After Qin Xingping left, the appointment date with the three buyers was going to be the next day. I had guessed that once this thing was sold, it would definitely fetch seven figures. We divided it into several pieces, and it shouldn't be a problem if each of us divided it into dozens.
big.
Things took a turn for the better the night before the deal.
That day, I took a shower, took the washbasin, and was about to go back to the house to sleep, when I was suddenly called to his room.
The curtains in the room were drawn, the Xixia Ashoka Pagoda was placed on the table, and his head looked solemn at the moment.
I asked confusedly what happened to the boss. Was there something wrong with the tower?
He pointed his head to let me take a look.
After looking at it, I said, "No problem, Boss. This is the Ashoka Pagoda we brought out that day."
The boss said with a solemn expression: "Look, look carefully. If you can't see it, I have a magnifying glass here."
I pulled up a chair and sat down, picked up the Ashoka Pagoda with both hands and looked through it.
"It's no problem. The head is in perfect condition. It's not repaired or cracked."
"etc....."
I repeated the action just now, picked up the tower with both hands, and shook it gently twice.
Maybe it was because the shaking force just now was too weak, so I put my ear to it and shook it up and down again.
It was already late at night, and the surroundings were silent. I could hear any small movement clearly. The moment I shook the tower up and down, I heard clearly that in the fourth section of the tower, there was a sound of foreign objects.
The sound produced is very small.
I put down the iron tower and said in surprise: "This... there is something hidden in the tower in the fourth quarter!"
He nodded solemnly and said, "I ignored it before. I can't figure it out. This iron tower is cast in one piece. Why was there only something placed in the fourth section of the tower back then?"
"If this tower was built by Dangxiang believers seven hundred years ago, what important things would they seal in the tower?"
"The head," I said suspiciously, "Tibetan Buddhist statues and things made in the Ming and Qing Dynasties were chopped off and sealed after they were made. Some believers would take their fingernails, hair or carry them with them.
The scriptures were sealed inside, then the bottom cover was put on and flattened with a file. If we look at it this way, will the Ashoka Pagoda be like this too?"
He shook his head slowly and said: "The Ashoka Pagoda is the supreme divine object of Buddhist art. Although the one we got is small, it is still the same. Except for the golden urn hidden in Potalali, the one that can reach this level
Apart from the Nine-Eyed Dzi Bead, the only thing left is the big thangka."
I know what the head means. He means that Ashoka Pagoda is the supreme divine object. What is sealed inside cannot be the nails and hair of ordinary believers. It is probably a sacred object as important as Ashoka Pagoda.
So the question is, what are the currently known holy objects that can reach this level?
Very few.
There is only one golden bottle of love in the world. This bottle is made of ten pounds of pure gold. The bottle is divided into three parts, and each part is carved with a theme picture using a knife.
The human world is engraved on the bottom of the bottle, the hell world is engraved on the bottom of the bottle, and the paradise is engraved on the top of the bottle. The golden bottle is used to cast lots to identify the reincarnated boy of the previous living Buddha. According to legend, only
The reincarnated soul boy of the living Buddha can throw the bamboo stick into the golden vase, but anyone else would not be able to throw it in even if they were close.
The nine-eyed Dzi beads are more famous. They are inlaid on the forehead of the Potala statue. This thing is the most awesome existence in the Dzi beads world. Dzi beads used to be sacred objects, but now they have become a toy. Those medicine master Dzi beads and tiger tooth Dzi beads
, Nine Shale Dzi Beads, Sardonyx Dzi Beads, etc. are all things that are named by people nowadays. They are not the same type of things as the real Buddhist holy objects, Meng Dzi Beads. They are all rubbish.
The big thangka is also called the great god card, and they are listed in no particular order. The first is the thangka of Lord Kanoyan, the second is the thangka of the founder of the Sakya sect, the third is the thangka of Beji Dorje’s trumpet cave practice, and the fourth is the Thangka of Dazi Xiuyan
Nectar Xuanming King thangka, five, twin conjoined Vajrasattva thangka, Yamantaka black card, seven, colorful treasure-born Buddha brocade thangka, Chengde Xumifu Temple royal statue of Sakyamuni Tangka
Card.
Apart from these, if you want to be on par with Ashoka Pagoda, you may have to stay behind.
What is hidden in this tower we dug in Harahot?
Judging from the size of those things, the gold bottle will definitely not fit in, the nine-eyed dzi bead is possible, and the thangka must be very small in size, and it must be rolled up. Of course, there is also a kind of living thing among living things.
The things are qualified to be sealed in Ashoka Pagoda.
That is.
Relics.
And it has to be the relic of a great monk.
This tower was built during the Xixia period, and must have been excluded from the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations.
It’s hard to say whether it’s a fake relic of Sakyamuni’s true body. What I’m talking about is the real relic of Tathagata Buddha himself.
Don’t think of it as a myth, Gautama Buddha was a real person who existed two thousand years ago.
The earliest prototype of the Ashoka Pagoda appeared in the Mauryan Dynasty of the Asan Kingdom. Ashoka was the third generation king of the Mauryan Dynasty. In his later years, he respected and believed in Buddhism.
According to legend, hundreds of years after Sakyamuni passed away, King Ashoka of the Maurya Dynasty collected 14,000 relics of Sakyamuni's true body, which included a skull, four teeth, and a phalange. He
A total of fourteen thousand iron towers (some say fourteen thousand) were cast to worship these relics.
Therefore, what is recorded in our history books are the Buddha's crown bone relics, the Buddha's hair relics, the Buddha's finger bone relics, the Buddha's tooth relics, and the last kind of Buddha's shadow bone relics.
We didn’t know at the time that the parietal bone relics of the Buddha were unearthed many years later in 2010. The unearthed place was at the Great Baoen Temple. There are documentaries you can watch. If you want to know what the Asoka Pagoda looks like, you can also watch it because at that time the Buddha
The parietal bone is enshrined in the Asoka Pagoda.
However, the Ashoka Pagoda is very big, more than one meter high, and the one for me and Baotou is very small, only about 30 centimeters, so it can be considered a reduced version.
The boss and I discussed it all night and speculated on all the results we could think of. Finally, we roughly guessed that our pagoda may contain nine-eyed dzi beads, Buddha relics, and one of the small thangkas.
If it were to be sold, there wouldn't be so many things to do, but it happened to be that I just found out about it at this time.
To sell or not to sell became the current dilemma for me and Baotou.
Some friends may say, "Are you stupid? You don't know how to take out the things and sell the tower. Sell it for double money. You are stupid. Even if you are robbing a tomb, I am smarter than you."
Someone will definitely say this, and it is correct, but we couldn't do it at first. The Ashoka Pagoda in the Great Baoen Temple was unearthed only a few years later. How laborious it is to open the tower completely? Go and see for yourself.
At that time, there were so many big guys from the Military Industrial Research Institute, and they spent more than three months researching the drawings before finally opening them intact.
Although our little one is not that complicated, it is still difficult.
To sell is not to sell first.
However, in order to open this thing and see what's inside, we have to use our old noses.
It is foreseeable how we can fully open the Ashoka Tower without affecting sales.