Chapter 1395 Great Bodhi Temple

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Seven kilometres away from Gaya is an ancient temple built by Emperor Ashoka that dates back more than 2,000 years. It is the place where the famous Buddha Shakyamuni became a Buddha - the Great Bodhi Temple!

Because of the decline of Buddhism in India itself, this Buddhist temple, which was once thriving with incense, inevitably fell into decline. Due to the passage of time, most of the Daputi Temple has been submerged into the earth, and later it was excavated and renovated to become what it is today.

After leaving the hotel alone, Liu Dong drove here by himself, and after standing in front of the temple gate and briefly looking at this ancient temple, which is completely different from Chinese temples, Liu Dong walked in behind tourists and many devout Buddhists from all over the world.

The main part of the Great Puti Temple is a square platform shape, gradually decreasing from the temple base to the upper end, and a conical spire is built on it, which is 170 feet high, and is very majestic and steep. On the arch in front of the temple, there are carvings of animal patterns such as lions, deer, cows, and elephants, which are vivid and realistic. The altar on the west wall of the temple has a gilded statue of Shakyamuni. The Buddha statue faces east, backed by the Bi Bo Luo tree, and in the courtyard outside the Great Puti Temple, there are many small pagodas built by the people who have been supported by the past dynasties, as well as many monks' relics pagodas.

Along the way, almost everywhere Liu Dong could be seen wearing different clothes, obviously from different countries, kneeling down devoutly. Some of them are from China, some are from Japan, some are from Korea, and some are local Buddhists from India, and they are well integrated under the same faith, regardless of each other. It is a good embodiment of the 'world harmony' pursued by the sages of the Chinese dynasties!

But this is destined to be temporary.

After worshipping respectfully in front of the Buddha statue of Shakyamuni, Liu Dong looked at the lush Bipolo tree, which is more than 20 meters in diameter and full of colorful streamers, the famous Bodhi tree in Chinese Buddhism.

The Bi Bo Luo tree at the Great Bodhi Temple is world-famous, and it is difficult to find a second tree in history that is so famous and revered. Today's Bibala tree in the Great Bodhi Temple is no longer the one that Shakyamuni relied on when he attained enlightenment. When Master Xuanzang arrived here, the Bi Boluo tree he saw had been "repeatedly cut down". After Xuanzang, the Bi Bo Luo tree here was cut down and burned, and it was blown down by a strong wind in 1870. It is said that this Bibala tree was the "great-grandson" of the tree when the Buddha attained enlightenment.

Despite this, Liu Dong exercised his gaze on it for nearly five minutes.

After bypassing the Great Bodhi Tree, Liu Dong admired the pyramid-shaped, but steeper than the pyramid, and continued to walk around the temple.

He tried to find Xuanzang, Fa Xian, and Yijing, the traces left by the Chinese monks who had visited the Great Bodhi Temple, but in the end Liu Dong still found nothing.

However, when he walked to the front of the pagoda, the relics that had been listening to the silence in the mustard seed space suddenly jumped.

The turmoil of the relics immediately made Liu Dong, who was immersed in the strong Buddhist atmosphere of the Great Bodhi Temple, show joy on his face.

"Sure enough, I didn't run in vain!"

Liu Dong, who was happy in his heart, was about to follow the direction of the relics to find it, but he didn't want to be stopped all of a sudden!

"Stop!"

"What's the matter?" asked Liu Dong after briefly glancing at the middle-aged Indian monk in his right robe and his right arm exposed.

"You stole the treasures of the temple, please come with me now!"

"Stealing the treasures of the temple?" Liu Dong was stunned, but when he looked at the other party's greedy gaze and looked at his right wrist from time to time, Liu Dong suddenly understood.

"What evidence do you have to prove that I stole the treasures in your temple?" Liu Dong said with a cold smile.

"The proof is in your hands!"

"You mean this bracelet?" Liu Dong raised his right hand.

With his movements, the bracelets made of twelve Vajra Bodhi appeared in the eyes of the people who gathered around.

Naturally, there is no shortage of knowledgeable people here, and soon someone exclaimed: "Twenty-one petals of Vajra Bodhi?"

"Vajra Bodhi, the Four Famous Pearls?"

"It's the first time I've seen a twenty-one-petal Vajra Bodhi, and I've heard that this top-grade Bodhi bead is on the market for $50,000 a piece!"

"$50,000? That's just the market price, if you really want it, you can't buy one by doubling it!"

"That's right!" the monk nodded immediately, regardless of the surrounding discussions.

The reason why he couldn't help but want to get Liu Dong's string of Bodhi beads was that in addition to the large number of twenty-one petals of Vajra Bodhi on it, the most important thing was that there was also a twenty-four-petal Vajra Bodhi.

Twenty-four petals, from the birth of Buddhism to the present more than 2,000 years, there are no more than 9 of the twenty-four petals of Vajra Bodhi recorded in history, which shows how cherished it is!

Moreover, the practice effect of this 24-petal Vajra Bodhi is also the top existence of all Bodhi seeds, and the monks who have worn this kind of Bodhi have become famous Buddhist masters in history.

