Tales of Herding Gods - 255. About Buddhism

Today Zhaizhu sees some readers who love Buddhism and are dissatisfied with the plot about Buddhism in the novel over the past two days. Zhaizhu has to say sorry. The plot of the novel requires it. Zhaizhu has no prejudice against Buddhism in reality. But what Zhaizhu wants to say is that Buddhism in Mu Shen Ji has been beautified by Zhaizhu.

In history, Buddhism originated from the ancient Indian and Nepalese generations, from ancient witchcraft and meditation religions, Vedicism, and Brahmanism. Before the localization of China and the reunification of New China, Buddhism actually had a dark history.

Tantric Buddhism is the most important sect of ancient Buddhism, focusing on personal practice, which is the Hinayana. How to practice? In addition to Buddhist scriptures, there are magic weapons. Magic weapon is a very common word in novels, but many people don’t know the basic definition of magic weapon. The basic definition of magic weapon is a treasure written with scriptures or paintings of Buddha.

Tantric thangkas are used to write scriptures or paint Buddha statues on peeled human skins. They were popular before liberation. Human skulls were used as wheels. There is a magical tool in Mu Shen Ji that has bone spurs on the large skull and bone spurs on it. The small skull is not the author’s imagination, but it is actually a magic weapon of Tantric Buddhism. In addition, there are also drums that use the skin and bones of a little girl. It is said that the voice of the little girl’s soul must be sealed in the drum to awaken the Buddha nature of the caster. The so-called empowerment looks very compelling, but in reality it is even more disgusting, not to mention it. You can check if you are interested.

There is a song called A Jiegu. It is about a little girl’s sister who was made into a drum by a high monk. Whenever there is a drum beat in the temple, she thinks of her sister. If you are interested, you can listen to it on Baidu to learn about it. History.

Zhaizhu was beautified in Mu Shen Ji. It did not say that this was Buddhism. Instead, he gave the name of the Loulan Golden Palace and replaced it with witches in order to avoid disputes among those who believe in Buddhism.

To be honest, some Buddhist doctrines are okay, but you can’t just look at what they say but what they do. Both the Huayan School and the Pure Land School of Buddhism have had dark periods in history.

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were many temples in Jiangsu and Zhejiang with flesh Buddhas. There were more than a dozen flesh Buddhas a year. After the old monks became flesh Buddhas, the temples had to report to officials, saying that the old monks became flesh Buddhas and wanted to make golden statues. Later, a county magistrate felt that there was a problem, so he made an unannounced visit and discovered the mystery.

In order to defraud the government to make money for the golden body and the incense money of the believers, the monks in these monasteries put many living old monks in the tank, and only poured them sesame oil to drink, emptying the excrement and urine in their intestines, and when they were alive The old monks are sealed in a tank with many spices. Because the sesame oil is immersed in the meat and the spices, the body does not rot.

After cheating money from the government and believers, the monks squandered. The county magistrate was very angry and arrested a large number of monks and killed them. This is historically available.

Many of the flesh Buddhas enshrined in many temples in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have been left over from that period.

This story in Mu Shen Ji turned into tampering with the stone statue into a Buddha statue, which is already very gentle.

As for administering anesthetics to alien animals to make the alien animals look Buddha-like, the source of reality is the Tiger Temple in Thailand. Interested Baidu will know the news from the previous two years.

Regarding women, Zhaizhu doesn’t want to say much. Anyone who knows the history of the Tang and Song dynasties knows that many eminent monks have lovers or lovers of power.

Many of the stories in Mu Shen Ji have a source of reality. They are not fabricated by otaku, nor are they designed to be black. The novel reflects reality.

In Buddhism, he is the good one, and he is also the bad one. After the founding of New China, the country abandoned the bad parts of Buddhism, leaving only the good ones. Many people don’t understand it, but it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. To be honest, after the founding of New China, Buddhism became what Buddhism should be. Monks are more like monks, much better than ancient times. The ancient times are the era of the end of the law. The monks now seem to be less disciplined than before, but they don’t. There was too much evil.