Imperial Mausoleum Treasure

Ngawang Tenzin, a well-known local celestial burial master, once drank buttered tea in the afternoon and said seriously: "Keep the skulls and build a white skull wall, which is nothing more than a warning to the living people to do more good deeds and less deeds." Bad things, no matter who they are, death is nothing more than that.”

Today, the Dodoka celestial burial platform in Bodhidharma Temple is named "Skeleton Pyramid" by artists, and archaeologists also realize that this will be of great significance to the study of anthropology; We are deeply infected and shocked by its unfathomable philosophy and legendary color.

Although celestial burial is a strange and terrifying burial custom in the eyes of the world today, Tibetans have more closely linked the relationship between man and nature through sky burial.

In fact, this is just like the unique way of life of the local people, which adapts to the unique natural environment of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Sky burial is also one of the ultimate ways of life for Tibetans and nature.

Yin Ridan Temple and Bodhidharma Temple are only separated by the Nujiang River. Yin Ridan Temple is located on the north bank, while the famous Bodhidharma Temple is located on the south bank. In addition, the celestial burial platforms of the two temples are managed by a highly respected celestial burial master. Cowhide boats can travel between the two banks.

Regarding celestial burials, Tibetan Buddhism has always believed that lighting mulberry smoke is paving a colorful and sacred road, and respectfully invites the great dakini to come to the celestial burial platform. People devoutly use the corpse as an offering, worship the gods, pray and redeem the dead alive Please ask the gods to take the soul of the dead to heaven for sublimation and reincarnation.

The eagles and vultures attracted by the mulberry smoke on the celestial burial platform, except for eating human corpses, this sacred bird will not harm any animals, so Tibetans call it "divine bird".

It is said that such an appalling burial method is an imitation of the great feat of Buddha Sakyamuni who "sacrificed himself to feed a tiger". Therefore, sky burials are still popular in Tibet, just like we are popular in burials and cremations.

The famous Ruru County in the Tibetan area is located in the east of the Nagchu region of the Tibet Autonomous Region, between the Tanglha Mountains and the Nyainqentanglha Mountains, and the upper reaches of the Nu River.

Its extremely exaggerated terrain is dominated by hills, towering mountains, deep canyons, surrounded by icebergs and snow peaks like jade belts, with an average altitude of more than 4000 meters, belonging to the plateau sub-cold area.

There are mainly Nujiang River, Xiaqu River, Rufeng River, Baiqu River, Qiqu River, Bulongdian River and other big rivers rushing and roaring day and night. It is a magnificent and dangerous place. Few non-local indigenous people come here, and ordinary people on earth cannot adapt to the local dangerous environment. and hard life.

In the [-]th century BC, the Subi tribe, one of the [-] small states in ancient Tibet, rose greatly. For example, the county belonged to this tribe at that time.In the seventh century, the great Di Songtsen Gampo annexed Subi and unified Tibet by force.For example, the county began to be under the jurisdiction of "Subiru", and until [-], when a firecracker resounded throughout the Tibetan area, it began to be directly under the jurisdiction of the Minister of Tibet.

There are bears, leopards, and wild wolves here, and there are also vultures and golden eagles circling in the air.There are also Tibetan antelopes, Tibetan wild donkeys, argali, black-necked cranes, roe deer, deer, gazelle, blue sheep, etc. that have been regarded as delicacies by hunters for many years.

It is said that the scenery on both sides of the Nujiang River is steep, the primeval forest covers the sky and the sun, and there are more than 40 peaks above 5000 meters in the territory. It is summer, and the top of the mountain is still covered with snow, just like the white peaked cap worn by Seventh Brother. .

The mountainside is shrouded in clouds and mist, and the blue sea below the mountain makes the Seven Tomb Raiders feel a lot of emotion. For example, the county is located in the east of Nagqu County, and many mountains are dense with pines and cypresses. The overall terrain and mountain situation are very dangerous.If they don't do it well, they will break the dream like a county.

