Chapter 238
The Eight Thangkas are also called the Eight Divine Cards, and they are ranked in no particular order. One is the thangka of Lord Kanoyan, the second is the thangka of the founder of the Sakya sect, the third is the thangka of Beji Dorje’s practice in the horn cave, the fourth is the thangka of the king of nectar Xuanming in the embroidered rock with seeds, and the fifth is the twin conjoined Vajra Sattva Thangka, 6, Yamantaka Vajra Black Thangka, 7, Colorful Precious Buddha Brocade Thangka, 8, Chengde Xumifu Temple Imperial Thangka of Sakyamuni Buddha.
Apart from these, if you want to be on par with Ashoka Tower, you may have to stay behind.
What is hidden in this tower we dug up in Harahot?
Judging from the size of those things, the gold bottle will definitely not fit in, the nine-eyed dzi bead is possible, and the thangka must be very small in size, and it must be rolled up. Of course, there is also something among living creatures that is qualified to be sealed in the Asoka Pagoda.
That is.
Relics.
And it has to be the relic of a great monk.
This tower was built during the Xixia period, and must be excluded from the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations.
It’s hard to say whether it’s a fake relic of Sakyamuni’s true body. What I’m talking about is the real relic of Tathagata Buddha himself.
Don’t think of it as a myth, Gautama Buddha was a real person who existed two thousand years ago.
The earliest prototype of the Ashoka Tower appeared in the Mauryan Dynasty of the Asan Kingdom. Ashoka was the third generation king of the Mauryan Dynasty. In his later years, he respected and believed in Buddhism.
According to legend, hundreds of years after the death of Gautama Buddha, King Ashoka of the Maurya Dynasty collected 14,000 relics of Gautama Buddha's true body, which included a skull, four teeth, and a middle finger bone. He built a total of 14,000 iron towers (some say 84,000) to worship these relics.
Therefore, what is recorded in our history books are the Buddha's crown bone relics, the Buddha's hair relics, the Buddha's finger bone relics, the Buddha's tooth relics, and the last kind of Buddha's shadow bone relics.
We didn’t know at the time that the parietal bone relics of the Buddha were unearthed many years later in 2010. The unearthed place was at the Great Baoen Temple. There are documentaries you can watch. If you want to know what the Asoka Pagoda looks like, you can also watch it because at that time the Buddha The parietal bone is kept in the Asoka Pagoda.
However, the Ashoka Pagoda is very big, more than one meter high. The one for me and Baotou is very small, only about 30 centimeters, so it can be considered a reduced version.
The boss and I discussed it all night and speculated on all the results we could think of. Finally, we roughly guessed that our pagoda may contain nine-eyed dzi beads, Buddha relics, and one of the small thangkas. .
If it were to be sold, it wouldn't be that big of a deal, but it just happened to be that I discovered it at this time.
To sell or not to sell became the current dilemma for me and Baotou.
Some friends may say, "Are you stupid? You don't know how to take out the things and sell the tower. Sell it for double money, you idiot. Even if you are robbing a tomb, I am smarter than you."
Someone will definitely say this, and it is correct, but we couldn't do it at first. The Ashoka Pagoda in the Great Baoen Temple was unearthed only a few years later. Go and see for yourself how laborious it is to open the tower completely. At that time, there were so many big guys from the Military Industrial Research Institute who spent more than three months researching the drawings before finally opening them intact.
Although it is not that complicated for our little one, it is still difficult.
To sell is to not sell first.
However, in order to open this thing and see what's inside, we have to use our old noses.
It is foreseeable how we can fully open Ashoka Tower without affecting sales.
Please see the breakdown next time.
