Chapter 187: The Golden Light Hall of Mount Meru (4)

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Sikong Qiang asked Venerable Ananda, "Do you know my background?" Venerable Ananda looked at Sikong Qiang, and after a long time, he said, "Are you the child who was picked up by someone on the beach?"

Sikong Qiang said: "Yes, may I ask what is my life experience?" Venerable Ananda said, "The world we live in is a different world, and you don't belong to this world, you have crossed over from another world for some reason

Sikong Qiang said: "I sometimes feel that I may not belong to this world, so can His Holiness say that I am in the world?" Venerable Ananda said, "The world you were in was the world that belonged to Buddhism, and the ancient Buddhism that we founded

There is a relationship with the origin, so I know about you, I and the Venerable Kasa are both disciples of the Buddha, and the Buddha is the founder of Buddhism, Shakyamuni Buddha.

Siddhartha Gautama is Shakyamuni Buddha, Shakyamuni is the meaning of the saint of the Shakyamuni clan, according to Buddhist scriptures, the Buddha was 19 years old, he felt many sufferings such as life, old age, sickness, death, etc., and gave up the royal life.

Monkhood. At the age of 35, he enlightened under the Bodhi tree, and then started Buddhism and preached the Dharma for 45 years. At the age of 79, he manifested nirvana in the city of Kushnaga.

After the Buddha attained Nirvana, Venerable Kasa and I came to this Marfa continent for some reason to complete a period of cause and effect, and after that, we will also return to the original world.

And you are also because of your fate with my Buddha, so you have traveled to this world, in order to complete a period of cause and effect in your heart, after the completion of you will also return to your original world,

As for your original world, it is one of the four states of the nine mountains, eight seas, and the southern part of the world. The four continents are located in the saltwater sea between the Qijin Mountain and the Tiewei Mountain. The land composed of nine mountains, eight seas, and four states is called the Ichisuru world.

The Buddhist cosmology asserts that the universe is composed of countless Sumeru worlds, a thousand worlds are called "one small thousand" world, and a thousand small worlds are called "one middle thousand" world.

The 1,000 middle thousand worlds are the "big thousand" world, and the small thousand, the middle thousand, and the big thousand are collectively called the three thousand worlds, which is the transformation of a Buddha.

The four continents are Dongsheng Shenzhou, West Niuhe Zhou, South Ganbu Zhou, and North Juluzhou. Dongsheng Shenzhou is one of the four continents in Buddhist legend (including North Julu Continent, West Niuhe Continent and South Ganbu Continent).

Located in the east. It was named after the extraordinary shape of the people on this continent.

Xiniuhe Island is one of the four continents in Buddhist legend (including Dongsheng Shenzhou, South Ganbu Continent and North Julu Continent). It is guarded by the Western Wide-Eyed Heavenly King, one of the Four Heavenly Kings.

"Ahama Sutra" said, "There is a continent in the west, the name is Qudhani, and its land is eight thousand years long, and the shape is like a half moon." Located in the west of Mount Meru, it is said that cattle, sheep, and Mani orbs are used as currency for buying and selling, hence the name.

Its terrain is like a full moon, and its face is like a full moon, and there are three special things in this continent, namely: many cows, many sheep, and many jewels. It is inhabited and supported by the Wide-eyed Heavenly King.

Southern Ganbu Continent, Buddhist term. It is one of the "four major continents (including Dongsheng Shenzhou, West Niuhe Continent and North Julu Continent)". Located in the Aral Sea in the south of Mount Meru, it is also known as "Yan Fu" and "Yan Futi".

It is named after the abundant Ganbu tree on the island. This continent is shaped like a car, and there is a vajra throne in the continent, and all bodhisattvas will ascend to enlightenment and sit on this seat. The south side of the continent is three and a half years, and the east, west, and north sides are each two thousand miles long.

Located in the south, that is, the world inhabited by humans in the Buddhist view. It is a large tree that grows in southern India, and it is said that it grows in the center of the world and produces gold at its roots.

