"It seems that only the Buddhist 'relics' from the same origin can greatly improve my powers!"
Liu Dong, who understood the source of his superpowers, was slightly relieved, and at the same time he also had an understanding of how to improve his superpowers in the future.
“It seems like I’ll have to visit more temples in the future!”
With this thought, Liu Dong carefully took out the off-white relics from the sandalwood box and the dark yellow silk underneath, and gently placed them on the table.
Then he reached out and took out a ball of golden foil rolled together from the bottom of the sandalwood box. Holding it in his hand, Liu Dong shook it slightly. He basically couldn't feel the weight, and it gave people the feeling of just...
Like satin.
"Could this be the legendary gold foil?" Liu Dong looked at the ten centimeter-long golden foil in his hand in surprise and thought to himself.
Gold foil production is a special traditional craft in China, with a history of more than 2,000 years.
Generally, gold bars with a gold content of 99.99% are processed through more than a dozen special processes and then supplemented with gold foil made of black gold paper, which is called gold foil.
Moreover, real gold foil is as light as a feather, as soft as satin, and as thin as a cicada's wing. It is less than 0.12 microns thick and is thinner than a piece of paper burned to ashes. From these characteristics, we can also see the complexity of the gold foil manufacturing process.
Among them, the most laborious part in gold foil manufacturing is foiling. Two workers each lift a 7-kilogram hammer and hammer it more than 25,000 times. The hammered Nanjing gold foil is as thin as cicada wings and as soft as satin. According to calculations, one gram
24K gold is hammered into gold foil, and the spread area is more than half a square meter; 18K gold foil is hammered into gold foil, and the area is more than 1 square meter. There is even folklore that the gold foil produced by one or two gold can cover one-third of an acre. This shows the essence of craftsmanship.
Absolutely.
In addition, the secret recipe of black gold paper, which is the core of gold foil technology, is unique in the world. The quality of gold foil is guaranteed by black gold paper, and this secret recipe is mastered by only two people in the world.
Putting these aside for the time being, Liu Dong carefully unfolded the gold foil in his hand, and then lines of Chinese characters as big as grains of rice appeared in his eyes.
"The Sixth Patriarch's Dharma Treasure Altar Sutra, isn't this the Sixth Patriarch's Altar Sutra written by the Sixth Patriarch of Zen Buddhism, Huineng? Could it be that this relic was left behind after the Sixth Patriarch Huineng passed away?"
But thinking of this, Liu Dong shook his head in self-deprecation. Because of the enhancement of his powers just now, he had forgotten that the golden body of Huineng, the Sixth Patriarch of Zen Buddhism, was still in Nanhua Temple in Guangzhou, and the true body relics of Huineng, the Sixth Patriarch of Zen Buddhism, were still in Nanhua Temple in Guangzhou.
It is also the earliest and most famous incorruptible body and whole-body relic that exists in the world today.
The reason why Liu Dong knows this is that after he obtained this seated statue of Sakyamuni Buddha in the Northern Wei Dynasty, Liu Dong had a special understanding of Buddhism. With his almost photographic memory, he learned about some famous classics and figures in Buddhism, as well as other
He has memorized most of the deeds. Especially for a famous person like Hui Neng, the Sixth Patriarch of Zen Buddhism, his memory is particularly profound.
Looking at the scriptures of the "Sixth Patriarch Altar Sutra" in the gold foil, Liu Dong shook his head. In the absence of clear written records and confirmation, it is impossible to determine the ownership of this relic based on this scripture alone.
"I wonder what else is in this next roll of gold foil?"
With such curiosity, Liu Dong took a deep breath, then firmly pulled the gold foil again and slowly extended it to both sides. Soon more and more words appeared in his eyes.
"It's actually the Diamond Sutra, another masterpiece by the Sixth Patriarch Huineng!"
Liu Dong is still clear about the story of Huineng selling firewood when he was young, listening to people recite the Diamond Sutra, seeking Dharma through karma, and finally becoming a disciple of Master Huang Mei Hongren of the Fifth Group of Zen Buddhism, receiving his inheritance, and eventually becoming the Sixth Patriarch of Zen Buddhism.
Seeing this, Liu Dong's interest became even more intense, and he never stopped stretching his gold foil arms.
As more and more words appeared in front of him, a look of understanding gradually appeared on Liu Dong's face.
"So that's it, this relic is actually Qingyuan Xingsi's real relic!"
Xingsi, also known as Qingyuan Xingsi. A famous Zen master in the Tang Dynasty, he was the first disciple of the Sixth Patriarch Huineng. Together with Heze Shenhui, Nanyang Huizhong, Yongjia Xuanjue, and Nanyue Huairang, he was one of the five major disciples of the Sixth Patriarch Huineng.
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Qingyuan Xingsi is one of the two most popular Dharma descendants of the Sixth Patriarch. He later came out of the three Zen branches of Yunmen, Caodong and Fayan. He is a famous Buddhist monk.
According to the record in the last paragraph of the gold foil, this relic is the real bone relic of Qingyuan Xingsi, which was sealed into the seated statue of Sakyamuni Buddha by his disciples. It was originally enshrined in the Patriarch Hall of Jingju Temple in Qingyuan Mountain
However, after thousands of years of vicissitudes, this Buddha statue with the relics of Xingsi somehow ended up in the secular world, and Liu Dong got it by chance.
