Chapter 377: West Lake Temple
"There's a temple over there, let's go over and have a look, you see, this is facing the West Lake, and it can be said that it is the temple with the best scenery." Xiong Er hurriedly pointed to a temple by the lake.
Ou Mengmeng raised his head, with the mountain and the lake in his back, a small apricot yellow temple was half-hidden and half-visible. Sitting on the boat and looking up at this temple, I felt that this temple must not be a private temple of a rich man, otherwise, this place, can they build a temple? Mainly, this temple, Ou Mengmeng has never seen, in the 21st century, this temple should be gone. However, the old lady patted her head again, this is a book, how can it be the same as reality in the book.
"Why don't you go and have a look?" Xiong Er said to the old lady enthusiastically, anyway, as long as he didn't tell him about getting married, he thought it was okay.
Ou Mengmeng didn't believe him anymore, and always felt that Xiong Er took her out just to handle the case.
Xiong Er didn't care, he directly asked the boat to pull aside, and helped the old lady to hurry over.
The place is good, not far from the pier to the temple gate, of course, here is not only from the pier to go up, there is a long carriage road around the lake by the lake. After crossing the raceway, go up four sections of nine steps, and you will arrive at the entrance of the temple, and you can see the lake view when you turn around.
And standing at the entrance of the temple, the general Mahavira Hall is in the second entrance, and the first entrance is the Maitreya Buddha Hall, in order to show the progressive relationship between the future Buddha and the present Buddha. But even if she doesn't understand, she also knows that there is only such a Buddha hall in the middle of this temple, and the one who enters the door to worship is Maitreya Buddha. And from the temple gate to the main hall, there are nine steps. Forty-nine outside the door, nineteen in the door. When put together, it is the number of five or nine, or it can be reversed, the number of nine or five.
She is an old Yuhang native, and she still knows the history of Yuhang City. What stories have you experienced in between? In the history of Yuhang, the most famous is Maitreya. In the name of the Pure Land Sect, he does not do anything.
(Past Buddha: Burning Lamp Buddha, Present Buddha: Shakyamuni, Future Buddha: Maitreya Buddha (now Bodhisattva))
"Xing'er, who does this temple belong to?" Ou Mengmeng's eyelids jumped. She couldn't help but look sideways at Xiong Er, Xiong Er still smiled sweetly at her, they didn't get off the boat with amber, just the two of them, Ou Mengmeng felt a little dangerous, and she really didn't know if she could run away or not.
"Belonging to a big salt merchant, legend has it that the mother is extremely filial, and this temple is here for the mother's longevity. So don't look at the temple is not big, but it took a lot of thought at the beginning. Later, the old lady died and was buried in the spirit bone tower of the back mountain. In order to increase its popularity, the family temple was opened to all believers, and I heard that this temple is quite effective in seeking longevity." Xiong Er said busily.
Ou Mengmeng looked left and right, the incense in the temple looked okay, but some women went in and out, thinking about this temple, it was very targeted, and it directly regarded women as the target group. Seek longevity for your mother, and then you can get the identity of the female surname at once. Regardless of whether you can get longevity or not, you also have a certain affection for them.
They didn't enter the main hall, but slowly walked around the temple, the place is not big, but the design is not bad, there are some winding paths, and there should be, but there are. For example, a release pond should be connected to the West Lake waterway, and it doesn't look so crowded.
Ou Mengmeng looked at Chi Zi and shook her head gently: "In this world, there are people who seek marriage, those who seek to be promoted and make a fortune, and those who seek longevity. But what the hell is longevity?"
"Is there a difference between seeking longevity and seeking longevity?" Xiong Er was also asked, he brought the old lady here, and he also had intentions, but he didn't expect the old lady to suddenly think of seeking longevity and longevity.
"What do you say?" Ou Mengmeng was speechless, immortality is actually Taoism, they actually have a lot of ways to live forever, what is immortality, what is borrowed from the corpse to return the soul, to a certain extent, what they pay attention to is actually the longevity of the soul; To seek longevity is to be worldly, to live. I've been using a body, and I've been living all the time. It's actually easy to seek longevity, but when he dies anyway, he tells his family that he has ascended; But what is the criterion for judging those who seek longevity? And is this a serious Buddhist temple?
Xiong Er smiled, but still helped the old lady to go shopping. The temple is indeed small, it is obvious that it was designed by professionals, including the giant trees behind the main hall are hundreds of years old. And the Zen room is not much, I feel that the area is not as good as the gourd temple of Gusu, but this layout is not comparable to the gourd temple, the spirit bone tower built by the mountain, a bell pavilion on the side, are small and small, but there is a hundred-year-old tree in the backyard. Ou Mengmeng couldn't help but circle around the tree.
Ou Mengmeng thought about it and glanced back at Xiong Er
, Xiong Er was still smiling. Holding the old lady around slowly.
Finally, a monk of medium stature, he paced in front of the two of them and said, 'Amitabha, it can be regarded as a little respect for their robes.' His identity was also revealed from the robe on his body.
Ou Mengmeng smiled and returned the half-salute, no matter how old or her identity is, it is okay for a monk to worship her, but it is not okay for her to worship a monk.
"It seems that the two of you didn't enter the temple to worship the Buddha." The great monk just came out of the back door of the main hall, ready to go back to the meditation room, but saw a pair of nobles who seemed to be grandchildren walking in the courtyard, they were richly dressed and smiled amiably.
"I ate wine and meat today, and I didn't dare to collide with the Bodhisattva." Ou Mengmeng hurriedly used the original words in the book and looked at the courtyard, "Dare to ask the master, how many years has this temple been built."
"Speaking of which, this temple has not been built for long. But this place has existed for a hundred years. This was originally the outer house of a wealthy merchant, but when things went bad, this place was bought by the old Dongweng and asked someone to build this temple." The abbot still had a monk's smile on his face.
Ou Mengmeng lowered her head and waved again, and noticed that the abbot was wearing a pair of cuffed shoes. Gray face and white bottom, a pair of shoes that are a little too clean.
She didn't dare to look at it much, so she got up and looked up at the old tree, "It's a pity that such a good tree."
"The old lady is very raw, but she just moved to Yuhang?" The abbot said with a smile.
"The old body is the Yuhang clan, but he traveled with his son and returned to his hometown with his grandson when he was old." Ou Mengmeng immediately opened her mouth, with a modern Hangzhou accent, but after a few hundred years, the accent will always change, but it is roughly the same, and it is the taste of old Yuhang.
The abbot smiled, "Amitabha, congratulations to the old lady on returning to her hometown, this temple is built by a filial son for his mother, Guanyin is very effective, the old lady might as well give it a try."
"What is Shou?" Ou Mengmeng looked at the great monk.
The great monk was stunned, longevity? It's not that he can't explain, but he's wondering how he can make this believer.
Ou Mengmeng sighed lightly, "People are in the world. In love. Only one born and one dies. Go alone. It's fun. A land of bitterness. You deserve it. There is no generation. Amitayus! In Buddhist terms, it is the afterlife that is chased. Think that all cause and effect are self-sustaining, and this temple seeks longevity? The old man is confused!"