Extra: The Biography of the Dharma Monk (1)
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What I want to tell today is a story about the Buddhist monks who sacrificed their lives to subdue demons.
In the inner street of Fuchengmen, the imperial capital, there is a temple called Guangji Temple. In Guangji Temple, there is a pagoda, and the people in the circle call it the Demon Suppression Tower.
Guangji Temple was built in the late Song Dynasty, when it had a very rustic name, called Xiliucun Temple. There is no way to verify what the host was called at that time, but I only know that after the temple was built, the Demon Suppression Tower was the main building among them.
During the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Xianzong expanded the Xiliucun Temple, and then renamed the Hongci Guangji Temple, which is considered to have given the name, and since then the monks in the temple have been endless, even in the war period, there have been monks who stick to this.
You may have to ask, the Demon Tower, the Demon Tower, what is the suppression inside?
Don't worry, and listen to Lao Zhang slowly.
Let's talk about the Demon Tower first, the Demon Tower had seven floors when it was built, but this building is not the same as the building, one floor is higher than the other, but a building similar to the basement, one floor is lower than the other.
The interior of the Demon Town Tower is made of marble, and the cracks are poured with copper juice, which is the most solid. The surface of the marble is extremely smooth, and it is engraved with Buddhist scriptures, and in each layer, there is a ritual weapon to suppress it. Some are Buddhist pestles, some are robes, some are Buddha beads, some are copper, and so on.
There are seven monks living in the temple, and the so-called monks are the kind of monks who know how to exorcise demons and subdue demons. The seven monks didn't care about anything, and all of them lived in the meditation rooms around the Demon Pagoda. Usually eat fasting and chant Buddha to purify the souls of the dead.
The location of those meditation rooms is also very particular, surrounded by layers, forming a very strange direction, which just surrounds the demon tower.
The Demon Town Tower has a very high reputation in the circle, you must know that in addition to those famous schools all over the country, there are many exorcists and folk masters who are not in the stream. Sometimes they catch ghosts, and they can't beat people's souls, and they can't let go of them to harm the world, and they can't bring them to make trouble for themselves.
So he sent it to Guangji Temple.
The monks in Guangji Temple also did not refuse to come, and accepted all the orders. It's all in the Demon Suppression Tower. So until now, a batch has been exceeded, and another batch has been sent. Especially when there are more dirty people and things in the world, there are more ghosts and ghosts.
The demon tower is divided into seven layers, and the Buddhist monks are divided into seven levels according to the resentment and danger of the ghosts.
The first layer is the most relaxed and simple, some obsessive undead, demons who are not deeply evil, all will be placed here, generally speaking, as long as they listen to Buddhist scriptures for a few years, they will dissolve their anger, and they will find their first child.
But the second layer is more troublesome, and all the guys in it have killed people, but they can't be easily released. Basically, some fierce ghosts will be imprisoned here, and they can only be moved to the first layer when the anger dissipates.
The third and fourth layers are all old monsters who have been old, most of these old monsters have been suppressed for hundreds of years, and most of them were captured in the last years of the Qing Dynasty and the era of the national movement.
Zhang Wuren once whispered to me that one of these things is a monstrous disaster, as far as he knows, the hundred-year-old corpse demon in Shandong, the half-body ghost that has been wreaking havoc in Tianjin for half a year, and the spider man on Taihang Mountain, and the three-legged corpse in Chongqing, have all been suppressed in the third and fourth layers, and there are all kinds of them, and there are always seventeen or eighteen in number.
These things are full of anger, and even after more than 100 years of being nurtured by Buddhism, they still haven't been able to resolve the anger. However, to destroy it directly, it is not in line with the compassion of Buddhism, so I have to be imprisoned day after day, year after year, hoping that these demons will one day be enlightened.
As for the fifth layer, there are only two things imprisoned, one is the most yin and the other is the Tao ghost.
Naturally, it is not the one that Temur catches. Dao ghost, of course, is not the guy we met in Ningbo.
The emperor of the Ming Dynasty believed in Taoism, so at that time the Taoist gate was prosperous, but there was a Taoist priest who didn't know what great grievances he had, and was willing to incarnate a Taoist ghost, and then was taken down by the host at the time and imprisoned in the Demon Tower, which was hundreds of years.
There is only one thing in the sixth layer, and that is the famous Drought Fish. This thing is almost a strategic weapon, once it appears, the land is thousands of miles away, and the people are not able to make a living. Not to mention the great drought in the world, the magnetic field on the body will also attract countless evil things.
If the Yin and Dao Ghosts will only harm the people they see, but the drought is different, this thing can turn a radius of thousands of miles into a disaster area.
It sounds great, but none of these things are unbeatable. The really powerful thing in the Demon Suppression Tower is the one imprisoned on the seventh floor...... Stuff.
That's right, when Zhang Wuren told me, he used the adjective "thing".
The reason why it is described as something is because this thing is not a ghost, not a zombie, but it is countless times more powerful than a zombie. It is said that once this demon imprisoned on the seventh layer comes out, it will be a lot of fun.
