Font
Large
Medium
Small
Night
Prev Index    Favorite Next

The fifth and forty-eighth chapter Wu Zetian with deep Buddhist fate

When Yang Jing saw these three tombs, he immediately realized why Yue Chengzi said on the inscription that some tombs had not been found yet.

Yang Jing estimated that it was not that Yuechengzi had not found these tombs, but that these tombs could not be opened at all. At least, with the technology of that era, the mistake was not that manpower had been used for many years, otherwise these three broken dragon stones would really not be able to be solved in a short period of time.

The broken dragon stone outside these three tombs is not as big as the movable broken dragon stone outside, but it is also a thickness of two meters and half a meter square. In terms of weight alone, it is definitely more than ten thousand kilograms.

Even Yang Jing could not open these three dragon-breaking stones without using the storage space.

Here I use the medicine to blow up the door, it is purely a mouse who is used as a bridesmaid for the cat and is committed to death!

However, this discovery also made Yang Jing excited again. What does it mean that the dragon-breaking stone in the tomb was put down? It is very simple, which means that the burial objects have been placed in these three tombs, otherwise the dragon-breaking stone would not have been put down.

Yang Jing stood in front of one of the tombs without hesitation and activated the storage space skill towards the half-meter-thick broken dragon stone in front of him. The next moment, the broken dragon stone weighing more than 10,000 kilograms disappeared silently. A two-meter-square hole appeared on the rock wall that was originally tightly clamped, and the remaining part of the broken dragon stone that was originally stuck in the rock wall fell out of the rock wall because suddenly there was a large piece of support in the middle.

Yang Jing activated the storage space skill again and put away the falling stone strips. Suddenly, the door of the tomb chamber seemed clean. It was as if there was no Dragon Broken Stone here at all.

After nodding with satisfaction, Yang Jing walked in. Under the light, a gorgeous golden light that rushed towards him suddenly made him squint his eyes involuntarily.

On the ground of a tomb of more than 20 square meters, there are golden Buddha statues placed!

"My sister, I'm sending you now!"

Even though Yang Jing had obtained a lot of gold from several treasures, after seeing so many Buddha statues, he couldn't help but sigh.

There are more than a hundred Buddha statues in this tomb, both of which are of different sizes, and the shapes of each Buddha statue are also different.

After pulling in the two battery lamps, the entire tomb immediately became much brighter. After Yang Jing carefully counted these Buddha statues of different images and found that there were a total of 108 Buddha statues in this tomb.

The number 108 has very important significance in Buddhism.

Buddhism emphasizes the six senses, six dusts, and six sense organs. The six sense organs are "eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind"; the six sense organs are "color, sound, fragrance, taste, touch, and law"; while the six sense organs are "feelings of the six sense organs that are dependent on the six sense organs."

The six senses, six dusts, and six sense organs are eighteen, and Buddhism emphasizes the three lives and the inversion. In this way, multiplying the eighteen by the three lives and the inversion is exactly one hundred and eighteen.

Therefore, whether Buddhism is chanting Buddha's name or ringing the bell, it requires 108 times. It means that all the six senses, six dusts, and six sense organs in the three lives are recited. If sentient beings do not have the six senses, six dusts, six sense organs and other delusions, they will naturally become Buddhas!

Wu Zetian believed in Buddhism and believed it very piously, so it is not surprising that one hundred and eight Buddha statues appeared in his burial objects.

In ancient China, there were two emperors that were particularly interesting, but they were not well reflected in folk legends, but they were not low in Buddhism. The first was Emperor Yang of Sui and the second was Wu Zetian.

Wu Zetian is known as the Emperor of Eternal Eternal, not only because she is the first and only female emperor in Chinese history, but also because she has a deep connection with Buddhism.

According to legend, when Buddha Shakyamuni was alive, one day he begged for his actions. On the road, he met a girl who was playing with a group of children playing in the road. When the girl saw the Buddha leading his disciples to come from afar, she half-jokingly and half-seriously holding a stick of sand from the ground with both hands, walked to the Buddha and put the sand in the Buddha's bowl. Unexpectedly, the Buddha actually accepted her offering of sand.

The Buddha's great disciple Shariputra couldn't bear it and thought: This girl was outrageous, how could she joke with the Buddha with sand? When they set out on the way, he couldn't help but ask the Buddha: "World-Honored One, why did you accept it?" The Buddha smiled and said, "You don't know that this girl will be king in Dongzhendan Kingdom after thousands of years. If she does not receive her offerings from sand, she will destroy Buddhism. In this way, she will plant this good root cause and condition, and when she becomes the emperor in the future, she will protect Buddhism and promote Buddhism."

The girl who puts sand into the bowl in the story is Wu Zetian's predecessor. After becoming emperor, Wu Zetian really played an indelible role in promoting and promoting Buddhism in China.

Wu Zetian has a very deep relationship with Buddhism. She even became a nun twice in her life.

The first time was before the age of fourteen, and the second time was forced. It is certain that the first time I was a nun was related to the beliefs of her parents. Wu Zetian's mother, Mrs. Yang, was a strange woman from the Tang Dynasty. She was a descendant of Emperor Wen of Sui and Emperor Yang of Sui. Her father was Yang Da, the prime minister of the Sui Dynasty, and her uncle was Yang Xiong, the King of Guan, and Emperor Wen of Sui and Emperor Yang of Sui. The father and son, both were loyal believers of Buddhism. Influenced by the family, Mrs. Yang believed in Buddhism. It was natural for Mrs. Yang to pass on such a belief to Wu Zetian.

As for being a nun for the second time, people in China probably knew what the reason was. After Wu Zetian entered the palace, she became a talented person for Emperor Taizong of Tang. After Emperor Taizong of Tang passed away, according to the customs of the Tang Dynasty, she went to Ganye Temple in the capital to become a nun.

Although it was forced to be a nun for the second time, the experience of being a nun made Wu Zetian even more indissoluble bonds with Buddhism.

When Wu Zetian took the blame for becoming the emperor as a woman, she was even more inseparable from the support of Buddhism.

There were three major theoretical systems in the Tang Dynasty that controlled people's ideas, namely Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. If Wu Zetian wanted to be an emperor, she had to choose from these three. Traditional Confucian classics did not allow women to participate in national affairs. For example, "The Book of Documents. Mu Yu" wrote: "There is no morning for the hen, and the morning for the hen, only the family's rope." For example, "The Biography of the Pseudo-Confucian" wrote: "The female generation will sing, and the family will be lost, and the woman will seize national affairs and the country will be destroyed."

Taoism has a deep connection with the Li Tang royal family, and the Tang royal family even regarded Taoism Lao Tzu as their ancestor, so the only ideological system that Wu Zetian could choose was Buddhism.

Wu Zetian used Buddhism because Buddhism had three benefits that could support Wu Zetian. First, the theory of equality of sentient beings, and the difference between men and women is not as strong as Confucianism; second, Buddhism cares about the human mind, so it controls the human thoughts; third, Wu Zetian had a religious background as a nun. Similarly, Buddhism was squeezed by Taoism at that time, and it also needed to find a shelter among high-level political decision-makers. Therefore, Buddhism helped Wu Zetian become the emperor, and Buddhism also found a shelter.

Wu Zetian and Buddhism make a connection mean mutual benefit and win-win results!
Chapter completed!
Prev Index    Favorite Next