Baopu Temple is located deep in the middle range of the Himalayas. It faces south and is surrounded by mountains to the south, west and north. The Qinkang Hall is the center, with mountains on its back and water on its back. There is a tall Buddha exhibition platform built at the northern foot of the mountains on the south bank. The main hall Surrounded by four Dracangs, it is a majestic ancient Buddhist temple composed of sutra halls, shrines, monks' houses, lazhangs, quiet rooms and other buildings.
There is a large square in front of the temple. There is not much incense here, and only a few pilgrims express their sincere respect to the Buddha by prostrating themselves to the ground.
Li Muye and a group of five people came here. Professor Harrison revisited his old place and was filled with emotion. He led Brother Xiaoye and An Yiru to introduce the situation in the temple as they walked. Bai Qi and E Lai were not very interested in the history and culture. Seeing that there was nothing interesting to see, they asked Li Muye for leave and returned to the camp. The two monkey cubs were obsessed with the Haidongqing. Qi Rulong promised that they would try their best to **** it and hand it over to the two of them. Now they have begun to see results. The two brothers are looking forward to riding the condor and flying around in the sky. .
There is a stone tablet standing in the center of the square. Harrison said that this stone tablet was erected during the period of the ninth century emperor Dezan. The inscription says: "The temple was built in Jiangpu, Duilong, where the three treasures are based." ·The Jiangpu Temple built by Caibangda Sangnyeto was destroyed when Langdama extinguished the Dharma. However, the ancient Tibetan inscriptions engraved on the stone tablet of the temple were completely preserved and moved to the temple. Now this precious cultural relic has become a rare and important historical material for studying the politics, economy, religion and culture of the Tubo period.
Harrison has done extensive research on the religious culture of the Himalayan region. This old man is strong and strong. Although he looks a bit old with a white beard, he actually has the physical strength of a young man. He had practiced here in his early years, so he was very familiar with the connotation of this temple and its surrounding environment.
Li Muye found this place not only because of Old Harry's influence, but also because Brother Xiaoye accidentally found a notebook from many years ago when sorting out Sister Chen's belongings, which recorded that his mother had also visited the Holy Land of the Hongza tribe after she left it. This practice also found the secret key to opening the temple.
Across the square and up the twenty-four stone steps, you will reach the Ming Corridor with six columns. Entering from the Ming Corridor is the Qinkang Hall, the main building of Baopu Temple. It is three stories high and has a square layout. It is composed of a sutra hall and a Buddhist hall. One floor rises in the center of the sutra hall, with a tall skylight with an exaggerated area for lighting. This is the place where all the monks in the temple gather and chant sutras. The interior of the sutra hall is ornately decorated with carved beams and painted pillars, intertwined curtains and colorful curtains; the four walls are painted with murals such as the Sixteen Arhats.
Li Muye imagined how his mother came here alone, and after enduring the pain of losing her husband and her son, she came here to find the destination of her soul. How much inner suffering did she have to endure to survive that difficult time
This place is located in the buffer zone between the Republic of China, India and Bhutan. There are only a few Tibetan villages within a hundred miles of it. In order to avoid friction, the three parties have tacitly chosen a vague way to define the ownership of this area. . In short, the three countries all believe that this is their own territory, and none of them has stationed troops in this area to formally and openly exercise sovereignty.
There are two white pagodas on the west side of the temple: the front pagoda has a square base and a vase-shaped body; the back pagoda has a square base and body with a simple shape and a total of seven levels of pagoda. The former is the resting place for the souls of eminent monks of all dynasties, and the latter is where the monks in the temple devote themselves to practice. The general cultivation time is three years, three months and three days. During the period of cultivation, they are not allowed to go out or have any contact with anyone outside. Their food is delivered through a window by someone special.
Harrison once practiced Buddhism here for a short time, but because he could not bear the taste, he deliberately violated the rules and was kicked out of the temple. He said that this temple is self-sufficient, so it has almost no contact with the outside world. He used a Dainichi Hongfa Sutra obtained from an expedition to exchange for the opportunity to practice here. Sister Chen also mentioned this place of practice in her notes, but her mother was much more powerful than Harrison. She once climbed to the top of the seven-level pagoda in three years.
Politics and religion in Tibetan areas are often inseparable. The black hat esoteric sects in history also had their glorious years.
Legend has it that there is a black hat in the temple made by millions of dakinis using the hair of many believers. In fact, the real black hat was a gold-rimmed black miter presented to him by Mongolian Khan Meng Ge during the reign of the Second Living Buddha. Since then, this black hat has become a symbol of the inheritance of this living Buddha and has been passed down from generation to generation. Whenever the enthronement ceremony of the reincarnated living Buddha and major Buddhist activities are held, the living Buddha who inherits this inheritance must wear this black hat to show that The black hat represents the dignity of the tantric living Buddha.
Li Muye was not very interested in these historical anecdotes. He came here because of the Demonic Kingdom Treasure Scroll mentioned in his mother's notes.
