Chapter 399: Buddha's Tooth Relic It took Li Shimin a long time to recover from the shock, and stared at Li Zhen with burning eyes: "Zhen'er, are you sure you are not mistaken?"
Is this really a Buddha tooth relic?
” "Yes, Your Highness, this matter can't be ambiguous, if something really goes wrong, our Datang will make a joke."
Fang Xuanling also said, the Buddha's tooth is not a joke, if this thing is really the Buddha's relic, the entire Buddha Gate will explode, and they will do everything possible to lose the treasure back - this method refers to whatever the cost.
For the sake of this Buddha tooth, no matter how harsh Li Shimin put forward his demands, as long as it is not an outrageous request that the monks of the entire Tang Dynasty collectively die or let the Buddhist forces withdraw from the Central Plains, Buddhism will agree.
Therefore, the authenticity of the Buddha's tooth is very important, otherwise if the Buddha really agrees to Li Shimin's request, only to find out that the Buddha's tooth is fake after going back, it will be fun - maybe the Buddha who thinks it has been tricked will really break out.
"How dare this kind of thing be nonsense?
This is a gift from King Sinharap himself to your father, the Emperor, does he dare to tease you with a fake?
Li Zhen held the Buddha's tooth relic and said loudly: "This Buddha's tooth is Xinharap's own hand, so this thing must be from the lion country undoubtedly, and in the Eastern Jin Dynasty monk Fa Xian once went to Shakyamuni Buddha's birthplace Lumbini and Kapila Weiguo Ancient City, and also went to the Sangha Blue Country (another name of the lion country), saw the Buddha's tooth with his own eyes, and recorded in his book "Buddha's Country Record": 'There is a Buddha's tooth in the city, and the Buddha's tooth is often made in March. …… On the day of Qi, the door will be opened, and the salute will be as lawful. ’ After more than ten years, Zhimeng also came to Kapila Weiguo to worship the Buddha's tooth and other holy relics, Huijiao's "Legend of the High Monk, Zhimeng Biography" also recorded: "Southwest travel 1,300 miles to Kapila Weiguo, see Buddha hair, Buddha tooth and flesh bones.
The shadow of the Buddha and the footprints of the Buddha are alive.
In addition, when the people of the palace sorted out the unfinished manuscript of the "Tang Dynasty Western Regions" manuscript of Master Xuanzang, they also found a record of the Buddha's tooth relic: more than ten miles southeast of the new city, the old city of Dashanyang, there are more than 300 monks and disciples.
There are Buddha's teeth in its squirting waves, which can be an inch and a half long, and its color is yellow and white, or to Qi Day, when it shines brightly (in fact, Xuanzang has never been to the Lion Country in history, but this time he was sent back by the Tang Army by sea, and passed through the Lion Country on the way, so he went to visit the Buddha tooth relics by the way). ’ So many eminent monks have personally proved that this Buddha tooth is indeed obtained from the most luxurious temple on Dayang Mountain outside the capital of the Lion Country, and it has also been verified by King Sinharap of the Lion Country himself, why is it not the Buddha's tooth?
” "But how is this Buddha tooth different from the one in the Solemn Temple."
Someone stood up and asked.
Li Zhen sneered: "I don't know about this palace, the Buddha tooth in the hands of this palace is inherited in an orderly manner, and the information obtained from the Lion Country can be reversed until Sakyamuni sits, but the Buddha tooth in the solemn temple was obtained by the Dharma sacrifice monk in an unknown place......
So you shouldn't ask about the main palace, you should ask about the Fa offerings. ” It is said that after the original Shakyamuni Buddha (cremation), there were many relics left, but only four of the teeth were transformed (some say seven), and of the four Buddha tooth relics, only two were preserved.
The Buddha's tooth relic is not only supreme and important today, but also an extremely precious treasure in the era after the Buddha's death.
At that time, in order to compete for the Buddha relics, the countries had Chen soldiers under the city, elephant soldiers, horse soldiers, chariot soldiers, and infantry were waiting for them, threatening to take them by force at the cost of their lives.
In this moment of emergency, a Brahmin monk named Xiang intervened and suggested that the relics be divided equally in order to avoid a fight.
