Chapter 34 Section 33 Mysterious Buddha Head

This is a valley, a very beautiful valley. The blue of the sky is like a deep blue brocade, and also like the deepest sapphire. The blue is so clean and pure, not only free from impurities, but also has a jewel-like luster. The same is true for the white clouds, which are dazzlingly white and sparkling white. The green grass under the feet releases a fresher and more fragrant smell than the grass on the general grassland. The purple, white, blue, and yellow wild flowers all over the ground dazzle people. It makes people feel warm and want to sleep.Even the gray rabbit was only less than three feet away from everyone, eating its own delicious lunch with peace of mind.

"This, what is this place?" "Ugin Belon!" the little lama said with certainty.Since he arrived here, the expression in his eyes has become much brighter than usual. "Is this the flying valley you've been looking for?" Xilin opened his eyes and looked carefully. "Except for the blue sky, green grass, and more colorful flowers, there doesn't seem to be anything special about it!" "Look over there!" The little lama didn't argue with him, as if he had a plan in mind, he just pointed his finger casually, and brought everyone's attention to the distant mountain peak.

To be precise, it was a mountain wall.In the distance, the shadows seemed to resemble the scene that Chu Feng and the others saw when they looked at the sky from the top of the strange rock - many Buddha statues and temple buildings. This time, Chu Feng did not stop their curiosity, because if they wanted to enter the more central formation, they had to go there.However, in order not to cause accidents, Chu Feng still told them to follow their own footsteps. Soon, everyone came to the high mountain wall. There was a large clearing in front of the mountain face, and there were traces of collapsed stone walls on both sides of the clearing.In front of everyone, there is a building similar to the stone archway that the Han people like to build in front of the mountain gate, like the gate of this large circle of buildings.

In the middle of the open space, countless Buddha heads with a height of two to three meters or even five or six meters faced the crowd. Many of them were missing from the neck down, and some had no neck at all, and their jaws were also incomplete. Chu Feng ignored the excited mantras of the two lamas behind him, and ignored their desire to bow to the ground piously, and just walked forward blindly.There are always tens of thousands of Buddha heads, large and small. The ones seen in front are larger, while the ones behind are many smaller ones. Shakyamuni Buddha, Three Avalokitesvara, Jampa Buddha, Medicine Buddha, Yasha, King Kong, Arhat, etc., most of them are familiar with Chu Feng.What is available in Central Plains Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism is available here; what is not in Central Plains Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism is also available here.Big and small Buddha statues with only heads staring at you like this, even though you know that they are just clay statues, it also causes a lot of pressure.

"Where is this place? Is it really the 'Ugin Peron' pure land they said? Why are these Buddha statues here with only a head but no body? They look creepy!" William and Xilin's goosebumps were all over. When they got up, the two boys couldn't help but whispered together shoulder to shoulder. "This should be a space related to Buddhism. These Buddha heads, if I'm not mistaken, were cut off by humans!" Chu Feng said in a deep voice, "Captain Sangbu knows better than me about this. " "That's right! This is a Buddha statue before the religious wars in the Western Regions. After the Karahan Kingdom, whose capital was located in Kashgar, launched a religious war to attack the Khotan Buddhist Kingdom and destroy it, the believers in Islam frantically destroyed the Buddhist statues in the Khotan Kingdom at that time. There are nearly 20,000 Buddhist temples, large and small. Their favorite destruction is to chop off the heads of Buddha statues. The Buddha statues here, judging by their shape, belong to the line of Buddhism in the Western Regions. Judging by the age of the glaze on the top, it should not exceed 1100 Years, in line with that era. This also caused a great spectacle in Xinjiang's archaeological circles - all Buddha statues unearthed must have no heads! Strange, whose is it?" Sangbu is worthy of being an old man in Xinjiang's archaeological circles. He said it well.

It's just that those fanatical believers would have preferred to destroy these Buddha heads rather than preserve them, so who put so much effort into collecting so many severed Buddha heads and storing them here? Before Chu Feng and the others had time to think about this question, they raised their heads and were startled by the buildings on the high mountain wall behind the clearing for a long time. "When I saw it in mid-air before, I thought it was my hallucination!" Xilin felt as if he was drooling. As for the two lamas, they were already so excited that they kept reciting scriptures that Chu Feng and others could not understand at all, while bowing their heads to the huge standing Buddha with solemn treasures in front of them.

