Demons?

Buddhist Pure Land?

Just stunned for a moment, suddenly felt a flower in front of me, and two golden lights appeared out of thin air in front of me, two giants wearing golden armor, twisting their eyebrows and glaring, as if the gods had descended to stand in front of them, their momentum was majestic, forcing me to take a few steps back before I could stop my body.

And I found out from a distance that these two strong men with golden light looked a little familiar, holding iron pestles of different lengths in their hands, and they were about to smash head-on, my heart was like encountering a natural enemy, and I couldn't raise any thoughts of resistance, but I didn't want to flee here, gritted my teeth and stomped my feet, and instantly spread out with the wind, and hurriedly flashed out in the range of the golden light, and the black sword wind in both hands was swirling, and a few palms slapped on the body of the golden man in an instant, but as soon as the strength came out, it was like a stone sinking into the sea, and there was no gain at all.

I couldn't help but be shocked in my heart, but I saw that under these palms, the golden man not only did not react, the golden light emitted from the body suddenly soared, and I subconsciously covered my eyes with my hand, in the chaos, I felt two earth-destroying forces from the air as a stick, and hurriedly dodged to the door of the house, and when I wanted to take the opportunity to sneak in, I hit my head on the top of an invisible wall, and at the same time the body flew upside down, the sword wind swept the whole body, and flipped with the force, shuttling between the two oncoming golden pestles, I couldn't help but scold: "The monk in the house, you invited me here, is this your hospitality?" ”

As soon as the words fell, I felt that the golden light in front of me suddenly closed, and the courtyard returned to tranquility.

Looking at the little novice who was standing aside and laughing and silent, I glared at him fiercely, but it was the old monk who invited me to come, if he really knew the whereabouts of Kaiyuan Temple, in fact, I had to ask him, I had no choice but to sigh secretly, cautiously came to the door, and then pushed the door with my hand, and the door opened.

At the moment when the two door panels were pushed open, I noticed that there was a door god on the left and right, with eyes and nose open, upper body bare, strong physique, armed with weapons, symmetrical left and right.

"Huh, the second general?"

I was stunned for a moment, and then I realized that these two door gods and the two golden figures that appeared first looked exactly the same, and my heart suddenly chuckled.

Hum Ha Erjiang, also called King Kong, is the Sanskrit transliteration, transliterated as "bound Riluo", "Vaziluo", although ordinary people will also ask the door to the town house during the New Year, but its most primitive appearance, to guard the temple as the implication.

Then the demons and evil spirits that this god just said must refer to my body of the remnant soul, but what does the pure land of Buddhism mean, is this broken courtyard a hidden temple?

Rin stepped into the door of the room, and a thin monk in a gray-blue monk's robe suddenly appeared in sight.

The monk looked not young, not sixty but seventy, with a few sparse long beards all white, sitting cross-legged on the futon, chanting the Buddha's name silently to a green lamp on the table.

Hearing what I heard, the old monk's eyes never opened, stopped the symbol, and said lightly: "I heard that the donor is looking for the ancient Kaiyuan Temple?" ”

I nodded, "Master, do you know where it is?" ”

But who knew that he shook his head silently, "Kaiyuan Temple was burned down in the Huichang Dharma Disaster as early as before, and time has passed, and not even a piece of remnants has been left, and the donor is afraid that it will be in vain." ”

I couldn't help frowning, I also found out on the way to the Huichang Fa Difficulty, and it was also related to Li Chun of Tang Xianzong, it was precisely because of that unprecedented scale of edict that led to the peak of Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty.

The imperial court promoted Buddhism, there were 200,000 monks and nuns, and the Buddhist thought almost penetrated into every household at that time, and the treasury directly spent money to build temples and Buddhist monasteries, and adopted a tax-free policy for all its monks, which directly led to the country with a total population of less than 3 million at that time, but it was necessary to support 200,000 monks, and many people seized this gap and took the means of escaping into the monastery to avoid paying taxes, and these huge number of monasteries gradually evolved their own way of making money, and the common people also began to believe in Buddhism and not believe in the imperial courtUntil the reign of Emperor Wuzong of the Tang Dynasty, the excessive expansion of the Buddhist monastic economy had seriously damaged the revenue of the national treasury.

