Journey to the West: Interpretation and Teaching Disciples

Chapter 205 Returning to Chang’an through the Eastern Land 2
It is difficult to end the catastrophe of becoming a Buddha, and return to Chang'an after learning the scriptures.

After Xuanzang learned that the scriptures with words had written about the Buddha and all the Buddhas, he led Monkey King, Zhang Xing and others out of Lingshan Pure Land and walked towards Datang.

Just when Xuanzang was leaving Lingshan, Guanyin Bodhisattva standing beside Tathagata came out, bowed to Tathagata and said, "World Honored One! My disciples who received the gold decree to seek scriptures from the East have succeeded now, and they have won a total of one 14 The year is five thousand and forty days, and there are still eight days less, which is not suitable for the number of Tibetans. I hope that my World Honored One will give the holy monks to return to the east and west. They must complete the number of Tibetans within eight days, and the quasi-disciples will return the gold order .”

Hearing Guanyin's words, Tathagata happily said: "What you said is very appropriate. You must pay the gold decree."

Then Tathagata ordered the Eight Great Vajras to catch up with Xuanzang and his party, and let them use their supernatural power to send Xuanzang back to the East, and returned within eight days, which happened to complete the number of Yizang.After receiving the Buddha's order, the Eight Great King Kongs caught up with Xuanzang on a cloud and told Xuanzang what the Tathagata had said. As soon as Xuanzang heard it, he obeyed the arrangement of the Eight Great King Kongs.So Xuanzang suddenly felt his body lighten, and then found that he had ascended to the sky!

The speed of flying through the clouds and fog along the way is not slow. Xuanzang was also very happy to fly for the first time. He talked and laughed with Monkey King, Zhang Xing, Bajie and Sand Monk along the way.

However, after Guanyin Bodhisattva handed over the Buddha's decree to Tathagata, the five directions of Jiedi, four-valued meritorious service, six Ding Liujia, and protector Jialan walked up to Avalokitesvara and said, "We have received the decree of Bodhisattva and secretly protected the holy monks." , Today the holy monks have completed their practice, and the Bodhisattva has paid the Buddha's golden edict, and I hope that the Bodhisattva will pay the dharma edict."

Hearing what they said, Guanyin Bodhisattva responded with a smile, and then gave Guanyin Bodhisattva a booklet for the five directions of Jiedi, the four values ​​of meritorious service, the six Ding Liujia, and the protection of teachings.This book is exactly the book that records the catastrophe of Xuanzang.

Avalokitesvara glanced at it, and saw that it recorded all the catastrophes that Xuanzang experienced from birth to the time when he went to the Lingshan Mountain to obtain the scriptures, no more, no less, just [-] years ago!Seeing this, Avalokitesvara frowned, Buddhism pays attention to ninety-nine returning to one, but Xuanzang still missed one difficulty, not consummation, so Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva sent Jiedi, ordered him to catch up with the eight kings, and let them be like this, like this, like this. Generally speaking, Xuanzang and his party are in trouble.

After the arrangement, Guanyin told Tathagata what he knew just now.Tathagata listened to Guanyin's words and nodded to show that he knew.

After receiving Guanyin's order, Jiedi hurriedly chased Xuanzang and his party on a cloud, and finally let Jiedi catch up with the Eight King Kong after one night, and Jiedi said so to King Kong.

After listening to Jiedi's words, Vajra nodded, and suddenly the cloud was removed, and Xuanzang and the others fell to the ground at once. Fortunately, Xuanzang is no longer a mortal body, and Vajra is not about to fall Xuanzang to death. Zang, so they fell to the ground safely.

With this change, Xuanzang, Bajie, and Drifting still don't know what happened, but Zhang Xing, who is familiar with Journey to the West, still knows what happened, and Sun Wukong is clever and smart enough to guess a lot.

Several people were forced to land here, so they had no choice but to search for it, wondering what it was.After some searching, several people discovered that this place was Natong Tianhe.

When several people wondered whether they should carry Xuanzang and fly back to the Tang Dynasty, a big white-headed turtle appeared on the river, and that white-headed turtle was the same one that carried Xuanzang and the others across the river.

