Chapter 483 Discovery
“Amitabha!” Master Hengfa stretched out his hand to touch his forehead. He was so nervous that he was sweating: “We have found it!”
“Why don’t we go out first? Chatting? It’s a bit boring here..." Master Qiao said.
"Well, let's go out and let me get some scriptures so that I can bear witness when I go back."
After choosing three scriptures, everyone exited the small hole.
The light outside the cave is pretty good, so the three of us can hold a book together first.
The Kangxi calligraphy is very sophisticated and has a strong flavor of the regular calligraphy of the Heart Sutra written by Wen Zhengming when he was 83 years old. The knots are slightly flat, which is close to Zhao Mengfu's small regular script.
Block printing is generally not done too much, because as the number of printings increases, the edge of the handwriting on the block will wear out and lose its original flavor.
The engraving in your hands is very well preserved, and the edges of the strokes are perfectly printed. Zhou Zhi had a thorough understanding of the Qianlong Tripitaka and carved a total of more than 79,000 engravings. Only one hundred and fifty copies were printed in total, and they are very well preserved.
The Jiachuan version of the Qianlong Tripitaka is actually the last one printed in volume.
The font is beautiful and the carving is exquisite. More than 860 craftsmen worked in three dynasties, just like one person.
After the scrolls were transported to Fawang Temple, it seemed that they had hardly been turned over. In addition, the storage conditions of the Buddhist scripture building of Fawang Temple and the stone chamber of Lotus Peak Bodhisattva Cave were very perfect, so these scrolls were almost It remains in the same condition as it was on the day it was printed, and you can even hear the crisp sound of the paper when the pages of the album are turned.
"What a pity..." Zhou Zhi shook his head and sighed.
"Why did you say this, dear brother?" Master Qiao, holding an ancient book in his hand, got mad again and began to play classical Chinese.
Zhou Zhi decided not to tolerate him this time: "For this year's National Book Award, there will be a photocopy of the Qianlong Tripitaka released as a book. I have read the news and the Guanghua Temple master copy used for photocopying has been well preserved. Not as good as ours.”
"If we could have found out one or two years in advance, where would they have anything to do with them?"
"Speaking of this, I remembered one thing..." Hengfa asked: "Elbows, these things are all It should be considered a cultural relic, right? "
"That's for sure. Although it is a printed matter between the 17th and 18th years of Guangxu's reign, it is also...Eh? It just so happens that this year is the 100th anniversary of the birth of this set of scriptures! ”
“So If this sutra is found for us now, it can be said that there is God's will in the dark..." Master Hengfa said again: "But if it is a cultural relic, won't this thing be able to stay in Fawang Temple in the end?"< br>
"Well...it is indeed possible." Zhou Zhi nodded: "From the perspective of protection, restoration and exhibition popularization, the best home for this set of books is of course the province or even the national museum."< br>
Then he rolled his eyes again: "But this set of scriptures has a great relationship with Fawang Temple, so you can ask Abbot Cixiang to find some benefits from the county, or even the city or province!"
"Yes! What’s the benefit?”
“That’s too much. For example, if we can’t keep the originals, we have to get a set of photocopies to replace them, right? And the sutra cabinets in the Sutra Collection Building have to be taken away. Should we also make a copy and keep it in the Sutra Pavilion?”
“For example, can we take this opportunity to vigorously promote Fawang Temple? We hope that governments at all levels will People from all walks of life can help?”
“This is your monk’s specialty, so why are you asking about me?”
"Ah, this... our Fawang Monastery combines agriculture and Zen, and emphasizes a self-reliance to have enough food and clothing..."
"Yes, this fine revolutionary tradition cannot be lost in any way...Wait a minute, you are religious people, no matter what Come up here..."
A few people were arguing for a while, and suddenly Then I figured it out, Monk Cixiang of Fawang Temple was in charge, and Zhou Zhi was the non-staff director of a cultural center. When his godfather praised him in the cultural management work report, he always wrote, "With the joint efforts of relevant people... "So their mission has actually been successfully completed, and they can't actually interfere with the rest.
