Chapter 829: The Journey of the Tang Dynasty
Xuanzang silently bowed to Master Jiexian.
"Thank you, Master, for your doubts."
"No, we are actually learning more from each other, and although you are studying the Buddhist scriptures, we have also learned a lot from you, your piety, your experience, and your will." Master Jiexian shook his head slightly and said with a smile.
"So, are you going to study here next?"
"I want to learn Sanskrit well. In addition, I wonder if the master can let me bring more Tianzhu books back to the Tang Dynasty, not only limited to Buddhist scriptures, I think these cultures also have their value. I have learned a lot from His Highness's book, but I also need more examples, more history for me to learn more. Xuanzang said softly.
"Of course, that's not a problem, there are actually a lot of books here, and I think you can take them with you if you can, because they ...... Maybe only in Datang can it be better preserved, here...... I fear that one day, they will all be destroyed in the flames of war. Master Jiexian paused before speaking.
"Thank you, Master." Xuanzang silently saluted again.
Master Jiexian smiled and left directly, and after Master Jiexian left, Xuanzang's face was a little less confused, and Master Jiexian's words were useful to him.
But it's not very useful, the other party is giving his advice here based on the age of nearly a hundred years old, but there are some problems Xuanzang himself actually figured it out, but figuring it out and making up his mind are two different things.
But he has been fighting for his faith for thirty years, and it is easy to give up like this, how easy is it to say?
In fact, it is not easy for him to figure it out, and for most people who are similar to him, this book is more deviant than thirty years of faith, and will be described as a fallacy.
It's just that Xuanzang knows very well that it is an unprecedented thought, a completely new thought, and a thought that is ahead of the world.
Because he traveled all the way west, passed through dozens of countries, and it took several years to arrive in Tianzhu, a journey of tens of thousands of miles, he had seen so many that it can be said that some examples of each country can be found in the book given to him by His Royal Highness.
It is precisely because of this journey of thousands of miles that Xuanzang can truly appreciate how advanced the ideas contained in this book are, and I heard that the current Datang is carrying out such reforms! Think about a country like Datang, if such a restructuring is completed, what a shocking force it will be.
Xuanzang remembered what he had seen and heard, and he decided to combine this book with His Royal Highness, and write down what he saw and heard and all his feelings, and he had already thought of the title of the book "The Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty".
It's just that after thinking about the title of the book, Xuanzang suddenly thought of the news he got two days ago...... The serfs of the entire Tubo rebelled, and Xuanzang, the system of Tubo, knew about it and understood it in detail, and the serfs of Tubo rebelled and applied to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, and originally Tubo officially became the territory of the Tang Dynasty, called the Qinghai-Tibet Road.
And the Tibetan ...... It's not much away from his current distance, and if he really wants to leave, he estimates that it won't even take half a year to return to Datang through the Yadong Pass.
Thinking of this, Xuanzang smiled a little bitterly, perhaps, he shouldn't be called "The Legend of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty" but "The Story of the Tang Dynasty"?
However, none of this mattered, he had already made a decision to write this book, and to write about what he had seen and heard, especially the political system mentioned in the book of His Highness, and the way of life of the people, and the oppression they were subjected to.
Perhaps it can be used as a reference for Datang's future reforms.
As for the sutras.
Xuanzang has already made a decision in his heart, just like Master Jiexian said, as long as he is pious to his heart, he is too persistent and obsessed with it.
They are just making their own choices, and they are using their own power to save the people.
Now, he wants to find a way to take away all the Tianzhu books stored in this Nalanda Temple, he can feel that the atmosphere around this temple has become more and more anxious, Nalanda Temple has recently had a large number of Tianzhu people come here to pray, and there will also be many Tianzhu nobles who will bring some gold and silver here to donate to the Buddhist temple.
Xuanzang knew very well that they couldn't take away the gold and silver, these former Tianzhu nobles, so they wanted to "donate" these things to the Buddhist temple, trying to find "salvation" for themselves.
But the fact that the Tibetans, who actually control this area, tolerate Nalanda Monastery now does not mean that they will tolerate it in the future.
And those books were brought by some Tianzhu people from the Wangshe City, where they recorded many precious cultures and various scientific research materials in Tianzhu.
Xuanzang wanted to take all of these away, otherwise he knew very well that these things would be destroyed sooner or later in Tianzhu.
After studying in Tianzhu for so long, Xuanzang already knows enough about this place, this continent is different from Huaxia, when some of their foreign sects invade here, some of the former sect classics will be destroyed.
They don't have the Confucian way of tolerance.
And some of the words written by His Royal Highness in this book, Xuanzang thinks it is very useful, culture and knowledge are the most precious wealth of mankind, even if some culture may be just dross, but after one or two thousand years, maybe it will be a history of civilization used by future generations to record the process of our culture.
Record the history of the evolution of man from ignorance to civilization.
But if he wants to take all the books with him, it is very difficult, because there are too many, Nalanda Temple has a glorious history in Tianzhu, it has attracted scholars from different countries all over the world to study and exchange here, so it retains different cultures from various regions, and these ...... Xuanzang wants it all!
He couldn't take it with him, but he thought that when His Royal Highness was leaving, he could go to Yuzhang Island, which was only a few hundred miles away, and if he went down the river by boat, he could arrive in a few days.
At least Xuanzang didn't hear that the Tibetan Zampu Songtsen Gampo had transferred troops to take back the former Tibet.
With an idea in his heart, Xuanzang was no longer confused, sorted out his thoughts, and Xuanzang went to rest.
On the second day, when Xuanzang was studying Sanskrit, suddenly there was a rush of footsteps outside the door, and then a young monk pushed open the door of Xuanzang's room, and his expression was a little anxious and said in Sanskrit...... The Tibetan army is coming, and Master Jiexian asked me to inform you, saying that they are coming to you. ”