As soon as they met, it was a reminiscence, and then the white-headed turtle said that it would carry Xuanzang and the others across the river. Xuanzang was hesitating, but he agreed when he heard the white-headed turtle.

When the white-headed turtle walked to the middle of the river with several people on its back, it suddenly asked Xuanzang, did he ask Xuanzang to ask the Buddha the question?As soon as he said this, Xuanzang couldn't type anymore!It turned out that when he was in Lingshan, he was thinking about where he still remembered the white-headed turtle after studying the scriptures.

When the white-headed turtle saw Xuanzang hesitating, he knew he didn't ask, so he shook his body and got Xuanzang, Bajie, Drifting Monk, White Horse and scriptures into the water!Only Zhang Xing, who had known it for a long time, and Monkey King, who had been prepared, did not fall into the water!

Fortunately, they were not far from the shore at this time, and with the help of Zhang Xing and Monkey King, they finally reached the shore, but it was a pity that the scriptures were all soaked in water.

As soon as he got ashore, Xuanzang was ready to read the scriptures, but before he could do anything, suddenly there was flying sand and stones all around him, thunder and lightning, and flames shot into the sky.

Seeing such a scene, Xuanzang was startled, and had to hold the scriptures in his hand tightly, Bajie led the white dragon horse, Drifting took the burden, Monkey King took out the golden cudgel, Zhang Xing used the battle halberd, Hitting around, it was like this for most of the night, until dawn, the wind and sand disappeared, and there was no lightning, thunder, or fire.

Seeing such a situation, Xuanzang asked Monkey King: "Apprentice? What happened last night? Why are there those terrible scenes?"

Hearing the master's question, Sun Wukong laughed and said: "Master, you don't know what to do. I will protect you and obtain this sutra. It is a great achievement in the world. It can last as long as the universe, the sun and the moon are as bright, and you can live in Changchun. Dharma body Immortality: This is why it is forbidden by heaven and earth, tabooed by ghosts and gods, and it wants to steal the ear. One is that the sutra is soaked in water; the other is that your Dharma body is suppressed, thunder cannot strike, electricity cannot shine, and fog cannot confuse And my old grandson swung an iron stick, and my second younger brother wielded a halberd, so that the nature of pure yang was protected and maintained; until dawn, the yang energy was strong again: so it can't be taken away." Hearing this, Xuanzang, eight Only then did Jie and Drifting understand what was going on.

After some tidying up, it was already daylight, so Xuanzang took the soaked scriptures to a stone to dry.

During the process of collecting scriptures, several villagers who got up early saw Xuanzang and his party. At this time, it had not been a few years since Xuanzang left, and the villagers also knew Xuanzang, so they invited Xuanzang to their homes one after another.Xuanzang refused all of them because he wanted to bury the scriptures!
Not long after, Chen Cheng, who was rescued by Xuanzang, heard from the villagers that Master Xuanzang had returned, so he went to the Tongtian River to receive Xuanzang himself.

At this time, Xuanzang also encountered a depressing incident. It turned out that a few words on the last page of the "Buddhist Scriptures" were stuck by the stones of the scriptures.Fortunately, after some persuasion from Monkey King, Xuanzang agreed.At this moment, Chen Cheng appeared in front of Xuanzang.

Unable to overcome Chen Cheng's enthusiasm, Xuanzang had no choice but to live in Chen Cheng's house. With a god like Xuanzang, Chen Cheng's house held banquets every day.

At night, Xuanzang took advantage of everyone's deep sleep and called up his disciples and Zhang Xing to leave at night.As soon as everyone walked out of the gate of Chen Cheng's house, they saw the Eight Great Vajras in mid-air and said to everyone: "Those who learn the scriptures, hurry up, we will take you back to Dongtu!"

Hearing King Kong's words, everyone felt their bodies rising slowly before they said anything, and they were in mid-air in a short while.

This time Xuanzang was 81 difficult to consummate, nothing happened on the way, and in less than a day, the Eight Great Vajras sent Xuanzang and others to the capital of the Tang Dynasty - Chang'an!
(End of this chapter)