Chapter 34: The Good Buddha
This is a hotel opened by a Chengdu boss, mainly for travelers. After we moved in, we asked the man to ask us about a lama named Ganzi Gongpo Dorjee. And the man went out.
We stayed for one night, and the next morning, the man came back, and he said that he had inquired about all the people in the vicinity, and all the family temples around Danba were not the lama Ganzi Gongpo Dorjee. I asked what is a family temple? The man said that every village has a small temple, and there is a lama in it, which is supported by the people of the village, so it is called a family temple.
I looked back at the fat man, and the fat man said that his master was the same Ganzi Gongpo Dorjee that he met in Danba, but he didn't say which temple it was. Jiang Ming said that since he came to Danba, the matter was half successful, and Brother Hai couldn't find it, maybe people didn't use this name to the outside world.
The fat man said, Brother Hai, you can translate the meaning of this name. Hanzi said that Ganzi is Ganzi Autonomous Prefecture, but there is also a Ganzi County, and Ganzi Prefecture is located in Kangding, not in Ganzi County. We were confused and said you go on. The man said that there is a Ganzi Monastery in Ganzi County, and the lamas who come out of Ganzi Monastery will add the name of the temple in front of the Dharma name in their names.
Jiang Ming said, which means that this lama came from Ganzi Monastery, so his name is preceded by Ganzi? The man was right. I asked if there were any lamas from Ganzi Monastery in Danba's family temple? The man said that he hadn't heard of this, but if he asked the old man, he should be able to know.
What does it mean when I ask Kampot Dorjee? The man said that Kampot in Tibetan means protector of the Dharma, and Dorjee means vajra. The Dharma Protector Vajra of Ganzi Monastery? Then this lama must have been in Ganzi Monastery, and he is the Dharma Protector Vajra of Ganzi Monastery. This title should be said to the Jianghu people, not his real legal name.
We discussed it for a while, and finally asked the man to ask the old man to see if there was any Ganzi Temple in Danba's family temple, if it was the best Dharma Protector Vajra. When the man heard about it, he got up and went out to find the old people in the county who liked to set up the dragon gate to see which lamas came out of Ganzi Monastery.
In the afternoon, the man came back, exhausted. When I entered the door, I said that I was not dishonoring my mission and found the old lama. We all gathered around to listen, and the man took a big sip of water before saying that this lama usually doesn't see outsiders, so few people know about it. It was not easy for him to find out from the mouth of a centenarian, and for this he also gave the old man a thousand yuan to buy food.
When Jiang Ming heard it, he silently took out the money and counted 11,000 yuan to him. Said Brother Hai, the tour guide fee of 10,000 yuan will be given to you first, and the 1,000 money you paid for the old man. The man said suspiciously, you don't want me anymore? Jiang Ming said, yes, this is the account in front of the settlement, and you will do things for us in the future, 1,000 yuan a day, daily settlement, food and accommodation are counted as ours.
When the man heard this, he took the money happily. Say thank you to the owner. A thousand dollars is too much, I really don't dare to take you. It doesn't take a thousand to inquire about it. Jiang Ming said that we don't know how long we will stay here, or else. The man sat down and listened to him.
Jiang Ming said that we came here mainly to treat my brother's daughter-in-law, and if the disease is cured, the car will not be needed, or you will be the driver for us during this time, and my brother's daughter-in-law will be cured. You send us to Chengdu to take the car, and then the car will be yours.
The man said how can this work, how can this car cost 200,000, it is still a new car. Jiang Ming said that if my brother's daughter-in-law is cured, we won't need a car, how convenient it is to take a train and a plane. So this car is also a burden, so I might as well send it to you.
Hearing Jiang Ming say this, the man lowered his head and pondered for a while and said, Okay, no problem. Jiang Ming gave him the driving license and keys. And then say where is that lama? What is the situation? Tell us about it.
The man went on to talk about the lama. According to the old man, this lama participated in the Ganzi Incident in 1939, and after the Ganzi Incident ended, he went to a cave on the line of the snow-capped mountain in Jiaju Tibetan Village to practice. Later, the Tibetans of Jiaju Tibetan Village built a family temple at the entrance of the cave, and he protected the peace of Jiaju Tibetan Village and the surrounding area.
I asked, what is the Ganzi incident? The man said that listening to the old man, it was in the 39th year that Ganzi Temple and Tusi united to have an armed conflict with the Kuomintang army. And what's going on? In 1939? It's 2008, and if I do the math, it's going to be seventy-two years, right? So if this lama can be the Dharma Protector Vajra, he must be more than 100 years old?
Jiang Ming asked what was the name of this lama? The man said that his name was Lobsang Living Buddha. Lobsang means kind-hearted, and the Living Buddha is the local title for lamas. Kind Buddha? Now that I have found someone, I will find a way to go up the mountain to find him. It's getting late, so we'll leave early tomorrow morning. After everyone discussed, they ate and rested, and prepared to take Zhang Shan for treatment tomorrow.
When we got up in the morning, after breakfast, the man drove us to Jiaju Tibetan Village. Starting from Danba County, take Provincial Highway 211, and after a few kilometers, start to take the village road up the mountain. This is the first village in Niejia Township, which is called Jiaju Tibetan Village. There are many villages called Jiaju around, and this first village is close to the provincial road, so it has been developed into a tourist attraction.
