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Chapter 451 Potala Palace, improvisation

The equipment for the expedition into Tibet was prepared by Xiaobai and Shanying, and Li Mobai was a typical layman, except for the proposal to prepare enough equipment and materials to protect the possible treasures, he didn't know anything else. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The tiger and the leopard beside Li Mobai followed Li Mobai, and Xiaobai stayed behind to take care of the family and be responsible for the supply of logistics, and at the same time serve as a backup team.

So Li Mobai, Han Dong, Mountain Eagle, Tiger, Leopard plus 5 experienced team members, a total of 10 people flew to Lhasa, and did not immediately set off for Laza Snow Mountain after landing, but first adapted to the plateau climate. Well, it's for Li Mobai to adapt, others don't care at all, this line of people is the weakest Uncle Li Mobai.

"Dongzi, let's go visit the Potala Palace and the Jokhang Temple." Li Mobai did not have the slightest sense of weakness, and when he arrived in Lhasa, he shouted with great interest to visit the scenic spots in Lhasa.

"Yes, you're not afraid of being watched, let's go." Han Dong smiled when he heard this.

"You reminded me, I really can't go with you, your kid is much more attractive than me, the president of He's Jewelry, that popularity is loud." Li Mobai countered, "There are really not many people who know me. ”

In fact, Li Mobai is famous, and he is really not as well-known as Han Dong when he walks on the street, after all, Li Mobai rarely appears on TV media, even the photos on the print media and the Internet are different from real people; And Han Dong often appears on various occasions, and there are constant scandals, well-known entertainment stars, singers, and models at home and abroad are the objects of scandals, who makes Han Dong the president of the most famous jewelry company, jewelry is a woman's favorite, not to mention that Han Dong is not an old man, but in the prime of life, and he is a girl idol.

When I arrived in Lhasa, my inner world could not help but be touched by the devout believers, who went to the holy place in their hearts step by step for the sake of that pious faith, and could not be judged by ignorance or superstition. When he arrived at the Potala Palace and looked at the devout believers, Li Mobai felt a burst of sadness in his heart for no reason, the great man in order to shape himself into a god, and criticized the traditional Chinese culture as a cow, ghost, snake and god, and completely broke the moral bottom line in people's hearts, so that there is no faith in the hearts of contemporary people, resulting in gutter oil, corruption, counterfeit and shoddy rampant in the world, and it has created the mother-in-law economy of the world's wonders, and people only have money left in their hearts, and everything is judged by money. The elite created by money is too small compared to these poor but devout believers, and they are undoubtedly ants in the eyes of elephants.

It is really sad and lamenable that he has become the only god to be admired for generations, but this debt needs to be paid by generations, and it is even more sad and sad that he is always right. Under the slogan of serving the people, it is only to satisfy one's own selfish desires, to satisfy one's own desire for power, and to satisfy one's own arrogance for eternity, how can he ever serve the people, and the people have never been the masters of their own affairs to this day, and they cannot even exercise the most basic powers.

sighed in his heart, Li Mobai suddenly became a little interested, thinking that he came this time for his own selfish desires, and wanted to use the treasures in the Tibetan legendary temple as a private collection, he couldn't help but despise himself, and couldn't help but have a fierce struggle in his heart.

When I arrived at the Potala Palace, I remembered that the Potala Palace only allowed 2,300 people to visit every day, and there were only 700 loose tickets, Li Mobai couldn't help but be a little disappointed, the Potala Palace is a treasure house of art, and if you don't visit the palace in Lhasa to appreciate the artistic treasures of all generations, it is equivalent to not going to Lhasa.

As long as Li Mobai and Han Dong visit in a public capacity, just two tickets are naturally trivial, but Li Mobai is unwilling to disrupt the order and enjoy the privilege, so he diverts to the Jokhang Temple. Huaxing Automobile's agent in Lhasa heard that Li Mobai did not buy tickets for the Potala Palace, and immediately arranged for a special person to line up to buy tickets for Li Mobai, which can be regarded as enjoying a privilege.

Jokhang Temple is a palace specially built by Songtsen Gampo to marry Princess Wencheng of the Tang Dynasty, and to enshrine the 12-year-old statue of Sakyamuni brought by Princess Wencheng from the Tang Dynasty. Jokhang Temple has a supreme position in the hearts of Tibetans, and the "Golden Vase Lot" ceremony for the reincarnation of the living Buddha has always been carried out in the Jokhang Temple, which shows the high status.

The two days passed in a flash, and the silent mourning also lingered in the Jokhang Temple for two days, but the Potala Palace, where the ticket was bought, did not go, naturally Li Mobai was fascinated by the palace's architecture, murals and thangkas.

Han Dong, Shanying and others knew Li Mobai very well, and knew that it was useless to urge at this time, so they left the tiger and leopard to take care of Li Mobai, and went to Raza Snow Mountain to explore the way first.

And Li Mobai has no opinion, and the Potala Palace has not been visited, at this time, he is reluctant to leave, as for whether to classify the possible temple treasures as already there, there is still no conclusion in his heart.

