Ome Quartet of Snow Country

Chapter 228 Hase Temple

I visited the Great Buddha of Kamakura at Kotoku-in Temple, and at a cost of [-] yen per person, I went inside the hollow Buddha to have a look. Shangzi and Haixing regretted it when they came out.

"I told you there's nothing in it."

"But I'm still curious..."

Apart from the giant Buddha, there was nothing else to see at Gaodeyuan, the three of them turned around and left, going back along the way they came from.

At a certain intersection, Naruse grabbed the two of them and turned to the right.

"Is Hase Temple here?"

"Ah."

The two soon saw the sign on the side of the road.

"There are so many temples in Kamakura."

"This was also the center of Japan a long time ago."

Go straight along the road under your feet, and you will find the gate of Changgu Temple.

A beautiful pine tree grows obliquely outside the gate of the temple, with dense needles and lush greenery.

Next to the pine tree stood two unknown small Buddha statues, with incense burners in front of them and flowers offered by believers beside them.

The three of them knew nothing about Buddhism and Dao, they couldn't tell whether the two statues were Buddhas or Bodhisattvas, and they didn't want to care so much, they just worshiped.

After buying tickets, enter through the side door. Hase Temple, which has a history of 300 years, is most famous for the eleven-faced Guanyin statue enshrined in the Guanyin Hall in the temple. After entering the temple, the three of them went straight to the main hall.

Entering a quiet hall, one can see a golden Bodhisattva statue about ten meters high standing in the deepest part at a glance.

Baoxiang was solemn and compassionate, silently watching everyone in the hall.

Hai Xing raised his head, "This is Changgu Guanyin..."

Changgu Eleven-faced Avalokitesvara has three faces on the front, three on the left and one on the left, one on the top of the head and one on the back, just as its name suggests.

The expressions on the eleven faces are also different, implying to listen to the different wishes of different believers and to rescue them.

"If one day a bodhisattva with eleven faces suddenly asks me what my wish is, I'll probably die of fright before I open my mouth... ummmmm——"

Naruse covered Hai Xing's mouth, facing the eyes of the monk next to him and other worshipers, his head grew big.

"How dare you talk nonsense everywhere!" He whispered in her ear, then bowed his head slightly to the monk who was staring at him, and smiled, hoping that the other party would not mind the child's nonsense.

"..."

The monk really didn't mind, and nodded slightly to him, closing his eyes and smiling.

Naruse breathed a sigh of relief.

On the contrary, a few elderly worshipers next to them were still looking at them, looking unhappy, and kept muttering something in their mouths.

He could understand their dissatisfaction, but he was too lazy to respond.

As long as you don't get kicked out by the monk...

His chest suddenly sank.

He lowered his head, starfish was leaning against his arms, his cheeks and ears were flushed, and he was already a little unsteady.

Naruse immediately let her go.

"..."

Standing firm, Hai Xing lowered his head, touched his ears again, and apologized in a voice so low that it was almost inaudible after a while.

"Sorry……"

"You should apologize to the Bodhisattva first."

Glancing at Changgu Bodhisattva, she clasped her hands together and bowed her head.

"Thank you Bodhisattva...ah, no, I'm sorry."

"..."

Naruse pursed his lower lip, pretending he didn't hear.

Shangzi leaned over, maybe she didn't want to disturb the solemn atmosphere in the hall, so she also leaned into his ear and asked softly:
"Didn't it say that Hase Avalokitesvara is the largest wood-carved Avalokitesvara Buddha statue in existence, this..."

The warm breath made him itchy.

Naruse glanced at the statue of Avalokitesvara, collected himself, and replied in a low voice, "This is the golden body that was molded later."

"I see."

Starfish also came over, "What are you talking about?"

"Talk about the Bodhisattva."

"..."

She looked at the two of them with disbelief on her face.

After a few more obeisances, the three of them breathed a sigh of relief when they came out of the solemn Guanyin Hall.

"It feels like that monk has been staring at me..."

"Maybe it's because I think you have a predestined relationship with Buddha."

"Hey, I don't want to be a nun..."

From Guanyin Hall, a few steps forward is Jianqingtai.

The location halfway up the mountain has a very wide view, and you can see most of the urban area of ​​Kamakura and the connected Yui Marina Bay.

