Zhou Tianyi continued: "The pagoda has been transformed from the original bowl-covered pagoda into a pavilion-type tower and a pavilion-type tower, and a dense eaves tower has been derived from the pavilion-style tower. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

According to the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty", during the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty, the Danyang people Zhenrong "raised the floating slaughter, accumulated gold plates on the top, and heavy buildings on the bottom, and there were pavilions around the circle, which could accommodate 3,000 people", these descriptions truly recorded the grandeur and magnificence of the pagoda building at that time.

There are many kinds of Chinese pagodas, there are stone towers, wooden towers, brick towers, glass towers, etc., the height of the tower is from a few inches to tens of zhang, such as the treasure seal tower made by King Wu Yue is only a few inches high, and the Yongning Temple tower built by Emperor Wen of Wei Xianwen is known as a hundred zhang, the tallest tower in China.

Generally speaking, regardless of the shape and size of the stupa, its basic shape is composed of the base of the tower, the body of the tower, and the tower stop.

The base of the tower has a square, circular, polygonal shape, and the body of the tower is built upwards with steps layer by layer, and gradually closes.

In China, if the number of towers and their forms are diverse, the style is rich, it can be said that it is unique in the world, all kinds of towers that are extremely rich in architectural decoration beauty, and mountains, rivers, villages together to build the unique cultural and natural landscape of the Chinese nation.

The early stupa was a large semicircular mound in the form of a tomb.

The existing relatively complete Indian Sanchi Tower, the center is the square platform and three-layer umbrella cover of the compound bowl-shaped tower body, the bottom of the tower has an abutment and a fence, and there are steps up and down in front.

The outermost layer also has a fence around the tower, and there is an archway-shaped tower gate on each side of the fence.

In Java, Southeast Asia, around the second half of the eighth century, there was a cave that was built during the reign of the Serindoro dynasty in Sumatra.

This Borobudur, from the bottom up, consists of: the first part, a huge square stone platform that serves as the base of the tower, with a convex fort.

The second part is a five-storey altar on this platform, which is gradually reduced upwards and downwards, and on the walls of the upper and lower altars are decorated with a small series of niches with the same number of Buddha statues, and the number of Buddha statues is equal to the number of Buddha statues in all the four hundred and thirty-six of the four walls of the whole building of Borobudur.

In the third part, above the fifth high altar, there is a circular platform with three steps, and seventy-two small bell stupas stand around it.

The fourth part, in the center of the topmost layer, is the hemispherical dome of the plugging wave itself.

This huge building is a testament to the remarkable artistic genius of the Indonesian nation.

The Sumeru seat is placed on the upper lotus seat with three layers of lotus petals to bear the body of the tower. The body of the tower is 5 layers, each layer is out of the eaves far-reaching, the cornice is curved, the lotus pattern round tile and the heavy lip dripping water are engraved on it, and the back end is decorated with a dragon head. The first layer is higher, about 3 meters, the eaves stone vertical carving flying image, the eight-sided corner carving is made of imitation wood leaning on the column, the pillar is set up on the forehead, the east and west sides are respectively embossed in the middle of Manjushri, the statue of Puxian, the north and south sides are carved stone doors, the door post is engraved with scriptures, and the remaining four sides are carved with a statue of the king of heaven. The height of the second floor is about 1 meter, and the height of the upper floors decreases gradually. There is no door, the 8 sides of each layer are carved out of two round arch-shaped stone niches, and a sitting Buddha is carved in relief in the niche. There are 5 layers of Tasha, each with lotus carving. This kind of dense eaves tower with pedestal is the earliest example of an existing stone tower. ”

"You're kidding, God! There are so many Buddhas in the western heavens, whose stupa do we go to? I won't find all the stupas of the Buddhas in the Western Heavens! Dong Tinghua said.

"How is it possible, I have already set my goal!" Zhou Tianyi said.

"Then whose stupa are we going to steal?" Miao Weiqiang asked.

"I've set my sights on Shakyamuni Buddha!" Zhou Tianyi said.

"Divine stick, you are stupid, there is a thousand years difference between the existence of Shakyamuni and Zhantian, what are you looking for in Shakyamuni's pagoda!" Dong Tinghua sneered.

"I'm talking about the first life of Shakyamuni, you should know that many people can become Buddhas, and they have to go through more than ten lifetimes of practice before they can become Buddhas!" Zhou Tianyi said.

"Shakyamuni still has a first life?" Miao Weiqiang questioned.

"That's right, there are almost no Buddhas in the West Heaven who can become Buddhas in one lifetime!" Zhou Tianyi said.

"That's not right, isn't Shakyamuni in the Central Plains, why do you want to go to Tibet and India? And what was the first life of Shakyamuni? Dong Tinghua asked confusedly.

Zhou Tianyi stared at Dong Tinghua with stupid eyes, and said that it was the first life of Sakyamuni, and he still asked here endlessly, sighed, and told all the allusions to Buddhism and Sakyamuni...

"Shakyamuni's first life was a white elephant, and this white elephant has magical powers, superhuman wisdom..." Zhou Tianyi said.

It's okay not to talk about it, when Zhou Tianyi finished speaking, Miao Weiqiang, who was not confused, also heard it in a daze, not to mention Dong Tinghua, he had never heard that the first life of Sakyamuni was actually a white elephant, Zhou Tianyi was not talking nonsense!

"God stick, are you taking me and Brother Qiang for fools? Tell us stories? Dong Tinghua said.

"Believe it or not, but what we are looking for is the White Elephant's Relic Pagoda, which is said to have been buried in the White Elephant Pagoda on the White Elephant Mountain after his death!" Zhou Tianyi said.

"Believe, how can we not believe you, this is it! Where do we go to find that White Elephant Mountain? Where to find the White Elephant Tower? Dong Tinghua said.

"So we're going to Tibet and India, and I think this White Elephant Mountain should be in these two places!" Zhou Tianyi said.

Miao Weiqiang, Dong Tinghua was silent for a moment...

"Okay, we'll go wherever you say, whether you can find it or not, let's just treat it as a trip!" Dong Tinghua said.

"Also, I haven't been to Tibet since I'm so old?" Miao Weiqiang said.

The three of them drank until midnight, and fell asleep in bed groggily, and the next morning, the three of them spent a high price to get three fake ID cards and went to the airport to buy a ticket to Lsa...

It took less than a day for the three of them to come to Lsa, looking at the Tibetan men and women in Tibetan robes, and the monks in robes everywhere on the road, there was an exotic feeling!

Before coming to Tibet again, Zhou Tianyi had done a full investigation of the local ethnic customs, and the three of them stopped a local taxi and came to the hotel on the square, and opened the window to clearly see the Potala Palace on the opposite mountain!

All three of them are coming to Tibet for the first time, but when they see the legendary Potala Palace, they inevitably want to go in and have a look!

The first time he came to the plateau area, Zhou Tianyi, who had lost his mana, inevitably had altitude sickness, seeing that Zhou Tianyi's expression was wrong, Dong Tinghua and Miao Weiqiang looked at Zhou Tianyi with a worried face and asked anxiously: "God stick, what's wrong with you, are you uncomfortable!" (To be continued.) )