In the Journey to the West, although Rulai is the head of the Lingshan Group, he is not the only Buddha in Lingshan.
In the seventy-seventh chapter of the original work, Sun Wukong was defeated by the three demons of Lion Camel Ridge and went to Lingshan to ask Rulai for help. Rulai knew that the three demons of Lion Camel Ridge were strong in mana, especially the third golden-winged Dapeng eagle, and their personal strength was not inferior to Sun Wukong, so he dispatched an extremely luxurious lineup to suppress the three demons, and the book wrote -
"I saw the three Buddha statues of the past, the future, and the present, as well as the five hundred arhats and the three thousand gods of the truth, scattered left and right, surrounding the three demon kings, and the water could not be passed."
The three Buddha statues of the past, the future, and the present here refer to the three Buddhas of the Lingshan Group, which are the Buddha of the past, the Buddha of the future and the Buddha of the present.
Now the Buddha is the current head of the Lingshan Group, the Buddha was the Buddha of the lamp in the past, and he was the former head of the Lingshan Group; The future Buddha is Maitreya Buddha, the next head of the Lingshan Group.
The three Buddhas not only have a noble status, but also all have a strong mana cultivation, taking Rulai as an example, his mana is so profound that even the Monkey King who havoc in the heavenly palace is far away.
In the seventh chapter of the original work, Sun Wukong made trouble in the Heavenly Palace, and went straight to the Lingxiao Treasure Palace, and the Jade Emperor Xuan Rulai suppressed it. Rulai proposed to make a bet with Sun Wukong, as long as Sun Wukong could fly out of his right palm, he would persuade the Jade Emperor to give him the Heavenly Palace. Sun Wukong readily agreed.
However, even though he had a somersault of 108,000 miles, he couldn't fly out of the palm of his hand. When he failed in his bet, Rulai flipped his hand again, Sun Wukong had no power to resist, and was forced to be pressed by him under the Five Elements Mountain and sentenced to 500 years in prison.
As for the Buddha of the Burning Lamp and the Buddha of Maitreya, since the two of them can be called the three Buddhas together with Rulai, their mana cultivation should be on par with Rulai, and it may be that the Buddha of the Burning Lamp is even better.
We know that Monkey King's mentor Bodhi Patriarch is also a top god, with unfathomable mana cultivation, and he is also far above Sun Wukong.
At that time, Sun Wukong was reprimanded by the Bodhi Patriarch for showing off his spells because he turned into a pine tree. The Bodhi Patriarch decided to drive him down the Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, but he was worried that he would do something wrong under his banner after coming down the mountain, so he sternly warned: "If you go, you will have a bad life, but no matter how you get into trouble, you are not allowed to say my name, otherwise you will be skinned and filed, and your soul will be reduced to the land of the Nine Secluded Places, so that you will not be able to turn over." ”
Bodhi Patriarch can actually make Sun Wukong not turn over, just imagine, if it is not far above Sun Wukong's strength, how can he do this?
Speaking of which, everyone must be very curious, if the three Buddhas of Lingshan join forces, can they defeat the Bodhi Patriarch? We can see the clues from the words of Patriarch Bodhi.
In the second chapter of the original work, after Sun Wukong practiced in Fangcun Mountain for seven years, the Bodhi Patriarch decided to teach him spells and asked: "Taoism has three hundred and sixty gates, and all of them have positive fruits, I don't know which one you want to learn?" ”
Bodhi Patriarch asked Sun Wukong to choose skills from the three hundred and sixty Taoist sects to learn, it can be seen that he is also practicing Taoist spells, and he is likely to be proficient in all the spells of the three hundred and sixty gates, after all, he can't do it, and he won't let Sun Wukong choose it like this, in case Sun Wukong chooses himself, wouldn't it be very embarrassing?
The Bodhi Patriarch can refine all the spells of the three hundred and sixty sects of the Dao family, which shows that his comprehension of the Tao has reached the supreme realm of omniscience, and his mana cultivation is on par with the Dao Ancestor Taishang Laojun.
And we know that in the Journey to the West, there is a setting of Taishang Laojun sending a letter to Guguan to turn Hu into a Buddha, that is to say, Taishang Laojun is the faith teacher of the Buddhas of Lingshan, and his mana cultivation is naturally above the three Buddhas.
Since the mana cultivation of the Bodhi Patriarch is not comparable to that of the Taishang Laojun, and the mana cultivation of the Taishang Laojun is stronger than the three Buddhas, and the Mana cultivation of the Bodhi Patriarch is naturally stronger than the three Buddhas, therefore, the three Buddhas of Lingshan are not the opponents of the Bodhi Patriarch. What do you think?