This Buddha statue is at least tens of meters high, and each foot is half a head higher than Chu Feng.Standing in the center of the mountain wall, it is the image of Sakyamuni Buddha pointing to the sky and pointing to the sky, making the great wish "I am the only one in the sky and the world". "This, this is comparable to the Leshan Giant Buddha!" ​​William had also seen the Maitreya Buddha sitting by the river. "How tall is that Buddha?" "It seems to be seventy-one meters!" "This should be about the same. If there is no seventy meters, there must be fifty or sixty meters."

"Professor, it's so high, my neck hurts when I look up!" "It's still different. There is a sitting Buddha over there, and this one is a standing Buddha. And look at his handprints: I am the only one in the sky and the world! What an imposing manner!" Sure enough, the Buddha statue in front of him gave people a different feeling from the peaceful and serene expression of ordinary Buddhist statues.He was not calm, his eyes were rather sharp, and he was full of a fighting spirit that had come from a long time and space! "Something is wrong. You see, the height ratio of this Buddha statue seems not to be in harmony." Chu Feng felt that Li Buddha's gestures and the expression on his face were a bit wrong, and the height ratio was also not in harmony.Calculated based on the height of its insteps of two meters, the entire Buddha statue should not be only about 60 meters high. Moreover, he remembered that Sakyamuni who made this gesture was just born, although he had already walked seven steps in all directions. , and one year old step by step, that is at most a seven-year-old image, but what appears in front of him is a young and middle-aged image of Sakyamuni.Why did the sculptors do this?What are they trying to express?

On both sides of the Buddha statue, it is not clear how many temples are composed of cornices and pillars.Looking at the shape, it is very similar to the cave temple in Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, but the scale is much larger than there.This mountain wall is more than 300 meters high, stretches for tens of kilometers in length, and surrounds the open space where Chu Feng and others are standing in a semicircle.The section in front of them is densely packed with caves surrounded by wooden cornices and colonnades.Standing at Chu Feng's current position, he can even see the colorful colors at the entrance of some caves.

"We don't have time to stay here for too long!" To the surprise of the two lamas, when they were about to enter the cave on the first floor, Chu Feng reached out to stop them. Chu Feng also knew that if it was normal, he would be overjoyed by the incredible discovery in front of him and abandon everything to enter the research state, but not today, Ling Ning is in danger now, he must race against time. "I know!" The ecstasy on the little lama's face has subsided a lot, "We want to stay here to practice, you can leave on your own!" When he said this, he seemed to be saying, "The weather is so nice today "Same.

