Synopsis

In the rural northeastern mountainous regions stands a tiny Buddhist temple, named One Finger Temple. It isn't a large one but it is extremely miraculous.

The temple has rice that emanates an aromatic fragrance.

The temple has sweet and refreshing water that rivals ambrosia.

The temple has Buddhas that grant wishes to the sincere.

The temple isn't large but it has everything. The temple isn't large but it has flourishing incense offerings that far exceed all temples. The temple isn't large but it attracts both citizens and foreigners that line up overnight…

The temple has a bald but handsome monk. Every day, he would bawl, "I want to renounce asceticism! I want to marry a chick that's not too pretty, have a cute baby, and lead a stable life!"

This book is a casual novel that introduces various Chinese traditional customs, as well as Buddhist ones. It strives to be a positive book, allowing people to reflect on how they should live their lives and treat others.

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The Monk That Wanted To Renounce Asceticism

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1. Poor Monk
2. Buddha System
3. Heavenly Eye
4. Heaven's Secrets Cannot Be Leaked
5. A Shoe
6. A Rope
7. Wolves on the Mountain
8. Consecutive Drawing
9. Master and Wolf
10. As a master, I will accompany you for the night
11. Having Money!
12. Crystal Rice
13. Visitors again
14. How Fragrant!
15. Spouting Nonsense in All Seriousness
16. What Regret
17. The System is a Scam
18. Burning incense, Respects to Buddha
19. Efficacy depends on Sincerity
20. Two Lines! Two lines!
21. Everyone Comes
22. Buddha Vat
23. So Poor
24. Nice Vat! Delicious Water!
25. Sending out Mission Three
26. Visitors Again
27. Entering the Temple
28. One Palm Strike
29. A Temple's Small Size Invites Bullying
30. Wolf Fetching Water
31. Wolf and Monk
32. One Bowl per Person
33. The Fight over One Bowl of Water
34. A Few Laborers
35. Greed
36. Fangzheng's Method for Revenge
37. Compelling Admiration (Part 1/2)
38. Compelling Admiration (Part 2/2)
39. Belated Merit
40. Drawing a Prize!
41. Silver Fox
42. Minor Rejuvenation Pill
43. Delivery Man Nearly Goes Mad
44. Murderer
45. Light Opening Talisman
46. To think that on the mountain, the Abbot and the Wolf are...
47. How Terrifying it is when one lacks Culture
48. Abbot's Great Bluff
49. Chaos from one Phrase
50. Master and Murderer
51. This Head is really Hard!
52. The Monk that could not be Killed
53. Violent Master
54. I know my faults
55. Wishing to Descend the Mountain
56. Making an Agreement
57. Han Xiaoguo's Ploy
58. Two Baldies
59. No Reward?
60. This Temple Again?
61. Dragon Buddha Epistle
62. Diamond Sutra
63. Madness!
64. It's Sensationalization, right?
65. Expensive Bet
66. Becoming a Monster?
67. There's a Wolf on the Mountain
68. Guardian Protector of the Temple
69. A Roar
70. Trouble Comes from the Mouth
71. Master's Single Roar
72. Permitted
73. Pants! Pants! Pants!
74. The Earth is Round
75. Hold the Door! Hold the Door!
76. Not Scolding Humans
77. Nothing at All
78. Beginning
79. Lyrics to Remembering Your Charm
80. Master Fiddles with Cell Phone
81. Who shall be the grinder?
82. Master's Calligraphy is like Art
83. Time to Determine Victory
84. Victory and Defeat
85. Time to Disperse. Share the Spoils!
86. Why would I listen to you?
87. Wolf Pays Respects to Buddha
88. Why do Pigs not Climb Trees?
89. A Golden Millet Dream
90. Rice Mountain in a Dream
91. Such a Female Patron
92. Problems with Suboptimal Health
93. Carried away
94. Handkerchief
95. Helping you turn into a Fairy
96. Master's Anger
97. Master furiously delivers First Blood
98. Remaining Unrepentant Until Death
99. What a marvelous thief!
100. Upgrading Heavenly Eye
101. Using Money to buy Your Youth
102. Is This Penniless Monk Short on Money?
103. Young Monk Wants to Hold a Dharma Assembly of Bathing the Buddha
104. Laba Congee from Mount Numinous
105. Price of Monopolizing the Food
106. Laba is Here
107. Believing only in Money
108. Bringing a Basin up the Mountain
109. Bathing Buddha
110. A Hundred Incense Sticks Completed!
111. Undying Mortal Heart
112. The Miracle of a Bowl of Congee
113. Intestines turning Blue from Regret
114. Alone on the day before New Year's Eve
115. Ice Lanterns
116. Couplet-Seeking Army
117. Hooked on Writing
118. It's the New Year
119. Master Acts Cute Too
120. First Incense Offering Sensation
121. Snatching
