Chapter 187: The Tathagata can only be seen today
After passing Lingyun Du, the master and his disciples stepped on a flat mountain road. They gradually moved forward. It was already afternoon, but at this time, it was nowhere to be seen, and the sun was still bright, so they could not help but secretly wonder. While walking, they saw the dense parts of the temple, and saw a high-rise building and several floors of the magnificent pavilions, which were majestic and extraordinary; giant sculptures of ancient Buddhas stood on the top of the tower, showing the style of the Western Paradise.
Flowers scattered everywhere in the fields, the mountain gate and jade tower are temples, ancient Buddha sculptures are in sight, and smoke and fragrance are lingering in the air. Even those who do not understand the Buddhist rituals can see that this place is the real Western Paradise. Sun Wukong pulled Tang Monk's sleeve and smiled and said, "Master, in the past, you have reached the false realm of false Buddha statues, so you fell down to worship. Now you have reached the true realm of true Buddha statues, and you can't recognize them?"
Tang Monk reacted and hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down on the ground and bowed to the mountain gate. Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Sha Seng and Gao Lan all knelt down on their tributes, and even the White Dragon Horse knelt down on their front hooves. At this time, a cheerful laughter came from the top of the temple in front. The master and disciple looked up and saw a Taoist wearing brocade clothes, jade dust in his hands, and a golden crown in his head.
This Taoist is so majestic, with a treasure ray of light on his body, and a pleasant auspicious color. He is obviously not an ordinary person.
Sun Wukong said happily: "Master, the great immortal of the golden top of Yuzhen Temple at the foot of Lingshan is here to pick you up!" Tang Monk was overjoyed and quickly sorted out his clothes and went up to meet him. The great immortal smiled and said, "Guanyin Bodhisattva received the Buddha's golden order and ordered me to wait here every year for the people who came here. Originally, he said that he would arrive for only two or three years, but I don't want you to come today!" Tang Monk heard this and clasped his hands and said, "I am grateful for the great immortal's wish, thank you, thank you!"
After saying that, the master and disciple entered Yuzhen Temple with the great immortal.
In the Yuzhen Temple, the ancient and elegant pines and cypresses are indeed a good place for quiet cultivation. The golden immortal's destiny is a child who calls the immortal soup in the colorful pond and only says: "Please stay here tonight and use this immortal soup to wash away the dust and dirt along the way. I'll be happy to see the Buddha tomorrow." Tang Monk quickly agreed. At this moment, the master and disciple were bathing with the immortal soup, and Tang Monk, Sun Wukong, Bajie, and Sha Monk all changed into the cassock.
Gao Lan did not have a cassock, and put a bell robe on the scholar's robe, which seemed to look at the Buddha. Anyway, she was a demon and immortal, but she didn't need to tell so many rules.
The next day, the sky was about to dawn. The master and disciple led the white horse and walked out of the Yuzhen Temple. The great immortal of the Golden Top smiled and pointed to Lingshan, saying, "Saint Monk, look at the five colors of auspicious light and thousands of auspicious colors in that half of the day, the Buddha's holy realm, Lingjiu Peak! I will see you off here." Tang Monk and his disciple hurriedly said goodbye to the great immortal and headed towards Lingshan.
As we walked up Lingshan, the master and his disciples felt their bodies getting lighter and lighter, and soon they climbed the stone path to the top of the mountain. The ancient temple of Thunder sound was straight up into the sky. The strange rocks were uneven, and the cliffs were arranged in front of us, and the Yao flowers were beautiful under the cliff, and the fairy fragrance was swaying. Shortly after walking on the stone path, we looked at the white cranes in close proximity, the colorful phoenixes were paired with green robes on the water, and the white apes on the forest mountain offered fruits, which was indeed the atmosphere of the Buddha's holy realm.
The more the master and disciples walked, the more they felt free and free. Although the path was long, they were not tired at all. Before they knew it, they had already reached the top of Lingshan. Looking around, they were surrounded by colorful clouds. Lingshan was like an immortal island in a sea of clouds. The gate of the Great Leiyin Temple was already close in front of them! Under the green pines and cypresses, there were upass of the upass, and the master and disciple hurriedly approached and saluted them first.
The upaoshi was so panicked that he quickly returned the ceremony: "The holy monk doesn't have to do this, hurry up and worship the Buddha!"
Tang Monk and his disciples cleaned up their clothes and came to the front of the mountain gate.
When the four Vajras guarding the mountain gate saw this, they hurried into the temple and asked: "Buddha, the holy monk of the Tang Dynasty has come to obtain the scriptures!"
The Buddha was overjoyed when he heard this, and summoned the eight great bodhisattvas, four great vajras, five hundred alas, three thousand verses, eleven great gusts, and eighteen ghalans, and arranged in the main hall in an orderly manner. The immortals and Buddha figures who came to Daleiyin Temple to pay homage to the sutras were also invited to the hall, sitting in separate seats, full of anticipation! For a moment, in the main hall of Daleiyin Temple, tens of thousands of long-lasting golden beads were hanging high, illuminating the inside and outside a golden wall. After the gods arrived, the fairy mist filled the fairy.
The Buddha placed good gifts and then the rumor was rumored: "Tang Xuanzang, meet him."
"Tang Xuanzang met with him--!"
The singing of each door finally reached the ears of Tang Monk and disciples. Several people quickly knelt down in front of the mountain gate and then stood up and walked into the mountain gate of the Daleiyin Temple. The mountain gate of the Daleiyin Temple was majestic, dozens of feet high. After entering the door, there was a large courtyard with five hundred arhats sitting on both sides, like clay sculptures, with no movement in their monument, and majestic weather. After passing through the courtyard fairy pavilion, they came to the second gate.
