Does Leshan Giant Buddha have treasures?

Treasure is very attractive to many people. We can see that in all kinds of novels, people are always fighting for some legendary treasures. Although this treasure may be just a gimmick, many people are still fighting for it, risking their lives, not to mention what people will become if there is a treasure. Many people are actually curious about Leshan Giant Buddha. Leshan Giant Buddha has lasted for more than 1000 years, and many people may have thought about it. Is there any treasure hidden in it? After all, Leshan Giant Buddha is so big that it is not impossible to hide things. Moreover, the Leshan Giant Buddha was built on the mountain, and if there were no major accidents, the Buddha statue would not suffer any major damage. So is it possible to guess?

1. I don't know where the underground gate is yet. Leshan Giant Buddha is located at the confluence of Minjiang River, Qingyi River and Dadu River in Leshan City, Sichuan Province, facing Leshan City across the river. The Giant Buddha was built in the Tang Dynasty, with a height of 7 1 meter. This is the largest existing cliff stone statue in China.

At present, the only historical data about the construction of Leshan Giant Buddha is the stone statue of Maitreya Buddha in Lingyun Temple, Jiazhou, which was written by Wei Gao, our envoy in Xichuan, Jiannan at that time.

Judging from the content of the inscription, the giant Buddha project cost a lot, and the repair project was stopped twice. According to relevant scholars' research, the statue of Leshan Giant Buddha is constructed in strict accordance with the relevant dimensions of Buddhist "statue scale" and "thirty-two phases and eighty forms are good". There are 102 1 spiral knots on the top of the Buddha's head, and his fingers are slender and 8.3 meters long. The head, manner and costume of Leshan Giant Buddha have obvious tendency of Han nationality and secularization: burly figure, plump figure, hands touching knees, good-natured eyes and dignified appearance.

The giant Buddha was dug in the early years of Kaiyuan in the Tang Dynasty. While excavating the giant Buddha, he ordered Kingsguard to personally supervise the design and presided over the construction of the underground palace. Before and after the construction of the giant Buddha, it experienced more than 90 years of four emperors in the Tang Dynasty.

However, it is still unknown where the underground palace gate was built when the Giant Buddha was built.

The restoration of the Giant Buddha organized by Leshan Municipal Government began on 1962, which is the first large-scale restoration since the founding of New China. To everyone's surprise, when repairing the chest cavity, the workers found a closed hidden hole in front of the Buddha's abdomen, named after it was located in the heart of the Buddha's chest cavity. The discovery of the hidden cave makes people wonder whether this confirms the legend of the "treasure cave".

Zang Zang Cave is a rectangular darkroom with a height of 3.3m, a width of 1 m and a depth of 2m, which should be excavated manually. But to our great disappointment, the opened treasure chest is presented to everyone: scrap iron, lead leather and stone sealing. The only valuable stone in it is the stone seal, which is the "Tianning Pavilion Monument", a monument of the Song Dynasty, and a relic of the reconstruction of Tianning Pavilion. After the completion of the Giant Buddha, our ambassador built a 13-story Nanmu Elephant Hall, which was later burned down. Tianning Pavilion was rebuilt in the Song Dynasty and was later destroyed. The question is, why did the Tianning Pavilion memorial tablet built in the Song Dynasty become the seal stone of the hidden cave of the Giant Buddha?

In ancient times, there were many examples of building secret rooms on Buddha statues. According to Buddhist rituals, there is a "hidden hole" on the Buddha statue, and the hole is filled with "five grains" and "hardware". The five grains symbolize the Buddha's blessing of abundant grains, and the hardware represents the Buddha's blessing of "the way to make money". The difference is that most of these treasure caves are opened on the back of the Buddha statue, while Leshan Giant Buddha is dug in the center of the Buddha statue.

2. A "B-ultrasound physical examination" was conducted on the Buddha statue, and the result was that there was no mention of the treasure. According to the recollection of two witnesses at the scene, one thought that the scrap iron and lead skin in the dark cave should be left by grave robbers, and the time should not be too long, probably in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Another person thinks that the scrap iron in the darkroom should be a "gilded copper pot" and the prototype of lead skin should be a "lead skin scroll". If the speculation is true, then these scrap iron and lead skins should also be relics of the Song Dynasty.

