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Chapter 114 Litang Temple

Litang Temple is also known as Evergreen Kol Temple, Evergreen Kohl in Tibetan, meaning Maitreya Buddha, symbolizing ** often turning, wonderful truth forever.

This Buddhist temple was built by the third Dalai Lama Sonam Gyatso Kaiguang in the late 16th century, and is located on the northern slope of Litang County.

Ye Qing and others came at about two o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, as soon as they entered the temple gate, they could see a group of Tibetan Buddhist believers pinching their fingerprints, walking slowly around the meridian road clockwise, they had words in their mouths, and they were all Tibetan **, although they didn't understand the meaning, but this Sanskrit sound was heard in the ears, and they could still feel a quiet and peaceful atmosphere, which was shrouded in the Buddhist temple.

The main palace of Litang Temple is located in the highest place of the temple, climbs up the steps, gives people the feeling of climbing to the sky step by step, looking beyond the clouds, and returning to the gods. Although the main hall was renovated later, it lasted for a short time, but because there were so many Buddhist believers who came to pay homage to the prostration, the stone steps on the cloud ladder had already been polished smooth as a mirror.

Standing on the top of the cloud ladder, Ye Qing saw that the good men and women who had just passed through the Sutra Turning Dao were constantly going up and down from here, going to the Buddha House to worship the Great Compassion Nan Wu Amitabha Buddha, regardless of men, women and children, from their faces, they could clearly see the same two words, that is, piety.

There is no pretentiousness, there is only solemnity and yearning from the depths of the heart.

After climbing the ladder and successfully entering the main hall of the Buddha's house, Ye Qing looked at it, and the first thing that caught her eye was the unique style of murals on the wall, from the gate to the inner wall, from the main pillar to the beam, the rare beauty filled all the details of the hall.

The lines of these murals are complex and varied, and the figures are vivid and vivid: some have vertical eyes and round eyes, and they look angrily; Some of them have slightly open lips and kind eyebrows.

All of them vividly show the unique fantasy and profundity of Tibetan Buddhist culture.

"The murals of Litang Temple have a long history, most of them can be traced back to the Ming and Qing dynasties, and they are among the five famous temples in Tibet."

Xu Zimo obviously had an in-depth study of Tibetan culture, and as he walked, he did not forget to explain the allusions and origins of this temple to everyone.

"Every painting here presents a complete story, such as the 'Oriental Luxury' on the left, which tells the story of Princess Wencheng's entry into Tibet and Fan, and the middle of this 'Sun and Moon Glory' depicts the process of the completion of the two famous temples of Da and Xiao Zhao Temple......

"Princess Wencheng is in Tibet? Where, where? Li Wei coldly said, "I want to see Songtsan Gampo!" ”

Kuang Zhenzhen raised her chin, pointed to the one on their right, and said, "Na, what about this, to be honest, I think it's very ordinary, and the painting is not as good as Yan Liben's "Step Diagram". ”

"Nani? Songtsen Gampo looks like this, huh? Li Wei's little face suddenly fell, "The ancients deceived me, didn't history always say that he was a handsome guy?" Why don't I look as good-looking as Brother Xu? ”

"Who?"

Shi Lei came out of nowhere: "I know, are you praising me for being good-looking behind my back again?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the two women chose to be silent at the same time.

Xu Zimo smiled faintly, did not continue on that topic, he took a few steps forward and led everyone to the center of the main hall.

In the main hall, in addition to those murals that amaze the world, several Buddha cases are also enshrined in various types of gilded bronze statues of Sakyamuni, with different forms and corresponding meanings.

For example, the Amitabha Buddha of the Western Elysium with one hand drooping to connect with the table, the Southern Buddha of the Southern Paradise with a smile of flowers, the Medicine Buddha of the Eastern glazed world with a medicine pestle, and the Ancient Buddha of Burning Lamp, Maitreya Buddha, Buddha of the Past Death, Buddha of the Future, and so on.

The law is solemn, which makes people look at it at first glance, and suddenly all distracting thoughts disappear, and they feel respect.

Tibetan people worship Buddha sincerely, for tourists to visit, the attitude of the lama in the temple is also very modest, except for the two points of touching the Buddha statue with your hands and loud noise, the rest of you want to take pictures or watch closely, these are not clearly stipulated.

"This is the mountain behind Litang Temple, the rows of houses on the mountain, are the meditation rooms of the lamas in the temple, if outsiders want to stay overnight, they must first let Lama Sam nod before they are eligible to move in."

Walking through the main hall of the Buddha house, Ye Qing saw a semi-enclosed courtyard, Xu Zimo still acted as a tour guide, and explained the origin of this courtyard to everyone with great interest.

"Who is Sam Lama?" Kuang Zhenzhen asked bluntly.

This time, Shi Lei helped her answer: "Sam Lama is the current abbot of Litang Monastery, who is humble and peaceful, has a deep study of Tibetan Buddhism and culture, and is very admired by the Tibetan people in the local area. ”

Li Wei let out an "oh", curiously pointed to the two small towers in the open space in front of the meditation room and asked, "What about this, what is it?" ”

It is two tower-shaped buildings more than three meters high, gilded with copper, the body of the tower is engraved with various patterns, and it is also inlaid with various treasures such as emrites, diamonds, corals, agate, pearls, pine ear stones, amber, jadeite, etc., and the craftsmanship is exquisite and ingenious.

