Section 39 Daming Temple (1)
Everyone has a reason to like Yangzhou, such as grandma likes the kindness of Yangzhou people, although the people in Guanzhong are enthusiastic, the big voice is like a headache, the two people stand together and talk like a quarrel, and only after listening to the meaning do they understand that the two are just discussing whether to eat cold noodles today or to eat Zhenzi noodles.
Wu Nong, a native of Yangzhou, enjoyed her grandmother's soft language, although she couldn't understand what they said, but it didn't prevent her from personally selecting the supplies for worshipping the Buddha.
Xin Yue and they don't like to go to the temple, the old grandmother is never strong, she takes the Heavenly Demon Ji and the eldest girl, Yun Ye goes by herself, and Xin Yue will take a large group of women to the market to shop, and Hypatia hopes to meet people from her hometown here.
The pomp of the Yun family is very large, so big that the Yangzhou people step sideways, sixteen sturdy grassland horses are headed, and they are all majestic knights wearing masks, the armor on their bodies is not new, and the scratches on the swords are clearly recognizable, the more so, the more it shows the extraordinary samurai.
The carriage drawn by two horses, with silver inlaid with cloud patterns to show the extraordinary taste of the owner, the whole carriage is made of ebony, steel wheels, inlaid with a thick layer of gelatin, walking on the stone road without the roar of other carriages running over.
In the middle were a few scribes in blue robes, laughing and talking from the horses, and they almost didn't have to control their horses, and they walked neatly, and the sixteen knights who fell behind escorted five or six carriages, and occasionally a delicate maid poked her head out and looked curiously at the outside world.
Pedestrians unconsciously get out of the way, and even some of the carriages of the eunuchs quickly leaned on the side of the road, and the two horses were ridden, which was the etiquette of the marquis, and the highest title in Yangzhou City was Gao Ying's family, since Gao Ying was beheaded by Emperor Yang of Sui. The Gao family has completely fallen, after Li Yuan ascended the throne, for the sake of the face of the late He Ruobi, he made the Gao family an empty marquis, and now it has been passed down for a generation and has become an earl. It is a famous hollow old man in Yangzhou, and he is despised by people.
The people of Yangzhou suddenly looked at such a team now, and they all guessed that it was the wealthy family in Beijing who came, Yun Ye and Han Zhe laughed and laughed with the horses undulating, and the dog even sat on the saddle, pointing at the crowd with a whip triumphantly.
The most majestic man bear has a heavy body, a demon god-like guard on his side, and his fierce eyes are all avoided.
When he arrived at Daming Temple today, Yun Ye made up his mind to overwhelm people with power. If you do this in Chang'an City, you will be laughed off, that is where there are many real marquis like dogs, but not in Yangzhou, a marquis is already a top deposit.
Out of the north gate of Yangzhou, Daming Temple has been faintly visible, between the green mountains and clear water, a corner of the eaves exposed. It seems that Daming Temple is more secluded, this ancient Zen temple built in the Southern Dynasty Liu Song Xiaowu Emperor Da Mei Dynasty. For more than 170 years, there have been six great monks sitting here, and Yangzhou people must go to worship Buddha.
Shugang Peak is coming in a flash, yesterday there has been a housekeeper to inform the Taoist monk, the Taoist monk personally took the monks in the temple to guard in front of the mountain gate to wait for the arrival of the Yun family.
Seeing this thin monk again, Yun Ye folded his hands and saluted: "Farewell to Chang'an, and see the master's treasure again." Honesty is Yun Ye's luck, the ancestors have always been dedicated to cultivating Buddha, this time to Daming Temple to worship the Buddha, but also hope that the master will make it convenient. ”
Daofa also saluted: "The monks are naturally open to the name of convenience, and the old lady is dedicated to goodness. One day, he will naturally attain the attainment of the three bodhisattvas. ”
The old grandmother of the Yun family personally took out a cotton robe, and immediately a maid stepped forward, shook it open and asked the eyes of the law to watch, seeing the Dao Fa smiling and nodding, she stepped forward and removed the old robe of the Fa Yan, and tied the new robe to the Taoist Pharaoh monk.
During this period, except for Han Zhe, everyone else put their hands together to show respect, Han Zhe saw that Yun Ye was the same, and the ridicule in his eyes was very strong, he didn't understand, why did he worship these false gods when he was a god, and he didn't know what the reason was.
Dao Fa Su invited the old lady into the temple, and accompanied by himself to explain to the old lady the origin and wonder of the Buddha statues in the temple. Yun Ye followed behind him, admiring the scenery of the temple with Han Zhe, unlike the pious grandmother, the two of them purely came up to see the scenery.
The mountain gate hall of Daming Temple doubles as the palace of the king of heaven, and the main gate is on the forehead of "Daming Temple" three words, and the font is overflowing. There is a statue of Maitreya in the hall, and the back is the protector of the Dharma, and the two sides are divided into the four heavenly kings of holding the country, growing, wide-eyed, and multi-smelling.
Passing the palace of the heavenly king, but seeing that the courtyard is open, the ancient trees are towering to the sky, and the cigarette smoke is around. There are 100 years of cypress in the east, there are 100 years of boxwood in the west, there are two Baoding, from the two big tripods weighing 500 catties, Daming Temple is not short of incense money at all.
After walking through a granite road, you will arrive at the Daxiong Treasure Palace. The Daxiong Treasure Hall is the building of the Southern Dynasty, the face is wide and three-room, the front and rear corridors, the eaves are three times high, and the flower ridge is leaking. There is a treasure mirror embedded in the high part of the ridge, and the yang has the four words "Guotai Min'an", and the yin has the four words "wind and rain".
