Chapter 217 White Horse Temple
Seeing that a big battle was about to begin, I saw Berdan take out a sign from his waist and shake it in front of the general, who immediately knelt down when he saw the brand, clasped his hands into fists and saluted: "I don't know that the great immortal is coming, and I will miss the distance." ”
When the soldiers saw this, they also knelt down.
"Arise, and he who does not know is not guilty." Berdan said, "This great immortal is on the order of the Jade Emperor of the Heavenly Court to visit the earth this time, it is inconvenient to disturb you, please go back and please tell your emperor, and come back to visit him another day." ”
After speaking, in order to create an effect, she and Kai Ruote disappeared without a trace with a "whoosh", shocking the people present.
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It was late at night when the two of them returned to the Wenwen Inn.
In the room of the inn, Kai Ruote asked curiously, "What kind of sign did you show to General Hao of the Yulin Army in the small restaurant, which shocked him all of a sudden?" ”
"This is a token specially given by the emperor of the previous dynasty to the preaching immortal to enter and leave the palace. My token represents the supreme right, and even the current emperor has to avoid three points. What's more, this General Hao's martial arts were learned in the White Horse Temple, and his master is my apprentice, and this is the relationship, and he will bow to me. ”
At this time, the bell of the White Horse Temple rings, and a new day begins.
Kai Ruote said: "There are two days before you have to go to the White Horse Temple to preach the scriptures, so you should not prepare well." ”
"There is no need to prepare, the Dharma is already in my heart." Miss Dan said, "We've been tossing and turning for a day, and it's time to rest." For the remaining two days, I can accompany you to explore Luoyang City to the fullest. ”
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Early the next morning, they had breakfast, but Berdan put last night's promise behind him, and did not take Kai Ruote to Luoyang City for a tour, but went straight to the White Horse Temple.
This White Horse Temple is not far from Luoyang City, and they don't need to hire a carriage, so they walked to the gate of the White Horse Temple in half an hour. The mountain gate of the White Horse Temple adopts the stone arc gate of the archway type of one door and three holes, and when you look up, you can see the bluestone inscription of "White Horse Temple" embedded in the red lintel. The layout of the whole temple is regular, with red walls and blue tiles, and the style is simple. Outside the temple gate is a square, a release pond, a stone arch bridge, and the left and right sides are green spaces. The whole temple sits in the south and faces north, is a long courtyard, and the five major halls are the Tianwang Palace, the Big Buddha Palace, the Daxiong Palace, the Receiving Hall and the Pilu Hall from south to north.
They slowly walked into the White Horse Temple. Two large incense burners stand proudly in front of the palace of the heavenly king, pious pilgrims and admiring visitors are weaving, and the incense is swirling. There was the sound of monks beating wooden fish in the main hall. They did not enter the main hall, but silently walked along a path to the north, turned a few corners, and came to the cool terrace located behind the courtyard.
Located at the back of the temple, Seonryondae is a high-rise building known as the "Sky Garden". The last big hall of the White Horse Temple, the Pilu Palace, is in the Qingliangtai, it is the building on the top of the mountain with heavy eaves, it is the central building of the Qingliangtai, and there are supporting halls, gatehouses, release pools, manna wells, corridor rooms and so on all around. The side halls on both sides are the Mori Teng Hall and the Zhu Flange Hall, and there are statues of two high monks in the hall.
Kai Ruote said: "I heard the legend of Luoyang people that this cool platform was originally a place for Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty to read and enjoy the shade when he was young, and then it was the place where the Tianzhu monks took Morteng and Zhu Falan translated the scriptures. ”
"This legend is not false at all," Berdan asked, "but have you ever thought about the birthplace of Buddhism?" Where is the true birthplace of these books? ”
Without thinking, Kerote replied, "Tianzhu." ”
Berdan smiled and did not refute, and said slowly: "Buddhism attaches great importance to the progress and enlightenment of the human mind and morality. Through their own practice, Buddhists discover the truth of life and the universe, and ultimately transcend birth, death, and suffering, and attain ultimate liberation from all afflictions. If he can become a true Buddhist through cultivation, he should be the first person on earth to have the rudiments of Homo sapiens. The birth of Buddhism and the emergence of scriptures are the crystallization of the wisdom of Homo sapiens, and there is also a contribution of Capricorn here...... Let's put it this way, Buddhism is vast and profound, and strictly speaking, even you, a Martian Homo sapiens with extremely high brain ability, may not be able to fully interpret it. ”
While speaking, they walked into the Pilu Temple, where the presiding monk of the White Horse Temple, Master Yanshou, had been waiting for a long time, and when he saw Berdan, he hurriedly stepped forward and greeted him with a smile: "Welcome to the two great immortals, please go inside." ”
They followed the presiding officer into a side hall behind the main hall. Berdan told Keroth: "This hall is the hall of the scriptures, and it is also the place where the scriptures are translated. ”
Kairote saw a mountain of scriptures on the ground and on the table, and two monks were translating and copying the scriptures. When a monk named Zhizhi saw Berdan coming in, he hurriedly handed her a hand-copied scripture and said, "Immortal Gu, the 10th volume of "Chang'a Xinfa" has been translated, please take a look. ”
Xian Gu took the scriptures, flipped through the previous parts, and praised them again and again: "The translation is good, and it has made great progress compared to the previous volumes." I hope you will continue to work hard. ”
Kai Ruote went to the desk and picked up an original scripture to look through, he recognized it as Capricorn Planet script, and saw that the table was neatly stacked with hundreds of volumes of scriptures that had not yet been translated, and he said worriedly: "Tsk, the compilation of these scriptures is a huge amount of work, and only these two masters may be difficult to complete in their lifetime." ”
"Don't worry about this, the presiding master attaches great importance to the compilation of the scriptures, and the compilation room is more than this. We are here in the general compilation room, and all the scriptures are reviewed and summarized here after compilation. If this is not the case, there are only 22 volumes of the "Chang Ahan Sutra", 60 volumes of the "Middle Ahama Sutra", 50 volumes of the "Miscellaneous Ahama Sutra", and 51 volumes of the "Addition of a Sutra of Aham". ”
Kairote asked Berdan in the Martian language: "I have learned in the written records of the history of Mars that this "Ahama Sutra" is a famous scripture of the Capricorn people, but I did not expect it to spread to the earth very early. Could it be that earthlings have a deep relationship with Capricorns? ”
Miss Dan also replied in Martian language: "Don't test me, a large part of the genes of earthlings and Capricorns are the same, and there are also Martians who are related to earthlings." It's just that their brain abilities are thought to have been controlled when they immigrated to Earth. Few of the uncontrolled Homo sapiens are willing to come to this wild, primitive earth. This is the root cause of the slow development of people on earth. ”
"The root cause of the slow development of the planet is not the question of the number of Homo sapiens, but whether we are willing to uncontrol them and sincerely help them. It is of little use for you to spread the Ahama Sutra to the earthlings. ”
"I don't have the right to release control over them, all I can do is preach the scriptures on the earth, whether it's useful or not, wait to see the effect later."
"If it is useful, the "Ahama Sutra" has been circulating on the earth for so long, so that it is not still taken seriously."
"One day, after the earth enters the modern society of civilization, the people of the earth will realize the true value of the Ahama Sutra. I don't care if it's a Mahayana sutra or a Hinayana sutra, I think the Ahama Sutra is the foundation of Buddhism, because the Ahama Sutra is very profound and easy for people to misunderstand, and you have to practice the empirical evidence to realize it. For a long time, it has been passed down from generation to generation on the earth by memorization, and there are some fallacies, so we must translate it as soon as possible, so that people cannot mistakenly judge it as a Hinayana sutra and put it on the shelf, and let the Ahama Sutra be buried. ”
The two of them muttered in Martian for a long time, which made the host and the two monks present feel confused, not knowing what the two immortals were talking about, and stayed aside. Seeing this, Berdan said, "Master Longevity has made you smile, we are discussing the Dharma matter. ”
Master Yanshou saluted with one hand: "Amitabha, with the help of two great immortals, the Buddhism of the White Horse Temple will be carried forward even more." ”