Chapter 190: The Dragon and the Tiger
I saw the black thin elder wearing a yellow monk's hat opposite Luo Quan stroked his neatly shaved white beard, and he finally opened his slightly closed eyes without saying a word, stared at Luo Quan with a pair of scary eyes like copper bells, and threw the last question to him-
The gist of it is to the effect that Luo Quan should list the main contents of his private collection of classics "Kangyur" and "Tengyur".
What's what? I'll go! I haven't heard the names of these two Buddhist scriptures! Although the content of the scriptures will not be written down word for word like him, I can still write down the name of the scriptures. So it can be said that in my mind, there is actually an index of Luo Quan's knowledge base, what will he do, my brother can still know about it.
It's just that even though I searched the list of scriptures and classics that Luo Quan had read in my mind repeatedly, I couldn't find any relevant information about these two books.
Oops, it's over this time! After all, according to the rules, the answers in this hall must be answered correctly to all the questions raised by the four elders in order to be qualified. Unexpectedly, at the last juncture, he encountered this kind of exam question outside the scope of review - is it possible that this old man is deliberately making things difficult? Why don't you ask about the scriptures in the ordinary collections!
Who told you to ask yourself about the contents of your private collection? Really.
Hiding on the beams of the dome and complaining secretly, I inadvertently glanced at it, but I had already seen the great elder of the Sakya sect who had always been unaccustomed to Luo Quan because of his family background, and when he saw that Luo Quan did not answer immediately, but closed his eyes quietly without saying a word, he couldn't help but show a smug smile to the old man in the yellow monk's hat.
Almost at the same time, the old man in the yellow monk hat who should be the head of the Great Elder of the Kadampa Sect also smiled slightly when he felt the other party's gesture, which was regarded as a response to send a favor to the water.
I went, and after a long time, it turned out that you old guy was making a stumbling block! After discovering that all this turned out to be a trick directed by the bad Great Elder, I couldn't help but think about trying to come up with some kind of trick like a fire accident, at least to stop the temple interview and give Sharon a chance to help Luo Quan find the answer to the question......
Just when I was still racking my brains to plan how to make Sharon and Luo Quan find the answer to the question as soon as possible, I didn't know that Luo Quan, who seemed to have no way to do anything and accepted defeat, opened his eyes, and his eyes were blazing, and he had already gushed endlessly, and said the answer to the question in an orderly manner.
This classic is roughly divided into three parts, namely the Sutra, the Vinaya, and the Three Tibetans. Sutras refer to the teachings of Shakyamuni during his lifetime and the teachings of arhats and bodhisattvas; Vinaya is the ritual rules that Patriarch Shakyamuni formulated for believers to follow; Finally, there is the exposition and explanation of the teachings and teachings of the Buddha's ancestors......"
Hearing him finish his speech in an orderly manner, not only me, but even the four respected elders present at the meeting were impressed by his impeccable speech. Even the questioning old man who has a private collection of precious classics may not be confident that he can summarize the treasure books in his collection so accurately and in detail.
After the old man savored it, he still felt that Luo Quan's answer was irrefutable, so he had to wave his hand, sign the qualification, and let him go.
However, when I saw Na Luo Quan go out and wait outside the courtyard until the next monk came in, I was stunned and confused, and I couldn't figure out how he came up with the answer to a question that was outside the scope of this reference book.
After a long time, she was still bold and careful, and her mother was a senior collector in the British Library, and suddenly realized that she had found the mystery.
All of this has to start with the history of the Nakadam tradition. It is said that the founder of the Kadam school was the famous Buddhist master Atisha, who was invited from India during the Guge period, and with him came from afar, there are also a large number of ancient Indian Buddhist scriptures. These verses, which have been studied and collated by believers over hundreds of years, have been compiled and translated into the Kangyur and Tengyur collections, which the Great Elder is proud of.
Sharon paused at this point, and then said the nickname of these two classics in later generations - the Tripitaka. That's right, it is the "Journey to the West", the Tang monks and apprentices worked hard to get back the Sanzang Sutra from the West.
The Kangyur and Tengyur are the earliest Tibetan versions of the Sutra.
And these two books, although they are not collected in the Sakya Monastery where Luo Quan is located, it does not mean that Luo Quan, who was in Nanzhao Gantong Temple before, has not read them! After all, the "Tripitaka Sutra" should have spread to Dali as early as the Tang Dynasty after Li Mizhen guarded southern Xinjiang.
Hearing this, I immediately slapped my head and understood why Luo Quan closed his eyes and sorted out his thoughts, after all, it does take a little time to convert a large amount of content from Chinese to Tibetan in his mind. Unexpectedly, Luo Quan, this guy, was a scholar when he was in Nanzhao!
This guy is really the type of "give a little sunshine and you can shine", if I hadn't gotten him all kinds of cultivation resources, this guy might have really been buried by this inexplicable creation.
