Chapter 57: Cultivating Buddha
What Yang Yi went to was a bronze hall with a width and depth of three zhang and a half, and the entire hall was made of copper, which not only required a lot of gold and copper, but also had a real master craftsman. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
This bronze hall should be the highest status in the whole building, and each hall surrounds the periphery, faintly having the potential of stars and moons.
Except for the bronze hall, all the buildings are covered with three-color glazed tiles, and the color is as good as new, but I don't know whether it is because the monks in the temple are diligent in cleaning, or the tiles are so. In particular, the peacock blue in the three colors is the most dazzling. You can imagine the sparkling scene in the sunlight.
In front of the copper hall, Yang Yi just entered the door through a vast platform square of 100 zhang, built of white stone, surrounded by white stone carved railing.
In the middle of the white stone square, a bronze statue of Manjushri is enshrined, riding on the back of a golden lion, up to two zhang high, and there are three Buddhas such as Medicine Master, Shakya and Mida next to the shrine. Colored gold ornaments, quite bold.
At the edge of the white stone platform, in addition to the four stone steps at the entrance, there are 500 arhats evenly distributed, all of them are cast in gold and bronze, all with different expressions and postures, but no matter whether they open their eyes and protrude their foreheads, or hang their eyes and guard inside, they are all lifelike, no different from living people.
The other buildings are arranged in an orderly manner in all directions with the main hall on the axis as a whole, separated by forest roads, and have a solemn and sacred atmosphere.
A large incense burner was placed in front of the Manjushri Buddha Shrine in Baishi Square, and the burning sandalwood was sending a large amount of aroma, permeating the entire space, so that the minds of the three of them could not help but calm down and infect the atmosphere of birth.
If it was an ordinary martial artist, even a talented person like Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling, he would definitely be shocked and cautious when he came here.
But what Yang Yi saw here was a heart of poverty and luxury, and what he smelled was the sour smell of copper in the courtyard.
This Pure Meditation Monastery, hundreds of houses, at least a few thousand monks, these monks do not produce, but also have special people to worship, lend money to collect rent, and the desire is difficult to peace.
In Luoyang City, because he heard that there were many monks in this Jingnian Monastery and a large estate, he issued a document asking the Zen Temple to hand over the land and distribute it to the poor people of the disaster.
After he beheaded Wang Shichong some time ago, he used life and death charms to control all the leaders in Luoyang City, and then cleaned up the officials, measured the land, arranged for the victims to dig ditches and repair ditches, level the land, and exchange labor for living needs, but it was not simply to open a warehouse and release grain.
At the time of the war, there was a lot of wasteland outside Luoyang, but what was alarming was that most of the fertile fields were in the hands of large families in the city, and the remaining part was under the name of this Jingnian Zen Temple.
With Yang Yi's style, within his scope, how can he allow others to control the land?
Under an order, all the land outside Luoyang City was confiscated, and then the land was used as a reward to motivate the soldiers in Luoyang City.
Among the land he reaped was the temple property of the Jingnian Temple.
Because he was busy and distracted some time ago, after arranging many things in Luoyang City, he went to hunt down and kill Zhu Can's father and daughter, so he never had time to come here to inspect, and he never thought that he would be recruited by others before he entered the city today.
Although the door of the bronze hall had not been opened at this time, in Yang Yi's induction, he clearly knew that the young monk who had lured him in was inside.
The yellow horse passed through the bronze arhats in the square and slowly approached the bronze hall.
As the yellow horse moved forward, the bronze door of the copper hall in front of him began to open slowly, and after the yellow horse heard the door, the door of the copper hall had also been opened to the maximum.
The hall was brightly lit, and the young monk who was standing on the top of the hill and smiling at him just now was sitting in the middle of the hall, with a small copper table in front of him.
Yang Yi sneered, turned over and dismounted, and walked towards the bronze hall.
The whole bronze hall is made of gold and bronze, and when you enter it at this time, you suddenly give people a feeling that a bird is in a cage and a golden bell is covered.