Zhu Falan, Ba Sipa, and Xuanzang are all among the best.

Therefore, the allure of the top bodhi that will only appear in the three great calamities (the solemn tribulation of the past, the virtuous tribulation of the present, and the future star tribulation) is as difficult for Buddhists to give up this temptation as the wolf sees the meat, the cat sees the fish, and the thirsty person sees the water.

After a brief glance at the Bodhi beads that he accidentally came to when he was gambling in Myanmar a few years ago, Liu Dong's eyes shifted to the monk, "Since the monk said that this string of Bodhi beads was stolen by me from your temple, then I must come up with evidence, otherwise the rhetoric of red mouth and white teeth will slander me for stealing, and I will not agree!"

"Yes, show the evidence!" Perhaps after seeing Liu Dong's identity as a Chinese, many people who came here from China for tourism and pilgrimage also helped out.

"This beaded chain was originally enshrined on the Buddha's offering table in the stupa, and it is rarely seen in ordinary times, so how can I come up with evidence? However, the elders in the temple know very well about this matter, as long as the donor and I go to confront each other, it will naturally come to light! I believe that with the reputation of our Buddha Gaya, the Indian name of the Great Bodhi Temple, the donor will not be wronged!" The monk rolled his eyes and immediately said in a high-sounding manner.

"Hehe!" Liu Dong shook his head sarcastically. He's not stupid, if he really wants to go with this guy, most likely the end result won't be any different from what he is now.

More than 99 percent of Buddhists can't help but feel greedy when they see the 24-petal Vajra Bodhi.

"I originally thought that this great Bodhi Temple, as the place where the Buddha Shakyamuni had an epiphany and attained enlightenment, should be a pure place, but I didn't expect the real situation to be so disappointing. ”

After shaking his head, Liu Dong turned around and prepared to leave!

"If you want to go, leave your things behind!"

Listening to the shouting behind him and the sound of breaking wind in his ears, Liu Dong frowned slightly, but he didn't expect that this middle-aged Indian monk was still a master of martial arts.

But, he's still too far behind!

"Bang......!"

Liu Dong didn't even look back, but raised his right hand as if swatting a fly, brushing the monk's right hand that grabbed him like lightning.

Accompanied by a dull voice like defeat, under Liu Dong's vigorous efforts, the middle-aged monk flew out upside down as if he had been hit by a high-speed car.

"Bang, grunt......!"

Turning to look at the middle-aged monk who had rolled around on the ground a few times, embarrassed, Liu Dong said coldly: "The merits of the five precepts and ten virtues of the Buddhist family, you really haven't gotten anything at all, and you have been blind for decades of practice. Let's return the vulgar as soon as possible, so as not to defile this quiet place of Buddhism!"

"You're ......!"

"Gone!"

After one last glance at the middle-aged monk with a shocked and angry face, Liu Dong turned and left.

There was such a big commotion, it was no longer suitable for him to continue to stay and explore what he wanted.

"Do you dare to leave your name?" said the middle-aged monk.

But Liu Dong is not stupid, how can he make trouble for himself. So he ignored the clamor of the middle-aged monk behind him and strode towards the outside of the temple.

Seeing his back go farther and farther, the middle-aged monk wanted to catch up, but he thought that the yoga he had practiced for forty years was not a trick to defeat the enemy. Don't ask for trouble. But if he gave up like this, he was a little unwilling.

"It seems that I have to find a master to come out!" After hesitating for a long time, the middle-aged monk gritted his teeth.

Although this will lose the string of Vajra Bodhi, after pleasing the master, he can also share some benefits from his old man. In this way, it is better than getting nothing.

After paying attention, the middle-aged monk hurriedly turned around and left.

And there is no more excitement to see, and the flow of people gathered together has slowly dispersed.

Walking out of the Great Bodhi Temple, after Liu Dong found a place where no one was, he used his relics Yuanguang.

Now, with the blessing of 22 Buddha relics in the National Museum of India, the automatic pick-up range of his relics has reached a radius of 20 meters, so the speed of traveling underground is naturally much faster than before.

Therefore, in just a few minutes, Liu Dong had already come to the bottom of the highest stone pagoda of the Great Bodhi Temple. But just when Liu Dong was about to go up directly, he stopped suddenly.

"That's the case again!"

He didn't care when he was far away, but when he was so close, there was a blind spot in the range of Liu Dong's relics that he couldn't see.

He had also experienced this situation before, and if he encountered an object or person with a very strong magnetic field, the relics would not be able to completely cover it.

Just like his cheap master 'Wuxin Monk', a land immortal-level figure in the Baodan realm, Liu Dong's relics Yuanguang couldn't detect his side at all, and even Liu Dong couldn't see everything within 50 meters of the Wuxin monk's body.

Although the shielded space is not so large this time, it is still pitch black in the range of 10 meters in diameter, which is instinctively wrong for Liu Dong.

But the beating of the relics in his mind made him unable to give up the opportunity to almost get his hands. (To be continued.) )