Chapter 018: That Scenery
Potala Palace, was built in the eighth century in the Songtsen Gampo period, the main building of the Potala Palace is divided into the White Palace and the Red Palace, the main building is 13 floors, composed of the sleeping palace, the Buddha Palace, the Spirit Pagoda Palace, the monk's house, etc., there are various halls and corridors, the furnishings are exquisite, the layout is gorgeous, the wall is painted with paintings related to Buddhism, and the hands of many famous artists.
The Potala Palace is built on the mountain and the buildings overlap, the palace is majestic and majestic, there is the tendency of being born out of the sky and penetrating the sky, the solid granite wall body of the thick pier, the white horse grass wall collar of the matsutake mushroom flattening, the golden top of the golden top, the huge gilded vase, the treasure building and the prayer flags with a strong decorative effect, the three colors of red, white and yellow are contrasting and distinct, the building type of the division and the layer of the nesting embodies the charming characteristics of the ancient Tibetan architecture, the Potala Palace is not only the outstanding representative of Tibetan architecture, but also the essence of the ancient architecture of the Chinese nation.
Han Ming and others began to go up the mountain with the flow of people from the ticket office at the foot of the mountain, the road up the mountain is a very wide slope passage, the ground is paved with bluestone, and the parapet walls on both sides are built by white rammed earth.
The Potala Palace, like Norbulingka, is not all open to the outside world, the Red House and the White House are open to a part, the open part is marked out with a red rope, tourists are not allowed to cross the red line, the entrance is an open-air platform of the White House, one side of the platform is the Red Palace, and there are some counters on the platform, there are several small lamas behind the counter who are selling Buddhist memorials, standing on the platform, you can overlook the entire Lhasa city view, and even the Jokhang Temple opposite is clearly visible.
However, Han Ming and the others did not stay here too much, but followed the old method, and divided into several groups of people to mix into different tourist groups, followed the red palace that everyone entered, followed the drawn route, visited every Buddhist hall open to the outside world, and listened to the tour guide's explanation, and everyone couldn't help but be amazed.
"From here, there are five Spirit Pagoda Palaces, each of which is the same in shape, but the scale is different. Among them, the largest Lingta Palace, the hall is three floors high, supported by sixteen large square pillars, more than six meters high, an area of more than 700 square meters, the hall is hung with the Qianlong Emperor's own book of "Yonglian Chudi" plaque, the whole hall is carved beams and paintings, there are 698 murals, and the Lingta Hall in the west of the Red Palace, built in 1936, is the latest building of the Potala Palace, these Lingta Halls are also the most important place in the entire Potala Palace, most of the treasures in the Potala Palace are stored here", the tour guide is like an endorsement, explaining to everyone.
"All the spiritual pagodas are wrapped in gold skin and inlaid with precious jade, which looks brilliant. Among them, the largest spiritual pagoda is 14.85 meters high, at that time, in order to build it, a total of 1.04 million taels of silver was spent, and 110,000 taels of gold and more than 15,000 pearls, agate, precious stones, etc., and another spiritual pagoda was also 14 meters high, and 19,000 taels of gold were used. The largest of them all, the pagoda, contains a pearl that is larger than a finger and thumb in an elephant's brain. The tour guide continued to recite the explanation.
"Ah, there is a pearl in an elephant's brain, bigger than a thumb, where is the pearl?
Listening to the tour guide's introduction here, Lao Su, who had been mixed in the crowd, suddenly asked, and stretched out his head to look east and west.
"The treasures I just mentioned are buried in the spiritual pagoda, and we will definitely not be able to see them from the outside," the tour guide replied casually.
"Eh, didn't you say it in vain? After talking for a long time, you can't see anything, who knows if what you said is true or false?" Lao Su replied a little provocatively.
The tour guide suddenly found that Lao Su was a little raw, and he didn't seem to be a person in his group, and all the tourists in the group looked at Lao Su.
"Eh, I, I'm from the tour group behind, I heard you say well before, and I followed up unconsciously, what's wrong?", Lao Su found out that he was exposed, so he quickly lied.
"I'm sorry, please go back to your own team, we don't welcome it here", the tour guide stared at Lao Su with some unkindness.
"You just care about me, I'm not going anywhere, I'm going here, and this is not your home", Lao Su had nowhere to go, so he started to play tricks.
"Okay, then please don't continue to follow us, friends, let's continue to visit, this person is not in our group, please pay more attention to your belongings", the tour guide said to the other tourists and then ignored Lao Su, led the others to move on.
