Chapter 1322 Maitreya's descent, the prophecy of the golden sword
The guards in front of the palace were wrapped in mighty armor.
Under the light of the palace, the armor looked like pure gold. A pair of cold eyes shone in the armor. Vajrabodhi only looked at the eyes for a moment, and he felt as if his will was frozen and his thoughts were not functioning!
"Token."
The imperial guard in armor said slowly.
Vajrabodhi lowered his head. Under the indifferent words of the imperial guard, he felt some pressure in his heart. He handed the token in his hand to the other party, and the imperial guard who was guarding the palace gate like a door god stepped aside, so Vajrabodhi was able to enter the palace.
The warm candlelight sprinkled on him, and the strands of coldness accumulated in his body were finally washed away.
He walked through the brightly lit hall, bypassed the jade screen facing the hall door, and saw rows of bookshelves lined up around the palace. Surrounded by these bookshelves filled with books, Vajrabodhi first saw a tall man wearing a futou and a dark yellow uniform.
The man was tall and handsome. He stood there and looked at Vajrabodhi. Vajrabodhi suddenly felt a sense that the saint seemed to be standing on a high mountain, looking down at himself from the mountain. The flat hall floor seemed to have invisible steps!
Vajrabodhi's mind trembled. He had no intention of spying on Emperor Xuanzong, and he bowed down to him!
Li Longji looked at Vajrabodhi who suddenly knelt down, with a little surprise in his eyes.
"No need to perform such a great ceremony, Master Vajrabodhi, stand up and speak." Vajrabodhi, who was kneeling on the ground, heard the gentle and calm voice of the saint. He felt a little ashamed for his loss of composure in his heart, but he kept his expression on his face, replied "yes", and then stood up.
After standing up, Vajrabodhi looked at the people standing around the saint. He first saw a feathered monk with long hair and white beard down to his chest, standing beside the saint with his shoulders slumped. He looked at Vajrabodhi with contempt, as if he despised his "fawning behavior" just now.
Kneeling ceremony was not popular among the Tang people. When the emperor and his subjects met, the subjects generally did not need to kneel down to worship the saint.
On the contrary, when ordinary people saw the saint, they would not be able to suppress their excitement and fear, and kneel down to the saint on the spot - Vajrabodhi was so terrified that he knelt down immediately when he met the saint. In the eyes of everyone present, he was ridiculed as "fawning".
This was the second time Vajrabodhi entered the palace.
When he first entered the palace, he knelt down and bowed to Li Longji, showing much more enthusiasm than his disciple ‘Monk Bukong’.
The first time could be explained as he had never seen such a grand scene, but now that he entered the palace for the second time, it was still like this, which inevitably made people despise him.
Vajrabodhi’s eyes moved away from the long-bearded Taoist priest, and then looked at the black-haired feathered priest in white clothes beside him, and then looked at the many people present. He soon discovered that everyone in the scene was from Buddhism and Taoism. The saint summoned all the practitioners of Buddhism and Taoism here, but they were here to worship a piece of mutton-fat jade as tall as a person on the open ground in the hall.
The moment he saw the mutton-fat jade, Vajrabodhi’s pupils shrank and he became a little nervous.
This piece of jade as tall as a person was the ‘divine jade’ that he presented to the saint!
The saint summoned him to the palace in the middle of the night and placed the divine jade here - could it be that there was something wrong with the divine jade itself? !
When Vajrabodhi thought of this, his mind suddenly became heavy.
While he was thinking, Li Longji also looked at him and said, "Master Vajrabodhi, this Tibetan sacred jade has shed all its stone shells overnight since it was moved into the palace. Now it is as bright and shiny as a jade disk. However, you said that there are shadows of "goddesses" in the sacred jade.
When I saw the jade, I also saw the two godesses.
But since then, I have never found the shadows of the godesses again-why is that?
Now that the sacred jade is in the palace, it often makes the spirits of the forbidden palace Weng Zhong restless. Is there any evil spirit inside? Can the master explain the origin of this Tibetan sacred jade?"
There was no blame in the words of the saint. But Vajrabodhi could not help but feel a little scared when he heard the words of the saint. He lowered his head, thought flashed, and replied: "Report to the saint... This Tibetan sacred jade was obtained by the Tibetan king Chidai Zhudan from the void sea under the sacred mountain 'Yuanri Sacred Mountain'.
Yuanri Sacred Mountain is the residence of the original spirit 'Lu' in the secret Tibetan domain.
When Chidai Zhudan went down the mountain, Yuanri Sacred Mountain vibrated, and then this jade emerged from the void sea. Therefore, we speculate that this sacred jade was nurtured by the power of the group of Lu, the big Lu, or the King of Lu and the mother of Lu, and has infinite power..."
Vajrabodhi explained the origin of the sacred jade to Li Longji again.
It was exactly the same as what he said when he entered the palace to meet the emperor that day.
"Narumu and Qunlu are both legends of the secret Tibetan region. No one can tell whether they exist or not... And whether Qunlu is a god who protects all living things, or is it the Tibetan people's wishful thinking that it is a god of protection, I cannot fully find out.