Then my curiosity was aroused, and I hurriedly asked him, what is it?
Zhang Wuren said, I don't know what it is.
I was so angry that I wanted to hit someone, don't you know? You don't know what you're telling me so much?
Zhang Wuren said, don't worry, let me speak slowly. Actually, not only do I not know, but even the monks of Guangji Temple don't know. That thing was suppressed in the Song Dynasty, and it has been at least a thousand years now, so much time is so long that the current monks only know that there is a powerful guy suppressed in the seventh layer, but no one knows what it is.
In fact, there are also monks who have doubted it and want to find out what is in the seventh layer. However, if you want to enter the seventh floor, you must first go through the fifth and sixth floors.
You must know that the fifth-layer Yin and Dao ghosts, as well as the sixth-layer drought ghosts, are not good stubble, so the monks have to put this question in their hearts.
After I heard Zhang Wuren finish speaking, I was a little unconvinced, and said, maybe there is nothing in it, the ancestor made a joke on us.
Zhang Wuren said seriously, no, this is not a joke. Guangji Temple was destroyed by fire in 1931 and rebuilt in 1935. Did you know that the fire wasn't actually a real fire, but the thing on the seventh floor that had tried to escape.
In that fire, none of the seven monks of Guangji Temple were spared, and the innocent monks and the number of exorcists who heard the news were innumerable. It is precisely because of this that the current monks are convinced of the things in the Demon Suppression Tower.
In 1931, a lot of great things happened in that year.
This year, the civil war was in full swing, with countless casualties.
That year, the 16 southern provinces were hit by floods, with more than 50 million people affected, and the number of deaths rose to more than 100,000.
In this year, the 918 Incident broke out, and the Japanese army directly occupied the Northeast.
This year, Guangji Temple caught fire.
On the surface, the fire in Guangji Temple is not worth mentioning compared to those national events that kill hundreds of thousands of people at every turn, but after listening to it, my face changed.
Because we are exorcists, we know what it means to have more people dead. If there are more deaths, it will affect the fortunes of the country. Once the country is in turmoil, it is easy for foreign invasions and demons to run rampant.
The foreign invasion was, of course, the 918 Incident, the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, and since then all parts of the country have been full of smoke.
But few people know about the rampant demons, but everyone doesn't know it, it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.
There were too many people who died that year, and the country was in turmoil, and the demons and monsters took advantage of the situation. And the demon tower of Guangji Temple was also affected by the death qi. The demons stormed the Demon Suppression Tower, trying to break free from the shackles of hundreds or thousands of years.
At this time, the monks in the temple were also subjected to the most severe test.
At that time, there were seven monks in Guangji Temple, and the first one was called Wuyue Monk. It is said that the day he shaved was the Mid-Autumn Festival, and when the moon was supposed to be full, it was covered with dark clouds and there was no moonlight.
So the old monk who shaved him was given the Dharma name, no moon.
Monk Wuyue is a jinshi in the 26th year of Guangxu, well, converted to the Gregorian calendar, it is 1900. At that time, the moonless monk was only twenty years old, and it was the time of the spring breeze after entering the high school.
As a result, the invasion of the Eight-Nation Alliance made the monk Wuyue completely see the weakness of the Qing government, so in a fit of anger, he resigned on the spot and entered the Guangji Temple to become a monk.
Because of his wisdom roots, the moonless monk later became a monk. In the war years, he walked the world alone, with a bowl, treating diseases and saving people everywhere he went, and killing demons and demons. He has walked the world for ten years, and he has rescued countless people, including countless wicked people and ghosts.
In the year of the fire in Guangji Temple, the monk Wuyue was exactly fifty-one years old.
However, it was said that Monk Wuyue had long known that when the national movement was rampant, it was the time when demons were rampant, and he had already instructed the monks in the temple to be prepared for contingencies. Not only did he personally lead the other eight monks to stay in the Demon Suppression Tower, but he also invited more than a dozen well-known exorcists to help.
Although the exorcists are not good at things on the battlefield, they are very good at suppressing demons, and the prestige of the moonless monk is very high, even the exorcists who have not been invited have come to join in the fun.
In just ten days, more than 30 exorcists guarded the Guangji Temple.
There are young masters of the Shandong Tie family, hexagram masters from the Yuan family in Shaanxi, and two disciples from the Northeast. Among them, after the master of the Shandong Tiejia came, he only glanced at the Demon Suppression Tower, and his face changed greatly on the spot, saying, Oh my God! Master Moonless, what the hell are you suppressing?
Monk Wuyue honestly said, I don't know.
The master of the Shandong Tie family is called Tie Sanchuan, and he is only twenty-three years old. It is the best age in a man's life. Don't look at his young age, he is very talented, and he has a special understanding of exorcism.
This person is an acquired yin and yang eye, and he can see what others can't see. It is said that at that time, he saw that there were many heads around the Demon Suppression Tower. Those human heads were stacked on top of each other, and the demonic aura was soaring, piled up to a height of hundreds of meters, almost surrounding the entire Demon Suppression Tower.