The old monk decided on the candidates to attend the water and land puja, and sent them out the next day.

As the old monk elaborated, Li Qingyun finally knew what this water and land Dharma would be! He had long expected that the power of the Spiritual Realm would be relatively large, but he did not expect that the Immortal Dao had actually weakened to such a point. Just a water and land puja in the spiritual realm, there will be immortals from the heavenly court who will send the immortal peach elixir as a gift!

It stands to reason.

There is still a long time before the Land and Water Puja.

However, there is a strange rule in the Tianlong Temple, that is, every time you participate in the water and land puja, you go all the way.

That's 18,000 miles in total!

From Tenryu-ji Temple all the way to Landa Temple, where water and land pujas are held, it takes eighteen days to walk a thousand miles a day. At the beginning, I don't know who made this rule, it is said that it was to exercise the piety of the disciples and experience the hardships of Tang Xuanzang's long journey to the west to learn scriptures.

It's a long time, though!

However, the festival also lasts for a long time, lasting six months.

At that time, the ten countries in the spiritual world where Buddhism is the state religion will send a large number of people to send congratulatory gifts, and even some kings will go to bow down religiously. The festival actually starts in early September and lasts for seven days and seven nights, and more than a dozen countries need to prepare for it for half a year. Therefore, even if Li Qingyun and the others have to walk on the road for two or three months, there is still plenty of time.

The next day, Li Qingyun set off!

The old monk assigned a Zen master of the Xuanzi generation, accompanied by seven other disciples.

In this team, except for Li Qingyun, who has just cultivated the "Vajra Immortal Dharma Body", all the others have formed relics, and the Xuanbei Zen Master is also a Buddhist cultivator close to the Mahayana period, so it is basically impossible for any accidents to occur. The group first left the Tenryu Temple and walked in the vast mountains for three days, and then came to the place of the Gara Kingdom.

This is one of the top ten Buddha kingdoms in the spiritual world!

Tianryu Temple has a very high status in the Gara Kingdom, and as soon as the group arrived in the city, officials and monks came to greet them.

Perhaps because of the veneration of the Buddha, even the king sent people to send a large number of gifts.

However, what good things can be taken out by mortals, ordinary gold and silver treasures are not seen by the monks at all, but Zen Master Xuanbei still accepts them all.

There is no such thing as a monk who does not need gold or silver!

Some of this gold and silver treasure was distributed to the temples below, allowing them to build temple Buddha statues and maintain the supply of the temple. Some of them were taken out to relieve the poor beggars in the city, and the Xuanbei Zen Master bought a large amount of rice and cloth and distributed them to the beggars and poor.

If only to watch this scene!

It should be a scene full of compassion, but Li Qingyun has not been very good-looking since he entered this Gara country.

There is not a single Taoist temple in the entire Gara country!

There are splendid temples everywhere, and many of the Buddha statues inside are not gilded, but made of pure gold.

It's nothing.

After all, this is a place where Buddhism is worshipped, and it is understandable that believers are more devout to Buddhism.

But the whole kingdom of Gara was full of poor and displaced, richly dressed and bejeweled officials and nobles, and almost thousands of displaced beggars. The expressions of these beggars were numb, that is, they were already hungry and poor, and they were willing to risk their lives to steal the belongings of those nobles, but when they passed by the golden temple, they did not dare to secretly scrape off the gold dust on the layer of Buddha statues.

Once they meet a high-ranking monk giving a lecture, they are so hungry that they can't walk, and they have to crawl over to listen to the Dharma.

Li Qingyun went to listen to it once!

That high monk is not a high monk, just a Buddhist cultivation around the Qi cultivation period.

They don't talk about the profound Dharma, but they keep repeating that the beggars and poor people are suffering in this life because they have committed sins in their previous lives, and the Buddha will let them suffer in the red dust. As long as they sincerely believe in Buddhism, endure these sufferings, and accumulate more good deeds, they can be reincarnated into a wealthy family in the next life, and they can even go to the Western Heaven Elysium to enjoy boundless blessings. After those 'eminent monks' finish preaching, they will often bless the Buddha's light mudra, and immediately there will be bursts of peaceful Sanskrit sounds, and the Buddha's light will fall on them, and they will suddenly feel wonderful and boundless, and some pious believers will recover from their injuries and illnesses in an instant.

It's a twisted world!

Li Qingyun, as a monk who admired Taoism and nature, felt so disgusted by everything in front of him!

He saw many beggars like walking corpses, many officials who disregarded the law, nobles who were drunk and dreamed of death, and even saw legendary monks in many temples. Although they bear the name of saints, it still does not change their nature as 'sex-slaves' in the temple, and these are the children of poor families. If you have the talent to practice, you will be included in many practice temples, and if you don't have the talent to practice, you will become an ordinary chanting monk.

There are hundreds of temples in a city, and these temples are all supported by the state, and nearly half of the taxes are used to support these monks!

