Faithful to Buddha, Faithful to You

Chapter 10: Finally Got Turtles

We're finally off to Turtles. The festivities were still lively, with almost the whole city coming out to sandwich, and Wenju King riding dozens of miles. Traveling with the king is not the same treatment, and eating and wearing is one step higher than following Rosh's mother and son. Rosh still studied in my account after evening classes every day, and I had books, and I was more sophisticated in explaining them, and I often used specific historical events to integrate into the moral sense of being human, and Rosh's admiration for me was overwhelming.

Tortoise Wang Bai had visited, and his Chinese language was very fluent. Look, I'm explaining "Zihan IX," so I just took a random test. It was “Zi said: ‘I haven't seen anyone as virtuous as a good person.'”

The meaning of this sentence is well understood, and I think about it and say, “Confucius sighs when people are thin and thicker than color, and he likes beauty because it's human nature, and it's good. The colour sensation, electric absorption, the snitch has clouds: ‘food, colour, sex too.’ And virtue, unnatural nature, good virtue of man, is not as good as sincerity. This is true of Gugu, and it still is. ”

I had a meal, and I had no words, but I always thought he didn't look too friendly at me. Alas, my honest child, why do you honestly say that pornography is nature, the emperor needs to shout slogans and put on a face?

So I quickly added: "‘Color’ is not about women, it's all about beauty. De, is also one of the good things. Good virtue is as good as good as good. It is also a gentleman. Therefore, Confucius traveled around the country, panicking as the dog of the bereaved family, because he did not meet the virtue of the king of good color. If Confucius was born at this time, my king Yingwu virtuous, Confucius would not have been more than exclaimed. ”

I still can't see the expression on my white face, I don't know if my butt is on. The emperor is so hard to serve, I kind of get it. This is just a king of the Western kingdom. If Qin Wang Hanwu, then what? One unhappy thing is to lose your head. I had a cold back and peeked at the gorgeous white purity of my clothes. He ignored me at all. He spoke to Rosh in flaming Roman. He didn't even look at me and went out.

And the next day, in front of me, he actually said to his wife and Rosh, "This girl is too young to look like a teacher's watch. ”

I almost went over my back. When I don't know how to spew fire, or does he even care if I hear it? It must have been that silly laugh, which means I got my butt on the leg yesterday. Alas, I don't even know what offended him. He said to find Rosh another master when he talked about Turtles, and Turtles and Hans Confucius had some. Little Rosh said no, saying that I was the best teacher he had ever met, Bogu News today, following the good temptation. Ha, didn't disappoint me. White and pure turned to the lady, but the lady said whatever Rosh wanted.

The granny was so enlightened, no wonder Little Rosh respected her so much. Of course, the white face is not very good. I look down quickly and pretend not to understand anything.

Continue to cross the city of Bai, no longer in front of the Gobi Desert. A line of canyons in various shapes with no vegetation, brown red in the sun and spectacular views like the Colorado Grand Canyon in the United States. We have marched in the Tianshan mountains. Rosh told me that through this canyon, another twenty miles of Gobi, we were in Turtles.

A seasonal river emerges in a canyon with a pool of lake water in the middle. Oasis with water, steep hills across the bank, is the main road of the Silk Road, with several farmhouses and inns. Rosh tells me this river is called the Muzat River, and the mountain is the Peacock Dag Mountain. I think I'm familiar with that name again. It's dozens of miles from Turtles. What makes me familiar? I looked around the mountain again, the Clear Springs Oasis, the steep cliffs on both sides, and a name popped up: "Kezil Thousand Buddha Caves”!

“Rosh, is Kezil Thousand Buddha Caves here? Will you show me? ”

I'm so excited. Kezil Qianfo Cave is the largest group of stone caves in China with the earliest excavation time and the westernmost location. Mural paintings are the most precious, comparable to Dunhuang murals and more than two centuries ahead of Dunhuang. Artistically superior and highly turtle-like, it is a valuable resource for studying turtles. Unfortunately, much was destroyed after the * * * religion of the Muslims and many treasures were unravelled by the Germans in the nineteenth century. How valuable would it be to see it for yourself at this time?

“What is the Kezil Thousand Buddha Cave?” He was blind. Perhaps “Kezil” is Vee, and at this time it is not called Kezil Qianfo Cave.

