Cangyang Gyatso's representative works include "That Life", "Ask the Buddha", "Live Up to the Truth", "Ten Commandments Poems" and so on.

When Cangyang Gyatso lived in the Jokhang Temple, he left many poems about the Jokhang Temple.

I was worried about hurting the Sanskrit line, and I was afraid that I would not fall into the city when I entered the mountain. The world is safe and perfect, and it lives up to its promise.

The center of Tibetan Buddhism is Lhasa, and the center of Lhasa is the Jokhang Temple. There was the Jokhang Temple first, and then there was the city of Lhasa, and today's Lhasa started from the Jokhang Temple built by goats carrying soil.

Legend has it that when Songtsen Gampo moved its capital to today's Lhasa, it was still a barren grass beach, and later filled the pond with goat's back soil for the construction of Jokhang Temple and Jokhang Temple.

After the temple was built, the number of missionary monks and people who came to the Buddha increased, and it became the center of worship of Tibetan Buddhism.

In areas covered by Tibetan Buddhism, believers in Buddhism kowtow their heads in the most arduous and pious way, and go through hardships in order to pray for blessings and worship in front of this sacred Buddha statue.

In Lhasa, you can see Buddhism everywhere, and even the famous Tibetan commercial street Barkhor Street is full of religious shadows.

The prayer flags fluttering above the building, the wind horse flags waving, the lamas sitting on the ground, the ubiquitous prayer wheels, and the believers who no one kowtows next to them.

What kind of perseverance and faith do you need to be able to measure the land of the Holy Palace without such hardships. Here, not being able to follow the local customs means getting nothing.

Here, without a pious heart, it is impossible to understand the Tibetan believers who are kowtowing to the ground, and they cannot truly integrate into these monasteries with traces of ancient history.

Walking into Lhasa, Luo Tong felt that the whole person was quiet. Maybe it's because the people here are so religious, so she unconsciously straightens her mentality, and the original mind of playing has disappeared.

After finding a hotel and settling down, Sheng Qiwu and Luo Tong took Zhuoma to Barkhor Street near the hotel.

That's right, it was they who took Tsering Dolma. Dolma is a 19-year-old girl who has never been to Lhasa. After all, the two of them are older, so they naturally have to take care of her.

Barkhor Street, also known as Octagon Street, is located in the old city of Lhasa, with a circumference of about 1,000 meters, and the original street is only a single turning road around the Jokhang Temple, which is called "holy road" by Tibetans.

Barkhor Street was built and developed with the development of the Jokhang Temple, which has a history of more than 1,300 years.

In the 7th century, the Tibetan king Songtsen Gampo ordered the construction of the Jokhang Temple at Wotang Lake, and at the same time built four palaces around the lake, and moved to the palace with his concubines and subjects to personally supervise the progress of the Jokhang Temple project.

The four palaces are the earliest buildings on Barkhor Street. After the completion of the Jokhang Temple, it attracted many pilgrims to worship, and gradually stepped out of a path around the Jokhang Temple, which was the original Barkhor Street.

Eighteen family-style buildings have been built around the temple to provide accommodation for pilgrims and merchants.

After the 15th century, the Jokhang Temple became the center of Buddhism, and monks' dormitories, religious schools, and small temple buildings appeared around it, and many Buddhist believers moved to live around the Jokhang Temple, and a large number of houses, shops, hotels, handicraft workshops and other facilities gradually appeared on the street.

With the deepening of the religious status of the Jokhang Temple, Tibetan Buddhism believes that the Jokhang Temple is the center of the clockwise "turning the scriptures", indicating the worship of the Buddha statue of Shakyamuni enshrined in the Jokhang Temple, and Barkhor Street has become one of the three major turning paths in Lhasa.

Later, many traders, pilgrims, and nomads from Mongolia, Han China, Kashmir, Nepal, Bhutan, India and other regions and countries appeared, and it developed into a neighborhood integrating religious streets, sightseeing streets, folk streets, cultural streets, commercial streets, and shopping streets.

It was five o'clock when Luo Tong came out of the hotel, and walked for a while on Barkhor Street, where there were all kinds of ethnic handicrafts.

Carpets, Tibetan knives, card mats, aprons, national costumes, national shoes and hats, gold and silver jewelry, and various traditional handicrafts are all traditional handicrafts, with strong local style and national characteristics.

The three of them were all in high spirits, and Luo Tong even bought a prayer wheel. This prayer wheel is small and doesn't take up much space in your hand.

The store introduced this hand-cranked prayer wheel, also known as the hand-cranked mani wheel, which can be held in the hand The main body of the prayer wheel is cylindrical, and there is a shaft in the middle for rotation.

The prayer wheel that Luo Tong took is wooden, very delicate, the cylinder is engraved with the six-character mantra of Tibetan Buddhism, and the birds and beasts on it are also decorated with lacquer color painting.

There are also ear holes next to the prayer wheel, tie a small pendant, turn the handle under the cylinder, and the small pendant also moves, relying on inertia to accelerate the rotation of the prayer wheel.

The shopkeeper explained that with the rapid rotation of the prayer wheel, the turner believed that his merits were also accumulating rapidly.

After staying like this for half an hour, there was a sudden commotion on the road. Those who don't know each other -- some from the pastoral areas of northern Tibet who wear white robes, some from the Kham Mountains where heroes knot, and some who live in the octagonal neighborhood and are brightly dressed......

In short, believers of all kinds, as if they had suddenly received a silent order, began to walk strictly in a clockwise direction along the circular road after Luo Tong suddenly felt a commotion.

The shopkeeper was no exception, he took out a silver prayer wheel from the cabinet, played with the prayer wheel in his hand clockwise, and walked down the flow of people.

Luo Tong didn't know why, Tsering Zhuoma explained: "This is the Bajiao Street Prayer Path, which is the most important prayer path in the hearts of the Tibetan people, which means "middle circle" in Tibetan, which is relative to the "Lin Kuo" and the "Bag Kuo" in the Jokhang Temple. ”

In the Tibetan dialect, "turning the scriptures" is also called "pilgrimage to the Buddha", which means moving towards the highest center of the "Buddha" and moving closer to the sacred. ”

Just because Tsering Dolma has never been to Lhasa doesn't mean she doesn't know about it. She usually loves to read books and has a certain understanding of these.

Luo Tong watched as people reverently walked around the streets, turning the prayer wheel in their hands from time to time, and chanting words in their mouths.

She deeply felt how sacred religious beliefs are here. Except for a few wandering monks, most of the people in the prayer procession are ordinary good men and women.

"From the point of view of the time of day, the elderly are mostly in the early morning, and during the day there are good men and women from all over the world, and in the evening, it is the best time for merchants to turn their menstruation. ”

"When I came to Barkhor Street during the day, I could see that almost all the people on the street were walking forward in a clockwise direction along the street, seemingly walking towards a certain goal, but walking and returning to the same place, repeating the beginning and beginning repeating. ”