Pendulum Master

Chapter 55: The underground tomb

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Although Yin soldiers crossed the border, our group is not vegetarian. I've fought against iron corpses anyway, and beaten jealous wives. Not to mention other things, the sand mallet that was hacked to death the other day was also a terrible guy. The guy Zhengyang is even more unpredictable, even if there are Yin soldiers, he may not be able to fight for a while. Thinking of this, my mind settled slightly.

"Forget about his mother's Yin Soldiers, search this tomb carefully!"

Li Dazui was agitated at this time, and he spied around in the tomb and said, "Yes, if you don't get to know the inside, then I'm afraid that I won't be dealt with by the things outside, and I will be killed by the things inside!"

He said so, we also feel reasonable.

We looked at the tomb carefully, and the more we looked at it, the more things went wrong. It is not so much a burial chamber, as it is a Buddhist hall, and it is a hidden Buddhist hall. We all know that Buddhism is divided into primitive Buddhism and new Buddhism in India, and the Mahayana sect headed by Nagarjuna Bodhisattva and the Hinayana sect headed by Kassapa Ananda have emerged. The Hinayana Sect of Buddhism was introduced to the White Horse Temple in the inland from the Yueshi Kingdom of the Western Regions. Later, Bodhidharma came to Shaolin Temple to teach the Dharma, and the Mahayana Sect of Buddhism began to open, and even the fully sinicized Zen Sect.

This tomb is not like Mahayana, but has the characteristics of Hinayana. According to records, in the 1st century BC, Buddhism was introduced to Khotan. The king of Khotan devoutly believed in and promoted Buddhism. Khotan vigorously built Buddhist temples, Zhuangluan Buddha statues, and painted murals. Buddhism in Khotan gained supreme status and Khotan became Mahayana Buddhism. Holy Land. The "Book of the Kingdom of Buddhism" by Faxian of the Jin Dynasty, "The Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty" by the eminent monk of the Tang Dynasty Xuanzang, and the "Records of the Kingdom of Yutian" in the Tibetan text all have many descriptions of the state of Buddhism.

Since the introduction of Buddhism, Khotan has been the place where incense is most prosperous in the Tarim Basin. As the birthplace of Chinese Mahayana Buddhism, many eminent monks in the interior of Da De Xitian first came to Khotan. It can be said that this is the "Xiao Xitian" of Chinese Buddhism. It is also "the place where Buddhism gathers."

The tomb is long from north to south and 1.7 meters wide from east to west. Buddha statues are close to the north wall and the murals are exquisite. His scale and sophistication are only comparable to the ruins of the Buddhist temple at Toplukdun No. 1 in Damagou.

It can also be explained that this is a tomb of a Taoist monk. The Buddhist room is artificially sunken in the tomb and covered on the real tomb. This tomb situation is the same as the principle of Shen Jiang's burial in Chu during the Warring States Period. Wu Zixu was a whip corpse and sent someone to intercept the river to dig his grave before digging out the tomb of the King of Chu.

In this way, although the tomb is small, the project is huge. In the Mughal dynasty of Tianzhu Kingdom, there were many incidents of monks being buried in temples. In 199, Indian archaeologists discovered a similar tomb. So which is the tomb of a monk from Khotan

How does his mother's mural style resemble Zhu Ran's tomb! "Li Dazui once heard me say that many lacquer paintings were unearthed from the tomb of Zhu Ran, and he searched for murals through his mobile phone, so he was more impressed with these.

I took a closer look and found that the style of this mural painting is very special. Most of the tombs in Khotan are in the style of Jiandala, with at most some line drawings of the Han Dynasty. However, the murals in this tomb room are not so much paintings as brick carvings. A large amount of Zhu and Xuan are painted on the concave and convex areas of the carvings, which is a typical Han Dynasty style.

The murals are quite simple, with fine lines, and they have some of the early styles of Dunhuang murals.

"Brother Xiaoxia, what is the story of this mural?"

"Wait, I will take a closer look!"

In the first mural, a monk with a high nose and curly hair sits cross-legged, holding the bay leaf sutra. A few times, a Han man sat down on the ground, as if he was being taught piously, and a few little monks stood there to serve.

"This painting is about a Buddhist monk imparting scriptures, and a picture of a Han Chinese receiving ordination!"

In the second mural, in the vast desert, a walking monk walks arduously in it, with a rucksack and a whisk in his hand, like a monk traveling westward.

"This is about a monk traveling westward to seek Dharma, passing through the desert, and the journey is extremely difficult!"

The third mural shows an old monk holding a scripture in his hand and entrusting it to the disciple who is about to leave. He looks far to the east, seemingly reluctant, and his eyes reveal a strong feeling for the east. This feeling is the five aggregates. People who are empty, shouldn't show it.

After I read this painting, I thought about it carefully: "If I'm not mistaken, the monk in this painting should be Zhu Bajie from the Three Kingdoms period?"

"Brother Xiaoxia, don't tease me, Zhu Bajie, hahahaha, what about Monkey King?"

"Ignorance!" Dong Tong glanced at Li Da's mouth coldly.

