The characteristics of the Khotanese people's crown are the royal crown gold leaf decoration of the curtain, the head hangs two feet of raw silk, five inches wide, as a decoration, its people are respectful and courteous, the etiquette of meeting is to kneel, and its kneeling is a knee to the ground.Yu Khotan's prince Wei Chi Xinhe bowed to Ren Hong, and after greeting him well, he told the legend of the founding of Khotan."
Khotan is one of the kings of the Buddha, and the heir of Bishamen Tian."
Wei Chi Xinhe recounted: "Dare to tell Yu Duhu, the former Khotan is empty and uninhabited, and Bishamen Tian lives here.In the 234th year after the Buddha's extinction, the poisonous King of Sanssouci Prince Ashoka was exiled to the Moyu River for his sins, and was proclaimed king by the Western Realm.At that time, there was also a son of the Eastern Tu Emperor who was reprimanded and migrated to the banks of the Baiyu River, persuaded by the Eastern Boundary Group, and proclaimed himself king. ”"Emperor of the Eastern Soil?
And then what happened?
”When Ren Hong heard this, he didn't care about looking at the Greek monk, and became interested in the story of Yu Chi Xinhe.Wei Chi Xinhe said: "The years of the two kings of the east and the west have accumulated, and the wind and religion are not comprehensible.Each will be a wilderness because of hunting.asked Zongxu more, so he fought for a long time, and wanted to fight.So they drove back to their respective countries, learned to fight horses, supervised the soldiers, and the soldiers looked at each other.The west lord of the war is unfavorable, so the east lord chases the north and beheads it, takes advantage of the victory to Fu Ji and the dead country, moves the capital to the middle of the Baiyu River and the Moyu River, and builds the city, which is the capital of Khotan today. ”So the east wind overwhelmed the west wind, Ren Hong breathed a sigh of relief, the legend of the Khotanese people was all their own imagination, and their race was indeed a mixture of East and West, probably because the Western Cypriots and the Eastern Qiang people met here, and the result of war and fusion.However, Khotan became a big country in the south, and after coming into contact with Buddhism and the Han envoys from the East, he began to put gold on his face.The king of the west is said to be the crown prince of Ashoka, and the king of the east is made up a "prince of the eastern soil" as an ancestor.This can add material to the "Great Qin Threat Theory" that Ren Hong has been painstakingly managing, you see that the Qin general Wei Yu went to Shanshan, although this story is made up by Tao Shaoqing, but after King Shanshan built the Wei Yu Temple in the mud city, the fake also came true.And Khotan came to another Dongtu emperor, calculating the time limit, it happened to be the Qin Dynasty, so many sons of Qin Shi Huangdi, except for Fusu who committed suicide, the people either thought they were dead or thought they were dead, and the rest of the sons were killed by Hu Hai, but it is difficult to say, maybe there is one who escaped the catastrophe and came to Khotan from the west?
In this case, when Ren Hong first made up the map of the world, he fabricated that there was a Qin general who went to the distant Haixi to establish Great Qin, and now planned to counterattack the Central Plains to the east, which is much more reasonable.The Xiongnu and the Han Dynasty fell in love and killed each other for 130 years, and it forced the Han Dynasty to make it easier to conquer foreign countries, and finally reborn.But the Xiongnu could not always get along with the Han, and the Han must completely eliminate the Xiongnu in order to end this entanglement and move towards a new history.There is also a problem, there is no home at home, there is no foreign patient outside, and the country will perish.Historically, after the Xiongnu surrendered to the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty quickly collapsed internally.Therefore, while destroying the Xiongnu, it is necessary to find a new enemy for the Han.Looking at the four realms, the Yue's Kangju Dawan is not qualified, and the rest of the empire is barely qualified to fight.But in the long run, it still has to rely on the national name of "Daqin", which is naturally feared by the Han people.This kind of distance is far enough not to pose a real threat to the Han Dynasty, but it is best for the rulers to make a lot of propaganda and constantly strengthen the ideological memory of the "violent Qin" to frighten the enemies of Confucianism and the common people.This year is the second year of the beginning, in 72 BC, the Spartacus revolt has swept through Rome, but it will eventually fail under the encirclement of Pompey Crassus, Caesar, who is a few years older than Ren Hong, has not yet become famous, and it is not yet time to shine."
I wonder if after more than 20 years, I will be able to meet Caesar in Egypt?"