Lao Su was stunned in place, "Eh, what do I have to say? Then now I can only wait for another group", Lao Su blamed himself for talking too much.
In another passage, in a small Buddha hall, a thin old lama was adding ghee to a butter lamp, and Han Ming walked in.
"Master, please ask me, how can I get out here? I can't find the way I just came in?"
Before, Han Ming had been following three or four tourists not far away, those people didn't seem to be with the group, but hired a tour guide by themselves, Han Ming eavesdropped all the way in the back and was not discovered, but just now, these people suddenly crossed the red line without permission and entered another passage, Han Ming was stunned for a moment, and when he also crossed the red line and followed, he found that those people had long disappeared, and in a daze, he came to the outside of this small hall.
"It's not open to the public, how did you get in?" the old lama didn't reply, and asked Han Ming directly.
"Eh, I don't know what's going on, I'm walking here, and then I can't find my way out, I hope the master will give me some guidance", Han Ming reached out and touched his head a little embarrassed, and hurriedly pretended.
"You go out from here and turn left, go to the end and turn right, and then go downstairs, that's it, huh, are you a cultivator?" As soon as the old lama turned around after adding lamp oil, he found that Han Ming was actually a cultivator, and he also had a cultivation of the sixth or seventh level of the Qi refining period, and he couldn't help but be stunned.
"Ah, cultivator, no, isn't it, master, are you mistaken, I'm just a tourist?" Han Ming was also stunned for a moment.
"Tourists, tourists who can practice, Hmph, whoever you are? I just ask you why you are here?" the old lama asked coldly.
"Ah, master, I'm really lost, as long as you tell me how to get out, I promise to leave immediately", Han Ming found that the old lama's words seemed to be a little unkind, and he suddenly felt a little panicked, so he hurriedly replied kindly.
The old lama's eyes lit up, and he suddenly began to glance Han Ming up and down, and Han Ming only felt that there was an invisible pressure coming towards him.
"Ah, what are you doing, don't, don't, I'll leave now, I'll leave now", Han Ming was startled, and hurriedly waved his hand and turned around to leave.
"Stop, what are you wearing on your hand?", the old lama suddenly stepped forward, grabbed Han Ming's wrist, and quickly grabbed the strange bracelet that Han Ming was wearing on his wrist and took it into his hand.
"Ah, what are you doing, robbing people, ah, robbing people, lamas robbing people, lamas robbing people, lamas robbing people in the Potala Palace", Han Ming saw that the old lama couldn't help but say, and when he came up, he started to grab his bracelet, and he screamed in fright.
"This, where did you get this 'Nine Spirit Bone Ring'?" the old lama asked loudly with excitement in his excitement.
"Ahh
"Bold, this 'Nine Spirit Bone Ring' is one of the treasures of the three major town sects of my Buddha Dao Pure Spirit Sect, how can it be your ancestor, you little Qi refining period cultivator is not quick to recruit from the truth", the old lama's eyes lit up again, and an invisible force pressed down again.
"Ah, don't do it, don't do it, I said, I said, this is what I picked up, I picked it up near Rongbu Town in Naqu", Han Ming suddenly understood, this old lama must be a legendary cultivator, so he didn't dare to hide it anymore.
The old lama stared at Han Ming carefully for a while, and then retracted his mana, "Forgive me and don't dare to lie."
Han Ming saw that the old lama put away his hostility, so he asked softly, "Master, what's going on with this, this bracelet?"
The old lama looked at Han Ming, sighed, and then said, " Alas, okay, I see that you are also a cultivator, so it doesn't hurt to let you know something, this Nine Spirit Bone Ring is one of the treasures of the three major town sects of my Pure Spirit Sect, it is made by the senior elders of this sect with the spirit bones of ancient beasts, and it was taken away by a great elder of the Sword Cultivation of the Transformation Period in my sect about four hundred years ago, and his whereabouts are unknown, according to the ancient records of this sect, five hundred years ago, there was a high-level demon cultivator from another world who suddenly descended on this realm, and caused a bloody storm, and after several months, he was finally trapped and killed by the top monks of various sects in this realm in the Naqu region, and this incident also led to the fall of many top monks in this realm, and many incomparably mysterious exercises and powerful magic weapons have been lost since then. After this incident, in order to revive the sect, all the sects sent high-level monks to search for the ruins of the fighting method or the cave mansion left over from the ancient cultivation, hoping to find those lost cultivation techniques and talisman magic weapons, and our Pure Spirit Sect, the Great Elder of Sword Cultivation, is one of them."