This place is named after the flourishing Yan Fu tree, which is in the south of Mount Meru, so it is also called the South Yan Fu Continent. "Ahama Sutra" said, "There is a continent in the south, named Yan Futi, its land is seven thousand years long, the north is wide and the south is narrow." ”

It is believed that the terrain of this continent is wide in the north and narrow in the south, and the human face is as long as the terrain. It is inhabited and sustained by the King of Growth. In Buddhist legend, the southern Ganbu continent is the origin of human beings.

The first city built in Yamafuti was the city of Zhan Po, followed by the city of Gābhara and the city of the king's house.

Beiju Luzhou, Beiju Luzhou is one of the four major continents in Buddhist legends (including Dongsheng Shenzhou, West Niuhe Continent and South Ganbu Continent). The province of the reed, the meaning of the donkey's lips, is the god of the key gyro country in northern India,

It refers to the Gandhara country and all the regions north of India. "A Han Sutra" said: "There is a continent in the north, the name is Yu Shan Yue, its land is ten thousand years long, and the four squares are waiting." The "Treatise on Abhi Tan" says: "The place is tall, and the life span is a thousand years old,

There is no suffering, often enjoyed, and the victory is over Yuzhou, so the name is Gaosheng". It is inhabited and supported by the King of Dowen. Beiju Luzhou is mountainous, there are garden viewing baths on the side of the mountain, and there are four amusement gardens in total, namely Shanxian Garden, Fuxian Garden, Shanhua Garden, and Joy Garden.

The Sanskrit name is Uttara-kuru, and the Pali language is the same. It is also known as the Northern Detention Luzhou, Beizhou, Beidanyue, Yudanyue, Beiyu Single-Yue, Yuduoluo Liu, and Zang Tanluo Ju. Paraphrasing the victory, the victory, the high. It is one of the four continents of Sumeru.

According to the 11th volume of the Kusha Treatise and the 11th volume of the Charcoal Sutra of the Building, the North Julu Island is located in the alkali sea in the north of Mount Meru, and the continent is square, with a length of 2,000 yuan on each side, like a box lid, surrounded by the Seven Gold Mountains and the Great Iron Fence Mountain.

Gold is the earth, day and night. It has the four virtues of equality, silence, purity, and thornlessness. The faces of the people of the other continent are square, such as the terrain of Beizhou, everyone has the same complexion, and the height is one foot and four feet. life equality and happiness,

Nothing is related. There are all kinds of wonderful mountains and forests, rivers, baths, amusement gardens, tree fruits, etc., and the utensils are mostly made of gold and silver, glass, and crystal, and all things are shared, and there is no plan for me, nor are there thieves, wicked people, fights, etc.

Its people dwell under the trees, men and women live in different places, there is no marriage, and if they do, they play together. When a woman is pregnant, she gives birth in seven or eight days, and she is placed on the road, and those who come from all over the world are raised together, and she sucks her fingers and comes out of her own.

After seven days, they will grow up, like the twenty years old of the Yan Futi people, and live for a thousand years. At the end of his life, he is born in the Heaven of Enlightenment or Freedom in Heaven, and the retribution is the most special among the four continents. And this continent is attached to two middle continents,

One is the Gula Island (Shengbian) and the other is the Thanh Lap Island (Victorious Side), both of which are also attached to 500 small islands. And out of the four continents, the other three continents have hell, but this one has none.

There are many records about this continent in the scriptures, and all of them are not consistent, but they all regard this continent as the best of the four continents. According to the research of today's scholars, the Indo-Aryans lived in Central Asia in the primeval era.

Later, it moved south into the Five Rivers of India, and gradually moved to the interior of India. The Yu Shan Yue depicted in the scriptures is obviously a peaceful and stable paradise, which is probably the idealization of the Aryan descendants to revere their ancestors. The Sanskrit word uttara means 'north', and the location of the northern continent in the sutra coincides with it. In addition, before the Buddhist scriptures, such as the era of Sanskrit, Ramayana (Brahma^ma^yan!a), Mahabharata (Brahma Maha^bha^rata), etc., there were records or legends of such lands that symbolized the common aspirations of the Indian people.

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