The distance from Khotan to the East China Sea is equal to the distance from the Mediterranean, Ren Hong thought too far and was distracted for a while, and Wei Chi Xinhe had already talked about the key point of this story.However, when the king of the east reached his old age, he had no heirs.In order not to cut off the lineage, he went to the god Bishamen to pray and beg the gods to give it to their descendants.As soon as the words fell, a crack opened on the forehead of the statue of the god Bishamen, and a baby was born, which was held to return to the country, and the people of the country congratulated. ”"Who knew that this baby did not eat human milk, the king of the east was worried, and prayed to the god of Bishamen, the temple ground suddenly bulged, its shape was like milk, the prodigy drank and sucked, and grew up, so it was called the king of earth milk.The meaning of Khotan is also the milk of the earth!
The Brahman's name is Hossadana!
”told such a lot of stories, went around for a long time to the king of the east and the king of the west, and finally came down to Buddhism, and the Shamen Pilu Zhanzhn from Kashmir also took the opportunity to tell Ren Hong in Khotanese, and the little Shamen he brought could actually speak some stiff Chinese, which could be translated on behalf of him, and it seemed that he had made a lot of preparations for this day.Vilu Zhan said that although the people of Khotan revered the god of Bishamen, they did not know that this was the protector of the Buddha, and still believed in witch blessings, until 30 years ago, he followed a guest Hu merchant to Khotan, and sat in the apricot grove south of the royal city.When the king of Khotan did not believe in Buddhism, after the persuasion of Pilu Zhan's preaching, after showing the true deeds of the Buddha, he threw himself into the ground, and then ordered to build the Zanmo Temple under the apricot tree, which was the first Futu Temple in the Western Regions, and let the painter draw the truth of the Buddha on the wall.Ren Hong couldn't understand those Buddhist proper nouns, and the pair of Shamen masters and apprentices told stories about Buddhism there to impress Ren Hong, but he only absentmindedly bowed his head.Unbeknownst to Virujan, this Ren Duhu was far more interested in his native country than in Buddhism, which was the gateway to North India from the Western Regions.When the lengthy Dharma story was finished, Vilu Zhan saw that Ren Duhu showed great interest and invited him to visit the Zanmo Monastery.Zanmo Temple is built in the apricot forest five miles south of Xicheng, in a grotto against the mountain, the surrounding stream is gurgling, the fragrance of apricot blossoms is everywhere, after entering the cave, it is found that this place has been dug into a corridor, the center is not high Futu Tower, probably the form of early Buddhism, and the Mahayana temple of the Han Dynasty is very different.Under the guidance of Pilu Zhan, Ren Hong passed around the tower from the right and admired the "truth of the Buddha" in the grotto.It is no longer the original portrait, but a stone statue, and it is not known whether it was built locally or transported from the Poppers.Vilu Zhan introduced the story of Shakyamuni Buddha's countless lives on the side, such as his incarnation as a merchant on the Silk Road and his hard work, and kneeling down in a certain life to use his hair to cushion the feet of the Buddha who burned the lamp, etc., telling the wonderful things of reincarnation after birth, but Ren Hong only looked at the Buddha statue and wanted to laugh.Because the appearance of this Buddha statue is not an Indian image, but quite similar to the Greeks, the hair is curly, the nose is high and the eyes are deep, the body muscles are strong, the head is round, the carcass is broad, and the clothing pattern also has a sense of weight.After all, after the defeat of the Yue clan in Great Xia, they are still surviving in northern India, and the Greeks who stayed in the east to establish Bactria with the Emperor have forgotten their Greek gods and have been brainwashed by the repeated chanting of Buddhism by the monks.The influence of transformation is always mutual, the Greeks of Bactria believed in Buddhism, and the statue art of the Greeks also influenced Buddhism, which was not originally a statue of the Buddha, but only replaced it with a Bodhi tree.Gandhara art had begun to sprout, and the Buddha had been molded into the form of the Bactrian Greeks, which had spread to Khotan.When Pilu Han's mouth was dry, he didn't know that Ren Hong didn't pay attention to listening at all, but he felt that the time was almost up, so he bowed down and pleaded, and put forward the real purpose of his invitation to the prince of Khotan."
As early as when the Buddha was preaching, he saw that the eastern soil presented an auspicious scene, and knew that it was the blessed place where the third Buddha was born.""
I hope that my disciple Xiao Shamen can follow the side of King Du Hu and spread the Dharma and Buddhist scriptures to the Eastern Han Dynasty!
