Volume 2 Gates of Hell Chapter 12 The Rakshasa Witch
The Buddha smiled and replied, "You and I are willing to stay here, I really went back back then!" But in the turbulent autumn, by the time I returned to the Central Plains, the world had already changed. The Oriental people are extremely vicious, burning, killing and looting! In the case of searching for the second master to no avail, the old man had no choice but to return to Tibet, and according to the pre-agreed plan, he waited for the second master here! ”
"Oh!"
I don't doubt that he said that. The behavior of the little devil entering the Central Plains back then was indeed outrageous! The only place in China that has been spared from destruction is Tibet, Xinjiang and other western provinces!
After the Buddha said this, he didn't stop, turned his head and asked me, "Do you know Lhasa?" ”
Although he asked me inexplicably, it was also a hit on my fate! To tell the truth, I only went to Tibet for the Yalu Witch Tomb, and I didn't do archaeology, so there is no need to eat Lhasa thoroughly before I come!
I shook my head at the Buddha, indicating that I didn't know at all. He sighed and explained to me.
This Tibet, formerly known as Tibet, had no contact with China before the Tang Dynasty. It is said that the Tubo people are the descendants of the bald and lilu Gu of the Xianbei people of the king of Nanliang in the last years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and they migrated to the Tibetan Plateau because they lost their country. In order to commemorate their ancestors, they took "baldness" as their country name, and later changed it to "Tubo" according to the phonetic similarity.
The Tibetans live a predominantly nomadic life, raising yaks, horses, pigs and dromedary camels, and some also grow barley and buckwheat. In the book "The King's Legacy" of the Tibetan Kingdom, there is also a legend of "macaques turning into humans".
It is rumored that there are two important rakshasas in Tibet, one is the rock rakshasa who has a close relationship with the origin of the Tibetans, and it later fell in love with the macaques lit by Guanyin Bodhisattva, and bred millions of Tibetan macaques, becoming the first grandmother of the Tibetans, respected and admired by the people.
The macaques that were bred from the rock rakshasas were full of long hair and red faces. These macaques initially lived in large forests along with other macaques, birds and animals in the Yarlung Zangbo River valley in Tibet, where they lived by picking fruits.
I don't know that after millions of years, these macaques gradually separated from other ancient macaques due to the differences in body structure and living habits, leaving the forest and moving to live in the forest grassland.
By this time, these macaques were able to walk upright, feed on leaves, feed on wild grains that they did not grow themselves, and lived in caves.
During the long years, they struggled with the natural world, made some rough stone tools, began to work purposefully, and gradually evolved into primitive humans, which are the ancestors of the Tibetan people, and also the ancestors of the Tibetan people.
Nowadays in Tibet, the caves in the Zedang area are known as the remains of the ancient macaques of the Tibetan ancestors, and a garden in the Suodang area is known as the first farmland where the ancient Tibetan ancestors artificially controlled the growth and reproduction of crops.
Therefore, later Tibetans worship the gods in the mountains, and they will dig up a handful of soil in these places and bring it back as a souvenir, believing that this is the sacred land.
The other is the Rakshasa Demon, who nurtured the Tibetan people, and became the Mother Earth who nurtured the Tibetan people to grow and grow. These two kinds of Rakshasa women are ugly demons in terms of image, but they have paradoxically become the closest and most worshiped idols in the hearts of Tibetans.
Until the seventh century A.D., he abandoned his sect and succeeded to the throne as Tubo Zampu, and people also called him Songtsen Gampo. He was a courageous leader who led his army to unify many tribes on the Tibetan Plateau and founded the city of Ela, which is now Lhasa, as the center of the powerful kingdom.
I listened to the Buddha's chatter, a little impatient! The heart says that it is not an old man, and they all love to talk nonsense! These are all things in history and textbooks, I don't need to say it, I'll check it myself when I go back! Now what I want to know most is what this picture has to do with the tomb!
The Buddha is a clear thing, and when he saw that I was bored and drooped my head, he didn't speak, knowing that it might be that I didn't want to listen, so he changed the topic and talked about the Tibetan Demon Suppression Map.
According to him, more than 1,300 years ago, when Princess Wencheng married into Tibet, there was still a swamp around the location of the Jokhang Temple. There is a lake in the center of the swamp, placed in the city of Lhasa, like a huge witch lying on her back to the sky.
After Princess Wencheng divined, she confirmed that she could subdue demons by building a temple here, so she used many goats to start building a temple.
Tibetan called the goat "jay", called the soil "sa", in order to commemorate the construction of the temple, the original name of the Buddhist hall was "jay", and later it was also called "Zulakang", that is, the meaning of the scripture hall. "Jokhang" in Tibetan means "Juedi", which means "Shakyamuni's Buddha Hall", and later the name of the city evolved into "Lhasa".
The temple is the main place to house Buddha statues and spread Buddhist ideas, and it is also an important part of Buddhist culture.
Princess Chizun of Nepal failed to build a temple in front of the palace, so she asked Princess Tang Wencheng to speculate on the address of the temple with a heavy gift.
It is said that Princess Wencheng made careful observations according to the Central Plains' "Eighty Kinds of Five Elements Calculation and Observation Method", and knew that the terrain of snowy Tibet was like the shape of a Rakshasa witch lying on her back.
After further investigation, it was learned that Lhasa's Wotang Lake is the brainchild of the witch, the three mountains are the witch's heart and veins, around the Muqi, that is, the Xiaozhao Temple, where the dragon god lives, Lupu is the medicine king under the eastern cliff of the Chara Lupu, for the black evil dragon habitat, Davaze is the ghost and inhuman residence under the single poisonous tree, a place in the southeast is boiled, like an elephant in battle, and so on.
Princess Wencheng pointed out that the terrain of Tibet is a witch, and if you want to be safe and prosperous in Tibet, you must first regulate the feng shui in Lhasa and its vicinity, build a temple in the heart of the witch, and suppress the hard work of the witch. A royal palace has been built on the hill of the Potala Palace, which has calmed the heart of the demon.
After Princess Niji Chizun heard this, she calculated according to Princess Wencheng. Take the mountain of alpacas and fill in the Wotang Lake. As a result, the Jokhang Temple, the holy place among the holy places, was built, and the snowy plateau began to build temples and Buddhist halls.
Speaking of which, Galeries Lafayette stopped! He looked at my waxed face and was overwhelmed! I wrapped my cotton coat tightly and got up to leave.
He grabbed me and asked, "Little donor, what are you going to do!" ”
"Me! Go get down to business, me! You, you've been rambling for half a day, and you're talking nonsense! You haven't told me until now, this map has something to do with what I'm going to do! I don't have time, I don't have time! Leave here and shout to yourself! ”
After listening to the cackling, the Buddha put the prayer wheel on the ground, looked at the scenery outside the hall and asked me, "Do you know how many holy miracles there are in Lhasa?" ”
"You don't come! I don't know, and I don't want to know! ”
When the Buddha heard me say this, he was a little angry, turned his face and scolded me angrily, "Ridiculous! Don't forget what you do! ”