As a force occupying one side, although the "Liantai Temple" is not very strong, it is by no means easy to ascend to the throne, at least in this area, it has firmly established itself.

Of course, being able to occupy one side is not to say how strong the absolute strength of the "Lotus Temple" is, although the strength is also a very important part, but another important reason is that it has a lot of roots with the "Pure Land True Sect".

In the entire "Nanling", it is recognized as the strongest force in Buddhism, and it should be the "Reincarnation Temple" that is well deserved.

Outside the "Reincarnation Temple", of course, there are some very powerful Buddhist forces, and although the "Reincarnation Temple" is strong, its status is a very transcendent existence, and many times it is even consciously listed outside the entire Buddhism, and it itself rarely appears in the field of vision of the secular public.

Based on this situation, in the normal world of the entire "Nanling", the most recognized by people are the so-called three sects, four sects, and ten major temples.

Generally speaking, the three sects and four schools in this are relatively stable existences, that is, the seven Buddhist forces specifically referred to.

As for the last ten temples, they belong to a less stable change ranking, which is equivalent to the existence of the Forbes rich list, but the change is not so big, and there are some forces in it that have been on the list for a long time, but there will be some changes occasionally.

But on the whole, these three sects, four factions, and ten major temples, a total of seventeen forces, are basically the best among all the Buddhist forces in "Nanling".

If you count the transcendent "Reincarnation Temple", then these eighteen forces can almost represent the entire "Nanling" Buddhism.

On the other hand, the fact that the "True God Cult" can compete with the entire "Nanling" Buddhism with its own strength, and even does not fall behind at all, shows how bad the "True God Cult" is.

Theoretically speaking, one of the real three sects should be the "Pure Land Sect", which is known as one of the origins of Buddhism, with a long history, and is more than the "Reincarnation Temple".

Even if you look at Buddhism as a whole, the "Pure Land Sect" is also one of the oldest and most powerful sects, but later due to the famous "Eight Divisions", which is the most serious Buddhist doctrinal disagreement in the history of the Wasteland, Buddhism is in turmoil, and even many sects have died out because of it.

It was this serious internal friction that caused Buddhism to suffer a great loss of vitality for a while, and it has not recovered so far, otherwise the "True God Cult" would not have developed and grown so smoothly.

In this dispute, the "Pure Land sect" also suffered a huge shock, and although it survived in the end, it was no longer monolithic, because of the huge differences in the understanding of the doctrine, and they were irreconcilable differences, which led to internal divisions.

And the "Pure Land True Sect" is the most powerful of them, although it still belongs to the "Pure Land Sect" in name, but in fact its strength can already compete with the "Pure Land Sect" family.

Therefore, there is also a saying that the so-called three sects should actually be four sects, that is, the "Pure Land True Sect" is listed as a separate sect, which shows its strength.

But at least until now, the "Pure Land True Sect" is still nominally under the banner of the "Pure Land Sect", and it is not clearly independent, and the relationship between the two sides is extremely complicated, and it is originally of the same origin, how can it be so easy to distinguish.

And the "Liantai Temple" is a small force attached to the "Pure Land True Sect", and this situation is very common in the entire wasteland, and it is not simply confined to Buddhism.

It's normal to think about it, in such a cruel wasteland world, everything depends on strength, big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimp, the law of the jungle is the prevailing rule of the game, and small forces are dependent on big forces, that is also one of the rules.

There are pros and cons to this kind of attachment, but in general, the pros outweigh the disadvantages, after all, survival is everything, and being able to survive can talk about other things.

In the case of "Liantai Temple", it is even more necessary to carry a tiger skin like "Pure Land True Sect" as a banner, otherwise nothing else, just a few big forces around it are enough to gnaw "Liantai Temple" to the point that there is not even a slag left.

Based on such a living environment, "Liantai Temple" has always been very active to move closer to the "Pure Land True Sect", if the latter had never been an enclave, that is, a lonely territory, otherwise "Liantai Temple" would have been renamed as the rudder of the "Pure Land True Sect".

But even if it didn't become a rudder, the "Lotus Temple" took great pains to show its attitude of following the "Pure Land Shinshu" in many places.

For example, in terms of the Dharma name, "Liantai Temple" very straightforwardly adopts the law name rules of "Pure Land True Sect", and also takes the initiative to lower a sequence to use, that is, for monks of the same level, "Liantai Temple" is one generation lower than that of "Pure Land True Sect".

Don't underestimate this detail, you must know that for Buddhism, the Dharma name is a very important thing, and even represents a kind of rule.

According to Wang Mazi, the new monk in charge of the outer kitchen is a member of the round generation, which means that this person's qualifications are extremely old, and he is a figure of the same generation as the old monk who has just passed away.

Simply saying this, I can't show the power of this generation, but by comparison, you can know that according to Wang Mazi, the number one person in the current "Liantai Temple", that is, the current abbot, is also a round generation.

Looking at the entire "Liantai Temple", there are thousands of official monks, but there are only a few dozen of the existing round characters, not even a hundred, which shows its status.

Most of these people are in high positions, such as the old monk who has passed away, and the current new monk in charge of the kitchen, which is definitely not a person, after all, this world depends on strength, if there is not enough strength, then no matter how old the seniority is, it is useless.

But no matter how you say it, if you don't look at the face of the monk and look at the face of the Buddha, even if the strength is poor, it is the old qualification of the round character generation, and the temple always has to give some face, so the treatment is still okay, at least they will not be used as cannon fodder.

"Yuantong? uh, this, that's a good name. ”

Chen Mu's expression was a little strange, Wang Mazi hadn't said in detail what the name of the new monk in charge of the outer kitchen was before, and it wasn't until this morning that he wanted to take Chen Mu to see this Buddha, and he didn't talk about the other party's Dharma name and qualifications.

As a result, as soon as he heard the name of this Buddha, Chen Mu almost didn't laugh into a pig's cry, and said that this name was bad enough, but he didn't know if this Buddha was good at light work, otherwise he would be really blind to this superb law name for sending express delivery.