At night, Angel Yaomeier wanted to follow Seventh Brother to explore the skull wall at night. Seventh Brother had no choice but to pull out his belt and rope, tied Angel Yaomeier up, and let the gorilla guard and feed her.

Seventh Brother has a rope and flying claws coiled around his waist!He took Xue Dizi, who had strong kung fu and a calm temperament, and went there at great risk.

As the night fell, the two of them flew up to the roof of the monastery, landed in the yard silently like eagles, and lurked in quietly.

In the hazy night, the two ghosts discovered that in the middle of the Dodoka celestial burial in the Bodhidharma Temple, there was a circular burial pool about four square meters in size and paved with colored pebbles. The stones are the altar where the corpse is placed during the sky burial.

Outside the south gate of the celestial burial courtyard, there is also a prayer flag flagpole about 11 meters high, with a terrible skull sculpture on it, and many faded prayer flags hanging from the top. It was hunting like a ghost, and it made people's scalp tense.

Seventh Brother knows that when a sky burial is performed, the daring corpse-bearer will carry the deceased on his back alone, and go to the Dodoka celestial burial altar, curl up the corpse, bend the head to his knees, make the corpse into a sitting posture, and then Then wrap it in a white quilt, light mulberry smoke to attract eagles and vultures, and then perform a horrible-looking autopsy—dismemberment.

Because eagles are born to like to eat meat, and don't like to eat vegetarian food and hard bones, so the sky burial procedure adopts the reverse method, feeding the bones first, and then feeding the meat.

They visually observed that the entire courtyard of the celestial burial platform covers an area of ​​more than 4000 square meters, surrounded by dry-built earth walls about one person's height, and tall wooden frames were built on the south and west walls. There are many grids inside. Individual skulls are neatly arranged to form two long walls of skulls. The majestic skulls make people feel sacred deterrence and sincere admiration.

This is the product of sky burial!

In Tibet, after death, all the corpses are fed to eagles and vultures, and generally nothing is left. Only the Dodoka celestial burial platform in the Bodhidharma Temple has preserved the skulls of many dead. This is a unique move in the world!At night, outsiders feel that the wind is blowing here, making people frightened to the point of madness.

The living Buddha and the big lamas in red inside, as if nothing had happened, calmly drank buttered tea and devoted themselves to the Buddha.

The celestial burial platform here is built on the hillside near the temple, facing south from the north, with the door opening to the west, facing the Dalmu Temple.There are three north rooms, and on both sides of the room, there is a Nepalese-style pagoda, which looks very dignified and solemn, like a great guardian leading to heaven.

In front of the door and windows, there are also five-color prayer flags and some scripture cloths representing "heaven, earth, water, fire and wind".In front of the house is a small courtyard composed of three walls about two meters high, covering more than 20 square meters.

On the south side and the west side of the wall, human skulls are piled up layer by layer like bricks, and there are probably thousands of skulls.The black eye sockets in the hazy night, the teeth are open, facing the door and window, infinitely terrifying.

The daring second monster saw that in front of the wall were several large flat stones, which were "cutting boards" for dismembering corpses.

The construction of this Dalmu Temple is said to be that when Princess Wencheng came to Tibet to get married, she thought this place was a treasured place of geomantic omen, so she entrusted her "Lunbu" to build a temple here, presided over by Dabu Living Buddha, and carried out sky burial and kept the skull. The practice has a long history.

The two monsters hid in the courtyard of the Bodhidharma Temple, looking back and forth for the entrance to the underground palace of the skull wall, and finally stopped under the skull wall.

In the night, I saw the droplet of blood squatting on the ground, suddenly flashed to the side, and accidentally touched the skull wall next to it, and only heard a thump, and a large skull with a hideous face rolled down and kept rolling At the entrance of the big lama house in Dharma Temple.

There was only a creak, and the door opened, and three big lamas in red robes with big backs and strong backs poked their round, bald heads and held up lanterns like will-o'-the-wisps to illuminate them, and asked viciously, "Who is at the skull wall?" Stand up for me!"