The Dharma in the Daxiong Treasure Hall is solemn, the scriptures are solemn, and the Dharma instruments are complete. The Buddha Shakyamuni, who sits on a lotus platform in the middle, is revered as "Nobita".
The Buddha is flanked by Kasaba and Ananda, one of his ten disciples, with Medicine Buddha sitting in the east and Amitabha Buddha in the west. Behind the altar is a group of clay statues of "Island Guanyin". On both sides are the statues of the eighteen Arhats. The Buddha statues in the hall are all renovated, the golden light is radiant, and the law is solemn.
Yun Ye cleaned his hands and incense instead of his grandmother, and kowtowed three times, and every time he knocked, the Dao Law rang the bell, and the long voice echoed in the hall.
Grandma wants to recite the scriptures in the main hall, and the meeting will not end for a while, and after reciting the scriptures, she will also ask the Taoist for the mysteries of Buddhism, and finally add incense and pray for the whole family.
Leave people and bears to guard at the door of the main hall, Yun Ye and Han Zhe, the dog is wandering in the temple, the monks in the Daming Temple are very numerous, the incense is continuous, the tourists are like weaving, just to the Daxiong Treasure Hall there are monks to lead to other places, saying that there are nobles who are entering the incense, do not disturb, want to worship the Buddha, need to wait for the noble Buddha to finish before entering, although the people are dissatisfied, but see those warriors in full armor, or very obedient to go elsewhere.
In the vicinity of the Daxiong Treasure Hall, there are several tall buildings. The largest one is called the Tibetan scripture building, the second floor is five, the Xuan is open and sparse, the roof ridge is embedded with the yang "Falun often turns", and the country is engraved with peace and security.
Han Zhe pointed to the scripture building and said: "What you want should be inside, I don't know if people will sell your face as a marquis." As soon as the dog heard this, he immediately climbed the stairs and pushed the door open to enter.
A stout monk stopped the dog and said, "The donor has gone errand, and the scripture building is an important place in the temple and is not open to outsiders." The dog grinned, pressed his hand on the monk's shoulder, and the monk folded his arms and wanted to hug the dog, but the dog's body jumped up, and his toes touched the monk's shoulder, and he grabbed the lintel and turned over and entered the scripture building.
The monk was about to chase in, and saw Han Zhe shaking the fan and going up the stone steps again, and swept with his arm in anger, but Han Zhe grabbed his arm with one hand, and twisted it, the whole person turned over, and his back slammed on the stone slab, and there was a bang, and Yun Ye's teeth were sour.
When Yun Ye passed by this monk, he saw that he shook his head weakly, trying to recover from his dizzy state, so he didn't use violence and carefully stepped over his head.
The collection of books in Daming Temple is very rich, from bamboo slips to bay leaves, and even a lot of thin stone slabs, which are full of the six-character mantra of Buddhism, each word is as red as blood, pick it up and smell it, it is actually musk mixed with cinnabar, mother's, these stone pieces are also worth a lot of money.
Yun Ye attaches more importance to those sheepskin scrolls, the nautical chart cannot be drawn on paper, the sea is high and the waves are urgent, once it gets wet, a boatload of people will not be able to live, the ghost knows why there are so many parchment scrolls here, Yun Ye occasionally opened a scroll, and found that it was actually engraved with a star map, the twelve star palaces in the west, he was no stranger to this thing, but he only knew the sun and moon represented by each star palace.
This thing is rare, Hypatia said that the West also has a very deep understanding of astronomy, and if he takes this thing back, maybe Zhao Yanling will be very grateful to himself.
Yun Ye found a total of twelve star maps, and the others couldn't be understood, and they couldn't be understood, so it didn't matter, just put them here first, and then take them all when you went back.
The dog was rummaging up and down on the tall bookshelf like a monkey, and after a while, the scrolls were turned into a mess, and Han Zhe was just like Yun Ye just checking those sheepskin scrolls, maybe this guy had a high eye, or he didn't understand, in short, he didn't take a scroll, until a black-faced monk walked into the Scripture Pavilion, he didn't find a chart.
"Amitayus Buddha, I don't know what the guests are looking for, can you tell the old monk, and the old monk will help the donor find it?" Strangely, this old monk didn't seem to be angry at all, looking at the three of them was like seeing three children messing around, and his eyes were full of compassion.
"Old monk, we are looking for a chart, do you see it, if you see it, give it to us." The dog stood on top of the bookshelf and replied unceremoniously.
"If the donor is looking for Buddhist classics, the old monk must follow his fate, but where to start when the chart is said? Daming Temple is a place for Buddhism to cultivate the mind, and it is not those seafarers who forget their lives, what is the benefit of the chart? ”
"Old monk, don't say these words, my son has been learning how to be a good person recently, so you still help us find out the charts, don't invite disaster for your Daming Temple." Han Zhe dropped a sheepskin scroll, patted the dust on his hands, and turned back to the old monk and said.
"The monks don't speak, the old monk really doesn't know what other charts are in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, is the donor misunderstood?" The old monk didn't seem to be angry, and he didn't get angry when he saw the bookshelves that were turned over in a mess, and he still replied politely.
"Look at your age, you should be a figure of the same generation as the Taoist monks, don't say secret words in front of the Ming people, give me the chart and everything will stop, don't give me the chart, old monk, can you bear to watch the Daming Temple be destroyed?" (To be continued......)
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