"Are you sure?!" Chu Feng narrowed his eyes.From the bottom of his heart, he was afraid of this little living Buddha who was too strange to be human, but he never thought that this person would actually want to stay. "If you stay, you may not be able to go out again for the rest of your life! So, you still want to stay?" The two lamas laughed after hearing what he said, as if they heard a very funny joke.This smile made Chu Feng blush a little: "Okay, I am stupid to seek benevolence! What about big brother Bingbu? Are you staying too?" He turned around and asked Bingbu. "Of course, I, Bingbu, followed the little Living Buddha to this legendary 'Ugin Peron', why would I still want to go out!" Bingbu also smiled happily. Chu Feng didn't want to hit him very much, but he had to say something: "This is probably not the 'Ugin Belon' you think." He gestured to Sangbu with his eyes, "Sangbu, you should still remember the last king of Khotan Did you lead all the subjects to disappear after the defeat?" "Of course!" Sangbu continued, "From 962 AD, the war between the Karahan Kingdom whose capital is located in Kashgar and the Buddhist Khotan Kingdom has entered a tragic final stage of life and death. Until 1006 AD In 1999, the last group of Khotan subjects and their king disappeared in the Kunlun Mountains in today’s Cele County, Hotan Prefecture, and Islam officially entered the Western Regions. The disappearance of these people is somewhat mythical.” "Why is it a myth? Come and hear it!" Both Xilin and William liked to hear such stories. "It is said that the national strength of Khotan, which has gone through years of wars, has declined. The people have no food to eat, and they are no longer able to resist the invasion of the Karahan Dynasty, especially this time the invasion is the Khan of the Karahan Dynasty. King Khotan In the end, he had no choice but to lead the people to flee to the Kunlun Mountains. Unfortunately, the pursuers chased them all the way, and all the subjects of Yutian were forced to the last mountain castle. In front of them were mountains that could not be climbed, and behind them were surrounded by enemy troops. The people of Khotan fell into despair. At this time, because everyone prayed to the Buddha with one heart, the Buddha appeared, and a thick fog that could not be seen from the sky fell from the sky. The pursuers were afraid of being cheated, so they dared not enter the thick fog. As a result, it took 40 days for the fog to dissipate. When the fog dissipated, the pursuers entered the castle and found that the castle was empty, and the last king of Khotan and his last part of his subjects were nowhere to be found. " "Wow, is it true? It's amazing! Is there really such a thing as Buddha appearing?" William was very excited.Although he went to church with his parents, he was not a devout Christian.Hearing such a story, I just feel very fresh and interesting, and have no other strange feelings. "It is true that the Buddha appeared!" The little living Buddha said with certainty, "Not only the missing people, but also the Khotanese who fled to Qinghai and Tibet later were also protected by the Buddha." Today In addition to the part that Master Padmasambhava brought directly from India and combined with the local Bon religion, the Buddhism of the Western Regions brought by the Khotanese from the Western Regions also left some influence after the Khotan Buddhist Kingdom perished. "Regardless of whether there was a manifestation of the Buddha at that time, it is always true that the last king of Khotan and his subjects disappeared in front of the pursuers. There are so many Buddha heads here, it seems that they were collected intentionally. If I didn't guess If you make a mistake, this should not be the pure land of 'Ugin Belon' you were looking for, but the hiding place of those ancient Khotan people who disappeared. They not only escaped the pursuers, but also reproduced, and even went out quietly , and bring back the Buddhist capitals that were forcibly cut down by the soldiers of the Karakhan Kingdom." This inference made by Chu Feng made everyone feel a little unbelievable. "You, you mean, everything here was built by the group of ancient Khotanese who disappeared that year? Are they still alive?" William's eyes were as big as copper bells. "How is it possible?" Chu Feng couldn't help laughing. "They disappeared in 1006 AD, and now it is 2009. How could they still be alive here? Even their descendants seem to have failed to pass it on to the present." Chu Feng pointed out Let everyone see the obvious traces on the ground, the mottled paint color on the Buddha statues, the collapsed wooden pillars and stone walls on the ground, all telling everyone that there has been no human presence here for a long time. "Your idea is really crazy!" Sambu was a little out of breath. "Here are the descendants of the missing last king of Khotan and his subjects. The place we fled just now has the missing descendants of the last king of Loulan and his subjects! What kind of place is this? Is it a missing person registration office?" "I also know that this matter is ridiculous, but many details show that it is indeed the case!" Chu Feng smiled wryly.He couldn't explain why so many strange things happened once he entered this formation! "This is not a complete large formation with 4320 rounds of Qimen Dunjia." Chu Feng thought for a while, and decided to tell everyone, "What we see here is real, but they are not here " Chu Feng felt that this was a bit difficult to understand, and added, "It's as if we are watching a 3D movie, watching it right next to us, but actually far away. This formation is more complex than the real ancient formation. It's much simpler, it has only a shape, so even if someone who doesn't understand the formation breaks in, they will just be trapped, and there will be no serious problems. If I have not miscalculated, at a certain time, it will This is the so-called "Dayan's number fifty, escape to one", that "one" is the variable in it, and it is also the way to survive for the entire formation. Good! Good! No wonder I always I feel something is wrong, how can this situation be so easily broken, and there is no ultimate move." "You mean, all of this is caused by the so-called 'three-dimensional projection imaging technology'? But if that's the case, we can't touch the real thing at all, but, look, here, here, when I take pictures, not only my own hands It feels tactile, and it makes a 'bang bang' sound!" William tapped the palm of his hand on the nearest Buddha head, and it really made a "bang bang" sound. "That's right, and just now, we were able to talk to the people there. That witch dragged you on a horse and almost dragged you to death! Besides, your own injuries can't be fake!" Xilin said. The finger almost touched Chu Feng's nose, and Chu Feng couldn't help but raised his hand and touched his nose.He couldn't answer this question!