Of course, if it weren't for him, I'm afraid that the things in the hidden compartment of the Buddha statue would only slowly decay with time and never see the light of day.
Looking at the two-meter-long gold foil unfolded on the table with joy on his face, Liu Dong was secretly happy that he had collected another precious antique.
Although there is no specific reference and I don’t know the specific value of this gold foil, the craftsmanship of this gold foil in the Tang Dynasty, coupled with the "Sixth Patriarch Altar Sutra" and "The Diamond Sutra" of the Tang Dynasty, as well as the Qingyuan Xingsi recorded later
The sacred relics of his life are a supreme treasure for Buddhists and those who study Buddhism and Qingyuan Xingsi.
After thinking about this clearly, Liu Dong once again admired the text on the gold foil from beginning to end, and then he was satisfied and stored it in his mustard space that had expanded to five meters. Of course, for fear of damaging the gold foil, Liu Dong did not put it away again.
Roll up.
Next, after putting the relics back into the sandalwood box, they did not put them into the belly of the bronze Buddha, but directly received them into the mustard seed space with the seated statue of Sakyamuni Buddha.
Later, Liu Dong took out Huang Binhong's "Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" again and admired it before putting it away.
After doing this, Liu Dong looked at the time and felt that it was still a little early, so he took out a palm-sized piece of Hetian jade from the box containing Hetian jade. After thinking for a while, he used the carved
The knife carves carefully.
Although he is rich now, Liu Dong has no intention of giving up carving.
When he is mentally focused, time often passes the fastest. After the sky outside has darkened, a statue of Sakyamuni Buddha has appeared in his hands. If you look closely, you will find that this relatively smaller jade Buddha
, but it is exactly the same as the gold and bronze statue of Sakyamuni Buddha from the Northern Wei Dynasty that he obtained.
"Okay!" Liu Dong put down the carving knife, looked at it in detail, and nodded with satisfaction.
Originally, he wanted to continue polishing the Buddha statue, but after hearing the door opening in the living room, Liu Dong temporarily gave up this plan.
After turning off the desk lamp on the desk, walking to the door and turning on the headlight, Liu Dong opened the door and walked out.
"Sister Wang, come back...!" When Liu Dong saw the situation in the living room clearly, he was stunned.
"Slut, my aunt finally caught you this time!"
When she saw him, Jiang Tingting's face was full of anger, and then she walked towards Liu Dong menacingly.
At this moment, facing Liu Dong's look for help, Wang Qiang could only smile apologetically. Her mobile phone was controlled by Jiang Tingting along the way. Even if she wanted to call Liu Dong, she would have no chance to ask him to hide.
"Uh, hehe, hello, Miss Jiang!" Liu Dong touched his nose awkwardly. Since he couldn't hide, he had to deal with it bravely.
"Asshole, who do you call Miss? Can you speak?" Jiang Tingting pointed at Liu Dong's nose and said angrily.
"Okay, I was wrong, Ms. Jiang, Ms. Jiang!" Liu Dong quickly surrendered and said.
Although Liu Dong felt very aggrieved at the moment, who told him that he had taken advantage of others' bodies in the first place? It was his own fault in the first place, and he deserved to be scolded now.
"Tell me, you took advantage of me last time, how are you going to compensate me?" Standing in front of Liu Dong, Jiang Tingting pinched her waist and asked in a vicious voice.
Hearing this, Liu Dong was really scratching his head. Although he wanted to say: "No big deal, I'll let you see it again!" But he knew that if he really dared to say that, Jiang Tingting would probably really run away.
"Well, how about this? I'll treat Ms. Jiang to a big dinner. What do you think?" He remembered that Wang Qiang had told him that Jiang Tingting was a foodie. So, Liu Dong found the right one from the beginning.
The direction to start.
After seeing the increasingly gloomy look on Jiang Tingting's face, Liu Dong immediately changed his mind and upped the ante, "Three big meals at your choice of place!"
After hearing what she said, Jiang Tingting's face turned pale, "That's pretty much it!"
However, three big meals could only make Miss Jiang slightly satisfied. She never thought that she would let go of Liu Dong who had taken advantage of her so easily.
After that, after looking Liu Dong up and down, Jiang Tingting rolled her eyes, suddenly showed her face and said: "But just eating is not enough, you have to agree to three conditions!"
Hearing this, Liu Dong frowned. This request was too broad! Once he agreed, he would undoubtedly put a shackles on himself. This was something Liu Dong, who had a strong personality and did not like being restricted, was unwilling to accept.
"Why don't you want to?" Seeing the look on Liu Dong's face, Jiang Tingting's pretty face tensed up again.
At this time, Wang Qiang, who was next to him, saw the troubled look on Liu Dong's face, and immediately walked over, took Jiang Tingting's arm and persuaded: "Tingting, okay, don't embarrass Xiaodong! He didn't do it last time either.
on purpose!"
"Sister Wang...! She is a girl! How could she be so cheap after suffering such a big loss!" Jiang Tingting grabbed Wang Qiang's arm and said affectionately.
Looking at Wang Qiang's helpless eyes, Liu Dong touched his nose and said, "I can promise you, but only if you tell me what your three conditions are first."
If it wasn't too difficult and it didn't violate his own principles, it would be okay for Liu Dong to agree. Who said he had taken advantage of others in the first place!