There are one hill and eight buildings in the Northern Prefecture of the Eastern Jin Dynasty Chapter 2391: Breaking the golden body to save the common people
Chapter 2391: Breaking the golden body to save the common people
Chang'an, Caotang Temple.
Since the Later Qin sent troops to attack Houliang two years ago, the Buddhist master Kumarajiva, who was brought from Kucha to Guzang City by Lu Guang, a former Qin general, also came to Chang'an City, the capital of the Later Qin.
Yao Xing, who has always admired Kumarajiva's name, specially built this thatched cottage in the center of a thousand acres of bamboo forest, and built a thatched cottage temple around it to house this Buddhist master. In the past few years,
Kumarajiva chanted sutras and worshiped the Buddha here. He had eight hundred disciples and three thousand ascetics. They were doing the work of translating Buddhist classics from Sanskrit to Chinese every day. The master himself lived in this thatched cottage day and night.
, the Ancient Buddha of Qingdeng poured his great wisdom and hard work into these classics, just to realize his great wish of the Buddha to be reincarnated and to save the world.
The lights in the thatched cottage were still swaying gently. A skinny old monk, about sixty years old, but his delicate appearance could still be seen. His eyes were slightly closed, and the Buddhist beads in his hand were gently twisting.
There were words in his mouth, but he was reciting the Lotus Sutra. Even though it was late at night, this living Buddha still worshiped the Buddha tirelessly.
The door creaked softly, and a layman wearing a monk's robe walked in gently. Kumarajiva opened his eyes and turned to look at the person. He was about forty years old.
The beautiful woman who still retains her charm, with her hair down, is obviously a female lay practitioner who practices Buddhism with her hair. Her skin is the same color as her hair, her eyes are deep, and her nose is high. If she were twenty years younger,
At the age of 18, I still don’t know how to confuse the common people and charm all the heroes in the world.
This female lay practitioner is none other than Master Kumarajiva's cousin and wife Aye Jiemodhi. Kumarajiva is from the Kucha Kingdom in the Western Regions. His father is the prime minister Kumarajiva, and his mother is from Kucha.
After giving birth to Kumarajiva, her mother was tired of the palace struggles and intrigues, so she became enlightened and became a nun. Because Kumarajiva was extremely intelligent since he was a child, he was judged by many eminent monks.
It was the reincarnation of the Buddha, so he took the young Kumarajiva everywhere to pay homage to the Buddha. From then on, there was one less nobleman in the world, but there was one more eminent monk passed down from generation to generation. There was even a venerable Arhat who had such a prophecy: Kumarajiva
If you do not break the precepts before the age of thirty-six, you will definitely ascend to become a Buddha and save all sentient beings. Otherwise, you will at best be a Buddhist master in this world.
This prophecy accompanied Kumarajiva for the first half of his life. He had been persevering in observing the precepts and preaching and saving people in the capital of Kucha until he was thirty-five years old when Lu Guang came!
Since the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Western Regions had three unique connections, and after the chaos in the Central Plains at the end of the Han Dynasty, the Western Regions had not seen the Han infantry and cavalry for more than two hundred years. But this time, although the troops from the Central Plains came, they were no longer the same Han soldiers.
, the former Qin general Lu Guang, who was from Di, led Qin's tiger and wolf divisions that swept across the world. They fought at Dingtian Mountain under Qiuci City. With 70,000 people, they defeated the 700,000 allied forces of the Western Regions and attacked and destroyed Qiuci.
The king of Qiuci was captured and killed.
And Kumarajiva became the biggest trophy of the Qin army, because Fu Jian, the king of heaven, who was known for his benevolence, justice and respect for the virtuous, had issued a death order before Lu Guang went out to fight, and he must welcome Master Kumarajiva to the east.
To Hong Buddha, this was also the last request before the death of Shi Daoan, a great master of Eastern Buddhism whom Fu Jian deeply respected and a famous monk of the generation.
But in the end, Fu Jian entrusted Lu Guang, who seemed to be submissive and steady under him, no one knew that his heart was like a tiger and a wolf. After breaking away from Fu Jian's supervision and restraint, he became a complete ruthless person in the Western Regions.
After the warlords in troubled times conquered Qiuci, they not only killed the king, but also plundered their troops. If it were not for the last respect for Fu Jian, even Master Kumarajiva would have been killed by him.
In this way, he also came up with a vicious plan, that is, when the master was thirty-six years old, he would try every means to break his precepts and cut off his path to becoming a Buddha!
Whether it was the torture of hunger, the temptation of wine and meat, whether he was riding a galloping horse or a ferocious bull, whether he was trapped in a water prison or burned in fire, Kumarajiva withstood these tests.
Until the last day, he was pushed into his cell, a stunning girl who was naked and only wrapped in a thin blanket.
This woman was the Ayejemoti standing in front of him, his uncle, the last daughter of the King of Kucha. Lu Guang declared angrily that if he did not become husband and wife with his cousin tonight, then
All the people who survived in the city will be slaughtered in front of the master. The last one to be killed is this peerless beauty. He wants this living Buddha to watch the people being slaughtered, all because of himself.
Reluctant to break the precepts, with such inner torture, he became a Buddha and ascended.
Finally, the desire to become a Buddha gave way to his own conscience. That night, there was no way to have both the Dharma and the Dharma in the world. To live up to the Tathagata and live up to you, the prophecy of the birth of the Golden Buddha was broken, and there was only one eminent monk left in the world who recited sutras and preached the Buddha.
Kumarajiva, and his cousin who led the practice from then on, accompanied him as a female lay Buddhist, and took care of the master's daily life.
Ayejamodhi sighed softly: "Ashe (Kumaroshi is also called Shi), your Majesty has a decree to set up a caotang temple tomorrow. I'm afraid it's for the Jin envoy. You
It’s better to rest early today.”
Kumarajiva slowly opened his eyes, without even looking at Ayajimadhi, and murmured: "The wind is blowing."
Aye Jiemoti's beautiful eyebrows frowned slightly, turned around, walked to the door, and suddenly sighed quietly: "Ash, after all these years, am I not worthy of your taking a look?"
The beads in Kumarajiva's hand paused slightly for a moment, then turned as normal again. He closed his eyes and kept chanting, as if he was still the only one in the room.
The door closed softly, and a sigh came from the watery night outside, expressing all the lamentations in a woman's heart, while a cold and hoarse voice came from a corner of the house: "She is still so beautiful.
.”
The beads in Kumarajiva's hand finally stopped. He opened his eyes and looked at the figure sitting in front of him, his whole body covered in a cloak, behind a pair of bronze masks, with piercing eyes. Flashes of light flashed in his eyes.
A hint of anger: "I never want to see the donor again in this life!"
The cloaked man smiled slightly, and the white hair on his forehead flickered slightly: "Master, you have violated the precept of anger."
Kumarajiva closed his eyes and kept repeating: "Amitabha, sin, sin!"
In this way, he repeated it hundreds of times before opening his eyes, looking at the cloaked guest still sitting opposite him, and sneered: "I have prayed to the Buddha countless times over the years to push you into the eighteenth level.
Hell, you will never be reincarnated for eternity, but seeing you living like this in this world, I think this is better."