Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 760 The Despised Great Monk Baoguang

A small dhow sailed into Zengmu Island.

Monk Baoguang, who was dressed in a monk's attire, saw Fang Tianding and his party waiting on the pier from a distance, and his serene face was full of joy.

I wandered around once, met the Three Buddhas, and received many cold receptions, and now I feel closer to him when I see his name is Monk Baoguang.

"Master, has Sanfo Qi noticed?" This is what Fang Tianding is most nervous about now.

From Zengmu Island to Bangka Island, there is still a thousand miles of sea, if it is on land, it will be a very, very long distance.But on the sea, at this time, it only takes seven or eight days.

When Fang La's army landed on Bangka Island, it meant that the war had completely begun.

"Don't worry, my son. Sanfoqi has not received the slightest news yet." Sanfoqi has just entered the dry season in the ninth month of the Chinese calendar, and everything is so peaceful and stable.It's just that Monk Baoguang's heart is very unstable. He went to get close to the local Buddhists as a Chinese monk in Jiugang and Jambi many times, but he was rejected repeatedly.

The latter didn't treat him coldly, spoke bad words to him, and gave him the same treatment in terms of food, clothing, housing, and transportation. But even in terms of Buddhism, although the great monk Baoguang is very good at smashing people's skulls with a Zen stick, he is not ignorant of Buddhism. .But obviously, on this point, the monks of Srivijaya clearly expressed their rejection attitude.

Rejection means rejection. Is it because the Tao is different?But the fact is that the root cause is not a problem with Buddhism at all, but Monk Baoguang's appearance and skin.

To be honest, Monk Baoguang himself is very dissatisfied with the actions of the Buddhist group of Sanfoqi.

Theravada Buddhism is really very different from Chinese Buddhism, not to mention that the Buddhism of Sanfoqi is also deeply influenced by Brahmanism.

When he returned to his residence, Monk Baoguang talked about his experience in Sanfoqi, and he also highlighted a few points, which he thought was very important: "So that your son will know that this Sanfoqi The nobles and the common people are very strange. Whether they are secular princes or elders of the monks and religious groups, they all have bearded noses and fair skin, which are similar to those of Fang Fanshang that day. The common people all have wide noses, deep eyes and short stature, dark and thin And the Sanfo Qi people also like to judge people by appearance, like the whiter the skin, the more noble, and the darker the skin, the more humble." Speaking of this monk Baoguang, he was very annoyed, because he is a black monk.Dangling and dark like a iron tower, the skin is black, and the black is translucent.

He couldn't seek the Dharma in many Buddhist temples, the fundamental reason was not because of their different inheritance, but because he was born black and bright.

Because of this very strange aesthetic concept to him, the Tianfang fan merchants from the west and the Han people who went south from the middle land were all respected in the Three Buddhas because they were born white.

"The Sa family also discovered that many Chola merchants in Srivijaya are very similar to Srivijaya. They worship white and black, and the master and his servants are just like the nobles and untouchables in Srivijaya. The master looks like the sky. Fan Shang, but the servants are similar to the indigenous gods of the Three Buddhas, they are black and short."

"Three Buddhas' Buddhism and Brahmanism have a certain similarity. The former is to cross oneself but not others, and the latter is to divide people into three, six, and nine classes. They don't pay attention to the equality of all beings anyway. After we entered it, this It’s a good starting point.” Monk Baoguang has no understanding of Theravada Buddhism, but feels that the latter is too different from Han Buddhism.On the contrary, it is somewhat similar to the Brahmanism he saw in Sanfoqi.

But they don't know the fact that religion is also dominated by people.When primitive Buddhism was divided into two, the Southern and Northern schools did not follow the same path.In the process of passing the latter to the south, it has too much origin and entanglement with Brahmanism, and Buddhism in the south of Tianzhu perished earlier than Buddhism in the north. The Buddhists kept heading south until they went to sea.

In the past few hundred years, no one knows how many bankrupt Buddhist country nobles and high-level monks came to Sanfoqi.These people brought Indian-style aesthetics and Indian-style governance to the Nanyang aborigines.And more importantly, they are all tall and fair descendants of Aryan conquerors with bearded nose and nose augmentation.They also improved the lineage of the Nanyang indigenous ruling class!
Therefore, Sanfoqi is the radiating edge of Indian civilization, and the Theravada Buddhism of Sanfoqi today is very different from the Theravada Buddhism that prevailed in Thailand and Myanmar thousands of years later.

Religion also needs to evolve with the times.Why did Theravada Buddhism emerge?Isn't it that in Tianzhu at that time, the influence of Brahmanism was deeply rooted, and the caste system was unshakable?Only then did Theravada Buddhism, which only crosses oneself but not others, come into existence.In the ensuing thousands of years, Theravada Buddhism and Brahmanism can be said to have influenced each other, and the depth of the involvement is difficult to sum up in a word.But in modern times, when the situation changed, beliefs naturally changed accordingly.

A living Buddha in later generations said that Buddhism is the most tolerant. Looking at Han Buddhism, from the clothes to the etiquette system, there is no trace of Tianzhu flavor?

Today's Sanfoqi's Buddhism perfectly embodies this point.How can those aristocrats and eminent monks who fled from India maintain their lofty status in foreign countries?Then the Tianzhu model must be perfectly copied in this foreign country.In addition to Chula's "conquest" of Srivijaya in recent years, some concepts of Brahmanism have infiltrated into the social rules of Srivijaya.

Therefore, it is not uncommon for Monk Baoguang to suffer in Sanfo Qi.He wants to grow up to be like Elder Tang, white and fat, but will his experience be another world?
The Manichaeans already know a lot about Srivijaya. They have also heard some introductions from Lu Jala and the Pu family before, but without seeing it with their own eyes, how can they feel at ease?

It's like they knew about Srivijaya's weird tax system and military system, but no one went to see it with their own eyes. It was really unbelievable.

——The people of Sanfoqi do not pay taxes.

Most of the country's tax revenue comes from taxes on imported and exported goods and maritime plunder. The ports of the Old Port and Jambi are filled with a large number of local products as well as souvenirs from China, India and Arab countries.According to Emperor Lu's words, the nature of the society is a feudal system with strong remnants of slavery.

"The dignitaries and wealthy merchants in the country are accumulating slaves. Tianfang merchants are in the old port manor. I don't know how many soldiers and horses can be hidden inside." A sharp look flashed on Monk Baoguang's face. This was too much of a threat. When they took over After the Three Buddhas, it must be strictly prohibited, otherwise, who can guarantee that the people of Tianfang in the future will not suffer from internal cooperation and external cooperation?
"It is true that the common people do not pay rent and taxes. During wartime, the princes of this place will lead them, prepare their own weapons, food and fodder, and wait for the king's orders." Therefore, the Lu division of Sanfoqi can really be ignored.Just because such soldiers have no fighting power at all!
Moreover, the people who are qualified to "provide their own weapons and food and fodder" do not refer to all the low-level people of the Three Buddhas.The latter is not even qualified to serve as a soldier.That can only be "good family son"!Like the Vaishya in Brahmanism,
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