"The view here is really good..."

The three of them leaned on the fence and watched for a while.

"It is said that the eleven-faced Avalokitesvara came from the sea," Naruse said.

Both Shangzi and Haixing looked over.

"In Nara more than 300 years ago, someone used the same sacred tree to carve two statues of Guanyin Bodhisattva."

"One is enshrined in Hase Temple in Nara, and the other is pushed into the sea, hoping that the Bodhisattva will go to a place of fate to save suffering and save all living beings."

"15 years later, another statue of Buddha appeared in Kanagawa. In order to enshrine Kannon Bodhisattva, people at that time built Kamakura Hase Temple."

Both of them were a little fascinated.

Hai Xing blinked, then looked back at the Guanyin Temple.

"Is the statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva enshrined in it now the one that floated over from Nara at that time?"

Naruse leaned against the guardrail and looked over there, "The legend goes like this."

"awesome……"

"So the Bodhisattva heard all the bad things you said just now."

"Woo!...I apologize..."

Shang Zi smiled, "Stop bullying Hai Xing."

Holding his arms, Naruse left from the guardrail.

"Let's go, I'm already very hungry, let's find a place to eat."

"it is good."

The two followed, and Hai Xing glanced at the other side, then looked away, and quickly looked over again.

"That seems to be a place to eat."

Naruse also took a look, and kept walking, "That's Haiguang'an, a restaurant that serves vegetarian meals."

"That is to say..."

"It's all vegetarian, no meat."

"Oh!" Starfish quickly followed up again.

"My mother and I ate at that restaurant once." Naruse said as he walked, "Have you ever eaten curry rice without meat? It's there."

"Wow...can it still be called curry without meat?"

"Actually, the taste is okay."

"Eh?"

After leaving Jianqing Terrace, on the way down the mountain, the three of them made a detour to the Dizang Hall to pay their respects.

What is enshrined here is the thousand-body Jizo, and countless large and small Jizo Buddha statues are enshrined in the open air, densely packed, making it difficult to look away.

"..."

Hai Xing stared at Naruse in a daze, then looked at Naruse again when he came back to his senses, hesitant to speak.

He didn't look at her, and glanced at the mottled or brand-new Ksitigarbha Buddha statues one by one, "Just say what you want, there are no monks here."

"I just want to say... a timid child who comes here will definitely have nightmares at night."

Naruse pulled Shangzi and stood two steps aside, clasped his hands together and bowed.

"That's what she said, it has nothing to do with us..."

Shangzi also bowed his head in obeisance.

"Ahhh." Hai Xing hurried over, and kept worshiping the Bodhisattva, trying to save something.

Naruse pulled Naoko to hide aside again.

"Let's stay away from her... Then Earth Store Bodhisattva will only look for her at night, not us."

"Do not be like that!"

Shangzi giggled.

While playing around, some worshipers came up the steps, and the three of them calmed down quickly.

Hai Xing kept clasping his hands in front of his chest, not daring to let them go.

"How many Ksitigarbha Bodhisattvas are there?"

"'My avatars cover hundreds of billions of worlds of Ganges sand, and each world transforms into hundreds of billions of bodies, and each body saves hundreds of billions of people.' It is said in Buddhist scriptures." Naruse said.

"Have you ever read Buddhist scriptures?"

"No. It's just that when I came here for the first time, I was a little scared. After I went back, I checked the information of the thousand-body Jizo."

Hearing that he had the same reaction when he came here for the first time, Hai Xing couldn't help but smile.

"Then at night, hundreds of millions of Bodhisattvas of Earth Store came to look for me in my dreams."

"Ah, stop talking..."

On the grass at the side, there are also three Jizo of good fate leaning together, smiling and naive, much cuter.

The three of them bowed again before leaving the Ksitigarbha Hall, watching as they walked.

The clear spring flows from the mountain and flows into the release pond, where huge carp swim continuously.

Leaving Hase Temple and walking out along the way, there is an Okonomiyaki restaurant at the intersection. After asking Shangzi and Haixing for their opinions, Naruse decided to fill his stomach here.

"You have to do it yourself."

"Very simple."

(End of this chapter)