The three figures rushed quickly on the snowy mountain, and were seen by the people who stole the snow lotus on the mountain, and looked at the figures running on the snowy mountain with surprised eyes, and their faces were colorless, is this the legendary fairy, one by one the figures are as fast as lightning, and they have disappeared into the mountains in a blink of an eye. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Big brother, are those three people immortals just now!" A man who was stealing snow lotus said.

"It should be, if it's a human, how can you run so fast!"

Six or seven men looked at the vast snow-capped mountains, their faces were full of shock, full of reverence for this magical mountain range, and suddenly felt that stealing snow lotus was blasphemy, several men knelt down to the mountain, turned around and walked down the mountain, not stealing snow lotus.

The three of them rushed all the way, Zhou Tianyi's mana had not fully recovered after all, Miao Weiqiang and Dong Tinghua deliberately slowed down and waited for Zhou Tianyi.

In just three hours, the three of them came to the Indian border, secretly crossed the border, and came to exotic India.

Zhou Tianyi frowned, and now he has been walking west according to what the little living Buddha said, but after walking so far to the west, he has not found the legendary White Elephant Mountain, let alone the relics pagoda.

In desperation, the three of them had no choice but to continue walking west, hoping to encounter the legendary stupa and look at the exotic India.

India is one of the four great ancient civilizations in the world. The Indus civilization was created between 2500 and 1500 BC. Around 1500 B.C., one of the Aryans originally living in Central Asia entered the subcontinent, conquered the local natives, established a number of small slave states, established the caste system, and the rise of Brahmanism. The Mauryan Empire, which rose to prominence in the 4th century BC, unified India, with a large number of small states and the rise of Hinduism in the Middle Ages. In 1600, the English invaded and established the East India Company. It became a British colony in 1757. On August 15, 1947, India and Pakistan were partitioned and India became independent. On January 26, 1950, the Republic of India was established as a member of the British Commonwealth.

India is the second most populous country in the world and has a rich cultural heritage and tourism resources. India is one of the BRICS countries and one of the fastest growing countries in the world, with a diversified economy that covers agriculture, handicrafts, textiles and services. While two-thirds of India's population still depend directly or indirectly on agriculture for their livelihoods, the service sector has grown rapidly and become increasingly important in recent years. It has become an important exporter of global software, finance and other service industries. However, it is also a developing country with an extremely uneven distribution of social wealth, and the problem of the caste system is more acute.

India is also the birthplace of Buddhism; In the sixth century BC, Buddhism originated in India. It is said that Shakyamuni was a prince, because he saw that people could not be exempted from the pain of birth, old age, sickness and death, so he became a monk to explore the truth of life, and then enlightened under the Bodhi tree, and began to speak the Dharma for sentient beings and preach the true meaning of Buddhism.

In India at that time, Brahmanism was extremely powerful, and they valued the class of people by birth, and controlled their followers with mantra tantras. Shakyamuni believed that this method was an evil way and strictly forbade his disciples to use it, and in the "Chang Ah Han Sutra", he clearly declared that he was against the magic spells of the evil way.

After the fall of Shakyamuni, Buddhism gradually became accepted by the general public, and Brahmanism also absorbed the teachings of Buddhism and formed Hinduism. And many Hindu, Brahmanical believers, have also joined the ranks of Buddhists. The reason why the emphasis here is on "after the death of Shakyamuni" is that it was not long before Buddhism began to diverge. In terms of the cultural level of the Indian people at that time, it was indeed difficult to accept the profound Mahayana essence of Shakyamuni Buddha. However, Theravada Buddhism, which seeks the merits of self-interest, is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

As a result, some well-intentioned people gradually absorbed the mantra tantric methods of Brahmanism in Hinayana to satisfy the popular taste of the public and their curiosity about mystical powers. This practice is obviously not in line with Shakyamuni's original intention.

In order to justify themselves, those who incorporated Brahmin mantras into Buddhism put forward the theory that Shakyamuni was a Buddha in the body, and that the Dharmakaya Buddha Virujana preached in the mantra of mantras, and that people "became Buddhas in the body" after practice.

Since then, Buddhism has been divided into sutra and tantra, and sutra is a variety of scriptures mentioned by Sakyamuni, advocating the propagation of the Dharma and enlightenment; Tantra is a secret method passed down by Buddha Virujana, practiced with mantras.

The main sutra of Tantra is the Great Nikkei, which advocates that things are true and that they become Buddhas. In addition, the Diamond Sutra details how to apply these theories, pointing out that human adultery, anger, ignorance, madness, etc., are all "convenient methods" to achieve the truth.

They advocate "happiness and empty luck", advocate indulgence ****, and make offerings through greed to enlightenment. The "Diamond Sutra" says: "Strange self-nature is pure, natural with dyeing, pure from desire, and subdued by dyeing." "Around the seventh century AD, Buddhism flourished in India, and Tantra became mainstream. When Shakyamuni founded Buddhism, there were originally factors that changed customs, but in the end, it was he who was changed. The economic base determines the superstructure, what kind of social environment there is, what kind of ideological system there is, and India, where witchcraft is prevalent, provides the soil for Tantra.

With **** greed, there is a need for material, so Buddhism and foreign ways merge. After the opening of Buddhism, the Brahmans who were initially denounced by Shakyamuni as "outsiders" have all transformed into the backbone of Buddhism. In order to cater to the needs of the faithful at large, various mantras have been adopted into the scriptures.

In the late period, the "Left Dao Esoteric Religion" (the origin of the term "Zuo Dao of the Side Gate") further absorbed the characteristics of folk polytheistic beliefs and formed a "mandala" organization. In the eighth century, Tantra spread to the East Indies, and was incorporated into the Hindu form of sexual worship, with the practice of male and female bodies as a means of becoming Buddha. The so-called "double cultivation of happiness and emptiness" means that practitioners can become enlightened and become Buddhas from ****. To the fools, this is not only great news. You can not only enjoy the "happiness" of **, but also get the "emptiness" of becoming a Buddha, and deceive yourself and others!

In the 11th century, at the end of the Bala Dynasty, ****** religious armies invaded and denounced the absurdity of Buddhism. As a result, the so-called "Buddhists" also abandoned their long-degenerated beliefs and converted to ****** or Hinduism, contrary to the original intention of the ideal, and there was no need for Buddhism to continue to exist, and by the end of the twelfth century, Buddhism was basically extinct in India.

In China, on the other hand, Buddhism flourished and flourished after its introduction, becoming the number one religion in China. Buddhism's status in India is much like Taoism in China, although it originated in the country and has a long history, it has never become mainstream orthodoxy. (To be continued.) )