Chapter 21 Chapter Nineteen

Xie Huiren suddenly realized that he was on the plane now, he didn't pay attention to where he was at all, and was already in memory and meditation at this time. He took out a piece of paper from his pocket, which was given to him by the old man when he came out of Fujiwara's house, and told him that this was all the patterns.The moment he saw the complete pattern of the silver bracelet, Xie Huiren was confident that he would never forget it. Although he only glanced at it, now he can draw that set of patterns with his eyes closed. He handed the pattern to Sally. Sally looked at it very carefully. After the experience of the day before, she seemed to be interested in deciphering. Although she didn't have any knowledge of history, let alone Buddhism, she was obviously curious about this group of mysterious patterns.

After looking at it for a while, Sally sighed, and said, "What are these? They are patterns made of lines—actually, the patterns are not right, and I can't tell what kind of flowers they are." Xie Huiren nodded. He felt sore all over, especially his back, and he was too lazy to talk. "Could it be a jigsaw puzzle?" After watching for a long time, Sally suddenly showed a naive expression, and said eagerly: "Maybe if you put them together, they will form a complete pattern, so these lines constitute a maze." —Maybe it's a map." Seeing that Xie Huiren didn't answer, Sally was a little disappointed. She knew that the possibility was too small, but she still decided to give it a try.

After fiddling for a long time, Sally sighed, pouted and looked at Xie Huiren, apparently she was impatient.Xie Huiren smiled slightly. In fact, he also thought about this method, but he just tried it in his head, and it didn't seem to work. "You said, is this really a code? Can it really find the treasure of the Buddhist family?" Obviously, treasure hunting itself is much more interesting than cracking any code. Xie Huiren had to pull himself together, and said: "I don't think so, who knows, it's not certain." "What kind of answer is this? It's like not saying anything."

"Well, it doesn't necessarily have to be a treasure. The Buddhist family can't afford gold or jade." "I know, you think I'm a rich man? I mean, can I actually find some scriptures or something?" "That's not sure, maybe." Xie Huiren actually had a prediction in his mind, and now he can only simply talk to Sally, "In the history of China, there have been four major incidents of exterminating Buddhas. The four emperors who exterminated Buddhism were Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Wuzong of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Emperor Wuzong of the Tang Dynasty, and Emperor Shizong of the Later Zhou Dynasty, and they were called the "Three Wu and One Sect" in history."

Sally nodded, and said thoughtfully: "Then, during the 'Buddha extermination' period, some temples may hide precious things." "Yes." Xie Huiren praised her thinking, "It is very likely that there will be such a treasure. In the history of Buddhism, many things have been mysteriously lost, such as some scriptures. Although some people asked their predecessors to rewrite them later, it is obviously wrong; It may be some of the regulations of the temple at that time, also known as ritual rules. For example, in the Tang Dynasty, a master Huaihai formulated the management regulations of Zen temples. This is called "Baizhang Qinggui". It can be said that the oldest "Baizhang Qinggui" has been lost. The "Baizhang Qinggui" we see now was re-enacted by Zen Master Dehui of Baizhang Mountain in the Yuan Dynasty according to the Qingregulations of various temples at that time. It’s the same name, but it’s not the same at all.”

"Well, but the value of such scriptures is too small." Seeing Sally's disappointed look, Xie Huiren couldn't help but be amused, "Hehe, this value is not small, what else do you want to find?" "I thought I'd find the oldest scripture." "Haha, this is very impossible." Xie Huiren felt that the sleepiness just now was driven away by the chat, and his mind became more refreshed. He sat up straight, thought for a while, and said, "However, if I really found it, maybe it is really It is unique in the world - India has not had Buddhism for hundreds of years, and there should be nothing left of their ancient scriptures."

Sally's eyes widened, "What? There is no Buddhism in India?" "Well, it's true. In the 700-year history, Indian Buddhism was a blank." Xie Huiren recalled and continued, "From the middle of the 7th century, the Turks invaded India, and they destroyed Indian Buddhism. In the 12th century, Indian Buddhism had already died out. Many people don’t believe in Indian Buddhism, but it was reintroduced from Sri Lanka more than a hundred years ago.” "I can't imagine such a big change." Sally said to herself. "Yes." Xie Huiren said with a smile, "So, if we really find the original Buddhist scriptures passed from India to China, it will be really priceless. As I said just now, there was no Buddhism in India by the 12th century, so The Indian scriptures translated by China can only be translated before the Song Dynasty. After that, the conditions for translating Buddhist scriptures no longer exist-even if you find an original ancient Indian Buddhist scriptures from the Tang and Song Dynasties, it is destined to be a masterpiece in the history of Buddhism and culture. big event."

Sally also smiled innocently, "It's best to find that in some language—yes, Sanskrit." Xie Huiren shook his head again and again, "Impossible, it's too difficult. Almost all the ancient Sanskrit scriptures have been lost, only a small part in Nepal and Tibet. Besides, even if there are, almost even Indians now don't know that kind of ancient Sanskrit scriptures. The Sanskrit used in India today was produced after the 17th century, and it has been transformed into Latin, which is very different from the ancient Sanskrit.” Sally suddenly thought of something, and she picked up the paper with the pattern of the silver bracelet again, looked at it carefully, and said, "Tell me, is it possible that this is a text—for example, a lost text?"

"How is it possible!" Xie Huiren said casually.However, he was stunned for a moment. He remembered many times. When he saw some ethnic minority characters on coins and books, he would strangely think of the silver bracelet pattern, those Mongolian, Manchu, Tibetan... Seeing Xie Huiren's strange appearance, Sally was a little nervous, like a child who did something wrong, and said a little embarrassedly, "Oh, don't mind, I'm just talking nonsense." "What?" Xie Huiren stared at Sally with wide eyes, making her even more frightened. He almost shouted in a low voice, "Sally, what are you talking about?"

"No, no, I'm just talking nonsense." "Nonsense!" Xie Huiren almost screamed. He grabbed the piece of paper and carefully looked at the pattern on it. "My God, I should have thought of it long ago!" His mind was spinning rapidly. At this time, the memory warehouse about Buddhism in his mind suddenly opened the door, and names and historical events poured out from it: 68 fragments of Buddhist documents were unearthed in the kiln, among which is the woodcut version of "Sakya's Proverbs" written in this language. Damn.Xie Huiren scolded himself secretly, he had read this kind of writing!In the Nanhua Temple in Qujiang, Shaoguan, Guangdong, there is the only imperial decree written in this language found in China.There are two forms of this kind of writing: regular script and seal script. According to the imperial decree, it is regular script, but he never expected that the characters on the silver bracelet are seal script, so they look like patterns!

Sally was stunned, Xie Huiren's expression was too weird.She suddenly felt her hand tightening. It turned out that her hand had been grasped by Xie Huiren's big hand. That big hand used a lot of strength, and it hurt her a little. "Oh, Sally, I'm sorry." Xie Huiren obviously realized his impoliteness, he let go of Sally, and said eagerly and excitedly, "However, thank you, you deciphered this pattern, they are indeed... words!" "You mean—" Sally still couldn't believe it, "that it's really a word?" Xie Huiren smiled, calmed down his excitement, and deliberately told Sally, "Do you know where the idiom 'nonsense' comes from? That is the word." Sally's eyes widened even further. "This is a word used in the early Yuan Dynasty. Legend has it that the Han people wanted to slander the Mongols, so they called this word 'nonsense'. Look, this 'Hu' is obviously a word to slander foreigners, but it may also be On behalf of the person who used this character, he borrowed a sound from his name - that is Kublai Khan - it was he who ordered the creation of this character. And this 'eight' really represents a person , he is the person who created this character, his name is Basiba. This kind of character is the Basiba script!" "Basibawen?" Sally looked confused, she shook her head and said, "I've never heard of it." "This is a word that has only been passed down for a short time before dying out. Moreover, it was only popular among Mongolian nobles at that time, and almost no one knew it. But..." "But what?" "However, it's amazing to use it as a password." Xie Huiren breathed a sigh of relief, and said quietly, "In fact, this kind of word is the password of the Mongolian army back then." Sally's eyes widened and she listened, her surprise and doubts were already expected by Xie Huiren.He continued to explain, "Have you seen a movie called "Windtalker"? It starred Nicolas Cage." "Well, I don't have any impression, I seem to have seen it." "It was a story about the Pacific War of World War II. In the movie, the military information of the US military was always known by the Japanese military. They changed the password, but it still didn't work. Later, they thought of a wonderful way, that is, to use a very special Even if the Japanese intercept the pronunciation of minority dialects, they will not know what they are saying, only people of that nationality can understand. Therefore, as long as the U.S. military is equipped with them as translators, it is equivalent to mastering the "living language". password'." Sally was fascinated when she heard it, "You mean, what is this... Basibawen, the same password?" "That's right, Bhaspa script is actually a system of pinyin. Its letters have no meaning, they are entirely syllables. It can combine Chinese, Tibetan, Uighur, Uyghur... in short, all languages ​​that can be pronounced. It can be written in Basiba script and spelled into Mongolian pronunciation. At that time, Kublai Khan’s regulations also used this word to "translate and write all characters". It is interesting that when the Mongolian cavalry swept across Asia, they used this Set up codes to convey military information. Not to mention the Han people, even the Mongolians who have not learned the Paspa script, even if they can spell it out, it is completely impossible to understand the meaning of the sentence. The most difficult thing is that this writing system Without punctuation marks, if there is only one sentence in the original text without context, no one can know what Chinese character it corresponds to.” "Uh, this kind of word is the most suitable password." Sally said thoughtfully. "That's right, if you take out every other sentence in a letter and use two people to convey the military information, even if you are captured by the enemy, or if the enemy happens to know how to read Basi Bawen, you can ensure that he doesn't understand what it means .In the beginning, only Mongolian nobles and high-ranking generals were qualified to learn this set of characters. At that time, its password functions were probably the most advanced in the world." Sally didn't speak for a long time, and she seemed to be still thinking about this set of strange and mysterious words. Xie Huiren knew that to truly understand this set of words, it could not be explained clearly in just one or two sentences.Sally thought about it for a long time, and then suddenly said, "Wait a minute, let's not talk about how magical this set of characters is. The problem is that what we want to solve is a legendary Buddhist mystery. Mongolian characters and Buddhism... I'm afraid Can't get in touch." Xie Huiren smiled mysteriously, "This is too related, because this character was transformed from Tibetan, and Tibetan was created based on Sanskrit. This character has a natural blood relationship with Sanskrit. Moreover, The most incredible thing is that the creator of this script, Phagsiba, is a Tibetan, and he is the fifth generation patriarch of the Sakya Sect of Tibetan Buddhism and the first Dharma king of the Sakya Monastery. In Kublai Khan's time, he was appointed as the national teacher and managed Buddhism in the whole country." Xie Huiren let out a long breath, "Wonderful, using this kind of text as the code of Buddhism is indeed very appropriate."