"Zhenguan two years, the first day of the first month of September, the wind and sand outside the Yumen Pass is very big, our horse team out of the pass, walked more than 300 miles, gradually some people are sleepy and lacking horses, this is the negligence of the poor monks, at that time in the pass, there was an old man reminded us to sell the horses, change to camels, but we did not listen to his Jianyì, until now in the bitter fruit, watching a horse fall in the sand can not get up, the poor monk's mood is also extremely heavy, every time a horse falls, the weight of others has increased some.

Guiguzi once told the poor monk that the world is very big, and took a round ball to tell the poor monk that this is our world, at that time the poor monk sneered at this, a flower is a world, a leaf is a Bodhi, just a round ball is said to be the world, is this Guigu disciple also read my Buddhist proverbs?

But now the poor monk is also a little confused, according to the map of Guiguzi, our team actually found a few marked towns in this desolate Gobi Desert, this is simply incredible, the direction of the compass is correct, the sheepskin map given to us by Guiguzi is also wrong, is it the poor monk wrong?

Looking back carefully, it seems that the ball he showed to the poor monk at the beginning was indeed marked with many small characters, including the Tang Dynasty, the Turks, and the Tianzhu.

The starry sky outside the domain is very clear, the bright starry sky seems to be the Buddha's sky, which makes people can't bear to feel small, the poor monk sat under the starry sky for half an hour, feeling the vastness of the endless heaven and earth, and his heart has been thinking about the thing called the globe that Guiguzi showed me at the beginning.

Could it be that this world is really a round ball as Guiguzi said? These endless starry skies are all huge spheres like our world? The fourth volume of the "Buddha Yan Sutra" clearly has clouds: "What is the name of the cloud? The world is the migration, and the time is the direction. Thou knowest now that the east, west, north, southeast, southeast, southwest, northeast, northeast, northwest, and northwest are boundaries. The past, the present, the future are the world. ”

The "Buddhist Sutra" also once had a cloud: "The world is divided into many worlds." The realm of desire, the realm of color, the realm of colorlessness, the realm of asura. Macro heaven and earth, the reincarnation of all things, there are four Zen heavens, not in the five elements. ”

There is no sutra that mentions the theory of the universe and the planets as Guiguzi said, perhaps because the poor monk's knowledge is not enough, I hope that the Landa Temple in the Tianzhu Holy Land can have what the poor monk wants to know......

The climate outside the region is really different from the fertile soil of the Central Plains, where the sun is blazing during the day and cold as frost at night. The poor monk has only been working on this empty Gobi for half an hour, and his body feels a little numb from the cold, so let's remember it here today...... "......

"In the second year of Zhenguan, the ninth day of the first month of November. It's been a few days since we said goodbye to Gaochangguo, and now it's time to hurry again, in Gaochang, we have received a very high courtesy from Gaochangguo, they seem to have a special emotion for the Tang people, from the way they look at us, it seems to be afraid?

Later, the poor monk found out. It turned out that it was my Tang Dynasty who had sent troops out again, and His Majesty the Son of Heaven sent a large army to wage a war against Tuguhun, who was harassing the border of my Tang Kingdom.

The battle is very clear. Tuguhun's 100,000 men were defeated and chased all the way to Qinghai Lake, until the head of their leader was cut off and a new leader surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, ending the war.

The poor monk is a monk who does not have any good feelings about war, and if he kills someone, it is a sin that destroys human nature, and he will go to the Infernal Hell of the Asura Realm in the future.

But when I thought of the war, the poor monk thought of Guiguzi Xu Yang, for such a person, the poor monk really didn't know how to evaluate, I heard that he led a military department, in Silla attacked and killed the Goryeo, ambushed more than 10,000 corpses, when in Chang'an, hearing the news, the poor monk silently recited the Sutra in his heart, in order to ask the Buddha to forgive such a bloody murderer.

But after meeting him in Chang'an, it was hard for the poor monk to imagine that he was the general who killed tens of thousands of people in Goryeo and captured more than 10,000 captives.

