At this time, Master Diao pointed out his hand and said, "Look, there!"
Following his direction, we saw that in the center of the Buddhist palace, there was actually a huge mechanism that none of us could have imagined.
This mechanism is composed of countless steel parts, and each lever rotates in turn, back and forth. Especially the largest gear in the middle is as tall as a house, and at this moment, it is in a rotating state, making a 'tick' and 'tick' sound.
Every few seconds, a scale will turn.
"How...why are there so many agencies here?" I asked stammering.
Yin Ling'er looked innocent. She pointed to the largest gear with her little finger and said, "Is this a hidden weapon? Will it crush us all at once?"
Lao Jiang shook his head and told us: "If you guessed correctly, this should be the mechanism room of the entire pagoda, or the control room. Before, we fell into various secret passages, including mazes, and the power came from here."
I was surprised: "But it's been thousands of years, how come it's still moving?"
While he was talking, Lao Jiang had already walked up to take a closer look. When he discovered the golden gravel stained on the gears, he suddenly understood: "There should be more small gears under this gear to connect to the quicksand under the Desert of the Undead." ! It should be the continuous flow of quicksand that allows the mechanisms in this tower to accumulate strength, just like a waterwheel."
The pagoda has been standing for thousands of years with the help of the power of nature!
I admire the wisdom of the ancients more and more. Those industrious and resourceful people were able to accomplish impossible miracles precisely because they knew how to use force...
Such as the Terracotta Warriors and Horses, such as the Great Wall.
We walked into this organ room and found that the Western Zhou Dynasty actually had reliefs made of white jade. It was really luxurious! You must know that murals are generally completed with pigments. Even for the tombs of noble emperors, it takes at most several years of hard work by craftsmen to complete the reliefs with stones. And this place is actually made of white jade. All the best things are really dedicated to this pagoda.
"Jade is holy, white and flawless. It should be used to praise monk Le's great character!" Professor Xiang Wanli explained.
Lao Jiang stared at the reliefs without blinking an eye. These lifelike reliefs were telling us a new story.
At this time, we already felt that we were getting closer and closer to the relic. Because unlike the previous monk Le who persuaded the kings of the sixteen kingdoms to stop fighting, these reliefs seem to tell the story of Le's life!
Under each relief there is a line of words from the Western Regions, full of words of praise, recalling and commemorating this saint.
Lao Jiang and I glanced at Professor Xiang Wanli. He was proficient in Western languages and knowledgeable, so he was the most suitable person to explain.
Xiang Wanli squinted his eyes and looked at several reliefs in succession, and murmured: "That's it!"
Lao Jiang was a little anxious and was about to ask, but he saw Xiang Wanli's throat rolling. He pondered in his heart for a while before he said, "Monk Le was originally a young monk in the Western Regions. He made a great wish and vowed to travel throughout the Central Plains. The place where the sun shines on the earth. And that day, when his master passed away, he gave him a horse and a Qibao Zen staff, and told him his last words: "Le, help me find the Bodhisattva and give this Zen staff to him." he……"
"In this way, Monk Le traveled throughout the Western Regions. He saw countless Buddha statues, but he never saw the true body of the Bodhisattva."
"Will the Bodhisattva really appear in the human world? He murmured questions to the sky."
"Perhaps it's because I don't practice enough and the Bodhisattva doesn't want to see me? Monk Le comforted himself with this."
When he first followed the ancient Silk Road, crossed the Desert of the Dead, passed through Yumen Pass, and walked all the way to Dunhuang, he suddenly saw the light of the Buddha at the foot of the Mingsha Mountain in Dunhuang.
The land shrouded in Buddha's light looked very much like the Western Buddhist Kingdom in his dream!
Perhaps this Buddha's light is a sign before the arrival of Bodhisattva...
At that moment, Monk Le suddenly decided not to leave. He wanted to build a Buddhist cave here to welcome the Bodhisattva to appear again.
In other words, I was happy to see all kinds of Buddha statues along the way, some holding flowers and smiling, some lying down and sleeping lightly, and some wearing golden crowns. They come from various ethnic groups and come in various shapes.
But Le wants to mold a Buddha himself and see what the Bodhisattva in his heart looks like?
This can be regarded as fulfilling Master’s last wish!
But at that time, the Western Region was in turmoil for years, and the people were in dire straits. Countless living lives were turned into bones because of the war. Not to mention the construction of Buddhist caves, it is still an unattainable dream when there will be no more blood dripping on Mingsha Mountain.
The fleeing people came and went, looking miserable and miserable, like a sign of the end of the world.
At this moment, Le suddenly came up with the idea that if I could persuade the kings of these sixteen countries to stop fighting, wouldn't the world be at peace?
This idea is so bold and fearless!
But with this spirit of sacrifice, he traveled through sixteen countries for several years, and finally brought peace to the Western Region.
On this day, the Crescent Moon Spring finally turned back to a clear color, the air in Mingsha Mountain was no longer mixed with the smell of blood, the birds that had flown away also came back, the Silk Road began to resume trade, and the faces of the people began to With a smile.
The kings sent countless craftsmen to work with Le to dig out more Buddhist caves. This place was also named: Mogao Grottoes!
It was the darkest period in the Central Plains, but it was also the period when Buddhism spread most widely.
But on the day when the Mogao Grottoes were built, kings from all countries wanted to welcome Le back to their own land, promising to build him the largest and most gorgeous temple, make him a national master, and enjoy the power of one person above ten thousand people. of worship.
Coca-Cola rejected them one by one...
Just like this, he stood alone on the Mogao Grottoes, leaning on a Zen staff, looking at the vast desert in the distance and fell into deep thought.
The Western Region finally ushered in peace, but he still had one wish that remained unfulfilled.
That was his original wish!
"Bodhisattva, Bodhisattva, what do you look like?" Le has not yet given up his obsession with finding Bodhisattva. He remembers his master's instructions before his death.
However, at this moment, a woman and her child walked by Mingsha Mountain. Seeing Le standing on the Mogao Grottoes, the innocent little girl couldn't help but widen her eyes. She tugged on the woman's sleeve and shouted: "Mother, mother, is that the Bodhisattva appearing? I seem to have seen the Bodhisattva."
Following the child's gaze, the woman immediately revealed excited eyes, which turned out to be joy.
There are no people in the sixteen kingdoms who do not know this great benefactor. The woman immediately told the child: "He is Monk Le, and he is also the greatest Bodhisattva in the hearts of our people."
"Without him, there would be no peace in the Western Region, your father would not have come home from the battlefield, and you would not have been born."
"He extradited the souls of the dead to early bliss. He took us out of the sea of suffering. He thought about the common people, saved all living beings, and brought new life and hope."
At that moment, the little girl seemed to understand something. She put her hands together in a decent manner and kowtowed three times to Le.
At this time, the relief came to the last one!