This thing has strange signs and contains ominous signs... I was careless for a moment and presented this dangerous thing to the saint. Please forgive me!" Vajrabodhi said in a trembling voice, and bowed to Li Longji again with fear and trepidation.
Li Longji shook his head indifferently: "There are many strange things in the world, and their roots are all related to ghosts, gods and heavenly secrets. I love this thing and search for such strange things all over the world. I have all the workers of the Tang Dynasty explore the secrets in order to suppress the mystery. Ce. This piece of beautiful jade taken from the "Void Sea" is indeed a rare thing.
You dedicate this thing to me, it is exactly what I like, so why is there anything wrong?
I summoned you to the palace in the middle of the night not to accuse you. Master Vajra Zhi, just put your heart back in your stomach. "
As the saint spoke, his expression remained calm.
But when Vajra Zhi heard what the saint said, he felt a strong sense of gratitude in his heart. Such a touching emotion made him lower his head even more: "Little monk thanks the saint..."
At this time, Li Longji turned his head and glanced at the beautiful mutton-fat jade placed in front of him, frowned and said to the monks beside him: "When this jade caused the turmoil of Weng Zhong's spirit last night, something strange also happened at the Qianling Mausoleum. ”
Hearing the sage calling "Qianling Mausoleum" gave rise to a strange sign. The eyes of the monks and Taoists standing beside him became serious and listened carefully to the sage's words.
Talking about what happened last night, Emperor Xuanzong's tone was also a little heavy: "The 'recorder' ordered the soldiers to quickly deliver the records last night. At the same time that Yu caused Weng Zhong to become agitated, Queen Zetian's incompetence There was blood seeping out on the inscribed tablet, and those blood streaks smeared a female figure on the inscribed tablet.
The "Stele Record" states that "the female image stayed on the wordless stele for nearly an hour, and then slowly disappeared at three o'clock."
But tonight, the spirit of Weng Zhong was in commotion again. Two hours later, news came back from the Imperial Ancestral Temple in the Eastern Capital that the ever-burning lamp in front of the throne of the 'Great Sage Queen Zetian' suddenly 'bloomed like a lotus', which was so bright that the guardian of the Imperial Ancestral Temple The official was shocked and sent the news back. "
Li Longji paused, glanced at the many monks with different expressions present, and said in a deep voice: "This is the real reason why I summoned you to the palace in the middle of the night.
For two consecutive days, when this jade moved strangely, the various sacrifices related to the 'Great Sage Queen Zetian' also had strange appearances. There must be a connection between the two. "
Having said this, Emperor Xuanzong looked at the old Taoist priest in a blue robe, changed the subject, and said, "Where is Huinuma now?"
After Li Longji finished speaking, King Kong Zhi suddenly felt that as the saint inquired about the whereabouts of 'Huinuma', the atmosphere in the hall suddenly became tense, and there was an imminent rain coming in an instant!
He didn't know what "Huinuma" was involved in, but he also knew that this person must be deeply worried by the saint, and every move of the other party was under the saint's attention!
"Huinumao is currently translating scriptures and teaching Dharma in Taiyuan." The old Taoist priest slumped his shoulders and replied to Li Longji.
This Taoist priest is very old and looks like he is in his twilight years. He is also standing far away from the saint. It seems that he is not the one whom the saint trusts most among the monks at the moment, but Vajra Wisdom He secretly glanced at the other person, but when the other person's eyes collided with his own, he suddenly felt a vigorous and vigorous vitality.
None of the monks present had a weak hand.
Even Vajra Zhi does not think that relying on his own practice can stand out among the monks and Taoists present, so he has to look outside, hoping to show his own value, gain the attention of Emperor Xuanzong, and be reused by the saints!
When Emperor Xuanzong heard what the old Taoist priest said, his expression remained unchanged, but the atmosphere in the entire palace suddenly relaxed and was not as calm as before: "Zen Master Huinuma has a high level of practice. It is said that he has reached the land of the yogi of Faxiang Sect. As for the fifteenth "Bodhisattva's Land" in "The Land of Bodhisattva", one only has to wait for Nirvana to achieve Buddhahood.
He is now willing to spread the Dharma in all directions, which is also a blessing to people all over the world. "
After Emperor Xuanzong finished speaking, he paused and suddenly said: "Could this jade be related to the 'Maitreya's next rebirth'?
Is there any unusual movement in the ‘Maojin Sword’ today? "
Maitreya was reborn with a golden sword?
Jingangzhi’s eyebrows twitched fiercely.
The dazzling candlelight in the entire hall trembled a few times at this moment!
Hundreds of millions of years after the Buddha passed away, Maitreya Bodhisattva was reborn as a Buddha from the inner courtyard of Tushita. This was the 'Maitreya's lower birth'. This is a rumor that has been recorded in Buddhist classics. Hundreds of millions of years are too long, who knows? I don’t know when the ‘Maitreya’s next rebirth’ will happen——
Since no one can determine the timetable of 'Maitreya's next rebirth', and it is even harder to find out whether it is true or not, then 'Maitreya's next rebirth' has always been just a rumor, and it has never attracted the attention of the world before - but these are all In the past, the current situation is that Faxiang Sect regards Maitreya Bodhisattva as its highest belief, and the "Queen Zetian Dacheng" should actually be called Emperor Zetian Dacheng.
