"After Tathagata created Sumeru Mountain, he built a temple inside." The little nun in white, although implying that the prayer beads were tainted by the aura of a traitor to Buddhism, still turned them over repeatedly, eager to examine them bead by bead.
"And then?" Ye Fan urged.
"What do you mean, 'then'?" The little nun replied casually as she fiddled with the prayer beads.
"Of course, what happened to Siddhartha Gautama?" Ye Fan smiled at her.
"Oh, you're talking about him? There was no 'then' for him." The little nun focused intently on the prayer beads against the sun, clearly uninterested in continuing the topic.
"How can there be no 'then'? I say, little master, the Buddha once said we must not utter falsehoods. How can you not tell the truth?"