"The Three Kingdoms monk Zhu Shixing, the name of the eight precepts, studied Shamen Tanhe Jialuo from Tianzhu Law, Zhu Shixing first ascended to the altar and received ordination, becoming the first Han monk in Chinese history and the first monk to learn from the west and seek the Dharma. Zhu Shixing After becoming a monk and taking precepts, he studied and explained the "Small Prajna Prajna" in Luoyang, and felt that the interpretation of the scriptures was not complete. Because the translator at the time deleted a lot of the incomplete content, the explanation was unclear and inconsistent. Hearing that the Western Regions had a complete "Da Pin Jing", I decided to travel far to find the original.

In 60 AD, he set off from Yongzhou (now northwest of Chang'an County) and crossed the desert of quicksand to Khotan (in the area of Hetian, Xinjiang), and he obtained the Sanskrit version of "Da Pin Jing". He copied there, 90 chapters, more than 600,000 words. In 8 AD, Zhu Shixing sent his disciples Frutan and others to send the copied scriptures back to Luoyang. He still stayed in Khotan, where he died at the age of 79. "

"Boy, do you think this might be Zhu Shixing's cemetery?"

"If the record on the mural is correct, it's nine out of ten!"

The fourth mural is very strange. It looks like a temple is sunk in the ground. There is a deep pit at the bottom of the temple. There are many characters in it, of all kinds, just like the tribute picture in ancient China. But those people's faces were pale, their eyes were slightly closed, and they didn't feel a trace of vitality. This mural has nothing to do with the owner of the tomb, so I can't understand it. These many people are not like funeral objects.

"I haven't seen the famous mural for the time being. I guess it's a funeral procession for the owner of the tomb!"

"The funeral procession? Then why don't you see the coffin?"

"Well! The strangeness here, if there is no documentation to help, I would be bored to understand!" I stared at the murals and kept thinking. Bald Qiang seems to be a barbarian, he is completely interested in these, and he barely listened to me to finish this paragraph.

Bald Qiang seemed to be dizzy when he heard it, and the cat was about to go out at his waist, striding forward, as if in a hurry. For this kind of reckless action, we naturally wanted to stop, and asked: "Why are you going? ?"

"An old monk's tomb, what can be stolen... There is a gust of wind outside, I went out to get a door to block it! I can't see it, I'm not upset..."

"do not go!"

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter..."

Maybe it was our negligence, so we let the bald head go out and block the door. Who knows that the "door" that was just blocked was hit with a "choking". I saw the bald head Qiangzai rushed in and rushed to my side. At that time, I sat on the ground with a fat face, and his mouth kept muttering: "Paper, paper man..."

"paper man?"

Li Dazui frowned and said: "I said the bald head is strong, can you fucking speak for more clarity? What kind of paper people? Look at you like that, I'm scared to be stupid!"

"You know what a shit, that stuff is so scary!"

The bald head exaggeratedly exclaimed: "When I was blocking the door, I picked up a jade by the way and felt cold on my ass. Turning around, it turned out to be a paper man, it was still smiling at me, almost didn't scare me to death. With an idea, I spit out and smeared, knocking over the door, and then I ran in!"

"It is estimated that the Yin Soldier is here!"

Zhengyang carried the Chunjun sword on his back, and flew out of the tomb without raising his head. A whirlwind blew in with cold air.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, Zhengyang, who had just rushed out, finally came back, but his hair was messy, his clothes were torn in several places, and he looked a little embarrassed. After he came back, he took out a bunch of things from his body without saying anything. Huang Fu took two pieces from the inside and stuck them on the door, then quickly walked over to us, stuffed these yellow characters into the hands of a few of us, and said, "Put them on all doors and windows, come on! !"

When Li Dazui saw the talisman in his hand, his color changed drastically: "Zhengyang, what the hell is outside? Why did you even take out this talisman?"

A trace of jealousy flashed in Zhengyang's eyes, and he gritted his teeth and said four words: "Yin! Soldier! Borrow! Dao!"

Just after Zhengyang's words were finished, everyone in the tomb suddenly changed their complexions... Even the hairballs in the backpacks became restless...

Yin Bing borrowed the way. According to the records of "Maoshan Secret Yao", there are nothing more than the following three situations...

The first situation is the ancient and modern wars, where large-scale bloody conflicts occurred, and these soldiers died in battle. Most of them live in a foreign country, and their grievances persist. Mainly when a mortal enemy appears in his life, these Yin soldiers will launch an offensive until both losers are injured or the winner is determined.

The second is that the Yin soldiers of the underworld came to the Yang area to catch the ghosts on a large scale. The underworld soldiers and the underworld are actually two concepts. The underworld status is not high in the underworld. It is similar to the ancient military service. To put it bluntly, it is given to the ghost king. , Mingshuai these errands, Laiyang hooks the souls of the dead. The Yin soldiers are different. Their status in the underworld is the regular army, the army raised by the ghost kings and the dark commanders! !

When natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, and famines occur in the sun, causing mass destruction of the population, the underworld is full and the underworld is full of people and there are not enough people to come to the sun to catch the ghosts. At this time, Yin soldiers will appear in the sun in large numbers and arrest them. Catch those ghosts who are dead and refuse to reincarnate! !

For help, you can steal book tickets like stealing food. Come steal the book tickets of your friends and vote for me.

The third type is the war in the underworld... (to be continued) (end of this chapter)