The Great Qin Empire, Xianyang Imperial Capital, outside the city at 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 novice sitting upright beneath the Buddha statue, his gaze filled with gratification.
The young novice is only four years old, at an age when children are often disliked, yet he can calm himself and chant scriptures, truly possessing an innate Buddha Nature, a Buddha's son.
In the Great Qin Empire, where a hundred schools of thought contend, the Buddhist Sect, though a foreign belief, has not suffered discrimination.
However, the ideas advocated by Buddhism are not widely accepted by the Daqin people, so the incense offerings at Gold Mountain Monastery are not prosperous, and there are not many followers.
Besides chanting and vegetarianism, the monks in the temple must also be self-sufficient, tightening their belts to make ends meet.
