Chapter 238: Water Burial
I'll just say why is the scenery in front of me so familiar, isn't this the background of the snow-capped mountains in the Maiden Buddha Sacrifice Buddha Pi Thangka?
Did we all enter the human skin thangka?
So, aren't we going to bump into that eerie Buddha and the girl with a weird smile?
I told Lan Yue what I thought, Lan Yue nodded when she heard this, and looked around for a moment before she was sure: "I took a look, although the sky is blue and the scenery is good, there is no breath of fate flowing, this should be in the human skin thangka!" ”
"So, everything we're seeing now is fake, isn't it?"
Blue Moon shook her head. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info: "I can't be sure about this yet!" ”
"Moo......" Just as we were talking, we heard a low cow's cry in the distance.
Turning his head, not far ahead, I don't know when a few animals that looked strong and looked strong, with significantly bulging shoulders and big horns on their heads, this animal should be a cow, but its limbs were very short, and the hair on its body was still very long, and it was almost hanging to the ground.
"What kind of animal is this, is it a cow? It's so stumbling. Blue Moon asked, looking at me.
I shook my head blankly: "I haven't seen it before, but if this is Tibet, then this creature should be a yak!" ”
I recall the introduction in the junior high school textbook: "Yak is a unique breed of cattle in the alpine region, adapting to the alpine ecological conditions, resistant to roughness, hard work, good at walking steep slopes and dangerous roads, snow-capped mountains and swamps, and can swim across rivers and rapids, and is known as the "boat of the plateau".
The yak is full of treasures. The Tibetan people are inseparable from food, clothing, housing, transportation, burning and farming. People drink yak milk, eat yak meat, and burn yak dung.
Thinking of this, my eyes lit up: we must catch a cow, so that we can have a better life, if it is really bad, we can still kill the cow and eat meat, now is after all, it is an extraordinary time, there will be danger at any time in the painting, and we must conserve our strength. So I don't care about any benevolence, righteousness and morality!
Let Lan Yue sit here and rest for a while, I directly raised my sword and rushed forward.
I didn't expect that the history of the yak was so big, I pulled the horns and legs, and the details were not to be said, anyway, it took time and effort, and I almost exhausted myself to death, so I finally barely pulled a yak, but it was only pulled, and I couldn't control its strong body at all.
Lan Yue saw that I was time-consuming and laborious but ineffective, so she hurriedly came over and got up to help me.
Unexpectedly, after her Tianji eye and the yak looked at each other, the yak was stunned on the spot at first, and then meekly lowered his head.
Seeing this, I couldn't help but sigh: "Damn." I didn't expect that Tianji Eye would have such an effect. ”
Lan Yue smiled reluctantly, I knew that she had been holding on, and quickly picked her up by the waist and put her on the yak.
In this way, the yak carried the blue moon, and I led the horns of the ox to the bottom of the mountain.
Walking down the plateau, to the clear lake, the breeze blows, blowing the calm lake, the slight waves crash against the pebbles on the shore, this lake is so clear, the quicksand at the bottom of the lake is clearly recognizable.
The yak also seemed to be a little thirsty and began to bow its head to drink.
I took Blue Moon off the yak, intending to drink some water to replenish my strength.
Just as we were about to drink water, Blue Moon suddenly exclaimed, and then threw herself into my arms with a disgraced face.
"What's wrong?" I hurriedly asked.
The frightened Blue Moon pointed behind him, and following the gaze of his fingers, I looked at it fixedly, and my heart was also "groaning".
In the clear water of the lake, there is actually a highly decomposed corpse!
What's even more shocking is that the corpse was actually tied up with five flowers, and the limbs were twisted, it seems that he must have experienced great pain beforehand, presumably this must be the legendary effort in the old Tibetan area was abused to death by the slave owner, and discarded here at will.
If I'm not mistaken, normal or high-status Tibetans are supposed to be buried in the sky after death, which is recorded in detail in Grandpa Zhang's diary.
There are several theories about the origin of sky burial in Tibet: one theory is that Tibet spends most of the year in frozen soil, which is hard and difficult to dig and difficult to bury because of the scarcity of trees, so the form of sky burial was adopted according to local conditions. A more plausible version is that celestial burials coincide with Buddhist teachings.
In Buddhism, "generosity" is one of the symbols of believers, the highest state of charity is to sacrifice oneself, there is a moving story of "sacrificing oneself to feed the tiger" in the Buddhist scriptures, moreover, according to Buddhist teachings, after death, the soul leaves the body and enters a new reincarnation, and the corpse becomes a useless skin, and the corpse is fed to the eagle after death, which is also regarded as the last good deed in life.
The burial platform is rectangular, facing east and west, and is made of thick and long square granite blanks, and there is a thick stone pillar with a bowl mouth on the west side, and a hada is tied to the stone pillar, which is probably used to fix the head of the deceased.
On the east side, there are two large stones about 50 centimeters higher than the base of the heavenly burial platform, one of the stones also has an axe, and on the west side of the hillside there are sharp knives and sharp blades, which are the tools used by the celestial burial master when performing the heavenly burial, and the burial platform is stained with blood, revealing a bit of gloom.
After the death of a person, the celestial burial master must first take off the clothes and pants of the deceased, bend the head of the deceased to the knees, make it curl up like a newborn baby, and then wrap the body in a white cloth, put a hada, which means that the deceased is born as Si and dies as Si, so that the deceased enters a new cycle as a newborn.
It is not allowed to go to the burial platform on Sunday, which will be considered very unlucky, and the deceased is generally sent to the burial platform on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, and the hours are mostly chosen before the sun rises between 4 and 8 o'clock in the morning. A celestial burial platform buries about one to two corpses per day.
Water burial: put the body in the water, if the body does not sink in the water, it means that the person has done a lot of good deeds in his life, under the auspices of the lama, through some mysterious ritual: such as drawing lots, etc., let many lamas chop the body into pieces with knives, and then put it in the water, let the fish eat his flesh, so that he can go to the excess. If he sinks in the water, it shows that he has done something bad in his life, so let him go down with the water.
After the death of Tibetans, according to different economic and social status, different burial methods are adopted, and there are five common types: sky burial, water burial, cremation, earth burial and tower burial, and the general people use sky burial.
Tower burial: only suitable for eminent monks, such as the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama, etc., the tower burial is to put the master's body into the tower after embalming treatment or put the ashes and relics into the tower. The pagoda is decorated with gold, silver and various precious stones, and is extremely gorgeous.
Cremation: Suitable for some monks of status and achievement.
Burial: According to Tibetan customs, those who have committed serious sins and prisoners who have been tortured to death cannot be buried in the sky, but can only be buried in the ground, so that their souls cannot be reincarnated.
Water burial: In Tibet, many people think that water burial is inferior, only for beggars, sick people, or the dead suffering from infectious diseases are buried in water, in fact, the object of water burial is not limited to the above people, in eastern Tibet, the mountains are high and the valleys are deep, there are few eagle vultures, and it is really difficult to carry out sky burial, so most people use water burial.
Therefore, if it is the old society of Tibet now, then the corpse in front of you must be a slave!
Thoughts, this time I can't help but greet the evil old society thousands of times in my heart!
Therefore, this Pi Thangka, a girl who sacrifices to the Buddha, is a record of the ugliest and darkest moment of human nature.