A small dhowing sails into the island of Great-Mu.

Monk Baoguang, who was dressed in monk's clothes, saw Fang Tianding and his party waiting on the dock from a distance, and his calm face welled up with joy.

After wandering around the Three Buddhas, he was treated coldly many times, and now he feels closer to his heart when he sees his person called Baoguang Monk.

"Master, are the Three Buddhas already aware of it?" This is the most nervous thing for Fang Tianding now.

From the island of Great-mother to the island of Bangka, there is still a thousand miles of sea route, and it would be a very, very long distance on land. But on the sea, at this time, it only takes seven or eight days.

When the army landed on Bangka Island, it also meant that the war was completely started.

"Rest assured. Sriwijaya has not received the slightest news so far. "The Sriwijaya in the ninth month of the Chinese calendar has just entered the dry season, and everything is so peaceful and stable. It's just that the heart of the monk Baoguang is very unstable, and he has repeatedly approached the local Buddhists as a Chinese monk in Jiugang and Zhanbei, but the result is that he has even eaten and closed the door.

The latter did not treat him coldly, spoke ill of each other, and treated him with the same treatment of food, clothing, housing and transportation, but in Buddhism, although the monk Baoguang waved a Zen stick and smashed people's brains, he was not ignorant of Buddhism. But it is clear that at this point, the monks of the Srivijaya have made it clear that they are refusing.

Rejection is rejection, is it different in the end? But the truth is that the root cause is not a problem with the Dharma at all, but the appearance and skin of the Baoguang monk.

To be honest, Monk Baoguang himself was very dissatisfied with the actions of the Buddhist group of the Three Buddhas.

Southern Buddhism is really very different from Chinese Buddhism, not to mention that the Buddhism of the Three Buddhas is also heavily influenced by Brahmanism.

Back at his residence, Monk Baoguang talked endlessly about what he had seen and heard in the Three Buddhas, and also focused on the name, which he felt was very important: "So that the prince can know that the nobles and people of the Three Buddhas are very strange, whether it is the secular princes or the elders of the Sangha Order, they all have bearded nose and fair skin, which is quite similar to the Fang Fan Shang that day." The commoners, on the other hand, were broad-nosed, short-eyed, and swarthy and thin. And the Srivijaya people also like to judge people by their appearance, as if the whiter the skin, the more noble, and the darker the skin, the more humble. "Speaking of this, the Baoguang monk is very annoyed, because he is a black monk. The swaying black is like an iron tower, the skin is black, and the black is translucent.

He couldn't seek the Dharma in many Buddhist temples, and the fundamental reason was not because of the different inheritances of each other, but also because of the black and bright nature of his birth.

Because of this very strange aesthetic in his eyes, the merchants from the West and the Han people who went south from Middle-earth were all respected in the Three Buddhas because they were born white.

The Sa family also found that many of the Zhuluo merchants of the Three Buddhas were also very similar to the Three Buddhas. Chongbai contempts black, the old man and the slave, just like the nobles and untouchables of the Three Buddhas, the lord is more like the heavenly merchants, but the slaves are similar to the indigenous gods of the Three Buddhas, black and short. ”

"The Buddhism of the Three Buddhas and Brahmanism have certain similarities, the former is to cross oneself and not others, the latter is to divide people into three, six, nine and so on, and the horizontal and vertical do not pay attention to the equality of all beings. When I get into it, it's a good place to start. "Monk Baoguang didn't know anything about Southern Buddhism, but he felt that the latter was too different from Han Buddhism. On the contrary, it bears some resemblance to the Brahmanism he saw in the Srivijaya.

But they don't know the fact that religion is also dominated by people. When primitive Buddhism was divided into two, the two schools of southern and northern transmission did not follow the same path. In the process of the latter's transmission to the south, it has too many origins and entanglements with Brahmanism, and Buddhism in the south of Tianzhu perished earlier than Buddhism in the north.

In the past few hundred years, I don't know how many bankrupt Buddhist nobles and high-ranking monks have come to Srivijaya. These people brought an Indian aesthetic to the natives of the South Seas, as well as an Indian model of domination. And more importantly, they were all descendants of tall, fair-skinned Aryan conquerors with bearded rhinoplasty. They also reformed the lineage of the indigenous ruling class of the South Seas!

Therefore, the three Buddhas are the radiation edge of Indian civilization, and the southern Buddhism of the three Buddhas today is still very different from the southern Buddhism that prevailed in Thailand and Myanmar thousands of years later.

Religion also needs to evolve with the times. Why did Southern Buddhism emerge? Isn't it that in Tianzhu at that time, the influence of Brahmanism was deep-rooted, and the caste system was unshakable? This is the Southern Buddhism that only crosses oneself and does not cross others. In the following thousands of years, Southern Buddhism and Brahmanism can be said to have influenced each other, and it is difficult to summarize the depth of the involvement. In modern times, when the situation has changed, faith has naturally changed.

A living Buddha in later generations said that Buddhism is the best at tolerance, taking Han Buddhism as an example, from clothing to etiquette system, where is there a little bit of Tianzhu?

Today's Buddhism in Srivijaya is a perfect example of this. How can those Tianzhu nobles and monks who fled to maintain their still lofty status in a foreign land? Then the Tianzhu model must be perfectly copied in this foreign land. At the same time, Chola's 'conquest' of the Three Buddhas in recent years, some of the ideas of Brahmanism have invisibly penetrated into the social rules of the Three Buddhas.

Therefore, it is not unusual for the Baoguang monk to eat deflated in the Three Buddhas. He wants to grow up like Elder Tang, white and fat, but will that encounter be another world?

Manichaeism already has a deep understanding of the Three Buddhas, and they have also heard some things introduced by Lu Jiala and the Pu family before, but they haven't seen it with their own eyes, how can they feel at ease?

It's like they know about the strange tax system and military system of Srivijaya, but no one has seen it with their own eyes, it is really unbelievable.

- The people of Sriwijaya do not pay taxes.

Most of the country's tax revenues come from taxes on imports and exports and plundering at sea, and the ports of the Old Port and Jambi are filled with large quantities of local and Chinese, Indian, and Arab products. The nature of the society, according to Emperor Lu's words, is a feudal system with strong remnants of slavery.

"The powerful and wealthy merchants in the country have a wide range of slaves, and the merchants of the Heavenly Side have a lot of manors in the Old Port, and they don't know how many soldiers and horses can be hidden inside." Monk Baoguang's face flashed fiercely, this threat is too great, when they occupy the Three Buddhas, it must be strictly forbidden, otherwise who dares to guarantee that the Heavenly People will not come again in the future?

"It is true that the people do not pay rent, and in time of war, they are led by the princes of this place, and they prepare their own weapons and grain to wait for the king's allocation." So the land master of the Three Buddhas is really negligible. It's just that such a soldier has no combat effectiveness at all!

And there are people who are qualified to "bring their own weapons and grain", and it does not refer to all the low-level people of the Three Buddhas. The latter is not even qualified to be a soldier. That can only be a "good family"! Like the Vaishyas in Brahmanism, (https:)

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