In this way, the Han Dynasty will always maintain the national glory and relieve the suffering of all sentient beings!
”"Duhu Wang", this is Pilu Zhan's understanding of Ren Hong's position, thinking that he is the governor of the Han Empire in the Western Regions and the co-ruling king.In the dead of night, Virujan sat cross-legged in the Tsama Monastery and wrote down the events of the day in Sanskrit on parchment.As a descendant of the Greeks, Virujan has a long history with Buddhism.As early as 200 years ago, in the ninth year of the reign of King Ashoka, King Sanssouci was a protector of the Dharma and the propagation of the teachings of the Dharma.So he sent many monks and envoys to all parts of the known world, to 600 neighboring countries to spread the Dharma.In addition to the Japin and Gandhara Kashmir, northern and eastern Afghanistan, Nepal on the snow-capped mountains, the coast of Kindi Burma, Sri Lanka, and even as far away as the Diadochi countries.Seleucid, Ptolemy, and even the Greek homeland of Macedonia, Athens, and Epirus were the beginning of the Greeks' contact with Buddhism, but this "known world" clearly did not include the self-contained Warring States Seven in East Asia.However, the Greeks in the East really abandoned Zeus and converted to Buddhism, and a hundred years ago, during the reign of Minander, the king of Miran in Bactria was in power.At that time, the Brahmin generals usurped the Mauryan Dynasty, destroyed Buddhism in Central India, burned monasteries, killed monks and nuns, persecuted and destroyed, and were invincible.However, Buddhism in North India was still standing as before, and at this time, Bactria was attacked by the Yue clan and went south to Gandhara and other places to meet Buddhism.King Millan was born in Alexandria, Caucasus, into a royal family, and his stepfather was king.He ruled the country with righteousness, the country and the people were safe, and the capital was prosperous.The streets are wide and horizontal, the city gate is carved and carved, the merchants in the city gather, the people have enough cotton clothes and food, and they are happy.Inspired by the first bhikshu, he intended to become a monk and eventually became a layman.As a result, the Dharma spread among the Bactrian Greeks, and King Miran was revered as the King of the Dharma, and the monks recounted his deeds in the Naxian Bhikshu Sutra.After the death of King Milan, the city-states of Bactria held a grand funeral for him, but there was a dispute over the preservation of his ashes relics, and finally divided into eight and built a tower for preservation, and one of the relics of King Milan remained in the country of Zhengbin.Today, the rulers of Zobin are not Greeks, but Cypriots, and many of the former Bactrian Greeks are monks.Buddhism in India is divided into eighteen schools, and the school where Virujan is located is the "Snow Mountain Division" that originated from the Ananda Sangha of Theravada, and is mainly active in the Nandou country in the north of Popin, and is only separated from Khotan by Kunlun Daban.Decades earlier, his peers, who had been active in Gandhara and Zobin, had persuaded the powerful King of the Otsuki clan to believe in the Buddha.However, the East was still blank, and Vilu Zhan was eager to spread Buddhism to the vast Western Regions and even to the distant Eastern Han Dynasty on behalf of the Snow Mountain Division.Today, through the introduction of Prince Khotan, who believed in Buddhism, he met the King of Duhu, which was the first step towards success, and the King of Duhu had promised to take his disciples with him and listen to his lectures.This made Virujan very pleased, so he wrote a sutra on the parchment in Brahma to commemorate this event: "King Duhu, he will also become a great Dharma King like King Milan!"
”On the other side, Ren Hong looked at the little Greek monk who was ordered to stay by his side: "Little Shamen, what's your name?"
”Xiao Shamen learned the Chinese language from the Han people in Khotan, and bowed down and said, "Milanda." ”Ren Hong smiled and said, "Okay, Milanda, I keep my promise and will definitely send you to the East." ”After letting Xiao Shamen retreat, Ren Hong waved his hand and happily arranged for his subordinates to say: "Give you a car, and early tomorrow morning, I will immediately send this Xiao Shamen to the right place to Hujie Country as a gift from me to the right king of the Xiongnu!"
”At this moment, Ren Duhu's face was full of compassion: "The Xiongnu beings are suffering, they are still addicted to killing and atrocities, and they believe in the cruel Kunlun God, they don't know that if they do this, they will become cattle and sheep in the next life!"
It's time for the Buddha to rescue them!
”PS: For the legend of the founding of Khotan, see the Legend of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty.For the deeds of Mirande, see the Theravada Sutra of King Milanda.