After Master Danxuan finished speaking, he stood up leisurely, opened the small cabinet next to him, and took out a bunch of keys.
The bunch of keys looked rusty, and there were traces of wiping on the outside many times. Many of them were old keys handed down from ancient times. Some seemed to be from the late Yuan Dynasty, some were eight-claw keys from the Tang Dynasty, and some were from the Tang Dynasty.
I can't even tell what year it is from.
Master Danxuan tied the bunch of keys around his waist, covered it with his cassock, and then said to Chen Zhi and the others,
"Let's go, I'll take you to the basement of this temple!
That is a holy land, donors should be careful what they say~~~~"
After Master Danxuan finished speaking, he walked straight out the door, seemingly not noticing Chen Zhi's barrier at all.
Chen Zhi and Fat Wei looked at each other. Finally, Chen Zhi let go and untied all the air currents. The two followed Master Dan Xuan's steps and began to walk forward.
After they got off the small building, they walked directly to the deepest part of the temple, which is the inner chamber where the monks of Tianfa Temple live. This is indeed a very ancient temple. The further they go, the more ancient they can see.
architecture and beautiful scenery.
The scenery in almost every courtyard is natural, natural and ancient, as if time from outside has not flowed here and everything is as it was in ancient times.
Chen Zhi saw many monks still carrying wooden buckets filled with well water. Some were washing clothes by the well, and some were watering flowers and plants~~~
In this place, everyone's face is calm, as if everything in the world exists as nothingness, and even time has stood still here.
Danxuan greeted all the monks very calmly along the way, without any pretense. The monks were very natural when they saw him. They felt as if they didn't know he was the abbot. It seemed that there was no hierarchy in the world.
Both the noble and the humble are ridiculous, they are just mediocrity caused by outsiders.
At this moment, Chen Zhi suddenly felt that he seemed to like this place very much. He was a person who liked to keep a low profile. If he could choose, he really wanted to stay here for the rest of his life, raising flowers and watering vegetables with these monks, and spending the rest of his life.
They walked further and reached the famous Tianfa Temple Old Temple Scenic Area.
This old temple is the oldest temple in the entire Tianfa Temple and the original site of Tianfa Temple.
To trace back, this temple was built in the Hengling period at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, with a history of more than 1,700 years. Before the Zhou and Wei Dynasties, it was called "Ashoka Temple".
In the early Tang Dynasty, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty welcomed Buddhism to the Eastern Tang Dynasty. After Xuanzang traveled westward, he placed the finger bone relic of Sakyamuni Buddha in the temple. It was later renamed "Tianfa Temple" and was known as the "Royal Temple". It has been worshiped since ancient times.
It is a Buddhist holy place that the whole country looks up to.
In 1981, half of the pagoda of Tianfa Temple collapsed, which coincided with the Buddha's birthday on the eighth day of April. It was recorded at that time: "Many treasure niches emerged from the ground, shining in the past and the present."
So after 1,113 years of silence, 2,499 important national treasures of the Tang Dynasty, surrounded by the finger bone relics of the Buddha's true body, returned to the world! The rare treasures unearthed in the underground palace of Tianfa Temple have played an important role in China's social and political history, cultural history, technological history, Chinese and foreign history.
It is of extremely important value in the research of communication history, art history and other aspects. It is a national 5A-level cultural protection base.
Looking at the five big A national cultural protection base signs outside, one can't help but feel a little troublesome. Moreover, there are several armed police standing outside the gate with submachine guns in their hands. It seems that ordinary people have no way to get in~~~
But when these armed police saw Master Danxuan, they immediately stood solemnly. They put down their submachine guns, then clasped their hands and bowed to Master Danxuan, and then invited him in very respectfully, as if Master Danxuan was the most noble in their minds.
The same people~~~
In this way, Chen Zhi and Pang Wei entered the national first-level protected area very easily and walked into the old temple of Tianfa Temple.
This old temple has been renovated, and there is a direct elevator inside. The first to third underground floors are the original Tianfa Temple Museum. Different from the exhibition area open to the outside, what is displayed here are all the country's real special cultural relics.
TenpÅji Temple is a true treasure among Ksitigarbha.
They sat in the elevator all the way down and browsed all the treasures, many of which were historical relics that could be heard or invisible. When they reached the bottom floor, Chen Zhi saw the legendary eight-fold treasure letter.
The Eight-fold Treasure Letter is a set of gold and silver vessels given by Emperor Yizong of the Tang Dynasty. It is a set of boxes enshrining the finger relics of Buddha Sakyamuni's true body.
There is an offering relic inside the letter. The outermost layer is a sandalwood letter, which contains three silver treasure letters, two gold treasure letters, a jade treasure letter and a single-eaves and four-door pure gold pagoda. However, due to the final
The outer layer is made of sandalwood, and the silver-rimmed crown of the treasure letter was already in decay when it was unearthed, so only seven layers are visible.
The eight-fold treasure letter was placed in a glass display rack. The display shelf was square in shape with carefully laid out circuits. When Master Danxuan walked to the eight-layer treasure letter, he paused for a moment, and then touched the glass plate on the display shelf.
, the safety equipment will immediately send out a warning signal.
There are several security guards on this floor. They are all strong and quick-moving people. They all seem to have good skills.
Master Danxuan nodded to the guards, and then said to Fat Wei beside him:
"Thank you, almsgiver, follow them to get the key!"
Fat Wei was stunned for a moment, but immediately understood,
"Oh, okay..., you guys chat, you guys chat~~~"
Then I followed the two men...
At this time, Master Danxuan gently tapped the password, then compared it with his own corneas, touched the safety lock, and opened the glass display cabinet.
And the Buddha bone relic was truly revealed in front of them!
Before that, Chen Zhi had seen this Buddha finger relic on TV and online countless times, but he never expected that it would be so dazzling when he actually saw it!
That Buddha finger is not white and flawless, just like ordinary white bones, with a light milky yellow color, but the whole thing has a round and transparent sense of sight. That feeling is very sacred, so sacred that it is indescribable.
degree.
An extremely powerful aura bursts out, making everything around it become low and sacred. It seems that everything in the universe has become extremely small, and all the mysteries of the world are contained in this room!
Just then I heard Master Danxuan say softly...
"The origin of this eight-layer treasure letter has a lot of history. It is said that when they went to the cellar of Tianfa Temple, they did not find the real Buddha bone relics. The few they found were all gold and jade, and they were all fake.
The archaeological team leader at that time was quite knowledgeable. After removing the gold and jade objects on the top, he continued to dig and found the real Buddha bone relic at the bottom.
Now this Buddha finger relic has become a rare treasure and is placed in our Tianfa Temple. It is also our honor~~~~
For a sinful person like me, it is a sin to be able to admire it up close, Amitabha!"
After Master Danxuan finished speaking, he put his palms together.
"Master, do you think you are guilty?",
Chen Zhi looked at the white Buddha finger relic in the glass cabinet, turned to Danxuan and asked:
"Then what do you think you are guilty of?"
"My sin is also the inner demon, that happened a long time ago...",
Dan Xuan turned back to look at Chen Zhi, smiled slightly, his eyes as clear as water flowed,
"And donor, you have been so confused, do you know what your sin is?"