Ling Tiandiao glanced at Lin Ji and snorted: "Say!"
Lin Ji bowed his hands and said in a salute: "If according to what the elders said, the chosen son will do the will of heaven and be rewarded with good deeds. Then why do everyone in the Buddhist kingdom have to go through such painstaking efforts to kill them? Isn't it... that they are not afraid?
Are you being punished by God?"
"Is this..." Ling Tiandiao pondered for a moment and asked in response: "You have seen those bald donkeys who only say "Ami" and say "I am Buddha". Have you ever seen them worship God?"
"To tell you more about it, not to mention that you have never heard of it since you have been practicing, even those old ghosts who have become Taoists don't know much about it!"
After saying that, Ling Tiandiao raised his head and stretched his back, chose a more comfortable position and leaned lazily against the big tree and continued: "This has to start from the Nalan Tuo catastrophe two thousand years ago..."
"As early as thousands of years ago, or even longer ago, your human race blossomed into two families, and Buddhism and Taoism came from the same source. Although the cultivation methods are completely different, what you worship is God."
"Eight thousand years ago, the secret realm was opened. Humans, ghosts, Buddhas, dragons, and demons entered. In the end, the human monk Xuanyuan Wuji got an unparalleled opportunity and became the chosen one. And the Buddha, the Tathagata, also relied on half-steps of Buddhist scriptures to enlighten him.
It was not until this time that there were some differences in the theory of the same roots of Buddhism and Taoism. Later, Xuanyuan Wuji cut the dragon vein with a sword and commanded the nine states, and the Lord Buddha Tathagata also spread Buddhism and established religion in the Western Lands."
"These two people are from the same human race, and they have come out of the whole country. But the way they have understood is completely opposite. The people of the two countries often have conquests at the intersection of the east and the west, and they are getting more and more fierce. There is a situation where you and I will live and die.
potential."
"So, Xuanyuan Wuji went to the West alone, made a bet with the Lord Buddha, and sealed a large mountain, completely cutting off the source of Buddhism like a chasm. This is the so-called "Holy Emperor Standing Buddha" in "The Remains of Taiyuan"
The origin of "Guan".
"Although not many people still know about this period of history, after all, the Buddha Pass is right there. It is not a secret. What I am going to say next is the real secret of the Western Land!"
Ling Tiandiao paused for a moment and said: "The Xuanyuan Seal Pass is rarely known in the world, but what is even more unknown is that the Seal of the Seal was created by the joint power of the bloodlines of the Human Emperor Xuanyuan and the Buddha Lord Tathagata!
When the Holy Emperor went west, he took his youngest son Xuanyuan Hongyang with him. When he returned, he left the prince behind but brought back the six Buddhist sons."
"Not long after that, the Human Emperor Xuanyuan disappeared inexplicably. The entire Jiuzhou was in chaos, and the six Buddhist disciples also disappeared at that time."
"These six sons all have the teaching of reincarnation taught by the Tathagata. One of them was destined to realize compassion. After hundreds of generations, he entered the Taoism of Taiyi and became the youngest person in the history of the Taiyi Sect to enter the Taoism. He was less than sixty years old.
At the age of 30, it is already halfway completed. But because its origin is the root system of Buddhism, it has not been completed even after hundreds of years, even though it is dying and losing its life."
"Others would have spent the rest of their lives blaming others. However, Wu Bei took a different approach and actually studied a method of replacing life with death. He then entered the ghost realm and rebuilt his life! He even cultivated to the realm of the Ghost Emperor.
Became the contemporary leader of the Ghost Sect!"
"Two thousand years ago, the last leader of the Ghost Sect was killed on the spot by a blindfolded swordsman who did not know where he came from. He was reincarnated into the world again. In this life, he was found by a Buddhist walker. He was forcibly brought back to the West, practiced meditation and entered Buddhism.
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When Lin Ji heard this, he couldn't help but be secretly surprised.
The coming and going of this Buddhist disciple named Wu Bei sounds like the last ghost king Aravaka whom he met in a secret realm!
