Chapter 4-032: The Ghost Fox of Jingshui Temple
Island County. Shizuzu-ji Temple.
It seems that Japan is really a world of otaku, and anything can be cute.
Su Ze let out a long breath, he really didn't know what to say.
He was watching the festival ceremony held at a nearby temple called Jingshui Temple, but what made him laugh and cry was that all the statues and portraits of this ceremony were cute and mother-in-law."
"Are the monks in this temple all otaku? I rely on" Su Xue looked at a statue of a Bodhisattva in front of him that had been turned into a lolita-like shape, and then looked at the propaganda car plastered with cartoon Buddha statues next to him, and he really felt crying and laughing.
Not to mention, this kind of stuff that looks like a spoof in other countries is still eaten by Japanese people.
The inside and outside of this small temple has been filled with people, and people have stopped everywhere. A sea of believers and onlookers. Su Ze estimated that there were at least three thousand people. These believers and the masses all looked red and fluttered with small eyebrows, and they all lined up to go in to offer incense and donations.
Su Xue came here today, firstly, to find someone, and secondly, to come and see this by the way, the so-called most prosperous temple on Kyushu Island in recent times.
"Damn, what the hell are these Japanese thinking!"
But he never expected that what he saw would be such a scene. It's so speechless.
Su Xue looked at it for a while, and then came to the side door of the temple. Ring the doorbell.
A man dressed in monk's robes came out and opened the door. looked at Su Ze, and saluted: "Layman, please go to the main gate when you enter the incense."
"I'm not here to make incense, I'm here to find someone
Su Xue was dumbfounded when he replied just now.
Because the person who opened the door was a beautiful little girl, just wearing a monk's robe. But he still has long hair on his head. The weirdest thing is that this little girl also dyed her hair.
Su Ze reacted quickly, and he couldn't help but curse in his stomach. "What kind of bird place is this, is it a monk's temple or a nunnery? Even if it's a nun, how can you still dye your hair?"
The little girl, who didn't know if she was a nun, asked, "Who are you looking for?"
"Uh, I'm looking for the Zen Master Youhu" Su Ze replied with a strong sense of disobedience: I am the host of the Ozuku Oval Shrine. Kurokawa Keitoku"
"Oh, host Kurokawa, please come with me" The little girl bowed and led Su Ze in.
After leading Su Ze to the living room and sitting down, the little girl ran out. He faintly heard the little girl shouting, "Master, Master" The Kurokawa host of the Ibusuki Shrine has come to look for you"
", monks can also accept nuns and apprentices. What kind of world is this?" Su Xue listened to it.
Although he also knows what kind of bird temple this is, it is not a serious Buddhist temple. And he also knows that monks of many sects in Japan can marry wives and have children in a dignified manner, and the temple can also be passed on to children and grandchildren.
But it's still very disobedient.
After a while, a monk walked in with a smile on his face.
As soon as he entered the house, he laughed and said, "You are Tokurokuro's nephew Keitoku, okay, you are really a talent..."
The monk looked to be in his thirties, wearing a red robe and a picture of his eyes. He is white and chubby, with short hair on his head that is more than half an inch long. If you don't wear a robe, you look like a typical otaku.
"You're the Zen Master of Youhu, right? I'm Kurokawa Keitoku," Su Ze stood up and saluted.
The little girl came over to bring tea and snacks, and the fox of Jingshui Temple smiled: "Qingde." You came to me this time, is there anything you can do?"
"Oh, Zen Master Youhu, I'm here to ask you about the conversion this time," Su Ze said straight to the point.
"Are you ready to resect?" Jingshui Temple Youhu was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and smiled: "Hey, your uncle is too stubborn, I told him about the conversion a long time ago, but he just didn't want to." ”
Then he said, "Qingde, you are smarter than your uncle. Knowing that there is no future for the oval Shrine in Ibusuki. The traditional market over there in Ibusuki has been robbed by these guys from the Meiwen Shrine and the Izuku Shrine, and they just want to worship the oval, and they also run to Yoshida" This guy from the quiet water temple Youhu is a self-acquaintance, Su Ze only said two words, and then he heard this guy talking about the situation in the religious market, and also boasted about some ways to make more money on believers.
Su Ze laughed when he heard it, is this guy a monk or a businessman? It seems that Master Yongxin can finally sigh "My way is not alone".
In fact, Shizuzuji Temple is also one. The converted temples, they used to be Pure Land sects. But after it was passed to the generation of Lao Tzu Youzhai of Jingshui Temple Youhu in Jingshui Temple, he converted to Buddhism. At that time, it was the era of the power century, and it was the time when new religions began to flourish, and various cat and dog sects sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.
Youhu and his Laozi Youzhai also caught up with a trend, claiming to have dreamed of a "Empty Fox Du'er Golden Light Buddha" and taught him what "Do'er**" and a bunch of other things. So this guy created a self-proclaimed sect leader of the "Empty Fox Sect", changed the ancestral Jingshui Temple to the general headquarters of the "Empty Fox Sect", and worshiped the Pure Land Sect.
