You know, young novices like them also have to exercise. It is said that Shishan Temple was built by a traveling monk from Dalin Temple, so there are some boxing and martial arts inheritance in Shishan Temple.
Although Shishan Temple does not have specialized martial monks like Dalin Temple, the novice novices in Shishan Temple are required to perform certain martial arts exercises since they first enter the temple.
After all, the future of these young novice monks may not be to stay in Shishan Temple.
After the exercise, the melodious bell rang.
This is when Shishan Temple starts its morning classes.
The monks of the entire monastery gathered in a side hall, and the host began to give lectures and explain the scriptures, and then the first senior brother led everyone to chant the scriptures together.
Fang Xiaoyue also participated.
Although there were not many people, he could feel the atmosphere inside, which made the priesthood he had just cast become inexplicably active.
Inadvertently, a faint white shimmer emitted from his body.
Fortunately, at this time, he tried his best to restrain this abnormality, otherwise, the result would not be easy to say.
After finishing morning classes and heading to the cafeteria to eat, Fang Xiaoyue couldn't help but sigh that her choice was correct.
Sure enough, this pagoda priesthood is related to Buddhism.
After breakfast, the host came to chat with Fang Xiaoyue.
He knew that the host came to chat with him, not just to chat, but probably to get to know him as a person.
After all, for a temple like Shishan Temple, the ordination of a new monk is definitely more stringent than that of ordinary temples.
From the chat with the host, Fang Xiaoyue learned that since Master Puding became the host until now, Shishan Temple has received more than 30 orphans.
"Then why do Shishan Temple have so many people now?"
Fang Xiaoyue was a little curious about this, but she also had her own guesses in her heart.
Maybe he went to another monastery, or maybe he was admitted to a Buddhist college and left?
"World Honored One, I am the Buddha, the young novice monks of Shishan Temple, and the poor monks do not force them to stay. After all, it is not their own wish for them to enter Shishan Temple..."
It turns out that when these young novices reach school age, the abbot will send them to school. As long as you can go to elementary school, junior high school, high school, or even university.
When they reach adulthood, the abbot will not force them to become monks, but will give them a choice.
However, young people always yearn for the outside world, and most novice monks will choose to go out and have a try when they grow up.
Only a small number of novice novices will choose to be ordained as monks, and the first senior monk is the only one who stays in Shishan Temple.
There are also some novice monks who choose to visit other temples.
I see.
But having said that, in Fang Xiaoyue's opinion, there is not necessarily a right or wrong between staying and going out. After all, Shishan Temple is only so big.
Imagine if there were more than 40 monks in Shishan Temple now, it would be difficult to even eat.
Although the local government will allocate funds to the temple, the amount of funds is only enough for five or six monks to chew their heads. More expenses are obtained from merit money and the abbot personally performing rituals for others.
But having said that, this host regards money as nothing.
With his reputation in the religious world, if he really wants to make money, among other things, if he recruits more lay disciples, there will be a lot of wealthy businessmen willing to invest money and help him!
No way, businessmen always like this.
Either he has done something bad in the past, and the first pot of gold that made him rich was not clean, and he wants to make up for it now, so as not to feel guilty even when he goes to bed.
Or just pray for yourself and your family, and hope everyone is safe.
No matter how bad it is, I still want to get some Buddhist aura and wealth from the host.
When Fang Xiaoyue said this, the host smiled and was speechless.
After chatting for a while, pilgrims came to the temple, and the abbot went to accompany them. But before leaving, the abbot gave Fang Xiaoyue a scripture and asked him to read it carefully.
The sutra is called "The Buddhist Sutra of the King of the World."
When Fang Xiaoyue came to the major planes before, she read too many books and absorbed too much knowledge and information.
I still know a little bit about the Buddha, the King of Freedom in this world.
In this life, King Ishvara Buddha is the master of Amitabha Buddha. Well, to be precise, he was the master of Amitabha Buddha before he became a Buddha.
Of course, Fang Xiaoyue did not pay attention to more information, and many books did not describe every detail of the Buddha.
Opening this sutra, Fang Xiaoyue looked at it. It was not so much a sutra as it was a record of the deeds and deeds of King Buddha of the World.
Well, this is not surprising. In fact, many scriptures are like this, recording the words, deeds, and thoughts of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.
However, the Sutra of the King of the World is not very long, only about a thousand words in total. It roughly records the birth, growth, hardships, experiences of becoming a Buddha, and some things after becoming a Buddha.
Fang Xiaoyue thought about it for a moment, and it was not surprising that the abbot gave her this sutra, because the Buddha statue in the main hall of Shishan Temple seemed to be the golden statue of King Buddha.
It seems that this Shishan Temple is a temple dedicated to King Buddha of the World.
This is not surprising, not every temple is dedicated to Buddha, but also to other gods and Buddhas.
It's just that in this aspect, Daomen is more free.
Therefore, the impression given to the world has become that wherever there is a temple, a statue of Buddha will be enshrined.
After reading this Buddhist Sutra of the King of Freedom, Fang Xiaoyue felt that the priesthood of Pagoda was a little more active, and then he subconsciously looked at the Buddhist Sutra of the King of Freedom and recited it again.
Sure enough, the pagoda priesthood became more active as the scriptures were recited.
There is no doubt that this also confirms some of Fang Xiaoyue's guesses.
This can't help but make him a little doubtful. If he is officially ordained and enters Buddhism, will the pagoda priesthood be able to completely break through the restrictions of the plane?
Of course, the only trouble now is that the host seems unwilling to accept his ordination and join Shishan Temple.
Can only wait.
Time passed day by day, and Fang Xiaoyue began to participate in morning and evening classes, and gradually integrated into the life of Shishan Temple.
He even had a good relationship with the fire-burning monk.
Because one day, the fire-burning monk fell ill with a cold, and Fang Xiaoyue was sent to help with the cooking.
Considering everyone's health, the fire-burning monk asked Fang Xiaoyue to take charge.
The fire-burning monk originally thought that today's meal was a waste.
But what he never expected was that just Fang Xiaoyue's sword skills would make him so mesmerized that he fell into admiration!
The fire monk didn't just spend more than 20 years cooking in the kitchen.
He also has pursuits. A few years ago, in order to improve his vegetarian cooking skills, after reporting to the host, he made a special trip to a well-known large temple and vegetarian restaurant to learn vegetarian cooking techniques.
This is definitely not because the host is greedy and wants to eat better vegetarian dishes.
Instead, the abbot allowed him to leave because the temple had been financially tight and the novice monks sometimes couldn't afford the tuition.
