

When Liu Dong picked up another box and opened it, it was still a box of 83 ruby blanks weighing more than 3 carats.

Liu Dong found a total of 17 such boxes and harvested 1,637 rubies of more than three carats, most of which were between 3~5 carats, 353 between 5~10 carats, 127 over 10 carats, 77 over 20 carats, and the largest one was about 69 carats of sub-transparent deep red with a slight purple ruby.

However, when Liu Dong picked up the eighth box, the pigeon blood rubies that Liu Dong had been waiting for for a long time finally appeared, although there were only 237 pigeon blood rubies of more than 3 carats. But this top-notch ruby is so rare.

"It's so beautiful!" opened the bottom row of iron frames. After the last box. Three large ruby blanks, shining a deep red under the incandescent light of rumors, like coagulated pigeon blood, make people intoxicated.

Ruby is no better than sapphires, emeralds and diamonds, from its beginnings as a gemstone, to now there is basically no single high-grade ruby of more than 100 carats in the world, and even more than 20 carats are rare, even if it is temperature-resistant, the head snake of Yangon, the capital of Myanmar. Of the three best pigeon blood rubies in his hand, only the middle one is more than 30 carats, and this is also the best and largest pigeon blood rubble that Liu Dong has seen so far.

The moment he saw this ruin, Liu Dong decided to name it Wang Qiang and give it to the other party as a wedding gift when the time came.

And the two pigeon blood rubies of about 25 carats next to them were just given to Yan Qingqing and Lin Ling.

"One big and two small, hehe!" Liu Dong's face carried the expectation of some kind of male animal, and he collected three precious pieces of pigeon blood ruby into the mustard seed space.

Compared with rubies, there are relatively more boxes with sapphires next to them, because compared to most rubies with only a few carats, the sapphire particles that are collected by the temperature resistance are undoubtedly much larger. The number is similar to that of rubies, adding up to about 1,789 pieces. However, 1,789 sapphires were held in eighteen boxes, almost twice as many as rubies.

There are 137 sapphire blanks weighing more than 50 carats, 19 pieces of sapphire blanks weighing more than 100 carats, and the largest piece of star sapphire rough is estimated to be no less than 270 carats after Liu Dong weighs it in his hand! Although it has not been pondered, such a large sapphire rough is also rare and difficult to find.

However, among the many sapphires that have been found in the world, there are dozens of sapphires that are several times larger than it, and this star sapphire is of high quality and pure and transparent color.

In addition to the red sapphire, there are some large colored sapphires next to it, and the so-called colored sapphires are all corundum gemstones except red and blue.

It is loved by everyone because of its colorful color, but because of the fragmentation, it is not as good as the ruby sapphire in price.

In addition to the ruby sapphires and colored sapphires, there is also a box of about 239 diamonds, each of which is more than three carats, but the largest one is only 43 carats.

Probably due to the low production of diamonds in Myanmar, large diamonds over 100 carats are not seen here.

In addition to gemstones, there are 19 boxes of pearls here, and all of them are real natural pearls, and the particles are all over 3cm, and the number is about 347!

In particular, a huge gold pearl with a diameter of about 8cm made Liu Dong almost identify it as the 'king of golden pearls', and the brilliant golden light and rounded shape on it were enough to fascinate anyone who saw it.

After putting away all the valuable things in the secret room, Liu Dong conservatively estimated that the windfall was worth more than 3 billion euros. And with the loss of time and the scarcity of precious gemstone resources, the value of this wealth will continue to rise. Of course, that's for later.

With this harvest, at least rose jewelry does not need to worry about high-grade jadeite jade materials within 20 years, and there is no need to worry about high-grade ruby sapphire materials within 10 years, and diamonds finally have something to do.

"Only in Myanmar, the source of jadeite and ruby and sapphire, can we get such a rich harvest! If it is estimated that in addition to money, such a large number of gemstones should not be considered!" Liu Dongxin said.

After walking around the secret room and noticing that there was nothing missing, Liu Dong glanced at the east wall under the iron staircase, where there was a secret passage leading to the outside, which was obviously used to prepare for escape when things changed.

But Liu Dong was not interested in going in and having a look.

Coming up the stairs, Liu Dong did not take Wu Dongsheng away, but along the corridor where the office is located, after walking to the end, he broke through three protective doors and entered the money counting room that basically every big casino will set up, although the money counting room of the temperature-resistant underground casino does not have the amazing number of more than one billion Hong Kong dollars or Australian dollars per day of the famous Lisboa Casino, but as the largest underground casino in Yangon, it coincides with the Myanmar Grand Public Market, and there are many high rollers, and there are still large bundles of kyats and euros neatly stacked in the counting room, because there are too many of them, Liu Dong has no heart to count them in detail, but together there are nearly 100 million Chinese dollars。

Subsequently, under the guidance of Relic Yuanguang, Liu Dong swept away all the property in the entire underground casino, probably considering that he had to use a gun to solve Liu Dong's greater relationship, not only the entire casino stopped running, but even all the service personnel did not have one, but Liu Dong saved a lot of effort to solve hidden dangers.

After collecting bits and pieces of jewelry, antiques and loose banknotes, Liu Dong began to take out the gasoline that was originally stored in the mustard seed space, and then took care of it in each room layer by layer, and the whole more than 1,000 liters of gasoline were all used up!

In the end, in order to destroy Miè more thoroughly, Liu Dong took out all the explosives collected from the Japanese arsenal, the shells that were originally used as a collection, and dozens of mortar shells!

After his arrangement, the entire underground casino almost became a large blasting canister.

After all this was done, Liu Dong carried Wu Dongsheng to the back seat of the car outside, and then drove the car out of the gate, turned around and returned to the entrance of the casino building, and lifted a strip of cloth that extended from the building with a strong smell of gasoline!

Grabbing the strip of cloth, a lighter appeared in Liu Dong's hand, looking at the faintly lit building 10 meters away, Liu Dong whispered to himself: "Goodbye!"

"Boom!"

An orange flame ignited the strip of cloth soaked in a little gasoline in his hand.

Watching the tongue of fire slowly stretch along the cloth strip into the building, Liu Dong did not hesitate at all, tried his best as fast as he could, turned around and ran, jumped in the car at the door of the casino, immediately started to the highest gear, and then stepped on the accelerator to the end, and the car under his feet was like being kicked by a prehistoric monster, and the wheels rubbed violently with a scorched smell, like an arrow from the string.

Because the temperature-resistant casino is located on the outskirts of Yangon, except for a road about 10 meters wide leading to the casino, the gate is flanked by farmland, and it is now three or four o'clock in the morning, it is the time when people are sleeping, and there are no cars on the street at all. Therefore, Liu Dong soared to 200 miles in a very smooth way, and it was still soaring.

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