Xu Zimo introduced: "This is the spiritual pagoda of the first and second Xianggen Living Buddhas, which is a landmark building of Litang Temple. ”

"Landmark?" Li Wei's eyes widened, "It's too exaggerated, I actually got so many rare treasures inlaid on it, isn't that Sam Lama afraid that he will be remembered by thieves?" ”

"Generally speaking, this is not going to happen."

Xu Zimo explained: "Tibetan Buddhism has a long history in Tibet, Tibetans have the supreme concept of Buddhism, in their hearts, Buddha is faith, is light, the image of Buddha is their survival dependence, Xianggen Ling Pagoda as a living Buddha sleep eternal place, do you think that people who open stores will take the initiative to destroy the goods in their stores for no reason?" ”

"It's impossible for Tibetans, but what about tourists from outside?"

Kuang Zhenzhen said: "People's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants, not to mention that such a precious thing is placed under the noses of others, isn't it tempting to commit crimes?" ”

"If you want to talk about preciousness, the rarest cultural relics of Litang Temple are estimated to be in the main hall of the Buddha's house, such as the gilded bronze statue of Sakyamuni, the golden saddle used by the third Dalai Lama, and the footprints of the third Dalai Lama and the fifth Dalai Lama, which are regarded as the treasures of the temple, all of which are priceless existences."

Shi Lei added: "And don't forget, since Litang Temple is known as one of the five famous temples in Tibet, there must be a lot of unknown heritage, as far as I know, every courtyard here, there is a Tibetan Buddha punishment team responsible for guarding and safekeeping, the truth is the same as our Songshan Shaolin Temple, if you dare to mess around, you haven't really started, you have been directly invited out of the mountain gate by the monks of the Luohan Hall." ”

Xu Zimo nodded: "That's right, the so-called 'Buddhism is important, and it is not allowed to be desecrated', which is actually what I am talking about." ”

When Ye Qing heard them say this, she also became interested, and when she came back to her senses to study this courtyard, she really found some ingenuity in the layout.

The whole courtyard, including the Zen room building in the back mountain, the pine and cypress wood in the four corners, the staggered Qianmo paths, and the Xianggen Spiritual Pagoda of the living Buddha's eternal silence, combined, it is like a big free four-phase lost array, people who do not understand the formation, if they dare to step out of the path to the root of the spiritual pagoda, and then turn back, they will definitely not find the exit to leave.

No wonder they are so fearless, there are still monks chanting and meditating in the front hall, but when they arrive here, they don't even see half of the little lamas who are in charge of patrolling.

"Huh, what's going on?"

Just as she stood in the middle of the two incense root spirit pagodas, Ye Qing suddenly felt that the Qiankun tube in the dantian actually let out a low groan for no reason, and the feeling became stronger and stronger, as if something was about to break out of the body.

But to Ye Qing's surprise, and feeling deeply helpless, she could clearly feel the movement of the Qiankun tube, but the aura accumulated in the dantian was uncontrollable at the same moment.

She has been a human being for two lives, and this is the first time she has encountered such a situation.

"Stupid bird, how can this be?"

The aura was imprisoned, and Ye Qing was unable to explore the pagoda space through his divine sense, so he could only borrow his mind to ask Dan Wu.

Fortunately, this induction was not cut off, and soon she heard Dan Wu respond: "The space is fine, it was the broken box you brought last time." ”

"Broken box? Which broken box? ”

- Could it be the bronze box that the old monk took from his stall?

"No, it's not that, it's the smaller one in there." Dan Wu was able to read her thoughts and immediately identified the object.

Ye Qing suddenly remembered the square box that was sealed on six sides, at that time, because the stupid bird prompted that there was a powerful force in the seal, she didn't dare to move, so she threw it aside at will, why did she suddenly react at this time?

What kind of power is it that summons it so strongly?

"Girl, don't think about this now, hurry back a few steps, it seems that someone is coming this way!"

Danwu's voice had just fallen, Ye Qing had already seen a fifteen or sixteen-year-old little lama walking through the round door on the east side of the courtyard, his face was slightly green, with a sense of innocence that did not provoke the dust of the world, and when he walked towards him, there seemed to be a faint smile on the corner of his lips.

"Gusodepo, Rinpoche, Cherang to take Wiga Buqiong."

The little lama walked straight up to Ye Qing, suddenly clasped his hands together, and said respectfully.

Ye Qing was slightly stunned, since she got on the plane that day, she has been studying the notebook given by Xu Lao for the past few days, and she has also roughly studied the Tibetan language, and knows the meaning of the little lama's words, translated into Chinese, that is: "Hello, distinguished guest, I am so happy to see you." ”

Xu Zimo and the others also saw the appearance of the little lama at this time, thinking that something had happened, and hurriedly approached to inquire about the situation.

"What's wrong? Could it be that this little master's six roots are not exhausted, and he wants to bow down under Qing'er's pomegranate skirt? Li Wei quipped.

"Buddhism, what do you want." Kuang Zhenzhen glanced at her, then looked at Shi Lei and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

But it was Xu Zimo who took over: "What he means is that Sam Lama wants to see Qing'er alone." (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to () subscribe, reward, your support is my biggest motivation. )