“It's a stone cave temple in the mountains, with lots of murals, rows of open caves, stretching thousands of miles, on the walls of Sparrow's Dag Mountain. ”

I glanced at him and depicted him excitedly, but I saw him still blinded. He looked around at the environment, and his eyes fell across the hill: "Ai Qing, there is no stone cave you call it. ”

Didn't the current Kezil Thousand Buddha Cave begin to dig? The historical record was roughly excavated in the third to fourth centuries AD and gradually stopped construction in the eighth to ninth centuries AD. So this is where I've been since I started, right?

“Aiqing,” he stared at me suddenly, “how did you know to open such a cave temple? ”

I'm in a hurry, my brain's starting to sweat. Yeah, how did I know? Kezil Thousand Buddha Cave is the earliest stone cave temple in China. Now, the earliest one, it's not even out yet.

“Well...” I laughed, buying time, then pointing to the winding path between the canyons and said, "I thought this was the place for businessmen. Merchants walking on the Silk Road, the difficult journey, the harsh weather and the rampant banditry all have the potential to render hard-working blood homeless or even lose their lives. So businessmen need Buddhist spiritual support to pray for peace for themselves. If you set up a temple here, and the traders pass by, you can ask for God's blessing. Besides, this place is quiet and conducive to practice. ”

I sneaked out a sigh of breath as he looked delightful and his eyes began to shine brighter. As Ji Jielin once said, businessmen and Buddhism are closely related, and the main Buddhist practice comes from businessmen. That is why Buddhist monasteries are generally distributed along the Silk Road, and so Buddhism gradually enters the Middle Plains along the Silk Road. So for that reason, the baby's right.

I looked at the high mountain walls around me and shook my head and said, "As for digging a cave, heh, this is a canyon, not many trees, wood temples are brought in from the outside, too expensive, and wood buildings are not easy to preserve. Instead, they are built on stone walls, more adapted to local conditions. ”

He nodded and praised, "You say this kind of stone cave temple is very similar to the temple of Geranium and the temple of Lupin. The temple is also buried on stone walls because of the mountains on the main road of transportation. ”

For a moment, he turned to me and asked me, "It's just, why do you call this cave temple 'Kezil'? ”

I open my mouth, haven't I passed? Can this kid not be so smart?

“Kezil, Kezil,” I mumbled, slapping my head, "in my hometown, it's a dirt word, meaning a rock hole.” Fortunately, I could borrow him to be a foreigner and break the dialect.

He looked at me, and as my heart grew weaker, he suddenly nodded with a smile: "What Ai Qing said was even plausible. ”

He paused, thinking about it, and asked, "Well, look, how does this stone cave temple set up better reflect the Buddhist view? ”

“This...” I have a tough ride. Without saying it, I'm afraid the next generation of Kezil Qianfo Cave will change, hesitate for half a day, or say it weakly.

“The cave was first dug in the mountains, with columns in the center, statues of the Buddha in the front walls of the columns, Buddhist stories and stories of life in the left and right lanes and back rooms. This allows believers to worship the Buddha first in the main room, then turn right into the tunnel and back room to see the Buddha's bedroom Buddha statue of Nirvana, then return to the main room and look up to see the Maitreya Buddha narrative just above the entrance to the cave. The murals in the cave represent Sumiyama in rhombus, and Buddhist and causal stories in rhombus. ”

Seeing more and more confusion in his eyes, I was furious in my heart, with my mouth shut, and continued to scratch the information on Kezil Qian Buddha Cave in my brain: "Oh, by the way, there is also a monastic cave for monks to live in, sit and meditate, so I don't need to decorate murals, which can be a bedroom plus channel structure. These monastic houses and murals can be combined into a unit, oh, a Buddha Temple. ”

“Axel, have you ever been to geranium or to Bingbin? ”

“Ah?” I was in India. But the Peshawar area of Kashmir, which is what he calls the Bin Bin, is not peaceful in the 21st century, and I have not been there. This famous ancient city on the South and Central Asian crossroads, founded as a capital by the Garish King of the Guishuan Dynasty, is the birthplace of Buddhist art and a sacred place of my utmost desire.

But under the circumstances, how can I lie to myself? There is no doubt that there is no precedent for these structures, let alone in the Central Plains or even in the West. But if I did, it would be uncovered immediately. His father was an Indian, and he had spent several more years in Jungbin himself.

“I am, um, because... I met a geranium monk who told me...”

“Oh? Since when does Aiqing understand Sanskrit?” He interrupted me and looked at me with a keen eye that looked everywhere.

“I-" No wonder people say it's easy to lie, but you have to make up a bunch of lies for one lie, cycle by cycle, and sooner or later you're exposed.

“Ai Qing, you really can't lie. ”

“I--" it was revealed. Why did you just make such a fool of yourself? You sneaked out without thinking.