"The talent for understanding compassion is extremely high. After three reincarnations, he experienced the Tao, ghosts and Buddhas. In just a hundred years, he actually reached the level of Arhat, and was only one step away from the Bodhisattva status! He was there
When I was enlightening the Buddha and preparing to advance to the next level, the most tragic Nalanda Tribulation occurred in the Western Buddha Kingdom since ancient times!"
As early as in the secret realm, Lin Ji had heard the words "Nalanda Tribulation" more than once.
Although we can roughly guess that it was a catastrophe in the Buddhist Kingdom, we are still at a loss as to what exactly happened.
Now I sat up straighter and listened very carefully.
"Nalanduo is both the name of a person and the name of a temple." Ling Tiandiao explained in detail: "Early before the Lord Buddha entered the secret realm, there were inheritances of fragments of Buddhist dharma left in the world. Nalanduo was one of them who was good at teaching precepts.
The meditating elder. Lord Buddha Tathagata was originally an abandoned baby who was born with a disease, but was picked up by Nalanda and taken good care of."
"Not only did he cure the stubborn illness that Lord Buddha Tathagata was born with, he even taught him all the Buddhist teachings he had learned throughout his life."
"The Lord Buddha was extremely intelligent and became an eminent monk at a young age. He was knowledgeable and eloquent. While he was on a missionary trip, the old monk Nana Tuo suddenly died of illness."
"The Tathagata who was traveling far away did not want to interrupt the promotion of Buddhism. He preached and prayed for Nalanda all the way. He did not return to his hometown until three years later."
"But in the past three years, the old monk who succeeded Nalanda as the presiding officer was unwilling to recognize the obedient position of Lord Buddha Tathagata. He even wanted to drive him out of the Western Land and murder him."
"Unbeknownst to the Tathagata, as soon as he entered the dangerous mountains and jungles, he was ambushed by troops from all sides. At this moment, the secret realm was opened, and the Lord Buddha disappeared out of thin air, thus escaping the disaster."
"Subsequently, the Lord Buddha Tathagata, the Human Emperor Xuanyuan, the Demon Emperor Qi Wanchao and others passed through the customs and came out. When the old monk saw it, he had to give up the position of the Buddha in the West. Lord Buddha, he accepted it
The temple where Landuo died was rebuilt and renamed Nalanduo Temple."
"After that, the Human Emperor came to the west and made a bet with the Buddha. Since then, Lord Buddha Tathagata has never been born again, and it is difficult to know whether he is dead or alive."
"It was nothing at first. The Buddhist Kingdom in the West was in order and everything was as usual. Even during this period, the Buddhist Kingdom was at its most glorious. Nine Bodhisattvas and eighteen Arhats were born one after another. They were praised by thousands of Buddhas.
They are all called "Twenty-Seven Honorable Men".
"It wasn't until two thousand years ago that Wu Bei, who re-entered the Buddhist world, made an astonishing appearance and overwhelmed the group of monks. Seeing another Tathagata coming to the world! This immediately aroused the vigilance of the authorities, who did not want to lose their power and position. And then
He also wanted to eliminate paganism in one fell swoop. So the tragedy happened again! The "Controversy between Heaven and Buddha" was secretly launched!
"Long before Tathagata returned from the secret realm, the Buddhist kingdom in the West also respected Tao and Heaven. But after Tathagata returned, he changed his teachings and respected Buddha in everything. The Buddha's way is greater than the way of heaven, and the majesty of Buddha is as great as the power of heaven.
These two teachings have their own followers, and they slander each other. It was better when the Tathagata was in power, but after the Human Emperor sealed the Buddhist temple, the Tathagata fell silent for a thousand years. In addition, some people wantonly provoked and secretly added fuel to the flames."
"Finally, this disaster first broke out at Nalanduo Temple. Then it became more and more serious, until finally, even the Arhats and Bodhisattvas were killed in person!"
"In the end, all nine Bodhisattvas sat down for reincarnation, and eighteen Arhats were reincarnated. But the power of reincarnation in Buddhism has always been very weird. With the help of the power of the Dharma, thousands of years of incense were gathered, and the soul was slowly reborn!"
"About a thousand years ago, twenty-seven sages woke up one after another. Under the leadership of King Fudo, they wanted to mobilize hundreds of millions of monks to dig mountains and destroy the Buddhist gates! Then they marched straight into the Central Plains of Kyushu!"