Chapter 3 Vientiane Great Wheel Temple
This time I was looking for a three-wheeled motorcycle, ten yuan, ten kilometers away from the main highway, along the path for a while, there were pagodas, one by one pagodas, and then there was a continuous wall, as if the red wall in the Qing court drama surrounded by the lama temple appeared. When I got closer, I found that it was not a wall, but a passage composed of a group of prayer wheel corridors, and occasionally I saw a gray-haired old woman leaning on her body, slowly walking and turning, the red wall, the golden brass prayer wheel, the brown floor, the sunlight penetrated through the channel grille, forming rows of oblique golden lattices, and multiple spires inadvertently stretched up from the back of the corridor, and the background was quiet and solemn. Only the three-wheeled motorcycle, accompanied by a long bell, suddenly drove through the dust.
With the undulating terrain of the turning promenade should be more than a kilometer to the gate, a few dogs lazily lying at the door to bask in the sun, there is no common ticket window and no staff, so quiet that the dust drifting around feels the most noisy.
Wu Wending jumped off the motorcycle first, and raised his hand to help the two ladies down, because of the bumps for a while, it was still a little sore back and leg pain when he stood up. Then the three of them walked up a dirt road behind the gate that was uneven and about 10 meters wide. There are low accommodation rooms on both sides, a bit messy, most of them are earthen walls + branch fences, asphalt felt as the roof, and they are pressed with stones to avoid being lifted by the wind. The higher you go, the better the houses seem to be, with cement bricks, corrugated tiles or tin roofs, and many of them have yards. At this time, some suspicious black spots appeared, Fat Man, Zhu Qingqing, Liu Yun...... From a distance, I saw some classmates haunting various alleys, or taking pictures, or sketching, or in a daze.
Some of them waved when they saw Wu Wending, and only two girls who were closer came over and looked at Lin Ling curiously. Asking Wu Wending how dare to privately bring his family members to participate in the sketching arranged by the school, he was too bold. And I have been keeping it secret, and I have done it so well, and I don't want to invite everyone to dinner at night.
Lin Ling was a little embarrassed: "We met on the road, so we came together." ”
The two girls dragged out their voices: "Oh...... Wu Wending, you are getting bolder and bolder, and you dare to talk to you halfway. ”
Wu Wending quickly introduced: "This is Wang Lan, this is Zhu Qingqing, this is Lin Ling, this is Arnold, well, I'm Wu Wending, hello everyone, where is Lao Chen?"
Zhu Qingqing is also wearing black, but it is a denim suit: "Outside the hall above, I heard the bell just now, after the morning class, he was choosing an angle to take pictures, Wang Tianxiao was helping him carry things, and his heavy tripod was the most precious." ”
Wu Wending was lazy: "Then I won't go to him to report, I'll go around, this little pot friend is from Fujian, you can help take care of it, you don't have to take care of it, she can fend for herself, just call her when she leaves, in vain~~" Dodge into a dilapidated alley next to it and ran away.
Wang Lan was wearing a gray tracksuit, and Zhu Qingqing glanced at each other: "It seems that it's really not his girlfriend,"
Wu Wending wandered around aimlessly along the alley, and from time to time he saw a few lamas, smiling kindly, and asking for pictures was also very cooperative. It seems that there is only a big plan in the early days, there are no fine facilities, there is no underground drainage system, and there is no complete road system.
Out of the alley, a huge square suddenly appeared in front of you, a square building like the college teaching building cut off the upper half of the cube hall stands behind the square, thinking that the lamas just now are coming on, it turns out that this is the central area. There are also several similar halls around, arranged in east, west, south, and north directions. The top of the golden hall is dazzling, the huge black hemp curtain is more than 5 stories high, and the white religious patterns are painted on it, the hall itself has a height of 7 or 8 floors, but it is only two floors, the air height of the lower floor is very high, and the thin layer of railings above, the walls are all ochre, with white trapezoidal windows, very distinct national characteristics and religious colors, so that Wu Wending keeps pressing the camera, fortunately, this time the film is more, and now the technology of changing the film is also very skillful when you find a piece of clothing.
After a period of film consumption, Wu Wending curiously walked into the hall, only to find that the porch was paved with wooden boards, and the colorful thangka paintings on the wall attracted a lot of film, the door was very old, there was a sense of vicissitudes, two door knockers larger than Wu Wending's head were tied to white Hada, Hada was still very new, the door was firmly closed, and asked a few nearby classmates, saying that they were not allowed to enter when they started to do their homework, and they were locked directly after they were finished, and they didn't see inside. Wu Wending thought of Tashi, a middle-level cadre, and wanted to find him through the back door.
So I walked around and asked where the lama Tashi I met was, but fortunately there was the Tibetan name written in the notebook, Tashi is a very common name, that is, auspicious, there are about 10 in the temple. On the way, she also met Lin Ling, who was walking around with Zhang Lan and them, she seemed to be very familiar, her attention was now on the two yaks outside the door of the main hall, and she wanted to touch them, but she was afraid of the huge horns and the thick hooves of the big bowl, and she was very embarrassed. Wu Wending stopped Lin Ling, who was about to release his pet to send a friendly message: "I'm going to find Tashi, will you go?"
Lin Ling's attention quickly shifted: "Is he from this temple?"
"Well, I forgot to tell you, he also asked me to find him to see the Living Buddha. Wu Wending's tone was a bit like shouting Lin Ling to see the goldfish in Baoguo Temple.
"Living Buddha!" This new tour project that immediately raised Lin Ling's several tourism levels immediately made her abandon the new friend Mao Mao and twist that she had just met.
When he found Tashi, he was coming out of a house that looked like one of the top grades, and he said happily, "You're going to have no backpacks soon, and you've found a place to live? This is my master." ”
Wu Wending smiled: "If you find it, you will come to find the Living Buddha." ”
Tashi smiled: "He still has something to do, I'll take you to his side and wait for him." ”
Outside a small yard that continues to rank high in the exterior grade nearby, it is locked, but it is relatively independent and boxy, and there is no yard next to each other like others, and two households share a wall. There are also some trees around, which should be pine and cypress, which are very monk-like.
Thinking of meeting a senior monk, Wu Wending and Lin Ling straightened their clothes, and Tashi smiled: "It's not so troublesome, the living Buddha is very good." ”
Then Tashi said, "I'll go get some water." Wu Wending was thinking of the scene of the Christian flicking of the holy water on his fingers. Lin Ling said diligently to help get it, and Wu Wending waited at the door alone.
There are two symmetrical color patterns on the door, very beautiful, Wu Wending decided to be lazy to do this when he went back to do his homework this time, so he first took a picture with the camera, and then, found out that he rarely used a sketchbook, and started to paint the complex layered porch structure from the corners, and thought about it to do a homework with the theme of the door, and the effect should be good and very convenient.
was enthusiastically tinkering, a little lama came over, 15 or 6 years old, first looked, then squatted down to look, and finally simply leaned on Wu Wending to look, Wu Wending looked at him, he grinned at Wu Wending, his teeth were very white. Wu Wending's door structure has been generally good, so he drew a little lama next to him, although he is not good at this, but after all, he has studied for many years, and the depiction is still a little bit like, the little lama can see that he is painting, and there is a smile on his eyebrows, so he laughs more happily, and simply points to the left and paints the right finger to himself.
Before they could exchange anything, Tashi came over with a bottle of warm water, and Lin Ling also held one, and when he saw the two people here, he saluted happily before saying, "So soon, you know Rinpoche?"
Lin Ling was puzzled: "What cut?"
Wu Wending boasted: "The Living Buddha is shouted by us, and the Tibetan compatriots themselves are called Rinpoche." He's a living Buddha?"
The little living Buddha's eyes were whirring, and he smiled peacefully, but he didn't speak. Wu Wending bowed with both hands and saluted, and Lin Ling hurriedly put down the warm water bottle and did the same. The little living Buddha reached out and touched the top of their heads, waving Tashi to leave. Tashi was a little confused, so he smiled at Wu Wending, pointed to himself and then pointed to the courtyard where he came, meaning to go back and wait for him. Wu Wending also nodded in understanding.
When Tashi left, the little living Buddha laughed again, opened the courtyard door and motioned for Wu Wending to enter, and Lin Ling also tiptoed to follow up. Sitting down, Wu Wending and the little living Buddha smirked at each other, Lin Ling kept looking east and west with his eyes, a very clean two-story building, the windows were bright and clean, and there were religious paintings on the wall, it could be seen that they were often cleaned, there was no too heavy ghee smell, it seemed that the ventilation was very good, and the place where he sat was a big platform similar to the northern kang, with soft cushions, made of bright yellow satin, it seemed that he was indeed not an ordinary lama, and a stack of scriptures on the small table on the kang looked very old, thirty centimeters wide, five or six centimeters high, and those who had seen it stood on the box containing the scriptures in front of him, just like a super wide screen, and a super low notebookIt seems that the little living Buddha usually sits here and recites the scriptures, next to it there is a hand-cranked prayer wheel decorated with a lot of things, the main body is a dark mahogany handle, a golden wheel body, red coral beads and blue pine ear stones and green stones are inlaid beautifully, and the fusiform pendant on the golden chain has been polished to shine. Lin Ling's eyes were staring, restless, wanting to touch but knowing that he couldn't touch it, so he glanced at Wu Wending with his big talking eyes, Wu Wending wanted to laugh when he saw the kitten's scratching appearance, pointed to the little living Buddha at the prayer wheel, and pointed at Lin Ling, the little living Buddha took it to Wu Wending, and handed it over to Lin Ling, the girl quieted down, gently stroked the deluxe version that I don't know how many years have passed, and didn't dare to shake it at will, so I touched the stone and touched the pendant. The little living Buddha here smiled for a while, as if he had made up his mind, and turned upstairs to get something.
Wu Wending felt that he would not be favored by the masters, so he wanted to force him to practice or give away priceless treasures, right? The little living Buddha took a tape recorder and came down, a little twisted.