Today, Zhaizhu saw that some readers who love Buddhism are dissatisfied with the plot about Buddhism in the novel in the past two days. Zhaizhu wants to apologize. The plot of the novel requires it. Zhaizhu has no prejudice against Buddhism in reality. But Zhaizhu
What I want to say is that the Buddhism in the Shepherd God has been beautified by Zizhu.
Historically, Buddhism originated from ancient India and Nepal. It originated from ancient witchcraft and underworld religions, Vedicism, and Brahmanism. Before it was localized in China and before the unification of New China, Buddhism actually had its dark history.
Tantric Buddhism is the most important sect of ancient Buddhism. It focuses on personal practice, that is, Hinayana. How to practice? In addition to Buddhist scriptures, there is also a magic weapon. Magic weapon is a very common word in novels, but many people do not know the basic definition of magic weapon.
, the basic definition of a magic weapon is a treasure with scriptures written on it or a Buddha image painted on it.
Tantric thangkas are peeled human skins with sutras written on them or Buddhist statues painted on them. They were very popular before liberation. Human skulls were used to make wheels. There is a magic weapon in the Book of the Shepherd that has bone spurs growing on the big skull.
The small skull is not the author's imagination. It actually describes a magic weapon of Tantric Buddhism. In addition, there are also drums made of the skin and bones of little girls. It is said that the soul of the little girl must be sealed in the drum to be awakened by the sound.
The Buddha-nature of the person. The so-called initiation looks very impressive, but in fact it is even more disgusting, so don’t mention it. If you are interested, you can check it out.
There is a song called Ajie Drum. It talks about a little girl whose sister was made into a drum by an eminent monk. Whenever the sound of drumming came from the temple, she would think of her sister. If you are interested, you can listen to it on Baidu to learn more about it.
The historical origin of.
Zhaizhu beautified it a lot in the Mu Shen Ji. He did not say that this was Buddhism, but gave it the name Loulan Golden Palace and replaced it with Wu. The purpose was to avoid disputes among Buddhists.
To be honest, some of the teachings of Buddhism are okay, but you can’t just look at what they say but also what they do. Both Huayan and Pure Land Buddhism experienced dark periods in history.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, many temples in Jiangsu and Zhejiang had physical Buddhas. There were more than a dozen physical Buddhas a year. After the old monk became a physical Buddha, the temple would report to the officials that the old monk had become a Buddha in the physical body and wanted to build a golden body.
Later, a county magistrate felt that there was something wrong inside, so he made a secret investigation and discovered the secret.
In order to defraud the government of gold statue money and believers' incense money, the monks of these temples put many living old monks in jars, fed them only sesame oil to drink, and emptied the intestines of feces and urine.
The old monks were sealed in a vat together with many spices. Because the sesame oil soaked into the meat and the spices, the body did not rot.
After defrauding the money from the government and believers, the monks spent it lavishly. The county magistrate was very angry, arrested a large number of monks, and killed them. This is documented in historical data.
Many of the physical Buddhas enshrined in many temples in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are left over from that period.
This story in the Bodhisattva changed to the tampering of stone statues into Buddha statues, which is already very mild.
As for giving anesthesia to exotic animals to make them appear to have Buddha nature, the actual source is the Tiger Temple in Thailand. If you are interested, you can search on Baidu to find out the news from the past two years.
As for women, I don’t want to say more. Anyone who knows the history of the Tang and Song dynasties knows that many eminent monks had lovers or lovers of powerful people.
Many of the stories in The Shepherd God have real sources. They are not made up by nerds, nor are they made specifically for the sake of being dark. The novel reflects reality.
Buddhism is good and bad. After the founding of New China, the country abandoned the bad parts of Buddhism, leaving only the good ones. Many people don’t understand it, but it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. To be honest, New China
Only after the establishment of Buddhism did Buddhism become what Buddhism should be. Monks were more like monks, much better than in ancient times. Ancient times was the age of the end of the Dharma. Today's monks do not seem to have as strict discipline as before, but no great evil has occurred.