Chapter 154: Thangka Under the Glacier
Hearing the news that the ice road had been chiseled, everyone hurriedly put down the rope, and I picked up the ice chisel and dragged the climbing rope into the ice road, and then Xia Jiujiu also followed. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
We pulled the rope down to the inside of the ice wall, holding a wolf-eyed flashlight and looking at the buildings in the ice around us. The title of Shi Lei's Ice God is really not blown, and the ice wall shoveled out with the snow melting agent is actually square and the ice surface is very smooth and transparent, just like the Ice Palace Yongdao built by itself.
The water life in the ice is very abundant, under the light of the searchlight overhead, many blisters and swimming fish frozen in the ice make us feel as if we are in the crystal palace of the dragon king, at the foot is the magnificent Tibetan temple, through the ice you can see, this Tibetan temple should have been built on the glacier before it was submerged, and then it sank under the glacier for unknown reasons and was frozen in the ice forever.
The feeling of walking on the temple is very strange, with stupas and watchtowers at our feet, and we walk through the "sky" made of ice and pass over the red walls around the temple. The layout of the temple's Buddha hall is very unique, and when we enter the temple, we can see that under the four-storey main hall, there are two layers of mysterious palaces hidden under the ancient glacier. However, because of the distance, we can't see the specific appearance of the main hall of the six-story temple.
On both sides of the main hall, there are side halls on both sides, which is very common in the construction of Tibetan temples.
Professor Fang told us that this layout structurally reproduces the ideal cosmic model of the mandala mandala in Buddhism.
As we continued to delve deeper into the temple, some milky white ice gradually appeared in the ice, and it looked like the clouds floating in the temple had been frozen in the ice for a moment. It's very mysterious.
"Could it be that this temple was frozen in the glacier in an instant? How could even the clouds and mist inside the temple freeze at this moment? Lu Xiaobu held a sapper shovel in his hand, and muttered to himself between a large white auspicious cloud frozen in the ice wall. Beside him, Tenzin knelt on the ground. With a reverent expression, he prostrated himself on the ground and bowed in the direction of the main temple.
Professor Fang told us that these frozen smoke were not miracles at all, but rather frozen clouds formed when the burning ghee aroma was frozen in the ice while the temple was immersed in water.
However, he couldn't go on as he spoke, because his statement was not true at all, and although the temperature here was very low, it should not freeze into ice at the moment of the flood, which was a mistake against common sense in physics.
Continuing inside, various wood carvings and murals began to appear inside the temple. Its style is quite spicy, the carving technique is also very expressive, depicting some multi-handed and multi-purpose gods and demons entangled in the scene of double cultivation, the color is very bold and delicate, so that I have to admire the imagination of the ancients, those extra arms and movements are natural and vivid, it looks like there are really such arms of the gods and demons.
We watched too much, and I felt that my body was unbearably hot, and I secretly glanced at Xia Xiyan. I found that even her face was flushed, and I was even more dazed, and my breathing couldn't help but be a little heavier.
"Be careful, don't look at these statues. There's weirdness in that. Xia Xiyan reminded.
We hurriedly became distracted, and secretly shouted that the statues in this temple were so powerful that we didn't dare to look at them again. Continue walking towards the inside of the temple.
We continued to walk inside, and there were more winding steps when we got here! Go down the steps. It's a huge space inside!
"God, that's not true, is it? How can you dig this in just an hour? This ice god really didn't scream for nothing. I was taken aback.
Tenzin scratched his head and said, "No. When we dug here, we suddenly found that there were no ice walls under the ice here, so we just dug through it.
We didn't study physics here, and we can't explain why the ice surface is layered, maybe this hollow ice layer is just a huge bubble in the ice, we went down to it and walked quickly to the depths, and found Shi Lei standing motionless in front of an ice wall.
"Hungry Society Shi Leizi, I can't see that you are young, and you have such a heavy taste, you can't look at these statues too much, be careful to hurt your kidneys if you see too much!" Lu Xiaobu shouted teasingly.
When we saw Shi Lei bending down, we thought that he really had some kind of reaction after watching too many of these spicy wall paintings, so we all laughed.
But the sound of laughing and laughing gradually stopped abruptly, because Shi Lei turned his head after hearing us call him, and his seven orifices actually flowed out of seven bloods!
We were startled and hurriedly ran over to hug the crumbling Shi Lei.
In this mysterious glacier crystal palace, our team member Shi Lei bled and fainted to the ground without warning, which is really weird.
"Shi Lei, what's wrong?" Professor Fang said anxiously.
I hugged Shi Lei and pinched Shi Lei's middle man hard, but unfortunately Shi Lei didn't react.
"What do you think this is?" Tenzin pointed to Shi Lei and faced the ice wall.
Inside that ice wall was a huge thangka!
The so-called thangka refers to a religious scroll painting that is framed in colored satin and hung for worship. It is a unique art form of painting in Tibetan culture.
Even ordinary thangkas have very strict requirements and complicated procedures, which must be carried out in accordance with the rituals in the scriptures and the requirements of the guru, including pre-painting rituals, canvas making, composition and drafting, coloring and dyeing, outlining and shaping, paving gold and silver, opening eyes, sewing and opening light, and a complete set of process procedures. It takes a long time to make a thangka, from half a year to more than 10 years.
Traditionally, the pigments of thangka are all precious mineral gems such as gold, silver, pearls, agate, coral, turquoise, malachite, cinnabar, and plants such as saffron, rhubarb, and indigo, as pigments to show their sacredness. These natural materials ensure that the painted thangka is bright and dazzling, and even after hundreds of years, it is still bright and bright. Therefore, it is known as the treasure of Chinese national painting art and is known as the "encyclopedia" of the Tibetan people.
And the thangka we see now, although it is twisted and folded in the ice, and many parts are not unfolded, but it is roughly estimated that this thangka is still nearly thirty meters long! Even if it has been frozen in ice for an unknown number of years, the strong religious color and unique artistic style on it still come to the face, making people feel the urge to bow down just by looking at it!
"This ...... It's just too precious. After Professor Fang saw this thangka, he almost lay on the ice with excitement, eager to melt into the ice and carefully watch every detail on the thangka.
It's no wonder that Professor Fang is so excited, you must know that the thangka is not only precious materials, but also the content of the painting! The thangka in front of us is so huge, and it is obvious that it has been washed out of the main hall by the great water, so it is very likely that the content recorded on it is the entire history of the Afterlife God Cult! There may even be some secrets about the inside of this gate of the underworld...... (To be continued.) )