Ancient Buddha Sarira were relics left behind when ancient Buddhas passed into nirvana, and could also be seen as the Dao Fruit gained from their entire lifetime of cultivation.
These objects condensed the essence of their magical power and contained the purest Buddha-nature.
And because the owners of Sarira had achieved different fruit ranks in life, they were divided into three grades: Buddha Sarira, Bodhisattva Sarira, and Arhat Sarira. Among them, Buddha Sarira were the supreme treasures of the Buddhist Sect, of the highest quality.
Lu Chuan had heard the Buddhist Sect's legend of the Three Ages Buddhas, divided by time into past, present, and future.
Tathagata held command over the entire Buddhist Sect, and his Mahayana Buddhism had become the orthodox tradition of the Buddhist Sect. The Hinayana Buddhism once cultivated by the ancient Buddhas headed by Randeng had naturally been updated and replaced, abandoned by the Buddhist Sect.
The most essential difference between Mahayana and Hinayana Buddhism lay in the word "salvation."
Randeng's Hinayana Doctrine advocated self-rescue and self-salvation for all living beings, that everyone could pass through bitter cultivation and enter nirvana, but not everyone could become a Buddha;
Tathagata's Mahayana Doctrine advocated not only saving oneself, but also saving others, proclaiming that as long as believers had devout faith, everyone could become a Buddha.
It had to be said that, judging from the doctrine itself, Randeng had put thought into it. Setting aside grudges and prejudice, Lu Chuan actually rather agreed with Randeng's thinking. After all, in this world, only the human heart was hardest to fathom. Everyone becoming an immortal might sound very beautiful, but putting it into practice was extremely unrealistic.
Even now, when the various great immortals traveled the mortal world, even if they saved people, they only saved those with fate. It