When the empress and Xuanzong's grandmother was still alive, she created great wonders for Buddhism. Buddhism also called it the reincarnation of the 'Maitreya Bodhisattva'!
In this way, Maitreya was reborn under Emperor Xuanzong, which clearly has a different meaning.
At this time, a shadow entangled in history, a prophecy that almost changed the course of history, resurrected once again.
This prophecy is related to a surname - Mao Jin Dao, Liu family!
‘With a golden sword, there is a world’!
Nowadays, under the name of "The Prophecy of the Golden Sword", undercurrents are surging in the Tang Dynasty, and rebellion is ready to take off under the water. The reason why Emperor Xuanzong is so worried about the contemporary Faxiang Sect leader "Hui Numa" is not only because of the Faxiang Sect he belongs to , originally regarded 'Maitreya Buddha' as the highest belief, and it was destined to be inseparable from 'Maitreya's next rebirth', especially because this Zen Master Huinuma's lay name was 'Liu'!
Mao Jin Dao clan, named Xuan!
Under Emperor Xuanzong's question, the Taoist priests fell silent.
Vajra Bodhi buried his head, his heart filled with fear. He was even more afraid that his foundation was not stable, and he would be involved in such a dangerous thing, and he would end up with no body left and no place to be buried!
He just entered the palace in response to the imperial decree, why did he have to talk about the Maojin Knife and the birth of Maitreya at this time?
What does this have to do with him?
He is just a monk who wants to gain some fame!
Vajrabodhi's heart was pounding. In this unbearable silence, a monk with a huge head suddenly stood up. The monk stared at the old Taoist priest who had just responded to Xuanzong's question and said, "Your Majesty, now we should not only focus on the matter of 'Maitreya's rebirth'. Although the 'Maojin Knife' is slightly related to Zen Master Huizhao, it is more closely related to the immortals and Taoist priests in the world!
Most of the rebels holding the 'Maojin Knife' are immortal Taoist priests!
They claim to have been granted the talismans of the Han Dynasty, and now they want to revive the Han Dynasty in the world and make the 'Red Order' flourish! Your Majesty, now we are about to Investigate all the Taoists in the world and completely put an end to this nonsense "Golden Sword Prophecy"! "
The old Taoist priest named "Wang Ju" faced the harsh words of the big-headed monk, his white eyelashes trembling slightly, and whispered: "The remains of Empress Wu Zetian Dacheng are still unknown. It is said that the remains of the holy queen are under the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, waiting for the opportunity to turn dead into life. The Big Wild Goose Pagoda should be dismantled to find the traces of the holy queen's remains..."
"You-Wang Ju!" The monk with a big head was furious at the words of the old Taoist priest, and the monks around him were also angry, but they did not fire.
The saint saw the monks and Taoists arguing with each other, but he did not say a word and turned around and sat back on the chair.
As he sat back on the chair, the monks and Taoists who were about to quarrel suddenly became quiet again, as if the scene just now had never happened.
Vajrabodhi watched the situation on the sidelines, and stole a glance at the expressionless saint. He was suddenly touched, and a certain idea emerged from his mind - this idea grew more and more prosperous under the background of the subtle atmosphere at the moment, and occupied Vajrabodhi's mind in an instant.
Vajrabodhi lowered his eyebrows and glanced at the tall and beautiful jade placed in front of him, and suddenly said: "Your Majesty, I had a debate on Buddhism with someone in front of Ci'en Temple before, and was deeply impressed by that person.
However, that person has profound Buddhist practice, but he is not a Buddhist. Instead, he and a servant who accompanied him have a talisman that he taught to protect himself.
The monk guessed that the person's Taoist practice must also be extremely profound.
The man had expected that the monk would present this magic jade to Your Majesty. When he mentioned this, there was a hint of worry between his eyebrows - he might have a deeper understanding of this magic jade from the Void Sea.
The monk dared to ask Your Majesty to summon this person to the palace, he might be able to solve Your Majesty's confusion ! ”
When Emperor Xuanzong heard Vajrabodhi talk about the mysterious man who was proficient in both Buddhism and Taoism, he had already developed a strong interest. Now he heard that he seemed to know something about the sacred jade in the palace, and immediately decided to meet the mysterious man. He glanced at the silent monks and said to Vajrabodhi with a smile: "Oh? Where is that man now?
Regardless of whether he can solve my confusion, as long as his practice of Buddhism and Taoism can be as profound as the monk said, I will reward you!"
"That man was invited by the monk to live in the backyard of Ci'en Temple.
Now he is in the meditation room in the backyard of Ci'en Temple!" Vajrabodhi bowed and said loudly.
"Call him to the palace to see me!"
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