But everything is just speculation, and the most important and only clue is the chronicle tablet. However, it is deeply regrettable that the Tianning Pavilion Chronological Monument temporarily preserved in Haishidong (the residence of Haitong monk) during the Cultural Revolution was unfortunately lost.

As for the words recorded on the tablet, what the darkroom was used for before and when it was repaired, this series of questions may not be revealed until the time is ripe.

In June, 2006, a large number of experts and scholars from China Academy of Sciences and local cultural management offices gathered in Leshan Giant Buddha, and it took about a week to have a subtle "B-ultrasound physical examination" of the Buddha.

The purpose of this "physical examination" is based on the concern for the internal structure of the Buddha's body. The giant Buddha has a history of 1200 years. For thousands of years, it has experienced natural disasters and been attacked by wars. The project named "Non-destructive Detection of Ground Penetrating Radar" includes four experts and scholars from Chengdu Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment of Chinese Academy of Sciences, five experts from the Cultural Management Institute of the Giant Buddha Scenic Area, and eight recruited staff. The electromagnetic wave of the geological radar used will penetrate 2 ~ 70 meters inside the giant Buddha.

Before the test, some experts said, "We will find out whether there are Buddhist instruments inside Leshan Giant Buddha. If there is, it is likely that it was 1200 years ago when the giant Buddha was built. "

With the official start of the detection work, after detecting the instep, legs, hands, thighs, chest and other parts of the giant Buddha one by one, the experts only made a brief announcement: "At present, the internal structure is basically stable and no abnormalities have been found." And said nothing about the treasure that people care about.

It seems that the hidden treasure of the giant Buddha will become a mystery of the ages again.

3. Design features of Leshan Giant Buddha Leshan Giant Buddha has a set of cleverly designed and concealed drainage system, which plays an important role in protecting the giant Buddha. In the bun of *** 18 on the head of the giant Buddha, there is a horizontal drainage ditch on the 4th, 9th and 18 floors respectively, and there is a ditch on the right chest to the left to connect with the ditch on the back of the right arm. Behind the ear, near the cliff, there are caves connected left and right; There is a hole at each end of the chest and back, but they don't drill through each other. These ditches and caves form a scientific drainage, moisture-proof and ventilation system to prevent the erosive weathering of the giant Buddha.

You can directly reach the bottom of the giant Buddha along the prismatic cloud plank road on the left side of the giant Buddha. Look up at the giant Buddha here and you will feel the height of the sky. There is a nine-curve ancient plank road on the right side of the statue. The plank road was dug along the right cliff of the Buddha statue, which was extremely steep and tortuous for nine times before reaching the top of the plank road. This is the right side of the giant Buddha's head, which is the top of Lingyun Mountain. Here you can see the carving art of the giant Buddha's head. There are 102 1 hairs on the top of the giant Buddha. From a distance, the bun is integrated with the head, but in fact it is embedded with stones one by one.

There is a hole about 25 cm deep inside the root of the lobe of the right ear of the giant Buddha, and the Buddha's ear is 7 meters long. It is not made of original rock, but made of wooden columns and decorated with hammer ash. A hole was also found at the lower end of the Buddha's nose, revealing three pieces of wood and a finished glyph. It shows that the protruding bridge of the nose is also lined with wood and decorated with hammer ash.

There is a closed hidden hole in the chest of the giant Buddha. Fengmen Stone is a chronicle of the reconstruction of Tianning Pavilion in Song Dynasty. The hole is filled with scrap iron, worn lead skin, bricks, etc. It is said that after the completion of the Buddha in the Tang Dynasty, a wooden pavilion was built to protect it from the sun and rain. From the many pillars and pile holes left on the edge, legs, arms, chest and instep of the giant Buddha, it can be clearly seen that there was once a giant Buddha pavilion. Rebuilt in the Song Dynasty, it was called "Tianning Pavilion" and was later destroyed. Defenders moved the monument to Shihai Cave for preservation, but it was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution.