Jin Shi Kong Hua Lu

Under the light and shadow of the Thousand Buddhas at the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, a reincarnation of cause and effect that spans thousands of years quietly unfolds. On the wedding night of the talented Northern Song Dynasty girl Li Qingzhao and the epigraphy scholar Zhao Mingcheng, a fragment of the Northern Wei Dynasty's "Maharaprajna Sutra" revealed their past fate. The two were actually the reincarnations of the guardians of the Dunhuang Sutra Cave, and were tasked with suppressing the formless demon. From the farewell of life and death between the scripture copying girl and the Dharma Protector General in the Tang Dynasty, to the yin and yang cultivators who were enemies of each other at the Xixia Water and Land Dharma Meeting, they all fell into the Shura path due to obsession in ten lifetimes of love and calamity. In order to break the curse of not having a happy death in ten lives, the two set out on a dangerous road to find the map of the Three Realms in Dunhuang. From the magic mirror in the darkroom of Mogao Grottoes that reflects the death of previous lives to the Sanskrit jade slips of "Yogini's Earth Treatise" buried under the ruins of Suoyang City, every time the Buddha is touched, time and space are disrupted. They are not only members of the archaeological team excavating the Dunhuang suicide notes, but also the sponsors of the blood sacrifices in the thousand-year-old murals. In the end, at the unobstructed Dharma assembly at the bottom of the Crescent Moon Spring, Li Qingzhao used the "Jade Ci" as a sword to cut off the chains of karma. Zhao Mingcheng used the Dunhuang star map to activate the Tathagata Formation of the Great Sun. In the final choice between color and space, he rewrote the "Dunhuang Soul Book" at the cost of his soul. This work, which combines Dunhuang studies, Tantric rituals and Eastern fantasy, embeds the ten mystical narratives of the Avatamsaka Sutra through ten reincarnations, and buries under the quicksand of Mingsha Mountain a soul-stirring song about the selflessness of all dharmas.