Chapter 17: The Mani Wall and the Mandala

The mandala is the Tibetan Buddhist mandala (mandala is a transliteration of the Sanskrit mandala), which is pronounced "Jiko" in Tibetan. Mandala originated from the tantric practice in ancient India, when practitioners at that time, in order to prevent the invasion of the "demons", whenever they practiced Tantra, they built a round or square earthen altar at the practice site, stood or sat on the earthen altar to practice, invited the Buddhas of the past, the present and the past to come and testify, and painted their images on the earthen altar.

Later generations of practitioners evolved various forms of mandalas according to this basic framework, and in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, the mandala symbolizes the origin of the structure of the universe and is the epitome of the various dwellings of the deities and their dependents. If you practice in the mandala, you will not be invaded by a hundred demons, and it will be easier to achieve positive results.

"Guan Wen, this is the birthplace of the three thousand volts demon master town to kill witches. The classic story of the brilliant nature belongs to Princess Wencheng, and a bloody and cruel dark war takes place under the darkness of the Nine Shadows. With the help of Xizàng and the wise men of Nepal, he first trapped the witch with the Mani pile and the Mani wall for three years, and then built a mandala to force the witch into the leylines at the bottom of the mountain. The witch has been practicing in Tibet for tens of thousands of years, and her mana is too strong, even if the three thousand volt magicians join forces, they still can't get rid of it in one go. Eventually, a demon master surnamed Sun hid in the belly of a sacrificial ox and threw himself into the leyline. After the witch ate the cattle, the demon master surnamed Sun drew a knife in the witch's stomach and slashed it, and finally killed it, falling into the infinite depths of the earth's leylines, ending this battle of demons. After that, according to the calculation of Princess Wencheng, the princess of Nepal carried the soil with goats, filled the Wotang Lake, and built the Jokhang Temple on it, and the statue of the Buddha. Princess Wencheng first comprehensively governed the city of Lhasa, so that it had eight auspicious appearances, and then built the twelve temples of demon suppression in Weizang Siru, which was also known as the twelve temples of demon suppression with the joints of the limbs of the demon suppression. The meaning of these twelve temples is the twelve immovable nails that will forever suppress the soul of the female demon......"

That period of history is told in the mouths of big people, just like a romance story. However, Guan Wen could imagine that the battle between the demon master and the witch was really cruel. The peace of any dynasty and country, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, is not obtained by begging, but by the blood and lives of tens of millions of warriors. One will become famous and withered, and what supports the throne of the emperor is not the brick and stone brocade, but the heroic spirits of the soldiers under his command.

Guan Wen bowed deeply to the mandala to express his admiration for the former demon master.

"Let's take a closer look." The big man said with a sigh.

They went around to the right and entered the interior of the Mani Wall through a figure-of-eight opening. Inside and outside the wall, the temperature difference was huge, so as soon as Guan Wen stepped in, he couldn't help but shiver.

"The leylines are ancient passages into the core of the earth, some of them are extremely cold, some are extremely hot - can you hold on?" The big guy asked.

Guan Wen nodded: "I'm fine."

They had taken ten steps forward, and had reached the edge of the multicolored mandala on the ground.

In Tibetan Buddhism, there are four types of mandalas, namely the great mandala, the samaya mandala, the dharma mandala, and the karma mandala. The mandala surrounded by the Mani wall is the Great Mandala, that is, the picture of the deities with good looks, which is equivalent to the Enlightenment Meeting in the Mandala of the Vajra Realm. The big mandala uses the five colors of blue, yellow, red, white, and black to gather the mandala of the deities and the forms of the deities, and depict the deities. The above five colors represent earth, fire, water, wind, and air, and are the foundation of everything in the universe.

The square was too empty, and the lights around him couldn't shine inside the Mani wall, so Guan Wen couldn't see his feet clearly, but he felt deep and shallow words carved into the ground.

He crouched down and carefully touched the chisel marks with his palm.

The big man explained in a low voice: "Those are the records of the demon suppression left by the demon masters, because the three thousand demon masters come from different regions and different schools in Chinese mainland, so the recording habits are different, some are Chinese characters, some are the northern nomadic script, some are Goguryeo script, some are Western Regions script, and some are unique talismans of Taoism, Buddhism, Yinyang, Legal, and Mo. Over the years, countless Tibetan Buddhist monks have worked hard to translate these words and pass them on from generation to generation. ”

Guan Wen stroked it for a while, and gradually became full of doubts: "What?" I always feel that these chisel marks are words on the surface, but in essence they are a picture of smart brushwork?"

He quickly touched it to the right, and sure enough, he confirmed his thoughts, each chisel mark was not broken, and was connected to each other either with a pen or with a fine line. In that case, like a huge splashed ink landscape, no single element in the picture can be separated. Even if it is reluctantly disassembled, it will lose its original intention.

"What are you doing?" The big man screamed.

