There is a small county town to the west of Xi'an City, called " Fufeng County ". This is a very small city, but it plays a decisive role in Chinese history because it is home to a thousand-year-old temple - " Famen Temple ", this temple built in the Eastern Han Dynasty was originally called "Ashoka Temple", and was later renamed "Famen Temple" by Li Yuan, the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
"Famen Temple" in Fufeng County, Xi'an
The most famous building in "Famen Temple" is the 13-level octagonal pagoda. It is said that the Buddhist treasure is enshrined in the pagoda. However, except for the records in ancient books, it has never been No one has seen these "treasures", and even the abbots in the temple, who have been handed down from generation to generation, have never mentioned the existence of these "treasures". Therefore, everyone just regarded it as a historical "rumor".
Until the morning of August 24, 1981, Fufeng County suddenly experienced strong winds, thunder and lightning, and non-stop rain. At that time, the main hall of Famen Temple was filled with monks, and Master Chengguan was leading the monks together. Chanting. At the same time, the monks at the "Ashoka Temple" in New Delhi, India, thousands of miles away, were also reciting scriptures under the leadership of Master Huiguo. At the same time, the wise master of the Jokhang Temple in Yangon, Myanmar, also led the monks in the temple to chant sutras all the time.
However, these three distant temples are chanting the same sutra at the same time, which is "Nirvana Sutra". Because these three mages seemed to sense that something was about to happen.
"Relics" appear in the world
At about 10 o'clock in the morning, Master Chengguan of "Famen Temple" in Fufeng County opened his eyes. He signaled the monks to stop chanting sutras, then raised his eyes and looked out the window, only to see a huge flower. Clouds rolled in from the southwest. Soon after, a snake-shaped lightning struck straight down from the clouds and hit the pagoda. A brilliant fireball instantly rose over the pagoda, and With an earth-shaking loud noise, the pagoda seemed to have been split open by a sharp steel knife, and half of it collapsed.
What is incredible is that the next day, two masters from India and Myanmar took the initiative to provide the news of China's "Famen Temple Pagoda Collapse" to their country's radio stations and made it public. In our country, it took a week before the news about the "pagoda collapse" was published. But only Master Chengguan and three other masters knew clearly that the collapse of the pagoda meant that the treasures guarded by "Famen Temple" for generations were about to appear!
6 years later, in 1987, when the archaeological team was maintaining the "Famen Temple Pagoda", they excavated the underground palace of the pagoda. Archaeologists found the legendary treasure of Buddhism in the underground palace - a section of Sakyamuni Buddha. Finger bone relics".
The "Buddha bone relics"
"Buddha bone relics" unearthed from the pagoda underground palace of Famen Temple are regarded as treasures by Buddhists. In addition to being the remains of the founder of Buddhism, Sakyamuni, they are also because they are Physical evidence that Buddhism is indestructible! Because they are still crystal clear and extremely hard after being burned by fire, in the eyes of Buddhists, this is proof that the "teachings" left by Buddha are true and true.
But apart from religious beliefs, the strangeness of " relic " should also be scientifically identified.
Scientific identification of "relics"
It was not until around 2014 that the "Fo Gong Temple" in Ying County, Shanxi Province, my country sent a "Buddha Tooth Relic" enshrined to the "Antwerp Diamond Appraisal Center" in Belgium for identification. Let people understand the various magical properties of "Buddha relic" for the first time under advanced modern instruments.
The identified " Buddha tooth " has crystal-like "small beads", and these "small beads" are "Buddha relics".
"Buddha's tooth" remains
"Buddha's tooth relic"
The appraiser is a doctor named Gao Bin. In the first step of the appraisal, Dr. Gao used "infrared and electron microscope detection" to prove that the "relic" and surrounding tissues There is no "organic carbon" in the relic, which rules out the possibility that the "relic" is a man-made artifact.
In the second step, Dr. Gao conducted a composition analysis on the "relics", and the results showed that the carbon element in the "relics" was as high as 99.97%, and the remaining 0.03% was composed of sulfur, zinc, silicon, and strontium. He found that these elements were exactly the same as The composition of the diamond matches up quite well. Could it be that the "Buddha bone relic" is a diamond? Dr. Gao couldn't believe it, and then he tested the thermal conductivity and hardness of the "relic" according to the diamond identification process. The final result stunned Dr. Gao. The "relic" was comparable to diamonds in some physical indicators.
Dr. Gao still couldn't believe the previous results because it was beyond his scope of knowledge. So he used the "X-diffractometer" that observes the diamond crystal structure to observe the "relic" structure. This sight made Dr. Gao's jaw drop. The crystals in the "relics" turned out to be clear "hexagonal crystals". You must know that diamonds on the earth are either "triclinic crystals" or "equiaxed crystals", and " "Hexagonal crystal" diamonds only exist in meteorite !
In other words, the "relics" are not only diamonds, but they are not diamonds on the earth, but diamonds "flying from the sky"! This kind of " meteorite diamond " has only been seen once in Dr. Gao's life through glass in a museum in Washington. There are currently only two "meteorite diamonds" in the world, which shows that they are extremely rare. And now this "relic" is suspected to be this kind of "meteorite diamond"!
"Meteorite Diamond" collected by the Washington Museum
What shocked Dr. Gao the most was that under the " electron microscope " that was magnified 1,000 times, the "relic" actually showed the complete image of five seated Buddhas! This is quite consistent with the shape of the " Five Directions Buddha " in Buddhism! Dr. Gao didn't know how to give a final definition to this "relic".
Seated Statue of the Five Directions Buddha
Faced with such fantastic test results, scientists hope to conduct continuous and repeated experimental tests on more "relics" to try to solve the unsolved mysteries of the "relics". However, Buddhists believe that this is a desecration of "Buddhist sacred objects" and are unwilling to provide any more "relics" for inspection. Therefore, the detection of "relics" by the Belgian Gemstone Appraisal Center is also the only one in the world so far.
And it was this only detection that allowed people to see that there are still many confusing and unsolved mysteries behind the "relics"! It has also given many people a new understanding of "Buddha"...
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