Calamities in Journey to the West? My heart and form are both void.

Summary

Emperor Li Er, accompanied by ministers and royal relatives, visits Huasheng Temple for a 49-day water and land Dharma assembly. Three thousand six hundred monks gather around Master Xuanzang to conduct the lecture. During the ceremony, a disruptive monk challenges the teachings, claiming Mahayana Buddhism is superior. The monk speaks about obtaining sacred scriptures from the Western Heaven's Jile world, located in the Thunder Sound Temple, requiring an arduous 80,000-mile journey filled with challenges and spiritual transformation.

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