Seven kilometers away from Gaya City, there is an ancient temple built by King Ashoka. The temple has a long history, more than 2000 years ago. It is the Mahabodhi Temple where the famous Buddha Sakyamuni attained enlightenment!
Due to the decline of Buddhism in India, this once prosperous Buddhist temple also inevitably fell into decline. Due to the passage of time, most of the Daputi Temple was submerged in the earth. It was later excavated and renovated.
Become what you are today.
After coming out of the hotel alone, Liu Dong drove here alone. After standing in front of the temple gate and briefly looking at this ancient temple, which was completely different from the Chinese temple, Liu Dong stood in line with tourists and many people from all over the world.
The devout Buddhists walked in behind them.
The main part of Daputi Temple is in the shape of a square platform, which gradually decreases from the base to the upper end. A conical spire is built on it, 170 feet high, and is very majestic. On the arch in front of the temple, there are carvings of lions, deer, cows, elephants and other animal patterns.
, vivid and lifelike. There is a gilded statue of Sakyamuni on the altar against the west wall of the temple. The Buddha faces east, with its back against the Bibolo tree. In the courtyard outside the Daputi Temple, there are many small statues built by donors in the past.
There are also many monks’ stupas.
Along the way Liu Dong walked, Buddhist believers wearing different clothes and obviously from different countries could be seen kneeling down and worshiping devoutly. Some of them were from China, some from Japan, some from South Korea, and local Buddhists from India.
, under the same belief, they are well integrated together without distinguishing each other. It well embodies the 'world unity' pursued by all the sages of Chinese history!
But this is destined to be temporary.
After Liu Dong bowed respectfully in front of the Buddha statue of Sakyamuni, he looked behind it at the lush Biboluo tree with a crown diameter of more than 20 meters and covered with colorful streamers, which is also the famous Bodhi tree in Chinese Buddhism.
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The Bibala tree in the Mahabodhi Temple is world-famous. It is difficult to find another tree that is so famous and revered in history. The Bibala tree in the Mahabodhi Temple today is no longer the same tree as when Sakyamuni attained enlightenment.
The one I relied on. When Master Xuanzang arrived here, the Biboluo tree he saw had been "cut down many times." After Xuanzang, the Biboluo tree here had been cut down and burned again.
It was also blown down by strong winds in 1870. It is said that this Bipala tree is the "great-grandson" of the tree when the Buddha became enlightened.
Despite this, Liu Dong still paid attention to it for nearly five minutes.
After bypassing the big bodhi tree, Liu Dong looked up at the pyramid-shaped pagoda, which was steeper than the pyramid, and then continued to wander around the temple.
He tried to find traces left here by Xuanzang, Faxian, and Yijing, the Chinese eminent monks who had visited the Mahabodhi Temple, but in the end Liu Dong still found nothing.
But when he approached the pagoda, the relics that had been listening quietly in the Mustard Seed Space suddenly began to beat.
The turmoil of the relics immediately made Liu Dong, who was immersed in the strong Buddhist atmosphere of the Mahabodhi Temple and whose heart was calm, show a look of joy on his face.
"Sure enough, the trip was not in vain!"
Liu Dong, who was so happy in his heart, was about to follow the direction that the relic felt, but he didn't want to be stopped all of a sudden!
"stop!"
"What's the matter?" Liu Dong asked after briefly sizing up the middle-aged Indian monk in apricot-yellow robes who stopped him in front of him with his right arm exposed.
"You stole the temple's treasures, now please come with me!"
"Stealing the treasures of the temple?" Liu Dong was stunned, but when he saw the greedy eyes of the other party looking at his right wrist from time to time, Liu Dong suddenly understood.
"What evidence do you have to prove that I stole the treasures from your temple?" Liu Dong said with a cold smile.
"The evidence is in your hands!"
"You mean this bracelet?" Liu Dong raised his right hand.
Following his movements, a bracelet made of twelve Rudraksha appeared in the eyes of the people who gathered around.
Naturally, there is no shortage of knowledgeable people here, and soon someone exclaimed: "Twenty-one-petal Rudraksha?"
"Rudraksha, the four famous pearls?"
"This is the first time I have seen a twenty-one-petal Rudraksha. I heard that this top-quality Bodhi bead is on the market for $50,000 each!"
"Fifty thousand dollars? That's just the market price. If you really want it, you may not be able to buy one even if you double it!"
"That's right!" Regardless of the comments around him, the monk nodded immediately.
The reason why he couldn't help but want to get Liu Dong's Bodhi beads string was that in addition to the numerous twenty-one-petal Rudraksha on it, the most important thing was that it also contained a twenty-four-petal Rudraksha.
Twenty-four petals. In the two thousand years since the birth of Buddhism, there have been no more than 9 twenty-four-petal Rudraksha in historical records. This shows how cherished it is!
Moreover, the practice effect of this twenty-four-petal Rudraksha is also the highest among all Bodhisattvas. The monks who once wore this kind of Bodhisattva have become great Buddhist sages who have left their names in history.
