Leshan Giant Buddha: Are there secret underground palaces and heavy treasures in the body? Officially explored the secrets of the Buddha twice

China has a vast territory and many cultural relics. There are many buildings in China.. These buildings are not only intricately carved, but also majestic. The wisdom of the ancients is infinite, not only can they build the Great Wall, but also can build Buddha statues like the Leshan Giant Buddha. These artifacts attract tourists from all over the world every year.

(Leshan Giant Buddha)

Today I will introduce the Leshan Giant Buddha. I believe that many people have seen the Leshan Giant Buddha. This Buddha statue is relatively spectacular as a whole, but there are some circulating stories about this Buddha statue. Some people say that there are treasures hidden in the Buddha statue. But this seems to be just a rumor. In the last century, the government department has done related exploration . During the repair, it was found that the Buddha had an artificially excavated hole. This has led to all kinds of rumors seeming to come true. Is there really a treasure in ?

1. Why was the Leshan Giant Buddha built?

The Leshan Giant Buddha was unearthed in the early Yuan Dynasty in the Tang Dynasty. It hollowed out the entire mountain body on the banks of Lingyun Mountain. It took more than 90 years to complete . This process, through the efforts of several generations, can be described as a feat in human history. Obviously, ordinary people can't come up with such strange ideas. This idea was proposed by Master Haitong. But why build this big Buddha? Is just to show my devotion to the Buddha?

From a structural point of view, such a huge platform seems to support a height of 300 meters. It is hard to imagine that the productive forces of the Tang Dynasty could build such a huge building. Even today, it is not an easy task to build super high-rise buildings over 100 meters . In addition, the Tang Dynasty was the main era of wooden architecture. Maybe the Leshan Giant Buddha is related to the belief in Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty.

(Location of the cave entrance of the Leshan Giant Buddha)

Second, why are there rumors that the Leshan Giant Buddha has secret underground palaces and treasures?

The Leshan Giant Buddha has been unearthed for nearly a century. Surprisingly, Lingyun Temple, the core of China's Zen gate, became one of the most important places. At the entrance of Lingyun Temple where the Big Buddha is located, a famous Zen gate, it is majestic.. Lingyun Ancient Temple is a well-deserved important place for pre-Buddhism.

Since the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the famous temples and temples in our country have unwritten traditional . In many famous temples, there are secret temples that hide Buddhist treasures. The most typical example is Famen Temple in Fufeng County, Shaanxi Province. In 1987, the true body of the Buddha's finger unearthed in Famen Temple was invaluable, and was even found in Daben Temple, Nanjing. It is questionable whether the location of the Zen Gate is different from that of the two temples above.

Frankly, this view is questioned not only by ordinary people, but also by experts . The monks of Lingyun Temple in the past few generations have been searching for treasures around the Leshan Buddha, but after searching for many years, there is still no clue . But in 1962, the "treasure hole" discovered in the chest of the Leshan Giant Buddha made this speculation even more credible.

in 1962, the Leshan Municipal Government organized personnel to repair the Buddha statue. When the workers repaired the Buddha statue, they found a cave on the cliff above the statue's chest. The builders were surprised. At the time, people reported the situation to local administration.

Archaeologists immediately boiled when they heard the news, and found the Great Buddha Palace in Leshan for thousands of years..So are there really treasures and secret dungeons? Guo Moruo was originally from Leshan. After hearing the news, he contacted the hometown government many times, hoping to participate in the investigation of this secret cave.

(Guo Moruo)

The Leshan Municipal Government quickly organized the masses to start excavation. The hole is located in the middle of the Buddha statue's chest, is 3.3 meters high and 1 meter wide. The hole is closed by a secret door. It is generally difficult to see such a cave from the outside.

According to Buddhist etiquette, there must be "grain hardware" in the dirty hole. This "hardware" is often a precious treasure of Buddhism. Archaeologists carefully opened the stone and found the hole was only about 2 meters deep. The space inside the room is about 2 square meters. This place is not big, just used for treasure.

The experts searched the hole carefully, lest they missed the legendary treasure , but they searched the whole hole and there was only a little bit of rotting lead and iron and nothing else. The stone on the door still holds some meaning, helping to document this little-known history.

In the middle of the cliffs on both sides of the Leshan Giant Buddha, there is also a 13-story wooden "big pavilion", and the Buddha is covered by the entire "big pavilion". The pavilion was destroyed by fire. The Song Dynasty rebuilt another place called "Tianning Pavilion" . During the Song-Yuan War, it was affected by the war. The monument was then sealed inside the chest of the Buddha. At that time, there was no idea what was hidden in the cave.

Third, the official probed into the secrets of the Giant Buddha twice

Whether from the customs of the Tang Dynasty or from the Buddhist tradition, the Leshan Giant Buddha may be the most precious Buddhist treasure.This is not only recognized by experts, but also by many eminent monks of the local Buddhist association.

The author Jun Zeng talked about this with an old monk in Mount Emei. He believed that when Indian Buddhism spread in the East, a large number of Buddhist treasures flowed into the Central Plains. Later, Indian Buddhism was localized, and these Buddhist treasures also flowed to famous mountain temples in the Central Plains.

The Leshan Giant Buddha is very important and probably has some treasures as well . At least, some of the secret treasures of Buddhism are possible. There are a large number of Buddhist relics in the Buddhist temples of Mount Emei. The Leshan Giant Buddha is so close to Emei, there may be a lot of treasures.

In fact, the government is also very suspicious of this. In 1989, the Leshan Municipal Government organized a Buddha body exploration activity. This is not only a repair, but also a time to see if the Buddha's body has a palace. The final result of is still nothing.

In 2006, the government and experts did not give up , and under the leadership of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, they sent a relatively advanced geological radar to detect it. Experts involved in the exploration work said: "We will explore the inside and around the Buddha to see if there are secret underground palaces and treasures inside the Buddha. If there is, its existence is likely to have been chiseled when the Buddha was built more than 1,200 years ago. It came out."

The expert group spent a whole week to conduct a comprehensive inspection of the 2-70 meters of the mountain inside the Buddha statue, and found no treasures or secret underground palaces. Since then, every time the Buddha statue is restored, every scenic spot management committee and the Buddhist community are full of hope, and the people of Leshan are also full of hope, but in the end they have not found it.

It is not yet certain whether there are palaces or treasures hidden within the body of the Leshan Buddha. After all, the geological radar can only detect mountains up to 70 meters high. No one knows what's going on deeper than . 1200 years have washed away all traces of history.

Summary

Later, there were related experts to conduct exploration, but in the end nothing was found. The caves hidden in the Leshan Giant Buddha have already been discovered by others. As for whether there is a treasure hidden or not, no one knows. Up to now, there are still many opinions about whether there is a secret underground palace in the Buddha.

The Leshan Giant Buddha is one of the important buildings. If there is a secret underground palace in it, There may be a lot of treasures. If it doesn't, it's not a big deal either. Buddhists need not regret not finding the remains of monks and treasures of Buddhism. As for whether the Leshan Giant Buddha hides treasures, I believe that an accurate answer will be obtained in the near future.