Chapter 549: The Great Tribulation of Buddhism
The Tang Dynasty unified the world, and the luck of humanity once again returned to the Central Plains and Jiuzhou, and after a long time, it was a stronger and more prosperous unity, which made the luck of humanity rise again, rising to the point of even shaking the power of heaven and affecting humanity.
Tang Gaozu Li Yuan was succeeded by Tang Taizong Li Shimin. He is one of the many historical emperors, and is the general trend of heaven and earth, and the two doors of Taoism and Buddhism have extremely important promoters.
Li Shimin's implementation of the new law of the Tang Dynasty not only restored economic production and stabilized the world, but also promoted the rise of the Central Plains as a prosperous power.
On top of faith, the Tang Dynasty promoted Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism in parallel, and did not forcibly promote a single sect, but allowed all religions to preach with the bearing of the world's largest country.
Five hundred years of spring and autumn, the Five Elements Mountain is still towering, and the monkeys under the mountain are silent for five hundred years. Although he has not stepped out of the Five Elements Mountain for five hundred years, he knows the changes in the world.
Above the heavenly court, on the western spiritual mountain, many "demons and monsters" have descended to the mortal world. As the largest of the four continents, the battle between humans and demons is even more intense.
In the secular world, Confucianism retired after the destruction of the Han Dynasty and was born again, with those who lived in the temple, those who lived in seclusion in the mountains, and those who walked the rivers and lakes.
In the western spiritual mountain, the three Buddhas gather.
Buddhas of the past, Buddhas of the present, Buddhas of the future, Buddhas of the three thousand worlds, Venerable Bodhisattvas, Arhats, Bhikshus, Apologets...
The gods and Buddhas of Buddhism all converge on the spiritual mountain, and even the king and bodhisattva of the earth who are in the underworld have walked out of the Lotus Pure Land that has not been walked out for millions of years.
The spiritual mountain in the west, the top of the extreme west, there is infinite light and the earth is obvious, the three thousand Buddhas shine on the ten heavens and the earth, and the billions of Buddhas in the three thousand worlds worship the Buddha Lord of the world.
If the next world is guarded by thousands of Buddhas, like the center of heaven and earth, the immeasurable golden body towers thirty-three heavens, and the magnificent merits of tens of thousands of zhang are hanging behind the head like the great sun.
At this moment, the heaven and earth tribulation that was ready to go suddenly burst out, descending on the western spiritual mountain, falling into the capital of the human race, one east and one west, like a black abyss starting from east to west, connecting the mountains and rivers on the way, outlining a big road that crisscrossed the east and west of heaven and earth.
Many powers were shocked, but no one would take the initiative to enter the unknown catastrophe.
On the Western Spiritual Mountain, the Buddhas were entangled in the aura of the Great Tribulation, and their faces were still calm and unmoved.
From Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty to the Great Leiyin Temple in the Western Lingshan, the two places are separated by tens of billions of miles, passing through countless high mountains and dangerous places, rapids and rivers, and a road of catastrophe that implicates the two places is combined in this way.
For example, in the next world, the Venerable proclaimed a Buddha name: "There is no Amitabha Buddha in the south!"
A magnificent golden sound wave pierced through the heavens and the earth, resounding across the four continents, shocking the living beings.
The Mother of the Buddha and Amitabha, who were on the wall of the plane, looked back at the West, the Mother of Buddha laughed, and the face of Amitabha Buddha's eternal suffering was much more relaxed.
The two saints sit cross-legged, and a nine-zhang Bodhi tree is shown behind the Buddha Mother, showing great wisdom Buddha light, Bodhi leaves fall, the world flowers bloom, such as the world is like a flower prosperous three thousand, the Buddha Mother sits under the tree with a smile, folds her hands, and recites the great wish of heaven and earth.
Amitabha Buddha under the golden lotus everywhere, the top of the white lotus in the sky, the golden lotus into the sea, the white lotus into the clouds, the sea of clouds surging into the dream of three points, it seems to be true and illusory, but it is like a sea of bitterness across the people, leading the heavens, earth, people, gods and ghosts. Amitabha Buddha also folded his hands and recited the great vow.