Zhu Falan, Pasiba and Xuanzang are among the best.
Therefore, this kind of top-level bodhi seed that is said to only appear in the three great kalpas (the past solemn kalpa, the present virtuous kalpa, and the future constellation kalpa) has a temptation for Buddhists, just like a wolf seeing flesh, a cat seeing
Fish, a thirsty person can hardly give up this temptation when he sees water.
After briefly taking a look at the string of Bodhi beads that he unexpectedly came to when he was gambling on stones in Myanmar a few years ago, Liu Dong turned his attention to the monk, "Since the monk said that I stole this string of Bodhi beads from your temple,
Then you must come up with evidence, otherwise you will accuse me of stealing with all your rhetoric, which I will not agree to!"
"Yes, show me the evidence!" Perhaps after seeing Liu Dong's Chinese identity, many people who came here from China to travel and make pilgrimages also commented.
"This bead chain was originally enshrined on the Buddha's altar table in the pagoda. It is rarely seen by people. How can I provide evidence? However, the elders in the temple all know this matter. As long as the donor confronts me, the truth will come to light.
Yes! I believe that with the good reputation of our Buddha Gaya (the Indian name of the Mahabodhi Temple), the donor will not be wronged!" The monk rolled his eyes and immediately said in a high-sounding voice.
"The truth comes out? Haha!" Liu Dong shook his head sarcastically. He was not stupid. If he really wanted to go with this guy, the final result would probably not be any different from what it is now.
More than 99% of Buddhists can't help but feel greedy when they see the twenty-four-petal Rudraksha.
“I originally thought that the Mahabodhi Temple, as the place where Buddha Sakyamuni attained enlightenment, would be a pure place, but I didn’t expect the real situation to be so disappointing.”
After shaking his head, Liu Dong turned around and prepared to leave!
"If you want to leave, leave your things behind first!"
Listening to the shouts behind him and the sound of breaking wind in his ears, Liu Dong frowned slightly. He didn't expect that this middle-aged Indian monk was also a master of fighting.
However, he is still too far behind!
"boom……!"
Liu Dong didn't even look back, he just raised his right hand as if to swat a fly, brushing the monk's right hand that was grabbing at him like lightning.
Accompanied by a dull sound like a defeat, and with Liu Dong's powerful force, the middle-aged monk flew backwards into the air as if he had been hit by a high-speed car.
"Bang, Gulu...!"
Turning around and looking at the middle-aged monk who was rolling around on the ground and looking miserable, Liu Dong said coldly: "You really haven't achieved any of the fruits of the Five Precepts and Ten Good Deeds of Buddhism. Your decades of practice have been in vain. Come on earlier.
Return to secular life, so as not to pollute this peaceful place of Buddhism!"
"you……!"
"gone!"
After taking one last look at the middle-aged monk who looked shocked and angry, Liu Dong turned and left.
With such a big commotion, it was no longer suitable for him to stay and explore what he wanted.
"Do you dare to leave your name?" the middle-aged monk said loudly.
But Liu Dong was not stupid, how could he cause trouble for himself. So he ignored the middle-aged monk's shouting behind him and strode outside the temple.
Watching his back getting farther and farther, the middle-aged monk wanted to catch up, but he thought that the yoga skills he had practiced hard for forty years were not enough to defeat the enemy with one move. It was better not to ask for trouble. But if he gave up like this
If so, he was a little unwilling to do so.
"It seems we have to ask the master to take action!" After hesitating for a long time, the middle-aged monk gritted his teeth.
Although this will result in the loss of the string of Rudraksha, after pleasing the master, one can also get some benefits from his old man. In this way, it is much better than getting nothing at all.
After making up his mind, the middle-aged monk turned around and left in a hurry.
There was no excitement to see, and the crowds of people gathered slowly dispersed.
After leaving the Mahabodhi Temple, Liu Dong found a deserted place and used his relic Yuan Guang.
Now, after being blessed by 22 Buddha relics in the National Museum of India, the automatic pickup range of his relics has reached a radius of 20 meters, so the speed of traveling underground is naturally much faster than before.
Therefore, in just a few minutes, Liu Dong had arrived at the foot of the tallest stone tower of the Mahabodhi Temple. But just when Liu Dong was about to go up directly, he suddenly stopped.
"It happens again!"
When he was far away, he didn't notice it, but when he was so close, there was a blind spot within the range of Liu Dong's relic Yuan Guang that he couldn't see.
He has experienced this situation before. If he encounters any object or person with a very strong magnetic field, the relic source light cannot completely cover it.
Just like his cheap master 'Monk Wu Xin', who is a first-level land immortal in the Baodan realm, Liu Dong's relic Yuan Guang cannot detect anything around him at all, and even everything within 50 meters of Monk Wu Xin can't be detected by Liu Dong.
Dongdu cannot see it.
Although the shielded space was not that large this time, it was still dark within a diameter of 10 meters. Liu Dong instinctively felt that something was wrong.
But the beating of the relic in his mind made him unable to give up the opportunity that he almost got. (To be continued.)