Second Sister Chen said that the seventh floor of this cultivation tower was densely covered with ancient Tibetan texts engraved by unknown people in what year and month. After studying the translation, she learned that it was an epic called the Treasure Scroll of the Demon Kingdom, which included the cultivation of the Kalachakra Maharaja. The key to perfecting the Dharma. The so-called Demon Kingdom comes from the Tibetan epic King Gesar, which tells the myths and legends that happened in Tibetan areas in ancient times. At this time, the Great Perfection Law of Kalachakra is the method left by the gods to humans to open up the divine realm.
Professor Harrison believes that the earth experienced a period of great floods more than 10,000 years ago. Before the floods receded, only a handful of land could support human survival. Therefore, all modern civilizations originated from the present plateau. Naturally, the mysteries of prehistoric civilization are also hidden in this magical land.
The plateau is not generally recognized as a livable place, but the scientific community has discovered relics of prehistoric human activities in plateau areas around the world.
Harrison hypothesized that the cause of the great flood was war. The ancient people who survived many years ago established a country here and retained part of the technology and practice culture of prehistoric civilization. Some elites realized that these technologies would cause great damage to the world, so they Preserving these technological seals, they assigned a small number of people to take the newly born human offspring to leave the plateau with the receding floods and go to a place more suitable for human reproduction and survival.
At that time, the new human race was ignorant, and the small number of people were not allowed to tell the secrets of the civilization of their homeland due to various factors, so they could only selectively teach some non-taboo technologies and civilizations, and let the new human beings figure out and evolve on their own. In this process, the small number of people gradually died away. In the early days, the new humans had to rely on the limited skills they left behind to fight against nature. Naturally, survival was difficult, and it was difficult to have the time and leisure to explore the ancestors of the plateau. Mysterious, so the plateau became the legendary battleground between the Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of Demons.
As the civilization level of the new humanity increases day by day and the productivity gradually develops, some people are liberated from the heavy production activities and begin to study the few words left by the small number of people at that time, and use this to infer a very small part of the prehistoric civilization technology. At the same time, as those people who stayed on the plateau grew old and withered, the Kingdom of God they owned inevitably declined, and the technologies and civilizations sealed by them were perhaps buried under this land. , or hidden somewhere deep in the old forest.
Harrison also has a more fantastic speculation, if God created prehistoric human beings, and human beings approached or reached the realm of God during the evolution of civilization, and in turn became enemies of God under the influence of the hell dragon. Just like in myths and legends, the God-King multiplied the gods, but the gods who became stronger betrayed the God-King. So God activated the restart device specially reserved when designing this world, and destroyed prehistoric civilization with a great flood. Then, the human elite realized that it was a mistake to betray God. Those science, technology and evolutionary cultivation techniques were all forbidden techniques, so they decided to believe in God devoutly and seal all taboo techniques.
Astronomy, engineering technology, witchcraft, physical arts, all technologies that may lead humans to evolve closer to God have been sealed away for a long time. Until the first industrial revolution. This world suddenly gave birth to many great and epoch-making scientists. Harrison said that this was probably God's will, because in that dark age, black magic was about to control Europe. Witchcraft and astrology were rampant. The sharks appeared in the form of dark dragons. The proliferation of their biochemical technology led to werewolves and humans. Vampire zombies appear frequently and rule the night. In the East, dragon worship has become the mainstream thought, and the belief in destiny has made people willing to remain ignorant and believe in destiny instead of pursuing evolution.
Although all these statements are just his personal speculations, they seem to have found the correct answers to many historical mysteries. For example, why did humans remain in the same place after thousands of years of ignorance before the industrial revolution? And why are there legends about vampire zombies all over the world? During World War II, why did Schroeder send people deep into the Himalayas to find the secrets of the Axis World
Li Muye was not very interested in these whimsical ideas of Old Harry, but he still vaguely hoped that his guesses would be somewhat true, such as the part of the plateau that hides prehistoric civilization. Brother Xiaoye's spiritual cultivation has now reached a bottleneck stage, and even Bai Wuxia cannot help him find the right way to advance to the next level. The Immaculate Witch believes that this is the limitation of talent. With Li Muye's talent, it is already the limit to reach this point.
She suggested that Brother Xiaoye go directly to Lei Yiming, an authority in the field of nanotechnology, and maybe he could find a solution. Li Muye categorically rejected this proposal in his heart. If you can tell this big secret of yours to an outsider that you can't control, it would be more reliable to go to Duke Long directly.
Li Muye didn't take Bai Wuxia's theory of talent seriously. As a person who had died twice, in Brother Xiaoye's eyes, nothing was impossible in this world. It is said that the talent of her son, Xiao Mu, and the second sister Chen are not very high, but they have finally reached a level of cultivation that is not inferior to that of Bai Wuxia. Since her own mother can do things, why can't she do it
Li Mu was not sure whether the Kalachakra Dzogchen Dharma could solve his problems, but he believed that his mother would protect him secretly. That night deep in the underground city, he dreamed of the scene when his mother left. That dream was so real that Brother Xiaoye believed that it was the revelation left to him by his mother’s last spiritual will. He wants to follow Sister Chen's footsteps to find out the whole truth about her departure... (End of Chapter)