Great Qin Empire, Xianyang Imperial City, outside the Gold Mountain Monastery.
This is a small temple, with only seven or eight monks in the entire monastery.
The elderly abbot looked at the young monk sitting serenely under the Buddha statue, his gaze filled with gratified admiration.
The young monk is only four years old, at the age when children are often disliked and troublesome, yet he can quietly focus on chanting scriptures, truly born with Buddha Nature, a son of Buddhism.
In the Great Qin Empire's time of a hundred schools of thought contending, the Buddhist sect, though a foreign faith, did not suffer discrimination.
However, the philosophies promoted by Buddhism are not widely accepted by the Daqin people, thus the Gold Mountain Monastery does not have a flourishing incense trade, nor many followers.
Besides eating vegetarian meals and chanting, the monks in the monastery also need to be self-sufficient, tightening their belts to get by.
