19. Lotus Circle Light Method
After consulting her father and getting approval, Muni went to pay homage to her mother, namely Queen Cai Bang, and politely solicited her opinions.
"If you want to let Buddha ben coexist, you are so good." Queen Cai Bang replied with a smile on her face, "But how to coexist? In addition to letting Master Yuqian enter the Samye Monastery, you can also pardon your younger brother Mou Ru, the poor exiled Mou Ru, from the exile land of the ghost domain raging in the north, and give him a wooden slip stamped with the seal of kindness. You are now Zamp, and your mother believes that you can do this well."
It turned out that when Queen Cai Bang saw that the Bon power succeeded before, her husband Zanpu also abdicated and became more and more rampant. This was equivalent to coercing her son Muni to kill Shang Jiezan's second son at will, burning the Mahayana monk to death, destroying Shanzhou Zen Temple, and pardoning him from the exile place.
As long as Mou Ru returned, Queen Cai Bang was ready to immediately let her take charge of military power and wait for an opportunity to usurp the throne. Then she really wanted to implement the plan to destroy Buddhism in the entire plateau, destroy her enemies, and push the power of the Cai Bang family to a high point.
As for how much territory Xifan could preserve under the Tang family's counterattack after this struggle, it was not the woman's concern at all.
Faced with his mother's aggressive request, Muni Zamp, who was very filial, said, "I will go and prepare for this matter immediately."
Soon, at the translation site in Hongshan, Muni Zanpu first found his master Padmasambhava because Muni was not stupid.
After listening to it, Padmasambhava looked at the pond that was still covered with snow in the late winter in the distance, and talked with Zanpu while talking, sighing and said, "If Mou Ru is not guilty from the exile, it will only increase the turmoil of this land. It is better to let me preside over the reconciliation between Tantric Buddhism and Bon Buddhism."
"How to do it?" Muni asked the teacher.
Padmasambhava seemed to be trapped in memories of the past. He said that when I came to the plateau, your father organized a big debate between monks and Master Benbo, and he made a bet. Which side could win in the debate, he became the state religion of Xifan, and the failed party had to accept the fate of destruction. In the end, although Bon was defeated, your father was a wise figure. He believed that completely destroying Bon religion was not a wise move, so he allowed some Master Benbo to continue serving the palace and alliance. Other Master Benbo who were unwilling to fail turned into "Yaksha", or destroyed the newly built Buddhist temples at night, or gathered in the exile areas in the north and east of this country to continue to work. Cai Bang and Mou Ru both received their strong support behind the scenes.
"But it is not that difficult to solve this problem."
As a result, on the second day, in the magnificent Samye Monastery, Padmasambhava personally asked his disciples to take out the Bon scriptures that had been suppressed from the black temple pagoda and respectfully handed them to the hands of Kariwule, the Honmasa Motohara.
"Is this the failure of Sakyamuni Buddha to admit his own failure?" Xiangriwule was arrogant.
Padmasambhava smiled slightly and said that Sakyamuni Buddha had already transcended the samsara, so how could he say that he had won or lost? Now he returned the scriptures to his master for no other reason, because many mountain gods, water gods, goddesses, firewood gods, village gods, and firewood gods in the entire Dafan land have all accepted the teachings of my Buddha and converted to Bodhisattvas.
Since then, Bon Buddhism and Buddhism have merged together.
"You!" Xiangriwule was anxious and angry.
But Padmasambhava still smiled. He announced to the monks and Master Benbo on the spot that he would immediately implement the "Circular Light Method" in the temple, so that all the gods of Bon Buddhism would possess them on the human body. On behalf of the Buddha, I will incorporate them all into my Buddha's guardian gods.
"Absolutely, you must not do this!" Xiangriwule was really angry.
However, it was too late for him to stop it. The arranged Padmasambhava held a sacred ritual in Samye Monastery. According to the monks present, the entire temple was shrouded in sacred light. Padmasambhava selected ten boys of noble birth, parents and grandparents all healthy, and then let the four heavenly kings descend on them to use the "round light method" - then all kinds of gods and devils in the entire Dafan land, including the twelve Dama goddesses, the gods of snow mountain, the gods of the river, all kinds of dragons, and the Mora and Yasha who hindered their practice flew to Samye Monastery. Then Padmasambhava held the vajra and threatened them to be powerful. The group of gods and devils all lost their magic power and turned into human form, and vowed to protect the Dharma from then on.
Soon, people in the entire Logistics said that Master Lotus really conquered the gods in the foreign lands, and then defending Buddhism is to protect the country.
Originally, Xiangriwule attempted to expel Tantric Buddhism, but now it was a good idea. The entire Bon god system was all included in Padmasambhava's mere "round light ritual" that pretended to be a ghost. It was really a loss of soldiers and generals. He was so angry that he was so angry that he had smoke from his seven orifices that he began to think about how to crack it.
At this time, Muni Zanpu, who felt that the situation had stabilized slightly, after getting his father's approval, appointed Wei Zannuo, Niang and Xia Mi, two ministers, to send Tang envoys, to advance to the Weizhou area again, hoping to resolve the war between the Tang and the Tibet.
When the two Western Fan ministers set off, it was the beginning of spring of the following year. Gao Yue, Wei Gao, Liu Haibin, Xing Junya, and Ximen Can had nearly 40,000 troops, and nearly 30,000 Western Fan prisoners were carrying nearly 30,000. The flags covered the sun, and the carriages and horses were running in parallel. They walked all the way out of Anrong Pass in Longshan, and passed Qinzhou and Weizhou, and then entered the so-called Didao from Weiyuan, and rushed to Lanzhou, a famous city in the Yellow River.
Lanzhou was not the location of Dazhou County at that time, but because it had Jincheng Pass in the west and Gaolan Mountain in the southeast, it was the Dahe Ferry connecting Longyou, Hexi and Yuanhui, it was the location of the military and geographical location.
There are still 3,000 soldiers from Xifan East Road stationed in the local area.
After inspecting the scout's report and Jia Dan's military chart map, Gao Yue and Wei Gao pulled the entire army to the village of Baishi Mountain, which is less than a hundred miles south of Lanzhou City. The terrain is wide and there is a large spring on the mountain called "Liangquan". The spring water is lush and dense on all sides. The Tang army drove the prisoners of war in Xifan to cut down large quantities, erect wooden fences and beacon towers, and formed camps on all sides, with beacon fires constantly guarding.
Then Gao Yue did what he said, and sent Ming Huaiyi to lead two battalions, 1,500 cavalry, out of the vast wilderness outside Didao, and escorted 5,000 Xifan prisoners. The group of prisoners had long been deprived of armor and weapons, and they were tied with horse ropes, one after another, and were shouted by the Tang cavalry, poked with horse spears, or beaten with horse whips. They walked nearly a hundred miles in silence and fear, and came to the foot of the mountain at Jincheng Pass.
In the past, what Xifan was best at was to drive away the captured Tang soldiers. The Tang people came to attack the city. Now, it is their turn.
The village on the Jinchengguan Plateau is surrounded by a golden river. There are only about one thousand foreign soldiers stationed there, but they see five thousand prisoners standing on the fields below. Behind the dust, one or two thousand Tang army cavalry stand.
Ming Huaiyi raised the horse whip, pointed at the mountain, and said in a foreign language that he would hand over Jincheng Pass within one hour, otherwise he would slaughter a thousand prisoners of war first.
Chapter completed!