After this test, the eminent monk became the candidate for the next generation of abbot. However, when the old abbot died, he was not able to take over successfully because he was too young and too junior in the monastery. There were many senior abbots in the monastery. Monks have been coveting the position of abbot for a long time. As soon as the old abbot dies, these people will immediately jump out and compete fiercely for the position of abbot. Then it will be his turn.

So, after this incident, the eminent monk left the monastery and began his wandering career. During his decades of wandering, there was always a jar with him, which was a piece of meat from the corpse of the old abbot. No one knows why he did this.

Why is there meat from the corpse?

In Tibet, after a monk dies, he usually moves the body to the mountains, chops the body into pieces, and then coats it with butter so that birds such as vultures can eat it. This is the so-called sky burial. I picked up a piece of the old host’s meat and put it in a jar.

Although the succession of the eminent monk was not smooth, because of his profound Buddhist attainments, more and more monasteries invited him to give lectures.

However, there is a peculiarity when the eminent monks give lectures. They must be at night, and no lights are allowed in the room. Not only that, all the windows must be covered with curtains to ensure that no light can penetrate.

No one knows why this is, but every time they listen to this eminent monk preaching, everyone will have a feeling of enlightenment. Some of the confusions and incomprehensions they usually have when reading scriptures are often solved by the eminent monk’s few words, and after listening to it, they feel like Feel particularly peaceful and happy.

Later, whenever the eminent monk gave a lecture, not only the monks from various monasteries flocked to him, but also some ordinary believers would try their best to listen to his lectures.

But more and more people are curious about why the eminent monk always lectures in the dark. Someone once asked the eminent monk face to face, but every time he remained silent and looked extremely serious.

As his popularity grew, some local princes, nobles, or court officials wanted to talk to him, but he resisted all kinds of pressure and refused every time. In the end, officials and nobles had no choice but to Sometimes I deign to come to the temple to listen.

This method of preaching has continued for twenty or thirty years. For some reason, the eminent monk was only thirty or forty years old at this time, but he looked very old, as if he was sixty or seventy years old.

Not only does he look old, but his actions and actions also appear to be very slow and old. Moreover, he rarely interacts with people. He usually leaves after giving lectures and does not stay in the temple for more. As for his daily residence, Where he is seems to be a secret. No one knows. If he doesn't take the initiative to come to the temple, no one can find him, which makes him look very mysterious.

There was a local official who was sent by the imperial court from the mainland. This official was a Jinshi and had read many books, but his practical abilities were relatively mediocre. He was very interested in Buddhism. When he heard that there was such a high-ranking monk here, , of course very curious.

Therefore, whenever the eminent monk came to the temple to give a lecture, he would rush to listen, and the more he listened, the more fascinated he became. He almost became a die-hard fan of the eminent monk. He also tried to ask the eminent monk to speak to him alone, or to invite the eminent monk to a meal. They were all politely declined by eminent monks.

But the more the official listened to, the more curious he became about one thing: why do eminent monks always choose to preach in the dark? Is it because the eminent monk is afraid of being seen when he lectures? Is there something behind this? What mysteries and secrets? Finally, once, this official made up his mind to find out.

He secretly hid the fire seal in his arms, hoping to wait for the eminent monk to quietly walk over while he was giving a lecture, and then suddenly light the fire seal to see what secrets it contained. After making up his mind, the official deliberately chose the place where he was listening to the scriptures. The front, the place closest to the eminent monk.

This lecture was the same as before. It was in a large hall without a trace of light. In addition, it was cloudy outside and all the windows were covered with curtains. Therefore, it was even more difficult to see anything in the main hall, and nothing could be seen with the eyes. In the darkness, the eminent monk's voice was loud and quiet, echoing in the hall. All the listeners were sitting cross-legged on the ground below, listening attentively and devoutly. Only the official was harboring evil intentions and was uneasy. He was waiting for the right time. At this moment, he was both excited and a little scared.

After about half an hour, both the eminent monk on the stage and the audience below were in a state of extreme concentration. Except for the eminent monk's voice, there was total silence below. There were so many people, not even a single one was coughing.

The official felt that the time had come. He stood up suddenly in the dark, took out the fire certificate, walked to the eminent monk in three and two steps, and then suddenly opened the fire.

The moment the fire light came on, the official clearly saw that the eminent monk's eyes were closed. Perhaps he felt someone suddenly stood in front of him, and there seemed to be a bright light, so he subconsciously opened his eyes, but that was it. As soon as he opened his eyes, the official was so frightened that he stood there because the official saw an extremely frightening scene. Under the illumination of the fire, the monk's eyes no longer looked like human eyes, but looked like rabbits. The eyes were the same, not only round and big, but also bright red, and the expression on the eminent monk's face was also extremely distorted at this time, as if he was laughing strangely or crying. He looked like a monster.

But after the official took this photo, the eminent monk fell down from his seat as if he had been hit hard, his eyes were closed tightly, and he fell unconscious.

When the eminent monk fell to the ground, the monks below woke up, quickly lit the lights in the hall, rushed up and carried the eminent monk to the bed in the adjacent room, although the monks felt unusual for the official's behavior. He was angry, but because he was an official and his status was not low, and the seven or eight subordinates below him were all surrounding the official with swords in their hands, so no one dared to do anything to the official.

But from then on, the eminent monk fell ill and died about seven or eight days later. Because he had lectured in this temple for decades, he was relatively familiar with the monks here. Since the eminent monk had no relatives or friends, he only I can entrust my funeral affairs to these monks.

He specifically asked these monks that after his death, his body should not be moved to the mountain immediately for sky burial. Instead, they should wait until the decomposition gave birth to bugs, then remove the bugs from his body and keep them in a jar, and then Go to sky burial.

Although this will is very weird and disgusting, decades of lectures have cultivated a large number of extremely loyal believers. They know that there must be a reason why the eminent monk made such an arrangement, so they responded to this strange idea of ​​the eminent monk. His will was actually executed to the letter.

The monks felt that when the body was decomposing, it would definitely emit a foul smell, so they moved the monk's body to the backyard, to the most remote room, and specially found a few older monks to be responsible for checking the body. Decay and insect infestation conditions.

Because it was summer, the corpse decomposed very quickly. This was normal and nothing special. But what was special was that during the decomposition process of the monk's corpse, there was no odor that usually emitted by corpses. Not only does it have no odor, it also has a special fragrance.

This is really an unprecedented strange thing. These believers also feel more and more that the eminent monk is indeed not a mortal body. Although there is no smell, the scene of the rotting corpse is still no different from ordinary corpses. After seven or eight days, From left to right, corpse bugs were crawling everywhere in the house, and the corpses were even more horrible to look at.

These old monks couldn't care less about the precepts. Each of them drank a lot of wine, but some of them still vomited. They resisted the strong feeling of nausea, collected some of the bugs into an earthen jar, and raised them. The rotting corpse of the eminent monk was moved to the mountain for sky burial.

Then, something even stranger happened.

After eating the corpse of the eminent monk, many vultures seemed to have been poisoned. Their eyes turned red and they flapped their wings, but they could not fly. In the end, they died. There were about ten dead vultures in front and back. There were so many that even the Sky Burial Master was extremely surprised. This was the first time he had seen such a large-scale death of vultures, and these dead vultures had one thing in common: they had eaten the corpses of eminent monks.

Later, the Sky Burial Master specifically inquired whether the eminent monk had been poisoned to death, or why so many vultures had been "poisoned to death". No one could explain what was going on.

Not only did the official who shined the fire stick on the eminent monk feel no guilt, he also felt that the eminent monk was actually a "demon monk" and he was the one who exposed it and killed the "demon monk", which made him feel guilty. It seemed extremely glorious, and he even wrote this strange experience in his own book. After serving in Tibet for three years, he was transferred back to the mainland. Of course, this strange experience also spread to the mainland with him. , whenever there are gatherings, some colleagues will always ask about this strange experience. At this time, this official always likes to talk about it vividly, as if it is the most important achievement in his life. of.

Because he was fond of Buddhism, of course he also had contacts with eminent monks from the mainland. Among them was a monk named Huizhong, who not only had profound Buddhist training, but was also proficient in medicine. When Huizhong heard about this extraordinary experience of the official, he was extremely interested. After asking countless details in detail, Huizhong secretly went to Tibet alone to find the monastery where the eminent monk was before his death. After going through all kinds of ups and downs and going through many difficulties and dangers, Huizhong finally found it, but he The purpose of coming all the way to this temple seems to be only one, and that is to bring back a few corpse worms from the eminent monk's body.

Although the monks in the temple were puzzled and surprised, they thought that the monk from the mainland was either crazy or stupid, so they did not embarrass him, so they took a ball of worms from the jar and gave it to Huizhong.
Chapter completed!