Li Mobai visited the Jokhang Temple for three days, in order to be able to appreciate more of the Thangka and various cultural relics in the Jokhang Temple, Li Mobai had to travel the privilege in a public capacity, the Jokhang Temple is very welcome to Li Mobai to visit, and Li Mobai after visiting all the murals and thangkas, and with great interest for the Jokhang Temple to draw a 3-meter-long scroll "Princess Wencheng into Tibet" to the Jokhang Temple, which makes the host of the Jokhang Temple very happy, Li Mobai's paintings, will definitely become a highlight of the Jokhang Temple.

After visiting the Jokhang Temple for three days and painting a painting, Li Mobai finally arrived at the Potala Palace, which is a holy place of Tibetan Buddhism like the Jokhang Temple, and almost all believers take it as a lifelong honor to go to the Jokhang Temple and the Potala Palace.

The Potala Palace was originally built by Songtsen Gampo to marry Princess Wencheng of the Tang Dynasty, and later gradually became the ruling center of the integration of politics and religion in Tibetan Province, and successive lamas lived in the Potala Palace. The whole palace has a distinctive Tibetan style, the Potala Palace is built according to the mountain, the group of buildings overlaps, the palace is saggy, the momentum is majestic, there is a sideways birth, the momentum runs through the sky, the solid and thick granite wall, the white horse grass wall collar of the matsutake mushroom, the golden top of the golden top, the huge gilded vase, the building and the prayer flags with a strong decorative effect, reflect each other, the sharp contrast of the three colors of red, white and yellow, the building type of the division and the layer of socketing, all reflect the charming characteristics of the ancient Tibetan architecture.

The Potala Palace is composed of two parts, the White House and the Red Palace, and various buildings that go with them. Its main building has 13 floors, from the foot of the mountain up to the top. The overall building is mainly composed of the white palace where the lamas live in the east, the Buddha hall in the middle and the red palace of the spiritual pagoda hall of the lamas in the past dynasties, and the white monk's house where the cronies and lamas who serve the lamas in the west live. In front of the Red Palace, there is also a white wall for the Buddha platform, which is the place where large Buddha statues are hung every Buddhist festival. Although many buildings are built in different periods of the past dynasties, the construction of each palace is very clever to make use of the mountain-shaped topography, so that the whole palace and temple building appears very majestic, and the layout is very coordinated and complete, and the aesthetic achievements of architectural art have reached an unparalleled height, creating an amazing masterpiece of genius in the history of civil engineering and architecture in the world.

The Potala Palace also houses countless treasures, which can be called a temple of art. A large number of collection and preservation of extremely rich historical relics, according to statistics, there are more than 70,000 pieces of jade, porcelain, silver, bronze, silk, clothing, thangka, more than 60,000 scriptures. Among them are the relics of Shakyamuni; 108 letters and more than 2,500 volumes of scriptures; In particular, the Bayeux Sutra of Kangyur, Tianzhu and other places written in gold characters; As well as the gold books, jade books, and gold seals of various feudal lamas in Tibetan Province since the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the gold bemba vase set up by the Qianlong Emperor for the selection of reincarnated spirit children.

The eight spiritual pagodas set up in the Potala Palace, the largest of which was built for the Fifth Lama, cost 3,721 kilograms of gold and tens of thousands of precious stones. These pagodas are covered in gold and inlaid with a large number of jewels, and the bodies of past lamas are housed in the pagodas. There are also all kinds of gold and silver utensils made by Tibetan craftsmen, inlaid with jewels, offerings and national craft treasures, these cultural relics are rich, colorful, beautiful, and valuable; The Potala Palace also houses a large collection of books, from Buddhist classics to medicine, astronomical calendars, and everything from the Ten Ming Disciplines.

As a holy place of Tibetan Buddhism, there are always countless pilgrims and tourists who visit the Potala Palace every year. They generally start from the wordless stone monument at the foot of the mountain, and go through the winding stone paved slope road to the east gate where the huge murals of the four King Kongs are painted, and from there enter the main hall through a palace wall tunnel up to 4 meters thick. Halfway up the mountain, there is a platform of about 1,600 square meters, which is the place where the past dynasties watched singing and dancing, called Deyangxia. From the escalator up through the Dasongge Corridor, you will arrive at the East Hall, the largest palace of the White House, which is also the place where major religious and political activities such as enthronement and pro-government ceremonies have been held in previous dynasties.

The whole palace is completely Li Mobai lingered in the Potala Palace every day, completely forgetting the purpose of this trip, because Li Mobai visited in a public capacity, he was received by the temple, but it was also quite convenient, here Li Mobai spent another week, this week is of course not to visit the Buddha, but to watch the murals, sculptures, thangkas and cultural relics of the Potala Palace, and draw nourishment from them.

Visited the Potala Palace, a treasure trove of art, Li Mobai couldn't eat up and wipe clean and then lift his pants and leave, but according to his recent experience, he painted a painting with a religious theme "Faith", depicting the scene of believers traveling thousands of miles to visit the Potala Palace, this painting is a long scroll, up to 6 meters, Li Mobai took 6 days to complete.

After the completion of this painting, it immediately caused a sensation in the Potala Palace, and the contemporary living Buddha also came to visit it in person and gave Li Mobai a big gift.

(To be continued)