So the final result is that Master Hengfa cooks, Zhou Zhi and Master Qiao get back into the hole and count the bamboo boxes.
The Chinese Tripitaka is a major cultural project that has been compiled throughout the Chinese dynasties since the time of Emperor Wu of Liang Dynasty.
From the earliest "Catalog of Sutras" in the Hualin Garden of the Liang Dynasty, to the Shu version of "Open Treasures" in the Northern Song Dynasty, the "Golden Treasures" and "Zhaocheng Treasures" of the Jurchen regime in the late Northern Song Dynasty, and the "Yuan Guan Collection" of the Yuan Dynasty ", the official "Yongle Southern Collection" and "Yongle Northern Collection" in the Ming Dynasty, the folk "Jiaxing Collection", and the "Qianlong Collection" in the Qing Dynasty are a systematic and orderly cultural project.
The orderly inheritance of the Chinese Tibetan Collection can be seen from just one characteristic - no matter whether it is government-run or private-run, throughout the dynasties, the main collection has been organized in the "Thousand-Character Classic".
Among all the Tibetan scriptures, the earliest and authoritative catalog and manuscript is the Zhaocheng Jinzang, and the Jingshan Zang is the richest in content.
Other better versions include "Fangshan Stone Sutra", "Zifu Zang", "Puning Zang", "Yongle Zang", etc.
The "Qianlong Zang" is of course included in it, and there is also a set of foreign scripture collections - the "Korea Zang" which was reproduced from the "Kai Bao Bao", "Khitan Zang" and "Xu Zhen Yuan Lu" during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of Goryeo. .
The current Jiachuan version of the "Longzang Sutra" is actually what academic circles often call the "Qing Zang". It was compiled on the basis of the Ming Dynasty's "Yongle Beizang" and is divided into "Main Zang" and "Extended Collection" two parts.
Although part of it was officially banned and destroyed, there are still 485 letters in the main collection and 239 letters in the extended collection.
The two Tibetans collect 724 letters, more than 1,000 volumes, and more than 7,000 volumes.
The bamboo box opened after counting contained seventy-two volumes of scriptures.
When counting the bamboo boxes, there were exactly one hundred and eight.
If seventy-two volumes of scriptures are the average number of a bamboo box, then the capacity of one hundred and eight boxes is almost the entire number of volumes of the "Longzang Sutra".
The next step was to re-seal it. I was careful and careful. I felt that there might be some way to use the hay used to press the bottom of the box and cover the scriptures, so I took some of it.
After exiting the cave entrance, the two sealed the small hole they had just pulled out. Mr. Qiao used the water in the tank to mix mud and seal the gap.
And Zhou Zhi came to Hengfa with hay and said, "Master, do you know this?"
"This is Guanglingxiang. Isn't there a large area under the nanmu forest in the back mountain? Xiangji Kitchen uses it to marinate dried tofu and you said it's delicious, so why did you forget it?"
"Huh, right?" Zhou Zhi was very happy: "That Yuanxiu Why does the Zen master use it to line the bookcase?”
“It should be to repel roundworms.” Hengfa said: “I know this stuff can repel roundworms. Take a dose before going to bed. For children, use the young leaves to steam. Eggs, all work well.”< br>
“Ascaris and silverfish are not the same thing,” Zhou Zhi thought for a while, then put away the spiritual herbs: “We will ask experts after we leave the mountain. However, the scriptures we read are indeed well preserved and there are no insects. The traces of moth are gone.”
“Well, come over for dinner and that’s it. It’s a good place to spend the night. We’ll go back to the temple tomorrow. I don’t know how happy the master is when he finds out.”< br>
Zhou Zhi looked out at the abyss, feeling a little scared: "Sleep here...it's a little different from Guanyin Cliff..."
(End of this chapter)