Book 1: Chapter 196

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Book 1: Chapter 196

When we came down just now, we stopped looking at the plaques and thus didn't pay any attention to the beams. We didn't realize that there was such a big thing hanging there, but now that we had looked up and seen it, we were covered in a cold sweat.

This floor was too high, so when we pointed our flashlights up, we could only tell that the thing looked like a big bell with a lot of things stuck on it. They seemed to be spells and paper money. I was amazed at how those paper-like things didn't rot after so many years, but after careful observation, I felt that they seemed to be made of silks and satins. If they had silver and gold threads woven into them, they could be preserved for a long time.

"What the hell? Whos going to ring such a high bell? Fatty touched the back of the head. We saw something fall from inside the bell and hit the surface of the hot spring, sending out ripples. "It's too hot. Is this bell melting?"

I squinted. The cold firework had gone out completely by now, so the waters surface was out of sight. I swept my flashlight over the ceiling, thinking that it was quite normal to have a bell in a tower. Black Glasses whispered from the side, "The twenty-fourth volume of Ekottara gama (1) says: Prince nanda flicked his fingers from side to side and immediately went up to the lecture hall. He was holding a hammer and saying: Ill hit this faith-instilling drum today, and all of Tathagatas disciples shall gather." (2)Updated from novelbIn.(c)om

"What do you mean flicked his fingers from side to side?"

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TN Notes:

(1) An early Indian Buddhist text, of which currently only a Chinese translation is extant (Taish Tripiaka 125). The title Ekottara gama literally means "Numbered Discourses". Its one of the four gamas of the Stra Piaka located in the Chinese Buddhist Canon. English wiki here (limited info). Chinese wiki here (lots of info).

(2) Prince nanda was Buddhas cousin and his closest disciple. Wiki link here. Tathagata is Buddha's name for himself. It has many layers of meaning Sanskrit: thus gone, having been Brahman, gone to the absolute, etc.

(3) Braham bells can also be called Sanskrit bells. Its said that by hearing the sound of the bell, people can open their minds and break free from their worries. Brahman means purity. Can look something like this: