Just when the purple-clad Taoist Wu Yongming contacted the capital to rescue the Huajiu people, they were in a thousand-year-old temple more than 200 kilometers away from Liangzhu.
The ancient temple is full of Zen charm. Even though it is late at night, there are still solemn chanting sounds surrounding it.
From ancient times to the present, the gate of a Buddhist temple has been called "Shanmen", also known as "Three Gates", and one of the "Seven Halls of Zen Temple".
"Three doors" symbolizes the "three doors of liberation", namely the "empty door", "no phase door" and "no action door".
This thousand-year-old temple has the two characters "Jinshan" hanging in the middle of the gate.
That’s right, this is where the legendary Zen Master Fahai practiced, Jinshan Temple!
A pair of couplets on the left and right:
There are mountains, water and forest pavilions surrounding it;
It can be sung, it can be chanted, it can be carried by silk and bamboo, embracing the past and present.
In the middle of this couplet is another long couplet:
A peak of jade is covered with gold, and ten places are covered with gold. I recall that the banks of the Peituuo River are draped with silk, and a belt is left at the gate of Su Neihan Mountain. Time passes by, and whoever continues to win is willing to open the Baoyu Lin Palace in a grand way, and the green cliffs and green walls will be forever.
Thousands of hectares of smoke and waves, thousands of forests and winds, I think of the immortals in the secluded rocks and the cranes, and the scholars in the land are in the cold springs. I predict that there are beautiful neighbors, and I can find the traces. Don't live up to the lotus and the bay leaves, and listen to the evening drums and morning bells.
The author will explain here: In real life, Jinshan Temple and Leifeng Pagoda have nothing to do with each other.
They are simply not in the same place.
Jinshan Temple is located in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, while Leifeng Pagoda is located on Xizhao Mountain on the south bank of West Lake in Hangzhou.
Just because the two buildings appeared at the same time in the novel "The Legend of White Snake", most people think that Leifeng Pagoda is located in Jinshan Temple when they are mentioned.
But Fahai, the founder of Jinshan Temple, really exists.
Zen Master Fahai is the son of Pei Xiu, a famous prime minister in the Tang Dynasty, and his common name is Pei Wende. His father Pei Xiu once served as prime minister.
The Zen master achieved enlightenment through asceticism and was respected by the people throughout Jiangsu.
There has never been any historical reference to breaking up other people's families in novels.
There is only one record in history books of driving a white python that bit humans and animals into the Yangtze River.
In the Main Hall of Jinshan Temple, an old monk with white beard and hair and a peaceful face was reciting scriptures and slowly opened his eyes.
"Namo Amitabha."
"Thousands of years have passed since the Faceless Buddha finally returned to his hometown. The young monk should pay him a visit and settle the cause and effect of the past."
Behind the old monk, a young novice monk looked surprised.
"Namo Amitabha."
"Zen Master Rong Hui, you, you want to leave the temple and travel around?!"
The old monk stood up with a smile.
"The old monk has been in Baosha for thousands of years, and now it's time to say goodbye."
After finishing speaking, the old monk took out a thick stack of scriptures from his cloth bag and placed them respectfully in front of the Buddha.
"There is no reward for taking in the old monk for thousands of years."
"This volume of the Huayan Sutra of Dafangguangfo is left at your temple for good deeds."
After the old monk finished speaking, he knelt down deeply before the Buddha statue enshrined in the temple.
After getting up, he picked up the Zen staff, held the wooden fish in his hand, and walked away barefoot.
Just when Zen Master Rong Hui walked out of the Main Hall, the abbot of Jinshan Temple was already waiting in the courtyard.
"Namo Amitabha."
"When a Zen master travels far away to a place where the Buddha's light is unknown, the small temple should be able to help him."
After speaking, he raised his hand, and four ancient objects full of Zen charm floated quietly in front of Zen Master Rong Hui.
The Four Treasures of Jinshan: Zhou Ding, "Jinshan Picture", bronze drum, and jade belt on the east slope.
Zen Master Rong Hui was stunned for a moment, and then a look of shame appeared on his compassionate face.
"Back then, the Faceless Buddha 'borrowed' the "Buddha's Sutra of Suppressing Demons" from an old monk. Now I am not sure if I can ask for it."
"If the Four Treasures of the Golden Mountain are lost again... the poor monk will commit a great sin!"
Unlike the old monk, the abbot of Jinshan had a calm face.
"Master Rong Hui, you don't have to worry too much."
"Everything is something external to me. I am lucky to get it, and it is my destiny to lose it."
"If Master's trip is not fully successful, I, Jinshan Temple, will also be in the sight of ghosts and Buddhas."
"Namo Amitabha!"
Zen Master Rong Hui said no more, performed Buddhist rituals and strode down the mountain.
The speed was extremely fast, and it disappeared into the vast night in a short while.
It is one of the six great powers of Buddhism, namely, the divine eye, divine ear, other's mind, destiny, divine realm, and the divine realm within the leakage realm.
It is quite similar to the Taoist idea of "shrinking the ground into an inch".
The little novice monk looked in the direction where the monk Rong Hui left and asked the abbot Jinshan innocently.
"Grandmaster, where is Zen Master Rong Hui going? Is it dangerous?"
The abbot of Jinshan looked solemn.
"The great monk is going to see the Buddha."
The little novice monk breathed a long sigh of relief upon hearing this, and at the same time his eyes showed longing.
"Is Zen Master Rong Hui already able to serve the Buddha? I will also work hard to practice!"
The abbot of Jinshan Temple smiled bitterly when he heard this.
We are still monks, but he has become a Buddha thousands of years ago...it is sad that he is a ghost Buddha!
Putting away his chaotic thoughts, the abbot of Jinshan sat cross-legged in the center of the main hall and recited the "Dafang Guangfo Huayan Sutra" left by Zen Master Rong Hui.
"At that time, the World-Honored One is sitting here, having attained the most perfect enlightenment for all dharma, realizing that all three worlds are equal, his body filling all the worlds, and his sound pervading all lands in the ten directions..."
Note: The divine realm in this article only represents a kind of magic, which is used to travel quickly and does not have other miraculous abilities.