In addition, Tang Wuzong believed in Buddhism and did not believe in Buddhism, under the instigation of Taoist priest Zhao Guizhen and the support of Li Deyu, he gradually destroyed Buddha from the second year of Huichang, and in the same year, Wuzong issued an edict, requiring monks and nuns who have different practices and do not keep the precepts to return to the world, "All monks and nuns in the world are relieved of smelting, spells, forbidden air, carrying the army, cane marks on the body, miscellaneous writings, those who have committed adultery and raising wives, and those who do not practice the precepts, and extort the vulgar, if the monks and nuns have money and goods and grain buckets, fields, and manors, they will be accepted officials." If you cherish money, you will petition to return to the vulgar, and you will also be allowed to return the vulgar and be charged with two taxes and forced labor. ”

And reached the climax in the fifth year of Huichang, the Chinese and foreign monks and nuns in Chang'an City were almost completely vulgar, more than 4,600 temples were demolished in the world, more than 40,000 Zhaoti and Lanruo, more than 260,000 lay monks and nuns, 150,000 slaves and maids, tens of millions of acres of temple land were confiscated, and if there was any resistance to the crime according to the protest decree, it was killed at that time.

At that time, how many monks and nuns died in this catastrophe, there is no record in history, but there is no war that no one bleed to death, Tang Wuzong's Huichang Dharma martyrdom is also called "Three Martial Artists to Destroy Buddha" with Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty and Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty to destroy the Buddha, leaving a strong mark in the history books.

Thinking of this, I sighed deeply, looked at the old monk and asked, "Is there nothing left, is the Buddha relics that exist in the pagoda of the true body of the protector of the country gone?" ”

The old monk closed his eyes and shook his head, and said with a long sigh: "Back then, Tang Wuzong personally ordered the destruction of the Buddha's relics, although the monks in the temple had already prepared before this, and made nine shadow bones of the Buddha's finger relics to prevaricate the king's name, and then secretly hid the finger bones of the true body of Shakyamuni Buddha, but who knew that the catastrophe was too big, and it lasted far longer than everyone imagined. ”

I don't know how to answer for a while, if according to what the old monk said, the Buddha finger relics that are false and real are really lost, I am afraid that my trip is really in vain.

"Then you called me here to tell me this?"

After a moment of silence, I looked at the old monk and said.

The old monk didn't speak, he stood up slowly, took the green lantern placed on the table into his hand, stared at me with a pair of cloudy eyes, and said, "What's your name?" ”

I was stunned and replied truthfully: "Bai Xiaoyi." ”

The old monk nodded thoughtfully, "Okay, a good white surname, I remember that the Lijing Gate founded by Taizong back then, and during the Tang Xianzong period, he was the commander at the time, and his surname was also Bai, but although that guy looked extremely hateful, he was much more humane than the previous commander, if it wasn't for his mercy at that time, I'm afraid that many things have developed to the present, and they have completely changed." ”

I looked at the old monk in shock, and found that his demeanor before speaking did not look like he was thinking, but reminiscing, as if he was recalling something, before he said these words.

To this day, I have seen a lot of strange people who should have died in his time a long time ago, but have stayed until now for some reasons, listening to the words of the old monk, seeing his reaction again, I suddenly sighed in my heart, and the words that were blurted out were held in my throat, hesitated for a moment, and said: "Is this the site of Kaiyuan Temple?" ”

The old monk glanced at me lightly, didn't say yes, didn't say no, just sighed softly, blew the candle in his hand, and the shadow on the wall was slightly distorted.

"Since you're here, come with me."

After a long time, the old monk's quiet body slowly moved to the side of the house, his withered arm touched the wall made of mud bricks, and then opened his five fingers to grab a raised mud block, his wrist was forced, and the mud turned clockwise, and the sound of the ancient mechanism was instantly sounded in the room, and the wooden table placed in the room also shook, splashing the dust on the ground, slowly rising up half an inch and then rotating towards the wall, and when everything fell, one side could only accommodate a person in and out of the square hole, It gradually came out of sight.