In the winter of the northern country, although the trees have long lost their leaves, there is no life in sight. But this big Chang'an City is still full of people, people come and go, a lively scene.

Along the line, come to the Jinchangfang Great Mercy Temple, with these years of construction, this Great Mercy Temple has obviously become the largest temple in Chang'an City. At this time, in the Great Ci'en Temple, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda built by Master Xuanzang himself has also been basically completed.

With the lively scene, in front of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, I saw Master Xuanzang, Wang Xuance, Zhou Zeng, and Chen Maocai guiding the craftsman to carry out this last step in an orderly manner and clean the Big Wild Goose Pagoda.

Looking at this commanding height of Chang'an City, Wang Xuance was also quite pleased and said: "Master, this is really a great merit, such a tall building does look a lot magnificent."

"This is not the immeasurable merit of the old monk, this is the immeasurable merit of the Dharma," Master Xuanzang smiled slightly.

I saw that under the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, two stone tablets covered with red silk stood side by side on the left and right sides of the tower gate. Zhou Zeng, who was quite curious, walked over and stretched out his hand to caress the two pieces of red silk. was immediately reprimanded by Chen Maocai: "You kid don't want to die, don't you?" ”

Zhou Zeng stuck out his tongue, made a grimace and said, "I just want to see what these two tablets look like."

I hurriedly stopped Master Xuanzang: "Zhou Jushi, this must not be, one of these two inscriptions you also know that the emperor himself wrote, and the other is written by His Majesty today, on the day of the completion of this tower, His Majesty will personally come to uncover these two pieces of red silk, in order to show future generations, ordinary people can never do it." ”

Zhou Zeng has always respected this Master Xuanzang, and when he heard this, he immediately confessed: "I know that I am wrong. ”

Wang Xuance also smiled and said: "It's good to know that you are wrong, and you will go to the Buddha to repent and repent more in the future."

"Master, these days, I see that this Big Wild Goose Pagoda has never seen this place to put relics, I don't know how our relics should be enshrined?" Chen Maocai asked Master Xuanzang with curiosity. Although, they have been working hard for the construction of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda for a long time, and often come over to help with some affairs. However, when it was time to wash the pagoda, he still had not seen this place of enshrinement of relics, so he asked curiously. Hearing this question, Zhou Zeng also echoed casually: "Yes, how should this relic be enshrined?" ”

I saw that Master Xuanzang smiled slightly at Wang Xuance, and explained to them: "The relics of the Buddha's true body that you brought back from your envoy to the Five India a few years ago, in addition to this Buddha's tooth relic, Your Majesty has handed over the remaining dozen relics to the old monk, and I have enshrined them at the top. And the relics I brought back from the five Indians were all enshrined on the first to fourth floors. ”

"Master, when did you do this, why haven't I seen it?" Chen Maocai asked in surprise.

But seeing this Wang Xuance followed Master Xuanzang's words back: "This Buddhist treasure, although Buddhism is powerful, but it can prevent gentlemen, can not prevent villains, in order to protect the safety of these relics, the master has been built in the tower when the tower was cast, secretly built in the body of the tower. Only in this way can the supreme merit of relics spread all over the pagoda, and the Buddha can bless our Tang Dynasty, the Great Mercy and Grace Temple, and the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. ”

"Yes, yes, Wang Changshi's explanation is very correct, and few people know about this matter, I just hope that the two of you will also keep your mouth shut and protect this secret." Master Xuanzang said to them earnestly.

"Please rest assured, the two of us will be tight-lipped," Zhou Chen and the others solemnly assured them.

At this time, I saw the smug Zhou Zeng continued: "This was more than ten years ago, when we were at the Wusha Conference, the performance of the master was really admirable, in addition to the wonderful performance of the master, there are also these three Buddhist treasures, which is also gratifying."

"What you said, but the Buddha's tooth, the Buddha's parietal bone relic, the Buddha's finger bone relic?" Chen Maocai returned casually.

"Exactly, it's quite interesting to think about it now, but what I never expected is that when we went to India for the second time, we not only encountered Xiangxiang, but also Meng Xian Master personally passed this Buddha tooth relic to our Tang Dynasty." Zhou Zeng then returned.

"Yes, the Buddha has always had such a teaching, saying that where the relics are transmitted, the Dharma will be carried forward there, since so many relics have been first-class to our Datang, it seems that this also indicates that Buddhism is destined to flourish in our Datang." Wang Xuance looked at the majestic Big Wild Goose Pagoda and said reverently.

"Wang Changshi said this very well, although you went to the five India for the second time and encountered sword soldiers, but all this is this Alonashun and many unrighteousness. Buddhists pay attention to this cycle of cause and effect, and since Buddhism is declining in these five Indias, it will naturally arise in another place. Master Xuanzang also returned quite religiously.

"The Buddha has always taught us to be good, and I have done the same over the years. However, it would be nice if the Buddha's parietal bone relics and the Buddha's finger relics were in our Datang, wouldn't it be more blessed for the people of our Datang, to live and work in peace and contentment, and to be safe and secure. Zhou Zeng still returned with a big grin.

"You kid, why don't you know the etiquette like this, this also has to pay attention to a fate, only when fate comes, he will naturally appear in our Datang, fate is gone, if you want to get it, it can only bring endless disasters, but it will not bless our Datang" Chen Maocai glared at Zhou Zeng with contempt and said.

Zhou Zeng still smiled happily. But there was no more to say.

"Yes, what Chen Jushi said is very good, the Buddha tooth relics you brought back naturally flowed to our Tang Dynasty, if it is really snatched back, I think not only Your Majesty will not agree, but I will also blame you." Master Xuanzang also said in a mocking tone.

"By the way, Venerable Master, since these two missions, after learning more about the five Indias, I have gradually felt that these five Indias are not only Buddhism, but also Brahmanism and Buddhism. To put it mildly, since our observations along the way, Buddhism seems to be in decline in these five Indias," Wang Xuance thought about and continued.

This feeling and judgment have actually been hidden in the hearts of Zhou Chen and the others for a long time, but because of etiquette, it is not easy to explain this matter too clearly, so that Master Xuanzang is sad.

Seeing this Master Xuanzang, he smiled slightly: "It seems that Wang Changshi is still subtle, in fact, you can say this matter directly." Because since the old monk left the five Indias, he also felt such a situation, and he would feel that the decline was very fast! ”

Why is that? Listen to Master Xuanzang continue......

The editor said: After Master Xuanzang left India, Buddhism has basically declined by more than half in 50 years~

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