122. Bearing of an Abbot!
123. Fire!
124. Abbot Descends Mountain
125. The Bitter Chen Jin
126. A Win or Loss?
127. Where's my Buddha Statue?
128. Chen Jin's Apology
129. Death Message
130. Coaxing a Child
131. Buddha Statue Augmentation
132. The Romance Novel Cramming Monk
133. Fireworks on the Fifteenth day of the New Year
134. A Young Girl Brings Ordnance
135. An Invitation from Baiyun Monastery
136. Machination
137. Kinky Queen
138. Help Style a Knife
139. There's No One Good In This World
140. A Mother's Clairvoyance
141. Who's the wicked person?
142. Savior
143. Don't Commit Suicide
144. River Crossing Miracle
145. Truth
146. Doubts
147. Commendation+1
148. Redeeming Wu Ming
149. Too Passionate
150. How Longwinded
151. The Enthusiastic Young Monk
152. The Meet that Changed Qualitatively
153. Unwilling!
154. Buddhist Dharma in Life
155. Draw! Draw! Draw!
156. Bombastic! Bombastic!
157. Wait, oh Wait
158. Chance Encounter
159. That is not how you help the Poor
160. Such People Can Offer Their Love?
161. Rumors
162. Untitled
163. Untitled
164. Untitled
165. Punishment from Fangzheng
166. It's born! It's a Knife!
167. Off You Go!
168. A Night of Births
169. New Year Hamper
170. Requesting for Help
171. One Minute
172. What a large talisman
173. Expert and Talisman
174. Fangzheng Takes Action
175. So that's the Reason
176. A Swath of Ashes
177. This is what I got?
178. Love Triangle
179. The Master's Tragedy of being Single (Part 1/2)
180. The Master's Tragedy of being Single (Part 2/2)
181. The Scripture-seeking Monkey
182. Stubbornness
183. Zen Farming
184. Scam! Scam! Scam!
185. Going overboard with the Bragging
186. Filming
187. Anthropomorphic
188. Crazy?
189. What a demoness!
190. This Is How You Seek Buddha
191. This is Zen Farming
192. Is this Monk Silly?
193. Everyone Sits Upon Arrival
194. Acting En Masse?
195. A Last Ditch Effort
196. Bemoaning the Times and Pitying People (Part 1/3)
197. Bemoaning the Times and Pitying People (Part 2/3)
198. Bemoaning the Times and Pitying People (Part 3/3)
199. Is He Human or Buddha?
200. No more Acting
201. Something big has happened!
202. Abbot's Reputation Destroyed
203. Entry to the Backyard is Banned
204. Beating Monkey
205. Intimate Contact
206. Sigh of Relief
207. Move Along
208. Introspecting Confession
209. Kindness Exceeds Paragon Beauty
210. Ransomware
211. Cheat
212. A Dream is not a Dream
213. Hackers Seek Reinforcements
214. Lottery Draw
215. Coming to Stir Trouble
216. Are you aware of your sins?
217. Like a Mad Dog
218. Painful Happiness
219. Lone Wolf Knows How to Scam Too
220. Thoughts of Renouncing Asceticism Due to Poverty
221. Great News
222. Soliciting Donations
223. Honor the Ancestors, Warning the Descendants
224. Indoctrination
225. One Finger Monastery's Family
226. Three Incense Sticks
227. Hongyan Monastery's Invitation
228. Saving People
229. Baldy Water Ghost
230. Transference of Merit
231. Dharma is Not Readily Instructed
232. Wonders of the Wisdom Eye
233. Encountering a Benefactor After a Change of Luck
234. Leak
235. Getting a Huge Gift Package.
236. Committing Suicide is a Grave Sin
237. Possessed?
238. Control
239. Sweep the Streets Together
240. Continue Tomorrow
241. Being a Good Person Feels Great
242. Master Tells a Story
243. The Distressed Father
244. The Construction Team is Here
245. Monk Makes Your Asshole Tighten
246. One Palm Strike
247. No Money...
248. Frost Bamboo
249. The Elder by Songhua River
250. Past
251. Crossing the Yalu River For You
252. Memories are Etched in Forever
253. Awaiting a Soldier's Return
254. New Divine Power
255. A Greened Head
256. Crazy Growth
257. Going Mad From Anxiety
258. Abbot Rages!
259. Contention Between Human and Wolf
260. Do you think of me as an Idiot?
261. Accident
262. Devoid of Humanity
263. Sometimes you must kill, to protect
264. What Do You Want?
265. Irritating
266. Another Woman
267. Temptation
268. A Person That Can't Be Saved (Part 1/2)
269. A Person That Can't Be Saved (Part 2/2)
270. Brat's Ferocity
271. Subduing the Brat
272. The King's Methods
273. Disciple Acceptance
274. Bestowing Dharma Names
275. This Child is Too Fierce!
276. Value is in the Character
277. Desiring Meat?
278. It's Really Not This Penniless Monk's Fault
279. Unending Calls of Harassment
280. Nice Crunch
281. Now A Daddy
282. So that's the Reason
283. Online Store
284. Master's Energy
285. This is Great Merit!
286. Dig Dig Dig
287. Fighting
288. Master's Hidden Nastiness