The four walls are densely placed with 10,000 small bronze Buddha statues, all of which are exquisitely cast, set off between the bronze carved railing and the beamless hall wall, resulting in a rich texture, operating a kind of magnificent, golden glittering sacred atmosphere.
"Great!"
After Yang Yi entered the bronze hall, he was amazed.
The young monk slowly stood up and smiled at Yang Yi, "Mr. Yang, please take a seat." ”
When he stood up, he found that this person was extremely tall, with a narrow face, and a pair of eyes as clear as clear water, deep and unfathomable, naturally with a sense of leisurely leisure.
Yang Yi shook his head and said, "Don't dare to sit, can't sit!"
The monk shook his head and smiled: "Is there anything in the world that Mr. Yang doesn't dare to do?"
Yang Yi smiled: "Yes!"
He glanced around the bronze hall and sighed: "I don't dare to be a slave, I don't dare to be a traitor, and I don't dare to do things that go against my nature. ”
He looked at the shiny copper floor under his feet, and said with a look of pity: "Even if I stay in this place for a moment, I can't stand it! The smell of copper here is too great, and I am afraid that if I stay for a while, once I am contaminated by this smell, it will be a little speechless." ”
The smile on the monk's face slowly faded, and he stepped into the topic, "Mr. Yang, why bother to affect people outside the world in the battle between the mortals?"
He sighed: "We monks have never participated in the fights and killings in the world, but only want to live in peace. Originally, when Wang Shichong's benefactor was still there, everything was fine, why did Mr. Yang deprive our temple of all the ancestral property as soon as he arrived in Luoyang? ”
The young monk sighed, "Does the donor have an enmity with my Buddha?"
When Yang Yi heard this, he glanced at the monk deeply, "I have no enmity with the Buddha, but the tens of millions of poor people in Luoyang City have enmity with the Buddha!"
"A monk must be a monk!"
He turned around suddenly, pointed to the bronze Arhat in the courtyard, and then patted the wall of the bronze hall beside him, "Poor and extravagant, the desire is difficult to peace! Spend so much manpower and material resources, just for the golden body of the Buddha statue!"
Yang Yi looked at the young monk, "Back then, the Buddha preached the Dharma, wore tattered clothes, held a bowl barefoot, ate hundreds of meals, wore hundreds of clothes, slept under the trees, meditated in the forest, spring, summer, autumn and winter, without gold and silver, there was no luxury. ”
He smiled and said: "You are good, well-dressed, well-dressed, living in gold and silver, eating in the temple, but no one cares about the chaos in the world and starvation everywhere, lending money and collecting rent, and showing no mercy." ”
His voice shook the entire bronze hall buzzing, "Returning to your ancestors? You have a temple, even the land stones are donated by the believers, what do you do? Even a piece of grass and trees are also given by the believers, where is your inheritance!"
He casually took off a small Buddha from the bronze wall, "It's just that this one is so beautifully carved that the bronze Buddha is enough for ordinary people to eat and drink for more than two months." ”
"Cultivating Buddha and cultivating Buddha, cultivating a body of gold and silver, cultivating a fat head and big ears, and cultivating a brain full of fat. I don't see the people of the world, but I see insatiable greed!"
He threw the little Buddha in his hand lightly, and the bronze Buddha slowly fell on the bronze table of the young monk.
"Phew!"
This bronze Buddha seems to fall gently, but as soon as it comes into contact with the copper, it makes an earth-shattering loud noise, which shakes the entire copper hall and shakes more than once, and the copper Buddha hanging on the four walls all fly out and fall down to the brass ground together.
The young monk's body also shook a few times with the bronze hall, and sighed: "The Demon of the Buddha Exterminator, Mr. Yang turned out to be the big devil of the Buddha Gate who destroyed me." ”
He sat down slowly, "Mr. Yang's actions are too extreme, and the people of the world will suffer, and the poor monk wants to ask Mr. to enter the meditation with the old monk for three years, and after three years, the copper hall will be opened again." ”
The bronze door that had just been opened suddenly closed at this time.
(To be continued.) )