With this voice full of vicissitudes, Wang Xuance found that a monk in his fifties with a kind face, wearing a washed white robe, pulled a seven or eight-year-old novice out along the ruins, and shouted as he walked: "Envoy of the Kingdom of God, wait a minute, Envoy of the Kingdom of God, wait a minute, wait a ......."

Wang Xuance hurriedly beckoned everyone to stop. In an instant, the monk had led the little novice to them. But seeing the monk with a smile on his face, he folded his hands and bowed: "The old monk's Dharma name is Xuankong, and I have received a letter from the king a few days ago, saying that the envoys of the kingdom are coming to this Lumbini city to observe and worship the Buddha, and the old monk has been waiting for a long time. ”

Hearing this, Wang Xuance hurriedly clasped his hands together and saluted: "Thank you for the king's kindness, and thank the master for his sincerity." ”

Seeing that it was getting late, this Xuankong master was warmly invited: "Although this Lumbini City is not small, but now it has been barren for a long time, only the old monk is in the Zen temple, and there is still some popularity, it is late today, why don't you go to my Zen temple for a while, and after tomorrow dawn, there will be an old monk to lead you to take a look?" ”

In this barren and dilapidated city of Lumbini, everyone was still thinking about where to live just now, and they never thought that this old monk would take the initiative to provide a place to live, so Wang Xuance was also quite happy and said: "So good, so good, Xuan Ce thanks the master for his kindness"!

Hearing their agreement, I saw that this little novice also said with a smile on his face: "Great, great, then I will show you the way." Between the words, he broke free from the hand held by the Xuankong Master, and jumped up and down in front of them to show them the way. After Wang Xuance introduced Zhou Chen and others to Master Xuankong one by one, he accompanied them and walked towards the Zen Temple.

"Slow down, don't go too fast, be careful of falling," said the Xuankong mage to the fast-moving little novice.

When everyone heard this, they also smiled.

"Master, is this your apprentice? It looks very cute and smart. Wang Xuance also couldn't help but ask Master Xuankong.

"Yes, this child, I have been following the old monk for seven years, and I still remember that when he was about a year old, he was placed at the door of my Zen monastery, so I adopted him and raised him until now, and accepted him as a closed disciple." Master Xuankong slowly replied to Wang Xuance's words.

Hearing this, Zeng walked in front of him this week and took out a candy cube casually: "Little Master, do you want to eat it?" ”

When the little novice saw that it was a candy cube, he said, "No, we have it too, and Master said that eating too much sugar is not good for your teeth."

This sentence made the big guy laugh in an instant. It is indeed a child's words, this week Zeng originally thought of taking out a candy cube to coax this child, but he never expected that in this place of mud Bora, there is no shortage of these things at all.

So he could only shake his head helplessly: "Alas." I didn't expect it, it seems that I really ate too much, and it's not rare, in our Datang, this thing is a rare thing. Then he hugged the cute little novice: "Tell me, what is your name?" ”

"I don't have a name yet, but usually the senior brothers and masters call me Little Bodhi," the little novice said to him seriously while taking the sugar cube in Zhou Zeng's hand.

provoked Zhou Zeng also smiled happily and said: "Don't you want it, why did you take it again" The little Bodhi who said in one sentence fell into his arms embarrassedly. Everyone suddenly felt that this little novice was very cute.

In this way, a group of people, talking and laughing, walked to the Zen monastery that the old monk said. This temple is located next to the palace fortress of the city of Lumbini, and in the midst of this gloom, it seems to be peaceful and tranquil in this scene. With the afterglow of the sunset, the glow shines on this small Zen temple, presenting an incomparable sense of tranquility and beauty. But on the top of this mountain gate, five big Sanskrit characters, Lumbini Monastery, shining in the light of the sun. The Zen courtyard doesn't look too big, and it's just five courtyards. However, many linden trees in the monastery always reflect the greenery of the houses, and it also looks like a quiet and comfortable place.

At the entrance of this Lumbini Monastery is an empty flat land. On this flat ground, there are many tall Bodhi trees, not only to welcome these guests from afar, but also to tell the history of the temple.

Wang Xuance and others, so under the guidance of this old monk, walked into this Zen temple. After some salutation, he followed Master Xuankong to his meditation hall. After sitting down, Wang Xuance and the others pondered carefully, this monastery is indeed as King Deva said, there are not too many monks.

But seeing this, Wang Xuance took the lead in opening his mouth: "Master, more than 20 years ago, my Master Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty should have traveled to our temple, at that time, according to his records, there should have been more than 30 monks, but this time when I arrived, it seemed that there were a lot less, I don't know why?" ”

Speaking of Master Xuanzang, the old monk was deeply impressed, he was very impressive, not only the Dharma is exquisite, but also the righteousness is clear. The two of us should be the same age, when he traveled to my Lumbini Monastery, my master was still there, but at that time my master was also very weak, and he was still entertained by the old monk. The matter of the monks, it is a long story, mainly because in these years, since the drowning of the king of the five Indias, Buddhism has not had a unified protector king, so it was quickly suppressed by this Brahmanism, and many monks gradually left the monastery because they couldn't stand the suppression, and there were only six or seven old monks left. Alas...... Forget it, let's not talk about it, how is Master Xuanzang in your Tang Dynasty all these years? In Master Xuankong's words, he couldn't help but show a lot of regret, so he reversed the topic!

"Over the years, Master Xuanzang has been doing well in my Datang, not only receiving courtesy from His Majesty, but also carrying forward Buddhism in my Datang. However, as I get older, my body sometimes gets thinner and thinner! Wang Xuance also introduced the situation to him along with his words.

"People, this life is only sixty or seventy years at most, but there are not many people like Master Xuanzang who can speak and speak." This Xuankong Master involuntarily said his heartfelt judgment.

Indeed, looking at the history of social development, among many people, there are too few people who can leave a name in history, and there are very few outstanding historical celebrities in this history, and Master Xuanzang is also destined to be the greatest Buddhist monk in the Zhenguan period and Gaozong period, not only in the land of China, but also in this foreign land, let the great monks remember it.

The editor said: A monk is a monk, and what he has is always a good heart~

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