289. Mask
290. Returning to Mt. One Finger Again
291. Rest All Of You
292. Rationale
293. Trouble
294. Pursuit
295. Boars, Bears, Tigers
296. Lifting Buttocks Up
297. Repressing Red Boy Again
298. Caring for the Villagers
299. Daoist
300. Same Goal Through Different Means
301. Formless Door Opens
302. Golden Lotus!
303. Heart-to-Heart Talk between Master and Disciple
304. The Monk Is Here Again
305. Send Him In
306. Who Benefits
307. The Past
308. Mountain
309. Heroes
310. Protect the Country!
311. Do It
312. Highway Robbery
313. Flowers Blooming In An Instant
314. When are they coming?
315. Daili Village
316. Volunteers
317. Celebration
318. Red Boy Pushed to Tears
319. Venerable One, why don't you try flying?
320. Stairway to Heaven
321. Hidden Water
322. Rain
323. Stay Behind
324. Divine Monk Descends
325. Sending Off
326. There's Water
327. Lottery Draw
328. Returning to Mt. One Finger Again, Call the Wind and Summon the Rain
329. It's the Festive Season!
330. Complete Mobilization
331. Turning Dirty
332. Leaving the Mountain!
333. The Most Unreliable Cheerleaders
334. This Dumpling Is Poisoned
335. Stingy
336. Duo Gank
337. This Visitor is A Little Special
338. Men
339. Solution
340. Warmth
341. Wish to Leave The Mountain
342. Life Or Death
343. Crowdfunding Charity
344. Helping Others Even Without Divine Powers
345. Lottery Draw
346. One Finger Monastery's Bottleneck
347. What's a Master?
348. No Honor Even Among Thieves
349. The Abbot is Angry
350. Pursuit
351. Swallow It In One Mouthful
352. One Step
353. Infinite Death
354. A Hundred Thousand Years
355. Evil Person
356. Being a Bird
357. A Fright
358. Child
359. Stewing the Chicken
360. Patron, we are talking about chickens
361. Find a Nest to Hide
362. I Can Have a Draw?
363. Mushroom Soup
364. Mushroom
365. Secretly
366. Down the Mountain
367. Youth
368. Stop!
369. Suffering
370. A Queuing Wolf
371. Flying Dog in the Sky
372. Getting Free Meals Through a Dog
373. Capable Master's Interpretation
374. Buying Cigarettes
375. Soliciting Donations
376. The Buddha in Fangzheng's Heart
377. Front and Last Rows
378. Play Ball!
379. Going Downstairs To Watch Basketball
380. Warning
381. Man and Wolf As One
382. Standing Up!
383. Unperturbed Even When the Sky Collapses
384. Myriad Language Pill
385. Heh! Mouse!
386. Pan An
387. Praying to Oneself Instead of Buddha
388. Sunglow Monastery's Invitation
389. Vulgar Or Respectable?
390. Bow
391. A Bad Temper Only Leads to Suffering
392. Baddy Master
393. Fake Monks
394. Bullying?
395. Beating
396. Seeking Advice
397. Luxurious Hotel
398. Demanding Debt Repayment
399. Rooster Call in the City
400. Scum
401. An Awesome Person Doesn't Speak (Part 1/2)
402. An Awesome Person Doesn't Speak (Part 2/2)
403. Finally Being Able To Speak
404. Without Buddha In One's Heart, How is One to Cultivate Buddhism?
405. The Instigator of Problems
406. Golden color? The color of blood!
407. Snow At Home
408. Hungry!
409. Living In Hope (Part 1/6)
410. Living In Hope (Part 2/6)
411. Living In Hope (Part 3/6)
412. Living In Hope (Part 4/6)
413. Living In Hope (Part 5/6)
414. Living In Hope (Part 6/6)
415. What's Excitement?
416. Tumultuous Storm Enters the Dream
417. Flood
418. Return
419. Asking Sunglow
420. Reason and Redemption
421. Fangzheng Gets Bullied
422. Never Suffering
423. Stingy Abbot
424. Gambling
425. Inviting Disaster Upon Oneself
426. The Son of Luck
427. Losing All the Way
428. Huge IOU
429. 150,000!
430. Bankrupt
431. Completely Inhumane
432. Meeting Fangzheng In the Mountains
433. Fangzheng Wants To Gamble Too
434. Explosion!
435. Gunny Sack To Store All the Money
436. Internal Strife
437. Crazy Win
438. Begin Robbing If We Can't Afford to Lose
439. Using Knives
440. Continue Without Stopping
441. Everyone Kneels
442. Repentance
443. Lottery Draw Using All the Merit
444. Whatever He Wants Comes
445. Warmheartedness
446. Result of Goodness
447. Divine Powers of Mortals
448. The Bell Tower Built, System Admits
449. World's Biggest Bell Gets Hung Up
450. Bell Gong Calms Every Direction
451. Buddhistic Bell Economy
452. Exchanging Scriptures
453. Completing the Scriptures
454. Flaunting Love
455. Drawing Straws
456. Scrounging a Meal
457. Dog Fur Everywhere
458. Violin
459. Clown
460. Diesel Oil
461. Knowing Too Much
462. Diary
463. Simple Reason
464. Departure
465. Awakening
466. [Two Bastards](https://www.webnovel.com/book/the-monk-that-wanted-to-renounce-asceticism_83355