Chapter Seventy-Six: Heavenly Burial
Two days later, with the help of the villagers, Uncle Sanji buried his daughter in accordance with the traditional Tibetan funeral method.
Early in the morning, Lausanne and his family rushed to the dirt slope at the foot of the snow-capped mountain with the villagers of Nimadeva, and saw a large site lined with rocks in the distance, which was the burial platform of Nimadeva.
The celestial burial ceremony of Sanchi's daughter will be held here. The body of Sanchi's daughter was wrapped in white prayer flags and carried by the villagers slowly towards the hillside. Uphill there are two white pagodas, which are common in the area, and next to them are two priests.
The conch horn sounded, and the vultures circled and gathered in the sky, and in a short time, the tall vultures landed on the burial platform. The lamas sent from the Nyima Deva Monastery chant sutras and pray, and the priests blow the horns made of conchs, screaming and desolate.
The mulberry smoke lit by Sang was like a mist over the heavenly burial platform, and Sanji personally sprinkled Longda into the sky, as if he was making the last way and practice for his daughter.
The vultures were not afraid of people at all, and walked through the crowd, occasionally chasing each other and chirping a few times.
Lausanne felt a little sad about this mood, and he sat on a stone not far from the burial platform, looking at the clear sky like a piece of blue silk, and a few white clouds drifting past the waist of the snow-capped mountain, like a white pattern embroidered on this satin.
After the lamas and funeral masters have recited mantras, the corpses are dismembered by dissecters, and the corpses are scattered to be pecked by vultures.
The vulture is a mythical bird in the hearts of the Tibetans, and legend has it that it can predict imminent death, and when it is about to die, it will fly to the highest level with all its might, break through the atmosphere, and burst itself into splinters and die.
The combination of the rumored color of divinity and the Buddhist doctrine of "generosity" expressed in celestial burials makes the funeral customs of the Tibetans appear more primitive and simple, full of subtlety, and also shows their attitude towards life and death more thoroughly and decisively.
The core of the heavenly burial is the immortality of the soul and the reincarnation of reincarnation, death is just the separation of the immortal soul and the old body, and it is the different transformation of the different space, so it is not sad, but Lausanne still feels very lost, Yang Jinram came over, stroked the top of Lobsang head, and said softly: "Fool, you see how fragile human life is, when we are still alive, we should cherish each other." ”
Lausanne nodded, "I will!" He took Yangjin Ram's hand and asked her to sit beside him.
In the past, there were Buddhas who cut meat to feed eagles, and the heavenly burial was not just a gift to vultures with their bodies? This should be the most noble almsgiving, right? Lobsang thought.
The highest state of Mahayana Buddhism is to give one's self to charity, to let the mist of mulberry smoke wash the body of the deceased, through the shadow of death, with the vulture to heaven, the glory with the eagle vulture, and finally into nothingness......
At the end of the celestial burial ceremony, Kampot and Kuroko helped Sanchi down the hillside and delivered him to his home. I wanted to say a few words of comfort, but I didn't know how to speak, and in the end, Kampot had to say: "I said, Ake, don't be too sad, the five of us are your children, and when we complete this mission, we will come to Nimadeva to see your old man." ”
Sanji burst into tears, took Kampot's hand with calloused hands, nodded with satisfaction, and said, "Oh, little Tashi, I have never done anything bad in my life, let alone offended anyone, why is this? God is so unfair to me......"
Kuroko wiped the gun and said, "Ake, don't worry, as long as I catch the murderer, I will kill him with my own hands and avenge you." ”
While packing his luggage, Lausanne thought: "Judging from the traces of the corpse, Sanji's daughter was not destroyed and tortured before she died, and it was definitely not rape and murder, which is obviously targeted by someone." ”
After thinking about it, I felt that things were not so simple: "How could someone kill his daughter as a good old man like Sanchi? Could it be that this killer is coming for his own group?"
Thinking of this, Lausanne couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, if this assumption is true, then the next road may be more difficult, who is it? Why do you do this?
He dragged Yang Jin Ram out of the house and asked in a low voice in the courtyard: "Ram, do you say that this murderer is not coming for Sanji, but for us? I always feel that something is wrong, but I can't say it." ”
Yang Jin Ram nodded and said: "I also feel this way, just take those ant words, it should be someone who deliberately lured ants with sucrose water to show us, this person, could it be the murderer?"
Lausanne said: "But no one knows about our trip to the Snow Country, why could anyone have a hard time with us, and still do such a case, what are they trying to do? Why do they do this?"
Yang Jinram said: "Then you can only know the answer if you find that person, or to be exact, the group, but who is this person?"
Lausanne looked into Yangjin Ram's eyes and stopped talking.
Yangjin Ram said: "I know what you are going to say, do you suspect that my brother Yangjin Gyatso did it?"
Lausanne nodded and said, "Only he knows about the matter of looking for Shambhala, think about it again, besides him, who else knows that we are going to Snowpiercer Floating Slaughter City?"
Yang Jin Ram Yaoyao nodded, and said: "There should be no one anymore, but I can say for sure, it's not my brother, I know him, others are not bad, and he is not angry, he will never do this." ”
Lausanne took a deep breath and said, "I hope it's not him, but who knows about it but him?"
Yang Jinlam's voice was a little cold, and he said, "Do you even want to doubt me?"
Lausanne smiled bitterly and said, "How could I doubt you? ”
Yang Jin Ram said: "When I see my brother, I will naturally ask clearly, if he does it, let alone you, I will not let him go." You don't want to think about how we wouldn't find out if he followed us to Nimadeva with a large group of armed men?"
She paused for a moment and continued: "Even if we don't find out, if that group of armed men runs into the village to kill people, the villagers can always find out, right?
Lobsang took Yangjin Ram's hand and said, "I believe you, you don't have to explain. I thought about it carefully, the person who killed the murderer was definitely one person, and it would not be several people who committed the crime together. ”
He smiled sweetly at Yang Jin Ram, and the embarrassed stubble looked vicissitudes and charm in the bright afternoon sun. He continued: "When we went out to Nimadeva Temple, Sanji's daughter was fine, and we saw those ant characters not far from the temple gate, which must have been a signal left by the murderer. ”
Yang Jinram nodded, and Lausanne continued: "After he finished doing this, he returned to Sanji's house, and after killing Sanji's daughter while no one was paying attention, he could still retreat without revealing his whole body, this person's skills, I'm afraid it's not under you, let's be careful." If it really comes at us, I'm afraid that we will encounter more trouble on the next road. ”