Ghostly Tomb

Chapter 1519 Guide

The information conveyed by these murals is too huge, and its value is not just a work of art, but a reproduction of a mysterious journey from the Western Regions to Tianzhu at that time.

The six murals are completely coherent, with many detailed patterns painted in the middle, describing what they saw and heard when they passed through various countries at that time. There are many bloody and brutal scenes, as well as legendary mysterious scenes.

But now most of these small countries in the Western Regions have been submerged in the yellow sand.

Those patterns also contain a lot of tiny handwriting, just like descriptive text, the content should be very important.

But those characters are very strange, and the word frame structure is twisted and crooked, making it difficult to distinguish.

When the whole picture is viewed as a whole, it is like a series of historical poems that can never be read. There are thousands of stories hidden in it, and there are new discoveries every time you look at it.

Yang Wumao was already stunned by the cruel scene on the screen, his face was livid, and he stood there with his mouth wide open, unable to speak.

And Fat Wei and Ghost Dao carefully watched the characters on the mural with flashlights, and the characters who appeared most in the mural were Xuanzang and the monkey man.

The monkey man looked very humble in the later stage, and the quilt on the cassock was shining, very eye-catching.
"That's the right thing!" Fat Wei pointed to the quilt on the mural and said,
"This monkey only came out of Gaochang country.

Exactly the same as the one in your hand.

It seems that it is exactly what we thought. It was this monkey who made a contract with the King Gaochang at that time!
It is estimated that he was also the one who worshiped King Gaochang at that time.

By tnd, Fat Lord has opened his eyes today!
This history is really tmd more exciting than novels. After a long time of trouble, Princess Gaoyang's belly really made monkeys grow up!

But when I think about it carefully, it’s really crazy. According to the legend, Monkey King has such a great ability, he can change 72 times, and the Jade Emperor can make him fall down. How can he be beheaded at the entrance of the downtown What?
This is too useless! ", after Fat Wei finished speaking, he looked carefully at the monkey man in the painting, and shook his head incomprehensibly.

"Probably because of guilt, or maybe, he was already exhausted at that time..."
Chen Zhi took out the shiny quilt changer from his pocket, and put it on the mural for comparison.

It really is exactly the same, the pattern image, even the size is the same.

"This is the power of Buddhism!" Chen Zhi said softly,
"We always measure power by strength, but the power of Buddhism is another concept!
Tolerance, forbearance, no excuses, bear your own crimes!
This is a very powerful force, what he conquers is not the body, but the soul! "

"Patriarch!",
Ghost Knife standing in front suddenly tapped the stone wall with a flashlight, pointed to the old man in white on the mural and said,

"This image is a bit like him!"

"Um!",
In fact, Chen Zhi had noticed this detail a long time ago. In fact, this was also the most important detail.

After the oil paint on the surface was removed, the place where Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva was originally standing turned into an old man in white.

It is estimated that this is the reason why this mural cannot be published, and it is also something that Chen Zhi has been really doubting.

What is the real reason why Xuanzang risked his life to travel to the west to learn Buddhist scriptures more than 1300 years ago! "

According to historical records, Xuanzang was indeed a person with boundless enthusiasm for Buddhism.

He became famous when he was young. During his study tour in China, he found that many scriptures were not translated well, and he could not understand the true meaning of them. Even the annotations of some scriptures were contradictory.

Just when Xuanzang was depressed and confused, an old monk from Tianzhu told him that there was a Nalanda Temple in remote Tianzhu, where eminent monks gathered and there were vast scriptures. the world.

Thus, the 27-year-old Xuanzang made an astonishing decision, regardless of the opposition of the imperial court at that time, he smuggled to Western India to obtain the scriptures and return.

This history has been written in various Buddhist annals. From ancient times to the present, generations of Buddhists seem to have no doubts when they tell this history.

But this history, in fact, does not stand up to scrutiny.

An old monk from Tianzhu pointed out the maze for Xuanzang and asked him to go to Tianzhu to learn scriptures.

How simple it is to say, but in fact, how can it be so easy?
You know, what a long journey it was to go from China to India at that time, it is not so easy to say casually.

If Xuanzang's westward journey to India is a feat in the world, wouldn't the eminent monk who came here from India all the way be more respectable, how could he not leave his name?
Chen Zhi read a lot of ancient historical materials, and found that there were no records of eminent monks from India during the Tang Dynasty.

Even if there are some monks who claim to be eminent monks from Tianzhu, most of them are faked by people from the Western Regions, and they were discovered at that time.

Therefore, the identity of the old Tianzhu monk who instructed Xuanzang to travel to the west is very doubtful, or this person does not exist at all.

Also, in the Tang Dynasty at that time, state control was very strict. Anyone who went abroad without permission would be arrested for collaborating with the enemy, and could even be shot directly by the soldiers guarding the border.

The crime of covering up collaborators is unbearable for all border officials.

Even though Xuanzang has a sincere heart to seek scriptures without fear, he is just an ordinary womb, without the ability to fly into the sky and escape from the ground. What method did he use to pass these checkpoints and enter the Western Regions all the way?

According to the records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty, the reason why Xuanzang passed the border smoothly was because the officials who guarded the border of the Tang Dynasty were devout Buddhists.

They paid great respect to Xuanzang, and then let him pass the test because of their personal affection.

But in fact, Buddhism did not fully flourish in the Tang Dynasty at that time, local myths were still deeply rooted, and not so many court officials believed in Buddhism.

Will these high-ranking officials in the frontier really use their black hats, wealth and lives as collateral to let Xuanzang out of customs for personal reasons?
It sounds really good, but this kind of thinking is too naive.

So the reality at that time was that there must be a person hidden in the dark, like Avalokiteshvara, guiding Xuanzang.

Maybe this guide did not show up, maybe Xuanzang never saw his true face until his death.

But this guide, just like the Guanyin Bodhisattva in the painting, gave Xuanzang the courage to travel to the west, pointed out the way for him, and predicted his fate.

And later, perhaps because of this inescapable fate, this monkey man became another westward traveler.

He accompanied Xuanzang all the way to the west, went through many hardships, and finally entered Nalanda to obtain the scriptures.

Since then, Buddhism from thousands of miles away was introduced into the Tang Dynasty, took root and sprouted in the land of China, and became deeply rooted in the hearts of the people until now...

(End of this chapter)