The so-called 'earthly Buddha country' made Li Qingyun feel sick.

But the monks in Tianlong Temple are accustomed to it, and it can even be said that they don't think so, even if they see the 'holy woman' in the temple, they just look at it with disdain.

More than ninety percent of the people in the country of Jialuo believe in Buddhism, and there is a considerable proportion of monks among them!

But not all of them are monks.

There are even monks in the royal court, such a large number of monks, if all of them hold the color precepts, how can the population multiply?

These temples are nothing more than a virtual shell.

Most of the monks raised in it have no qualifications to practice, and their role is to spread the Dharma and persuade those mortals to believe in Buddhism every day.

As for whether they will do something hurtful!

That doesn't matter at all.

It's just some ordinary mortals, even if they do something angry and resentful, they will be punished by the ordination monks who patrol it, and if necessary, they will be made to 'sit'.

So many monks must be a mixed bag!

The monks who can't practice in the temples below, can they still castrate them all?

Ultimately.

The tradition of raising 'holy women' in this temple appeared.

Some saints give birth to fetuses, are born in the temple, and grow up to be the most devout monks.

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Li Qingyun asked Zen Master Xuanbei with countless doubts in his heart.

As a result, the answer was a saying of six reincarnations, these people are because they committed sins in their previous lives, so they will be poor and suffer in this life, and their children will be slaves and maids! No one else has been to the underworld, but Li Qingyun has just returned from the hungry ghost path, how can he agree with this statement, and even have an inexplicable anger in his heart!

But.

Zen Master Xuanbei may still have taken into account his identity as a disciple of the old monk, and explained quite patiently.

Ordinary monks naturally break the vows!

After all, the Buddha kingdom on this earth still has to reproduce the population, and the mortals in the temple can't practice yet, and if they keep pressing, it's easy to have an accident!

If you don't get it right, you have to do something hurtful.

Rather than so.

It's better to let them live like mortals, at least there won't be any big mess.

These people are useless!

But it is the pillar of the Buddhist country on earth, and without so many monks, how can it be possible for ninety percent of the population of a country to believe in Buddhism?

The real core is the Buddhist monks who can practice.

The requirements for these people are very strict, and if they break the precepts, they will almost certainly be punished!

This group of people is a Buddhist practitioner who holds the vows.

Tianlong Temple and his party stayed in the country of Jialuo for three days, during which the Xuanbei Zen Master was also invited by the king to open the altar to give lectures, the scene was really an empty alley, whether the old and weak, the sick, the disabled, the rich or the poor, almost all gathered together.

There are only hundreds of thousands of people in one city!

More than half of the places where the old monks preached the scriptures came, the Sanskrit sound was mysterious, the Padmasambhava Terrace, the Buddha's light was shining, and the sky was falling.

All mortals listened with fascination.

However, Li Qingyun's face was extremely difficult to see, because a monk in the Mahayana period actually used this method to preach the scriptures and use the vision of practicing exercises to confuse mortals.

Bursts of Sanskrit sounds soothe the minds of mortals, making them feel that the suffering they have suffered in this life is deserved, and only by sincerely believing in the Buddha and accumulating merits can they be reincarnated in a rich and noble family in the next life. Even the officials and nobles who were originally deprived of fish and meat and ignored the law are now extremely pious and prostrate, and in order to show their piety, they have presented tributes and treasures. In this way, because of their devotion to the Buddha, they can also enjoy glory and wealth in the next life!

Master Xuanbei finished his lecture.

Countless people remained in place and wept and bowed down, and some even knelt down to death.

Immediately, the monks of the temple will come to collect the corpse, which is very solemn and solemn, and whether the person is rich or poor, the funeral will be held at a very high standard.

The monk who presided over the funeral also said that these people were the most devout believers and could be reincarnated in the Western Elysium in the next life!

Li Qingyun watched coldly.

It wasn't until the Tianlong Temple and his party left the Gara Kingdom that he glanced at the city with a complicated expression.

A golden dome of Buddha light!

If he hadn't seen the filth and filth inside with his own eyes, he really wouldn't dare to imagine that this was the legendary earthly Buddha kingdom.

Li Qingyun couldn't help but think of an emperor in his memory in his previous life.

Emperor Wu of Liang.

The only emperor who was killed in the memory of his previous life, and he was also an emperor who almost established the Buddha kingdom on earth!

Now he was somewhat glad that the guy had starved to death.

Otherwise, if the earthly Buddha kingdom is really established, what kind of miserable picture the Central Plains will become, it is simply unimaginable!

The light of the Buddha is dazzling, and the Sanskrit sound is bursting!

Even though Li Qingyun had left for more than ten miles, he could still hear the sound of chanting scriptures coming from the city of King Jialuo, and the dull bells of hundreds of temples holding morning classes!

But inexplicably, he already has a trace of disgust here.

Deep disgust!

If this is really the legendary earthly Buddha kingdom, then all the earthly Buddha kingdoms should be destroyed!

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