Emperor Wa Tianzhong Nuwa Niangniang walked out of the Hongxia world, watching the two saints settle down, her eyebrows were slightly raised, although she didn't like today's Buddhism, she still took a step forward, and released the mountains and rivers to map the endless world, and took over the wall of the plane to prevent the wall of the plane from being lost and the two saints from breaking early.
Lao Tzu in the Great Red Sky also walked out of the Dao Palace and released the Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda of Heaven and Earth, towering above the wall of the suppression plane of the universe and heaven and earth.
In the Yuqing Heaven, the Yuan Shi Tianzun released the heavens and clouds, and the clouds floated in the air, and the wind was shining from the clouds to the golden light, blocking the power of nothingness outside the plane.
In the sky above the Western Spirit Mountain, with the sound of the grand wish of the Mother of Zhun Ti Buddha and Amitabha Buddha, one by one the ancient patterns are like swimming fish walking around, all over the West Niu Hezhou, showing infinite visions.
Seeing this, all the Buddhas of Lingshan put their hands together and recited the great wishes of heaven and earth.
"Let me attain Buddhahood, and there will be hells, hungry ghosts, and beasts, and I will not attain enlightenment.
Let me attain Buddhahood, and after the death of the heavenly people in the country, those who return to the three evil realms will not attain enlightenment.
Let me become a Buddha, the heavenly people in the country, and those who do not know the true gold will not attain enlightenment.
Let me become a Buddha, the heavens and people in the country, those who are good and ugly in different shapes, do not take enlightenment.
。。。 ”
For example, after reciting the grand vow, the Venerable in the future will announce it aloud.
"My Western Buddhism has made forty-eight great wishes, and I have received the help of heaven.
Today, we will educate hundreds of millions of living beings on the road of the avenue and repay virtue with merit.
Today, with the blessings of the great calamity, the world is endless, and I will repay my vows with merit!"
As soon as these words came out, they resounded throughout the heavens and the earth, and sacrificed to the heavens.
The next moment, the luck of the west swelled into a tide, into a vast river, from the west to the east, along the road to the east of Chang'an, and the luck of humanity.
On the vast sky, the meaning of the Heavenly Dao hangs down, and the way of the Great Dao is imposed.
The road of the avenue was born, with the catastrophe as the guide, the luck as the note, and the providence of heaven prevailed, and when the people of great perseverance walked through the avenue, there will be no supreme opportunity and supreme merit!
Many great powers in heaven and earth were shocked, and even a little confused, they didn't understand that this avenue was worth such an adventure for Buddhism?
Although many great powers have supreme supernatural powers, although they stand extremely high, they have never jumped out of the world.
The sage knows the wisdom of Buddhism, and also knows that Buddhism is helpless.
Qingluo also knows that this is the only way for Buddhism!
In the past, when the two sages of the West were sanctified, they made 48 grand vows to the Heavenly Dao and borrowed merit to achieve the holy position.
Although the two saints of the West became holy, they also owed immeasurable merits to the Heavenly Dao, and the Western Religion also owed a great amount of merit to the Heavenly Dao. It takes several eons for the Western religion to accumulate before it can repay this great merit.
But the transcendent catastrophe is approaching, and there is not so much time left for the Western Church to repay a little. Therefore, the Heavenly Dao asked the Western Two Saints for the merits of the Western Enlightenment, and then offset the merits borrowed from the Heavenly Dao at the cost of the Western Sect's voluntary response to this great catastrophe of heaven and earth.
Although the merit of traveling to the west is great, it is far from enough to borrow the merit of the holy throne. And Buddhism voluntarily entered the catastrophe to respond to the catastrophe, and since it saved countless living beings under the catastrophe of heaven and earth, the merit is monstrous, enough to offset the merits borrowed by the two holy places.
But it also means that the Western religion has to bear the responsibility of dealing with this catastrophe, maybe Buddhism has been frustrated in the catastrophe and has been slumped since then, maybe Buddhism will be revived, or Buddhism will be destroyed in this catastrophe.
In the desolation without the intervention of saints, there is no eternal force! This is by no means alarmist!
Although the danger is extremely great, there is no way back for Buddhism, and there is no way to avoid it. Just as Buddhism Dafa says, I am not as good as hell, who is like hell?