This kind of thing would be very rare in other countries. It is okay for believers to convert, but the conversion of clergy is still very contemptible. But in Japan, this kind of thing is "not even shocked, because in ancient times, they often ... Knife muscles, it's not worth the fuss at all.
Of course, there is another important reason, which is that the vast majority of religious sites in Japan are private property. Of course, whether or not the believers can be caught after the conversion depends on each person's ability.
According to Su Ze's understanding, there is no shortage of religious places in Japan that have been converted many times because of bad business. Even examples of changing from a temple to a shrine and from a shrine to a church are not uncommon.
The conversion of Japanese gods is as simple as eating. What's even more interesting is that they can not only convert, but also do both. That is, the same god, he can open shrines, temples, churches, even mosques and anything else at the same time. As long as he continues to do it, he will fool the believers.
In Su Ze's view, the religious atmosphere in Japan is really strange in the world, and it is completely a model of marketization and secularization. When people open temples, they are doing business. If you want to come to China, you must not know how much to envy your Japanese counterparts, you have to hide it to make money in China, and you have to find some excuses to get by.
"It seems that Japan is a paradise for gods!" Su Ze couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He now feels more and more that he has chosen to develop the Celestial Church in Japan, which is very correct, and other places
Shi Yong: "No, the Youhu Zen Master of Jingshui Temple faced Su Ze, and he had been blowing for most of the day, and he might have felt a little thirsty, so he took a sip of the tea bowl and said, "Qingde, which sect are you going to change?"
"Know..."
Before Su Xue could speak, the bald donkey slapped his thigh, grabbed the conversation and said:
"Uh, what do you think of our Empty Fox Sect? Your uncle must have told you, we, the Empty Fox Sect and your Ibusuki Oval Lotus Shrine have a very deep relationship, not to mention that our two families are world friends for the time being, when my father was staying at your shrine, he was enlightened by the Empty Fox Du Erjin Light Buddha, and it was created, the Empty Fox Sect ,..."
Su Ze rolled his eyes when he heard this. I couldn't stop scolding in my heart: The grass and mud horses of the Maragobi! The Buddhist Buddha will come to the Shinto shrine to ignite your father? Even if it is a fool, there must be a little limit!
However, the bald donkey himself did not brag, according to his one. The information left by "Uncle Cheap" does have this record. His "uncle" specifically mentioned that Shizusuji Yusai was the revelation he received at the Ibusuki Oval Shrine.
Of course, Su Ze didn't believe in this kind of foolishness, he strongly suspected that this old bald donkey was inspired by the fox statue at the shrine, so he created this Laoshzi Empty Fox Sect.
Because the main Buddha enshrined by the Empty Fox Sect, the "Empty Fox Du Erjin Light Buddha", is a fox that has attained enlightenment. And the most famous of the Oval Shrine is the fox, and there is even the misunderstanding that the god Inari himself is a fox. If you want to say that there is no relationship between the two, Su Xue didn't believe it even if he was killed.
Although Jingshui Temple still plays the brand of Buddhism, in Su Ze's opinion, their nature is similar to the original religions of Aum Shinrikyo, uh, or original cults.
Because this so-called "Empty Fox Erjin Light Buddha" is obviously a plagiarism of the legend of Shintoism, where is there any fox in Buddhism who has become a Buddha?
There are many legends of "foxes" in Japan, which were first passed down from China, but were soon localized by the Japanese, and many branches were derived.
For example, in Chinese mythology, the nine-tailed fox is the highest position of the fox. But in Japanese mythology, the nine-tailed fox is not the highest, and there are two levels above it, namely the "sky fox" and the "empty fox"
Japan's fairy fox and demon fox are collectively called fox spirits, and the nine-tailed fox is a hurdle, and the following is called "demon fox" and the above is called "fairy fox". The fox spirit originally only had one tail, and as the demon power grew, the tail would split into one, and eventually it would become nine, which was the nine-tailed fox, which means that the more tails the demon fox became, the stronger it was, so the nine-tailed fox was the final form of the demon fox.
But after the fox spirit has nine tails, it can't continue to grow.
At this time, if you want to go further, you must enter the Shinto system as an immortal and become a fairy fox.
At this point, the situation is the opposite of before, the more the fox spirit grows closer to the god, the less the tail is.
When the nine-tailed fox has been cultivating for more than four years, the tail is reduced to licking, and the eyes become golden, the fox spirit at this stage of becoming a "sky fox" begins to deify, with a powerful supernatural power far beyond the nine-tailed fox, and has clairvoyance, and has the ability to see through all kinds of things.
After becoming a sky fox, and then cultivating the fox spirit of the blade year, it became an "empty fox" At this time, it has no tail, and appears as a human, only the ears are the ears of foxes.
And this image of "Empty Fox Erjin Light Buddha" is obviously a little "empty fox", and after being cute, it becomes a cute fox-eared Lori.
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