Guan Wen didn't have time to answer, and within a few minutes, he touched around the edge of the mandala. He felt that the chisel marks could form an infinitely empty and distant painting, not landscapes, not people, not birds, beasts, fish and insects, not flowers and plants, but a kind of big universe, a big opening and closing, completely jumping out of the realm that can be understood by the human mind.

At this moment, he thought of the formation of the universe, the operation of the planets, Pangu opening up the world, Nuwa refining stones to make up the heavens and other ethereal events. However, he couldn't tell the big man in words, because that feeling could only be understood and not expressed.

He clearly felt that stepping into the mandala and entering the leylines was the only way to uncover the truth. As soon as he thought of this, he immediately took a step towards the mandala zhongyāng.

The diameter of the mandala is about fifteen steps, and there is a blank circle center with a diameter of three steps, which is incompatible with the surrounding painted patterns, showing a strange blue-gray jade color.

"This is the last entrance to seal the witch and close the leylines." The big guys followed.

"The witch isn't really dead, is she?" Guan Wen said.

"I don't know, I don't think anyone knows." The big man smiled wryly.

"Those chisel marks are not a record of demons, but a ...... The Demon Master's deathbed, or rather a will. When you read that, it would be a mistake to simply assume that the demon suppression is over. Guan Wen looked up to the sky and sighed. What he felt from the strokes was beyond the literal meaning of the words themselves.

The big man was silent and couldn't cope.

Guan Wen leaned down and looked down at the center of the circle. The center of the circle is opaque, but he does not see with his eyes, but perceives the world below with his heart and mind.

In many of the writings of the Five Elements and the Yin Yang Family, there are discussions related to the "leyline": just as the human body has meridians, the earth is the foundation of the human world, which is the incarnation of the Pangu body, and all the meridians of the human body have a one-to-one correspondence in the earth, which is called the leyline. If it is general, it does not hurt, but if it hurts, it does not work. Just as the blockage of the human body's meridians will cause disease, the blockage of the earth's veins will also cause changes in the earth. The meridians of the human body have a head and an end, and the same is true of the earth's veins. There are countless leyline entrances on the earth's surface, such as volcanic craters, sinkholes, sea eyes, hot springs, cold springs, etc., which can be regarded as the gateway of the leylines to the outside world.

Guan Wen had been exposed to this knowledge, and when he heard the big man mention the plot of "The Demon Master knocked the witch down to the leyline", he immediately realized that the Demon Master's failure to suppress the demon had left the witch with a chance to resurrect.

"It's empty down there." After a long time, Guan Wen got up abruptly.

"You feel it too?" The big man asked in a low voice.

Guan Wen nodded, looking back at the Mani walls, Mani piles and dim lights on all sides, and suddenly felt that human beings were too small in the face of supernatural forces.

The demon masters didn't know how difficult it was to dig to find the witch's place of cultivation, and they didn't know how many lives they sacrificed before they beat the witch into the leylines. However, in the end, what was exchanged was nothing more than the victory of stage xing, and there was peace for the time being. Today's Yiqiē is like a high-rise building built in an earthquake zone, which seems to be safe and stable, but in fact it is very likely to collapse and fall apart at some point in the future.

"The witch has left, and the words made by those sages have become a dream. In the future, I don't know at what moment, this world will be restored to the era before Princess Wencheng suppressed demons. It's really ...... It's terrible, it's terrible......" In the middle of the mandala, Guan Wen felt more and more the awe-inspiring sense of crisis.

He was born with the ability to depict the inner world of others, and at this moment, through the blank center of the circle, he already had a keen sense of the situation under the leylines.

"Are you sure? I mean, can you really tell the difference between 'emptiness' and 'death' below?" The big man asked uneasily.

Guan Wen smiled bitterly and suddenly changed the topic: "I remember when I was in Jinan, one day I passed by the cemetery and saw someone crying in front of a new monument. I distinctly felt that the urn under the tombstone was empty, not filled with unburned bones, like the urns in other tombs. I told them that the urn might have been mistaken. They didn't believe it at first, but when they finally opened it, they found that the urn was empty, and it turned out that it had been misplaced by someone from the funeral company. Emptiness and death are completely different concepts, and the ancient game of 'guessing the box' is a test of the strength of people's sixth sense. I can draw other people's hearts, and I rely on my sixth sense. Now, when I say that there is nothing underneath, I mean that there is nothing inside, only empty leylines. This is terrifying, and I can feel it if there were corpses, bones, and spirits of witches there. But now, I don't have anything on my mind. ”

The big man frowned and pondered for a long time, and his wrinkled face gradually relaxed, and a smile of great relief floated.

"Laughing at what? Are you laughing at my analysis for being too vague?" Guan Wen was a little uneasy.

The big man patted Guan Wen on the shoulder, and smiled even deeper: "No, on the contrary, I have been waiting for nearly sixty years, and I finally waited for a soulmate." Sixty years ago, when I had just been granted the privilege of entering this place, I felt the witch disappear—"

Guan Wen was startled, stared at the face of the big man, and looked up again, looking at the vague holes on the serial plank road.

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