The second gate is a large temple with a high ceiling, with three thousand verses standing on both sides, one by one, with tiger eyes wide open; the temple is worshipped by statues of the major Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. The master and disciple quickly worshiped again, and then passed through the second gate and came to the Lingjiu Immortal Palace. After the three gates opened, the golden light was printed with colorful clouds and rolled out from the door. After the master and disciple walked into the Lingjiu Immortal Palace, they hurriedly bowed to the ground.
Lingjiu Immortal Palace is the main hall of Daleiyin Temple, where to worship Buddha!
Here, in the left and right squad, there are eighteen Arhats, eleven great wands, and eighteen Galans. The eight great bodhisattvas each sit on the lotus platform, with a solemn appearance. The four Vajras stand on the right side of the main lotus platform, and there is a huge Buddha with a height of six feet tall and a golden phantom on the lotus platform. A golden halo is cast behind the Buddha's head, like the scorching sun; this makes him seem to sit on the sun all the time, with dazzling light, making people dare not look directly at it.
Although there are great gods and little gods gathered in this Lingjiu Immortal Palace, this Buddha fully demonstrated a mastery, as if he was the center of the world and the universe, and the master of the immortals and Buddhas in the sky: he is the Buddha of Tathagata, the head of the Buddha's sect, and the head of the five elders of the world. This can be said to be "I was ordered to go to the imperial envoy back then, and now I can see Tathagata!" The monk and disciple of Tang came to the hall, hurriedly bent down to worship, then bowed left and right, and finally knelt in front of the Buddha.
Tang Monk did not dare to look up and took out the pass certificate. Gao Cheng and his head kowtowed and said, "Disciple Chen Xuanzang, Dongtu, obeyed the order of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and visited the treasure temples in a distance. He did not dare to slacken the way. He hoped that the Buddha would give his grace and grant his disciples the Tripitaka True Samadhi to benefit the people of Dongtu!" After he finished speaking, a disciple had already come forward to get the pass certificate and presented it to the Buddha's hands. After the Buddha saw it, he made an ethereal voice.
"Your eastern Tang Dynasty has a wide range of people and many people, and many deceitful people! You are unfaithful and unfilial, unkind and unrighteous, and plant endless sins."
After hearing this, Tang Monk looked ashamed, kowtowed repeatedly, and said straight: "I hope the Buddha will give his disciples the scriptures to benefit the people of the East."
The Buddha said, "I have three collections of true scriptures, each containing 5,048 volumes. One collection of the Dharma, talking about the heavens; one collection of the "The Sutra", talking about the earth; one collection of the "Sutra", saving ghosts. The three collections have thirty-five volumes, and they are 15,144 volumes, which are the sutras for cultivating truth and the door to righteousness. All the four continents are recorded in astronomy, geography, figures, birds, beasts, flowers, trees, tools, and human affairs. You should wait a long time to obtain the true scriptures and spread them to the east land, and you should not be careless."
After hearing this, Tang Seng hurriedly kowtowed and said, "Disciple seeks the true scriptures, and I hope the Buddha will give you the gift."
The Buddha heard the words but did not answer; after pondering, he only said, "Mokozaiye, Arnold! First take the master and disciple of Dongtu to Dongyin Pavilion, eat and treat it with vegetarian food, and then pass on the scriptures." After the Buddha finished speaking, the two disciples around him received the Buddha's order and took the master and disciple of Tang Seng to the treasure building of Dongyin Pavilion first.
Afternoon.
"Master, the things here are all fresh fruits and vegetables, not like the mortal world. Let's eat it! He's a bastard."
At the banquet, Bajie, who had been holding it for too long, couldn't help it, so he opened his stomach and started eating it. Gao Lan also recognized that many of these vegetarian fruits were fairy products similar to those of the Bilou and Zizhi. Even some of them were ordinary fruits, they were also elixirs, which were indeed good supplements for strengthening the body and prolonging life. At least, Gao Lan could not yet refine such good food.
So the disciples are not polite now, and they eat Haisai one by one. Ah Nu and Jia Ye are even more amazing. They quietly snatch all the best elixirs in front of them, wishing they had two more mouths. Sun Wukong looked at their eating habits and couldn't help feeling a little unhappy. He stepped forward and snatched a few plates and sneered, "Two priests, is this good job to accompany them to eat?"
"Wukong!" Seeing that Sun Wukong brought several plates of good dishes to Tang Seng, Tang Seng had no taste at this time. He only said, "Two venerables, I don't know if I can give the true scriptures early, so don't delay it for too long."
"Well..." Looking at the table of fairy food that had not been finished, Anu and Jia Ye looked reluctant. But they could not violate the Buddha's order, so they had to open the cassock first and stuff everything they could into their sleeves. Then they squeezed out a fake smile: "Saint Monk, please!" Tang Monk also stood up quickly: "Please!" Seeing this, Gao Lan also took a plate of crispy fruit and poured it into his sleeves.
When Bajie saw this, he even took two plates: "Please!"
"I... Damn!" Ana and Gaye's faces twitched, and the tunnel led Tang Seng and his party into the Sutra Library.
In the treasure building, it is simple and elegant, surrounded by fairy fragrance; on the sutra cabinets and outside the treasure box, there are red signs on them, and the names of the sutras are written with tired words. At this time, not only Tang Monk, but also Gao Lan and the others have their eyes straight, because in addition to the world-saving scriptures, many sutras are supreme sutras that have extremely high benefits for practice! It can be said that if you understand the contents of the sutras and reason and visualize, the benefits you can get are simply unimaginable.
Chapter completed!