“Who are you?” Another problem splitting my head under the cover made me dizzy.

“Me ——” I forgot, this guy beat an invincible theorist all over the West. If he keeps asking, it's not hard to lift my bottom.

“Okay, take it easy.” Look at me holding my face red, he suddenly laughed, his eyes flashed with a thoughtful look, "If you don't want to say it, Rosh naturally won't force it. ”

“When Rosh returns to Turtles, he will persuade Uncle Wang to dig a stone cave temple here called the Kezil Thousand Buddha Cave. The monastic caves and the Buddha's caves in the form you call them. ”

He looked at me, his eyes burning, and he shook his head slightly, and he smiled, "Ai Qing, you know, the silly way you just looked, it was really fun. No matter where you come from, you are the most spiritual woman Rosh has ever seen. ”

His face turned red and his chin almost fell off. This is how the Kezil Thousand Buddha Cave was carved out. Hiddenly slap yourself in the mouth and never talk again. How can I afford to disrupt history?

Turning back, he realized that he had seen the action of slapping himself in the mouth again, calling it bitter. He didn't say anything anymore, but he always looked at me with a little bit of exploration and reflection. On that day, I was afraid to speak too much.

We finally got to Turtles. The welcome team was seen from afar, and this time it was bigger than warm lodging, and the sound of music never stopped hearing before. The tents arranged at the gates of the city are hundreds of metres long, and we are served by high-ranking monks in front of the tents. Rosh and his mother-in-law bowed their horses and saluted the monks respectfully. For my part, I looked closely at the beautiful Buddha statues in the tent and wondered how good it would be if they were preserved to modern times.

In front of the welcome team is a middle-aged woman, in a slightly swollen position, dressed in luxurious yolk, half sleeve golden sweatshirt, blossom embroidered robe, must be the queen. The ladies and children behind her, dressed in gorgeous clothes, must be princesses and princesses. Then there should be Minister Wen Wu, hundreds of people brushed to pay a full tribute to Wang Bai of Turtles, grand momentum. I can't wait to see the Turtles royal nobility all over the place and have a camera in my hand to witness this historic celebration.

The queen hugged Grandma and Rosh and cried in agitation. Mother and child also have red eyes, narrating four years of nostalgia. I noticed that there was a person in the crowd behind the queen who looked very distinct from all Turtles.

It was a middle-aged man, chocolate skinned, tall, slender and straight. His face was narrow in outline, his big eyes deep in the clear face, light grey eyes flowing, wisdom and compassion. Instead of leaving hair and shoulders like the Turtles, they have short hair like modern people, some white. Even in a turtle suit, you can tell he's Indian. At his age, the word "handsome” was too demeaning to describe him, and what was more difficult to copy was the de-culturalistic temperament that even stood in the midst of hundreds of people and made it difficult to look away.

He was holding a child, about 10 years old, with a rounded face, a slightly white complexion close to the Turtles, much like Rosh, but cuter. My pale grey eyes, like Rosh's, roamed around and was a little surprised to see me, staring at me carefully for half a day. I smiled at him and pretended to be a ghost again. The little guy startled, hurry up and look away.

There is no doubt that this Indian is the one who quit his home while leaving his inheritance phase. Dongdu Onion Ridge was hired as a teacher by the King of Turtles to marry Humorosi, the father of Humorosi, the one whose mother-in-law tried so hard to marry. Even Roche's grandfather, Haut-Morodado, had a "name before country” record. And that kid like Rosh, that's his brother, I forgot his brother's name. Huixiang wrote only one name in the Herald of the High Monks, and he only existed as a brother of Humorosh in the development of history.

The queen finally stopped crying and took Rosh and her mother-in-law to the mortar flames. The old lady also gave her husband ten gifts in her hands, and the fierce love and misgivings appeared in her eyes. Should he prefer to hold her in his arms, stare at her for a few seconds, or go back to ten gifts? The little guy didn't care about 3721. He stuck his head in his mother's arms and cried. The old lady also embraced the little guy and wept. Rosh met his father on his knees and was quickly lifted up by Haut-Moroitis. The father and son were both emotionally agitated and spoke in Sanskrit.

The welcoming ceremony lasted for more than an hour, and Pomorosis proposed to Bai that both mothers and sons should go home and live there. The mother-in-law had no objection, and seemed to be sincere. So I followed him into the National Teacher's Palace.

I asked Rosh's brother Pusysdeva, Sanskrit, according to the ancient Chinese translation principle, should be translated into "Fursativa”, another obstinate name.