3. Hidden Treasurer
"Cousin, I'm in the Zahi dining bar, in the first private room at the door, you hurry up, I'll wait for you", there was a "um, um" answer from the other end of the phone. After Danzhi sent Bai Jing away, he went to the tea restaurant to wait for his cousin. He didn't come to the county seat today just to cheer, but to meet his cousin.
The chanting sound that Bai Jing heard last night was not just for excesses, but more for exorcism. It is a transcendent ritual performed at the request of the deceased. On the night of the 49th day, the five-member Tibetan tantric master completed a ritual according to the teachings of the Nima sect to free the deceased from the sea of suffering and be reincarnated as a human being. Uncle had been killed by a piece of paper, which was now in his jacket pocket, a sallow piece of Tibetan paper that had been eroded by time. Tibetan paper is made from bark fibers, ruixiang and root fibers of wolf poison flowers treated with lime and soil alkali. Because the straw paper itself is toxic, the Tibetan paper will not rot over time, is not easy to tear, is not afraid of insect and rat bites, and will remain intact for thousands of years. He couldn't see the age of the paper, and he couldn't read the content, and there was only a short line of words on the door, like ancient Sanskrit.
My uncle was a Nyingma Tibetan teacher. The Nyingma sect is not like the Gelug sect that flourished in Tibet. Gelug focuses on both sutra and tantra, and one who does not have a wisdom root cannot learn tantra. The Nyingma sect, on the other hand, is the oldest school that takes Tantra as its main study. After Langdarma destroyed the Buddha, (the last Tibetan Zampu carried out a campaign to destroy Buddhism), in order to preserve its strength, the Nyingma sect adopted a very covert way to teach. Some of them pass on the Dharma from father to son in the family, so that the lineage of the Dharma can be extended.
In the post-macro period of Buddhism, the Nyingma sect also had a glorious time, in the three major Tibetan areas of the vast cultivation of monasteries, believers continued, but all this was counterattacked by the Gelug sect that came later, although the Nyingma sect in Tibet is not as powerful as the Gelug sect, but the temple and believers are still firmly in the second. My uncle is a "Qingbawa", a live-in monk, who usually works at home to give birth. Only Buddhist temple activities go to the temple. At the same time, he was a hidden treasurer, and he spent his whole life running to find the hidden treasure. The most amazing and prominent part of the Nyingma sect is the Fu Collection. Although other sects also have ambush collections, and among the teachers of those sects, there are many people who can take them, but the source of the hiding is Guru Padmasambhava. Guru Padmasambhava's period was the pre-propagation period, when there was only the Nyingma school, so most of the Tibetan scriptures were from the Nyingma school. The hidden treasures refer to the scriptures that Bon and Tibetan Buddhists hid when their religion was in calamity and were later re-excavated, which are divided into book collections, holy relics collections, and knowledge collections. The book collection refers to the scriptures, the holy relics contain the finger vessels, the relics of the great monks, etc. The most amazing thing is the knowledge of the scriptures, when a certain scripture or mantra cannot be passed down in the face of a disaster, it is given by the gods to hide in the depths of someone's consciousness so that it will not be lost. When the conditions for retransmission are met, under some mysterious revelation, the people who have been given the scriptures (some of them illiterate farmers and herdsmen) can recite or record them. And the one who memorizes and records these verses is the hidden master.
Danzhi looked at the piece of paper over and over again, thinking about what was the content that made his uncle run hard for nearly thirty years, keeping him awake at night and eating at sun, and finally had mental problems. Just when Dan was puzzled by the contents of the paper, his cousin Dougie had already walked in front of him, "Hey, hey, what are you thinking?" So fascinated," Dougie said, knocking on the table in front of him, and Danzhi looked like he had just woken up from a dream. "Oh, nothing, it's just some mess, what do you drink?" "Milk tea bar" "Well, okay" Dougie pulled out his chair and sat down.
"After I received your WeChat message yesterday, I prepared my luggage. It just so happens that school is out and I have a lot of time to accompany you to find what you are looking for."
"Thank you, cousin. My uncle is alone in this world, without a wife or children, only a nephew like me, I can't help but listen to his last words, but I am also confused now, my uncle was delirious before he died, and every day he took this piece of paper and looked at it like a demon" Danzhi said as he took out the piece of paper and handed it to Dougie.
Dougie looked at it seriously, "It's just such a piece of paper, and there is nothing else?" "There's also a treasure box, but there's nothing in it, and the treasure box is used to hold this piece of paper." "I don't understand this word either, but if you look closely, it has a bit of a shadow of Tibetan," Dougie said, rubbing his chin unconsciously with his right hand, a sign that every time he tries to think about something.
"Did your uncle tell you something else? Just a piece of paper, where the hell are we going? "He asked me to go to Zao's tomb, and he was involved in an archaeological operation organized by a local organization more than thirty years ago, and it was during that operation that he got this piece of paper. At that time, I heard from my uncle that several people died, and a lot of strange things happened, and finally the ancient tomb had to be sealed. "Then your uncle means to let us go to the grave?" Dan Zhibai glanced at Dougie,
"Of course not, the owner of the tomb is a Bon practitioner and a hidden treasurer. Uncle should have investigated for a long time to find out, but later because his medical investigation did not continue, uncle's last words were for me to find someone who understood the content of this piece of paper, although I don't know why my uncle spent his whole life looking for it, but this should be a very important thing" Danzhi's voice was full of grief, and his hands were unconsciously clenched.
Daoji patted Danzhi's arm and comforted: "Brother, I will definitely accompany you to find that person, don't be sad, we will definitely fulfill my uncle's wish, let him be reincarnated as soon as possible" Danzhi's eyes were full of gratitude.
"I think this should be Gu Xiangxiongwen, I'll ask the professor at the University of China to see if he knows," Doggie said, taking out his phone and clicking at the piece of paper. "I'll send it to my professor."
After a while, the professor sent a language to Doji, "What you found there, this is ancient Sanskrit, it is the prophecy of Guru Padmasambhava, when the iron bird flies in the air, and the iron horse gallops on the ground. Looking at the style and texture of this paper, it should be old. Dao Ji said the general situation in WeChat. The professor was very excited to hear this, and asked us on the phone to tell him if we found something. "As long as a Tibetan knows this prophecy, it is Guru Padmasambhava who predicted the life of modern people, predicted cars, trains, and airplanes, but what does this have to do with ancient tombs, who can really understand this sentence." Danzhi spread his hands and shrugged helplessly. He looked at Doji with a confused expression.