Great Qin Empire, Xianyang Imperial City, outside the city, Gold Mountain Monastery.
This is a small temple, with only seven or eight monks in the entire monastery.
The old abbot gazed at the little monk seated under the Buddha statue, his eyes filled with satisfaction.
The little monk was only four years old, at an age when children are often disliked, yet he could quiet his mind to chant scriptures, truly born with Buddha Nature, a son of the Buddhist Sect.
In the Great Qin Empire, during the era of a hundred schools of thought, the Buddhist Sect, though foreign, did not face discrimination.
However, the philosophies promoted by Buddhism were not widely accepted by the Daqin people, resulting in sparse incense offerings and few believers at the Gold Mountain Monastery.
Besides chanting and following Buddhist practices, the monks also had to be self-sufficient, tightening their belts to get by.
