Chapter 1242 Wutai Mountain

Yelu Shensi and Xiao Weixin discussed a few words in a low voice, and Xiao Weixin said: "If this is the case, Your Majesty may agree, but the monk...... Can it not be sent by the Great Xiangguo Temple, can it be done on Wutai Mountain? ”

Xue Tong said with a smile: "Don't think about it after staying, half of the medicine you urgently need has to fall on the head of Daxiangguo Temple, and the monks of Wutai Mountain don't know how to use medicine, why do you go to Liaoguo?" Is it excessive? ”

Yelu Shen pondered and said: "Is it possible to let the monks of Wutai Mountain join in, and one more person will have more strength." ”

Xue Zhong knew very well that Dou Shunqing had already received information from the merchants, and said that the Khitan sent people from Wei, Ying, Wu, Shuo and other prefectures to Wutai Mountain to become monks in order to explore the border affairs.

But pretend not to know: "If you can invite the Zen masters of Wutai Mountain to participate, it would be really good, Wutai Mountain is close to Liao, and many Zen masters must be quite famous in Liao, so it can also reduce the resistance of the people of your country to us." ”

"But this is a chore, the Zen masters practice and meditate every day, I am afraid that they will not be able to live a hard life, and they will have to volunteer, so I will go back and tell the officials and let them post a billboard."

"One more thing." Yelu Shen pondered and said, "Brother Xue, before the aid arrives, can Sitong lend me some food first and turn it around for a few days?" ”

Xue Zhong sighed: "Alas, the south of the Great Wall was affected this time, the situation is a little miserable, if it weren't for the locusts not being able to cross the sea, I'm afraid that Deer Island and Zhangzi Island would not be able to escape, but I have some food there, and it is no problem to raise ten thousand stones for my brother." ”

"But there is a saying in my hometown, emergency relief is not help the poor, and I am just a manager, and I can't be more masters."

"Two officials, in fact, can you think of a way by yourself?"

Yelu thought about it and said hurriedly: "If there is a way, can I still ask Brother Xue to borrow food from you?" ”

Xue Zhong picked his chin with a few beards: "Actually...... By the way, this time the silk money is pulled, what do you think of the horses escorted by our Sitong caravan? ”

Jereus said, "The horses are pretty good. ”

Xue Zhong said with a smile: "You see, there is actually no shortage of good horses in the Great Song Dynasty now, since there is no shortage of them, can the horse ban in your country be opened?" Is it possible to go to such an unfriendly decree as a horse entering the Song Dynasty and dying the whole family? ”

Yelu Shensi and Xiao Weixin glanced at each other, not to mention anything else, the horse that the dead fat man rode this time made the two of them greedy, and I heard the fat man say that it was the female straight man who sent it to Zhangzi Island to trade.

Xue Zhong said: "You do this, except for cheap women for nothing, there is no benefit." Their horses are no worse than yours, and they have no scruples. ”

"To me, buying from them is the same as buying from you."

"On the south bank of the Yalu River, the power of your country is also weak, and now the female straight people are transporting horses from there to our ships at the mouth of the river, and the business is ...... tsk."

"But in this way, the Great Song Dynasty will have more troubles and losses by sea for two hundred miles, if you can buy it from Baigou Pavilion, brother, my performance, it will be beautiful."

"Why don't you two talk to you? What if you agree? ”

Yelushen thought about the same reason, and said: "This proposal is not bad, we can try it, if Your Majesty agrees, then it will solve the two great difficulties." ”

Xue Zhong said: "Then we will do our own thing and strive to save the people of Li from the sea of suffering as soon as possible!" ”

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Wutai Mountain, since the Tang Dynasty, has become a Buddhist holy place, Manjushri Dojo.

After the Zhou Buddha Movement, Wutai Mountain once declined.

When the Great Song Dynasty was founded, Taizong had just been in the Pingjin Temple in Taiyuan, and he met with the Shamen Rui of the Luquan Temple of Wutai Mountain, and asked the reason for the construction of Taishan, and gave a lot of property to build the Taiping Xingguo Temple.

Under the edict "Wutai deep forest and big valley, Zen advocates secluded habitat, and pays taxes." ”

In the fifth year of Taiping Xingguo, Taizong also ordered the construction of Wutai Zhenrong, Huayan, Shouning, Xingguo, Bamboo Forest, Golden Pavilion, Fahua, Secret, Lingjing, and Daxian Ten Temples.

In the seventh year of Taiping Xingguo, the construction of ten temples was completed, and Luquan Temple was given the Taiping Xingguo Temple.

Since then, the temple of Wutai Mountain has been "carved with beams and buildings, and it has a new look", and Buddhism has begun to flourish again.

In the fourth year of Jingde, Zhenzong built a heavy pavilion in the Zhenrong Institute of Wutai Mountain, set up a statue of Manjusri, and gave the amount of "Fengzhen Pavilion". Its "Qihuan is extraordinarily beautiful, reflecting the valley of the forest", is very prosperous.

Today, there are a total of 73 temples in Wutai Mountain, and the scale of the Tang Dynasty has almost been restored.

In Zhenrong Temple, a middle-aged Confucian scholar is admiring the exquisite statue of Manjushri with his wife.

On the left and right walls of the palace pavilion, there are carved with three heads and six arms of the Buddha Mother and eight arms of the Mori Zhi Heavenly Statue.

The mother of the Buddha folded her hands in front of her, held the sun and the moon with both hands in the back, and held the mirror in her left hand and held the right hand to seal, and then engraved with the words "Immortal Buddha and Sect".

Each of the eight arms of Zhitian holds the sun, moon, ling, standard, rope and other magic instruments, corresponding to the Buddha's mother, and the eyebrows are angry.

On the back wall of the main hall, there are fifty-three ginseng of the good wealth boy who is changeable, lively and lovely, and the Buddha mother and Zhitian on both sides form a sharp contrast.

In the middle of the main hall, there is Manjushri riding a lion.

The bodhisattva's top knot has five buns, representing the five wisdoms of Manjushri: the wisdom of the great circle mirror, the wisdom of wonderful observation, the wisdom of equality, the wisdom of what is done, and the wisdom of the body of the dharma realm;

As well as the five Buddhas: the Buddha of the East, the Buddha of Amitabha in the West, the Buddha of the Southern Treasure, the Buddha of the Northern Buddha, and the Buddha of the Central Virujana.

Holding Ruyi in one hand symbolizes the achievement of wisdom. The other holds the scriptures in his hand, representing the wisdom of thinking.

The lion under the seat indicates majesty, fierceness, invincibility, invincibility, and invincibility.

Although this hall is far away in Hebei, but the craftsmanship is the top court will make the craft, in addition to the scale is smaller, its exquisiteness, no less than the three holy statues of the Daxiong Treasure Hall of the Great Xiangguo Temple.

The scholar looked at the solemn and exquisite statue of the Bodhisattva: "How can the world be a Buddha in their hearts?" ”

The wife took her husband's arm and smiled, "Didn't you say that there was no Buddha back then? ”

The scholar looked at his wise wife: "Expose my shortcomings again, to this day, I don't know whether there is a Buddha or not." ”

The wife smiled and stopped talking.

The scholar is Zhang Shangying, and this person's career can be said to be too inaccessible.

At that time, he folded Zhangdun, but was appreciated by the extremely proud Zhangdun, and recommended him to be a counselor.

Later, Zhang Shangying recommended Shu Yan and others to enter the imperial history platform.

Zhang Shangying attacked the Privy Council in office, and the Privy Council Wen Yanbo, Wu Chong, and Cai Ting all hung their seals, and Zhao Ji demoted them to Jingnan for the sake of the balance of the government and government.

In order to get Zhang Shangying away from the court, he took revenge and reported the private message requested by Zhang Shangying for his relatives to Zhao Ji, which led to Zhang Shangying's resignation again and demotion to Jiangling County Tax.

has been stumbling until now, Zhang Shangying's mind about his career has also faded a lot, and he does not go to work, and takes his wife to leisurely.

As a result, he received a private letter from Su You in Xiangzhou, and after reading it, Zhang Shangying tossed and turned all night, and finally came to Wutai Mountain.

The couple visited the Buddhist temple and unconsciously thought of those days.

Not long after Zhang Shangying's first career, one day he entered the Buddhist temple and saw the "Tripitaka Sutra" solemnly and neatly placed in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, and he was very unhappy, and said: "The teaching of Confucius is not as good as the book of the Hu people?"

Back home, Zhang Shangying set up the pen and paper, and sat at night to think for a long time.

His wife Xiang asked, "Why don't you go to sleep?" ”

Zhang Shangying replied: "I am trying to write the theory of no Buddha. ”

Xiang said: "If there is no Buddha, why should you make a statement? When you have the mind to write, isn't it already proven that there is a Buddha? ”

Zhang Shangying stopped silently.

Later, I saw the "Vimala Sutra" used by his wife in front of the Buddha shrine, and I opened my eyes and read the above sentence: "This is not the land is big and it is not far from the earth." I suddenly understood, so I took it down and read it carefully.

His wife, Xiang Shi, asked him again: "Do you have to read this sutra before you can write the theory of no Buddha?" ”

Shang Ying realized when he heard this, and began to read the scriptures with his wife, study Buddhism, and gave himself the name "Endless Layman".

Although his career has plummeted, he has a good wife as his companion, and there is a lot of sweetness in the past.

Zhang Shangying was reminiscing, when he heard a Buddha call behind him: "What the layman said just now, that is, one is ten thousand, and ten thousand is one." One after another, ten thousand after another, Haoran is not poor, the volume is comfortable, and there is no obstacle to harmony. Although this is extreme, there is no wind in the end. ”

The couple turned around together and saluted the visitor, but it was an old monk.