This proposal was accepted by the kings of the eight countries who came to compete for the relics, so the relics were divided into eight parts (the Buddha left a lot of relics, in addition to the Buddha's tooth, there are hair, musculoskeletal, etc.), and each country invited its own to build a pagoda to worship, that is, the Buddha's tooth relics pagoda.
In the long history that followed, the relics of the Buddha gradually spread to all parts of the world due to various causes such as war, or annihilation, or looting, or theft.
In the history of India, there have been many foreign invasions and internal strife, and there have been endless struggles between different races and pagan religions.
Soon after the death of Shakyamuni Buddha, there was an incident in which King Vilu Zegya (King Liuli) wantonly killed the Shakyamuni people: 'There are hundreds of thousands of caves in the northwest of the city, and the place where the Buddha people are killed.
The king of Pilu Zega, that is, the tribe of Keshi, took his tribe and slaughtered them, and gathered corpses like wages, and shed blood into pools.
The heavens are vigilant and the hearts are buried, and the remains are buried ("The Legend of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty"). ’ In addition, the struggle between Brahmanism and Buddhism was unusually acute.
In 185 B.C., the king of central India and the Ka dynasty of Bhusha Midoro took the Brahmins as his national teacher and implemented a comprehensive and brutal policy of attacking Buddhism.
At that time, more than 800 pagodas in the territory were destroyed, monks and nuns were killed, and Buddhism was destroyed.
The history of Buddhism is known as the 'Central Indian Dharma Difficulty'.
This martyrdom forced some monks and nuns to snatch the relics from the stupa and flee to various places.
In order to protect the Buddha relics from being robbed during the escape, some monks even cut open the skin and flesh, hid the relics, and then sewed them up and escaped from the country.
In the following centuries, the important relics of Shakyamuni Buddha gradually spread abroad.
Some of them were introduced eastward to Buddhist countries such as the Lion Nation; Part of it spread westward to Buddhist countries such as the Uchang Kingdom (in present-day Pakistan).
Among them, the Buddha tooth of the branch inherited to the east eventually fell to Khotan, and the Buddha tooth of the solemn temple was invited back by the Southern Dynasty monk Fa Xian from Khotan - "The Legend of the High Monk and the Dharma Dedication" has the Dharma offering tooth experience: "Xian Xian Wen Menggong traveled westward, borrowed the supernatural, and vowed to forget his body to watch the holy miracles."
In the third year of the Song Dynasty (Southern Song Dynasty) Yuan Hui (475 AD), Jinling was planted and traveled west to Bashu.
The road out of Henan, the road through Ruirui, that is, to Khotan.
If you want to spend the green ridge, the plank road is cut off, and you return to Khotan.
Received a Buddha's tooth and fifteen relics.
The tooth of the Buddha is in the country of Wutang, from Wutang to Rui Rui, from Rui Rui to Liang soil.
Selling teeth to return to Beijing, five out of ten.
Secretly, to be ignorant. ’ Although Fa Xian did not dare to make it public after inviting back the Buddha's tooth, it was discovered by Xiao Ziliang, the second son of Emperor Qiwu, King Jingling, more than ten years later.
Xiao Ziliang thus wrote "Praise of the Buddha's Tooth" and "The Record of the Buddha's Tooth".
In the last year of Jianwu (497), the law was sacrificed and passed away, and the Buddha's tooth was still preserved in the Shangdinglin Temple.
Then this Buddha tooth in China after several circulation, and finally fell into the hands of Chen Gaozu Chen Baxian, and after he won the world, specially opened an uncovered conference for the Buddha tooth, and later Sui extinguished Chen, the Buddha tooth disappeared again, and then there was Yuzhang Wang Buddha tooth into Beijing (Chang'an) for the Zen Temple, and invited the monk Faxi to manage it.
Zending Temple was renamed Zhuangyan Temple in the first year of Tang Wude (618 AD).
The tooth of the Buddha has been enshrined here until the first year of Guangming (880 AD) before being brought to Shu by Tang Xizong, and it is several twists and turns, this tooth of the Buddha was found at the beginning of the twentieth century AD, at this time it was enshrined in the Lingguang Temple, rarely went out.