He seems to have a different kind of affection for the people, and from the things he did, it can be seen that he is completely different from those nobles in the court, paving bridges and roads, and providing relief to the victims, he does not hide his excellent ability to collect money, and he is not stingy to fund the people with the money earned from the nobles.

For a person like him, the poor monk really doesn't know where he will be reincarnated after he dies...... "......

"In the second year of Zhenguan, on December 21, after spending the country of Suye City and Zhaowu Nine Surnames, the poor monks and their entourage worked hard to climb over the iron gate and arrived at Tocharo.

The king of Tocharian was a pagan, and the only god he believed in in his country was actually the god of torches, and the poor monk, adhering to the heart of the Buddha for all sentient beings, expounded the Dharma to him all night, but made him suddenly open his mouth, like an initiation, and the next day announced that the doctrine of the whole country was changed from the torch god to the Buddha.

In Tocharian we rectify the time is not long, but this is the poor monk on the way to the west of the most meritorious place, Guiguzi Xu Yang originally instructed the poor monk, to record all the things that he saw and heard along the way and bring it back to the Tang Dynasty, but also to give future generations a reference to the west, the poor monk hopes that if there are descendants in the future to come to this Tocharian country, can spread the supreme Buddhism here for the poor monks, so that this place can also become the world's Buddhist holy land...... "......

"In the third year of Zhenguan, on the second day of the fifth month, after more than a year of trekking, a total of eighty-nine countries in the Western Regions, and finally after crossing the Great Snow Mountain, Tianzhu is finally about to arrive.

Descending from the Tianshan Mountains, the climate slowly began to become warmer, and more and more Tianzhu people were encountered around, and their dress was no different from the Tianzhu people who went to Datang from the Silk Road to do business.

They wore red or orange cloth scarves on their heads, wore long robes, and their trousers were very short and wide, and their brownish-yellow complexion was clearly different from the pale yellow skin of the Tang people.

Along the way, our team was watched by many Tianzhu people, carefully observing them, it seems that the people of Tianzhu are not as good as the people of my Tang Dynasty, those half-old children, only wearing a piece of torn linen, thin body, look very poor.

The more you walk towards the territory of Tianzhu, the more Tianzhu people you can see, and our team seems to have caused a sensation to them, and more and more people follow us.

It wasn't until we entered a building that looked like a city-state that we came into contact with the government institutions of Tianzhu.

The structure of their government also looks very interesting, and the person they call 'Bolu' seems to be like the 'county order' of the Tang Dynasty, and I saw him hugging each other, saying a bunch of words that we never stopped, and taking off the cloth towel he wore on his head, as if he was saluting us.

Fortunately, we found a merchant in Gandhara who often traded with the Tang Dynasty, and he was fluent in both Tianzhu and Tang dialect.

With this translator, we quickly communicated with this 'county commander', and learned from him that they welcome guests from afar in Beitianzhu.

Hearing that we were from the Eastern Tang Dynasty, they were extremely curious, because it seemed that Tianzhu had not had guests from the East for a long, long time.

Then they heard that we had come to seek the Dharma, and they were very excited to tell us that in their northern Tianzhu, there were the most enlightened monks in the five Tianzhu, and there was also the second most holy place in Buddhism......

In North Tianzhu, we were treated with great courtesy, and the glass gifts we brought over were very popular with the king there, but because the road was too bumpy, most of the porcelain and glass were lost and broken, and only some tea and silk remained, but that's it, the king of North Tianzhu still showed us great respect and courtesy, he was also a Buddhist believer, he personally took the poor monks to visit the Buddhist holy places in North Tianzhu, and at the same time recommended to the poor road to visit the other four Buddhist temples in Tianzhu.

One of the places he said made the poor monks linger for a long time, that is, the Landa Temple in Zhongtianzhu, 'Can mortals become Buddhas?' When did you become a Buddha? What are the stages and procedures to become a Buddha? 'These questions that make poor monks think day and night in the Tang Dynasty, I think they will know the answers when they get there......" - excerpt from "The Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty" (to be continued......