Thinking of this, I still have a small question that I can't figure out, that is, why does Luo Quan know that "Kangyur" and "Tengyur" are actually "Tripitaka"?
Thinking of this, I hurriedly summoned the spirit? The stinky lungs, turned into a silent night owl, greeted Sharon, flew out of the high wall in one breath, came to an inconspicuous corner of the courtyard, and found Luo Quan, who had collapsed and was meditating after relaxing.
When I asked him, the guy was bluntโ
"That white-clothed elder once came to Nanzhao with a caravan along the ancient road. And I, once commanded by the presiding officer, served his diet and daily life. โ
And one day, when Luo Quan was cleaning the elder's room, the elder was eating tsamba while reading the "Tripitaka Sutra" in the temple with great interest. At that time, the spread of Buddhism in Tibet, because it benefited from the ancient path and was directly from ancient India, had always been ahead of the surrounding areas, so the elders did not pay attention to this classic book stored in this small temple of Nanzhao.
It wasn't until he finished reading it that he found that the contents of the scriptures were exactly the same as the treasures in the private collection of the great elder of the Kadam sect in the yellow monk's hat. For a while, if he had won a treasure, he couldn't wait to read the treasure book in one go. It's just that, as he reads, he finds a missing page. Of course, he immediately found the host and wanted to be informed, but he couldn't find it.
After returning to his residence, fortunately, Luo Quan, a boy who was doing chores at the time, with his amazing memory, trembled and restored the pages of the broken scriptures on the tie-dyed cloth. And the Great Elder and Luo Quan, because of this incident, have become sympathetic New Year's friends.
Later, Luo Quan became the first batch of novices in Nanzhao to go to Tibet for further study, also thanks to the enthusiastic connection of this elder. However, due to the reduction of the size of his temple, Luo Quan was unable to worship and practice under his disciples, but was assigned to the Sakya sect, which had just been built in the new monastery at that time.
I see.
After listening to Luo Quan's story, I only felt that all my doubts were immediately clear in my heart. I'll just say why the great elder in the white monk's hat at that time inadvertently made an action similar to "eating tsamba". It turned out that he was reminding Luo Quan that he had eaten tsampa together and discussed the scriptures together.
It's really a cause and effect, interspersed with exquisite fate. When it comes to the fate of people, it's really unpredictable......
Before I could finish sighing thoughtfully, I didn't want to, Luo Quan, who was meditating in front of me, was physically exhausted and fell to the ground, and when I stepped forward to help him up, he was already unconscious and couldn't wake up.
As soon as I touched his forehead, I already had a hot fever. Looking at his arm and touching his palm, I only felt that my skin was dry and rough, but my cheeks were sweating profusely.
Could it be that Luo Quan, this guy, had suffered from heat stroke during the open-air audition before, but in order to pass the interview, he has struggled to support himself so far? Should he be praised for being a real man? Or should he be blamed for messing around? Forget it, it doesn't matter anymore. In order not to affect the follow-up assessment, it is imperative to save him first.
Thinking like this, I hurriedly beckoned Sharon to hold Luo Quan's shoulders and help him up, while I opened my eyes and used the pupil of psionic energy to easily capture the disordered qi in his body, and while others were not paying attention, I had quickly hit him a few times lightly and forcefully in the places where the heat was surging in his shoulder sockets, chest, lower abdomen, waist and legs.
That's right, this inconspicuous move is my copycat of the mastery "Little Seven Star Formula" taken from Linda's skillful hands.
It's just that in the current situation, I just used three points of strength to help Luo Quan dredge and regulate his disordered internal qi to help him wake up quickly.
Sure enough, after I finished finishing the work and poked the "human middle" under the tip of his nose, Luo Quan, who had fallen into a coma, had already been agitated and woke up.
Seeing him return to his previous state of life in the blink of an eye, Sharon and I breathed a sigh of relief, heard the sound of someone's footsteps approaching, and hurriedly jumped up to the dome again. After sitting down, he poked his head out of the beam, and the person who came had approached Luo Quan.
It turned out that the man was the visiting monk who had come to announce his participation in the next test. It seems that these old guys, after Luo Quan, the difficulty of answering in person is estimated to have dropped a lot, and it didn't take long for the candidates to be selected to participate in the next round. Alas, people are like this, and there is no guarantee of absolute fairness.
It's useless to complain.
Seeing that Luo Quan didn't say a word, he patted his butt and got up and followed the leading senior brother to the school field in the center of the courtyard, Sharon and I didn't dare to be idle, we only dodged and moved on the dome, and fell into the shadow of the big-leaf tree on the side again, secretly peeking at the progress of Luo Quan's breakthrough.
Next, according to the preview, it should be the second big link - the method test. Tomb Hunter East White