After driving a few kilometers up the hill, I came to the entrance of the village, and there was a security booth that sold tickets, and there were railings to stop you from coming in. After we got out of the car, the man found a nearby place to park. After buying the tickets, we saw a row of Tibetan girls sitting behind the railing basking in the sun, all of them wearing traditional Tibetan clothes, that is, black with colorful lines, all looking at us.
I took Zhang Shan's hand and crossed the railing, and one of the Tibetan girls basking in the sun stood up and asked in Mandarin if we needed a guide. I said you're a tour guide? She said she was from the village, and she was the only one in the group who could speak Mandarin. Nothing else is standard.
I said, how to charge the tour guide fee? She took one look at us and said we were all together, right? If it's together, a hundred pieces will do, she finished and raised a finger. I said deal. The fat man stabbed me with his arm, and when I turned around, he leaned in my ear and said, "It seems to be one of the three Danba sisters."
I turned around and asked her, are you the third Danba sister? She smiled and said yes, or was she recognized by you. She asked how we would know about the three Danba sisters. I said I had a book in the hotel, I had your introduction, and I saw the color book.
She nodded and said that she was the younger sister, and there were two older sisters on it, and the eldest sister was married and was at home with the children. The second sister talked about a boyfriend, a small doctor in the county, and she went to the clinic to help. She is the only one who is the head of the dance team and brings the dance team to be a tour guide every day.
In fact, the tour guide takes the guests to the village for a turn, and then arranges to eat at their own home and collect the money for the meal. But we are really not here to visit today, and it is important to get down to business. I said take us around. Then she walked in front, and we followed, listening to her explain the things inside the village.
As she walked, the girl asked, "Where are you from?" I said Guangdong, and she said she had been to Guangdong last year. I looked at her in surprise, Guangdong has been so far away? Did I say tourism? She said no, she went to the Chinese Folk Culture Village in Shenzhen to dance. I didn't know this place, I went back to Jiang Ming, Jiang Ming came over and said that there is, it is of a commercial nature.
Jiang Ming walked up and walked side by side with the tour guide Xiaomei, and asked her if she thought Guangdong was fun? She said she hadn't played and came back straight after dancing. Jiang Ming said that it is rare to go once, why not play it? She smiled and said that she was drunk, she and her sisters slept for a day and a night, and barely danced, and the company quickly arranged for them to fly back.
Oxygen-drunk? Drunk have you heard of it, and there is also a saying that you are drunk with oxygen? The little sister said yes, it was their dance team, and more than a dozen girls were all drunk. She said that the oxygen content in the plain area is 100%, and they have 70-80% oxygen content here, and they have long been used to it.
It turns out that they are different from us, we came to this 3,000-meter plateau area, there is a lack of oxygen, and we have to take oxygen, and they are just the opposite. This is caused by different altitudes, and when I saw the two plateau reds on this collector's little girl's face, I knew that she was a native of Tibetan.
The little sister introduced us to the scenery and architectural features here, pointed to a stone building under the road and said, "There are old people left this year, and you can see the fence on the roof, which is black." She pointed to other houses and said that the other houses were different from theirs, and that when the old man left, he painted the roof fence black, so that no one would come to his house within a year.
Looking at other houses, many of them are red house fences, and she said that those are healthy families, and they can enter them casually. The buildings around here are indeed beautiful, with every building painted in color and some unintelligible star patterns.
My sister took us to her house, walked into her house, and found that it was a newly repaired two-story house, and the materials were different from those old houses, which were made of red bricks. The patio in the middle has a lot of dried fish and bacon. She said that her house was just built last year and cost more than 400,000 yuan, and now it is a mansion in their village. We all looked up and saw that this building could be built in our hometown for 100,000 yuan.
She said that the place is remote, the freight is expensive, the materials are expensive, and the labor is expensive, so you have to buy materials from Aba Prefecture or Ya'an. So the cost of a two-story house is ridiculously expensive. Tibetans are really straightforward, they don't like to beat around the bush, and they don't tell you everything they have at home, and they don't hide it.
Jiang Ming said that your Tibetan sister is so innocent, there is no scheming, how can someone outside marry your Tibetan girl? This little sister may only be seventeen or eighteen years old, pointing at Jiang Ming and laughing, not pretentious at all. After laughing, he said that he wanted to be the son-in-law of their collector, and he wanted to put yaks on the snow mountain line for three years.
And yaks here? The little sister said yes, now they are all in the mountains, there used to be a Han who came to travel, and fell in love with a sister in their village, so she really went up the mountain to herd yaks for three years, and then became a son-in-law. After speaking, the girl grabbed Jiang Ming's hand and said with a smile, do you want to herd yaks? I can wait for you for three years.
Jiang Ming hurriedly shook off her hand, turned around and ran, and said that it was no problem to marry you, just let the yak go. The girl chased after him with a smile and grabbed him, and Jiang Ming couldn't stop dodging. In the end, I was caught, and I couldn't stop struggling, saying that I wouldn't let go of the yaks, and the snowy mountains were too cold to stay. The scene was particularly funny.
I saw that this girl was so cheerful and innocent, so I said can you take us to the Living Buddha of Lobsang? Her smile froze instantly, letting go of Jiang Ming, looking at her cold face and regaining clarity in her eyes, my heart chuckled. It's broken, and it's sinning again.