The Most Thrilling Tomb Tour: Tomb Raider

Chapter 25 The Temple in the Holy Lake (1)
"Yes! How do you know?" Deji asked puzzled.

We quickly asked him to take him to the holy lake, told Deji what happened along the way, and asked if there was such a thing back then.

Deji said that he heard from his father that his uncle used to be a lama in the temple. He seemed to have been to the scene where the giant was discovered at that time, but he is no longer there.

When he asked his uncle about it back then, his uncle always kept secrets, as if he was particularly afraid of recalling that period of history. Later, Deji heard such a story from his grandfather.

The story says that, a long time ago, there was a witch on the island in the middle of the lake in Danzhucuo, and everyone called her Rakshasa.At that time, no one came to build a trestle bridge on the island in the middle of the lake or on the shore, but the Rakshasa girl knew how to touch the water, and when crossing the lake, it was like playing, and many people had seen it.

But she usually doesn't mess around, she just cultivates on the Tao.Later a great lama came and saw that she had never done anything bad and was still devoting herself to cultivating the Tao, so he wanted to save her.

But the Rakshasa woman had not yet achieved the right result, but another ghost appeared.That ghost creature had blue-faced fangs, was more than ten feet tall, and would eat anyone who caught it. It was extremely vicious. None of the local people dared to approach the lake, but they couldn't escape the bloody mouth of the ghost creature.

In order to save the common people, Rakshasa had a duel with the ghost on the small island.People all went to watch the duel between her and the ghost creature, and kept cheering for her, but after all, she was no match for the Asura-like ghost creature. At the moment of dying, she exerted infinite divine power and even used The ghost beast and himself died together.

After she died, a ray of golden light descended from the sky, and her shadow appeared faintly in the golden light, and followed the golden light to ascend to the sky.

Later, some lamas built a trestle bridge in the lake and a temple on Xindao in order to suppress the evil spirits of ghosts and worship the Rakshasa girl who sacrificed herself to protect the people. The temple is still standing there until now, but For some reason, it has been abandoned for a long time, and no one cares about it.

I believe that the Rakshasa girl was not called this name at first, because the word Rakshasa comes from Sanskrit, which means "evil man-eating ghost".It is only because the Buddhist scriptures say that this kind of thing later converted to Buddhism and vowed to protect the Dharma, and the experience and deeds of the Rakshasa are very similar to it, so it is called the Rakshasa by the common people.

But that's not the case with the ghost creature. This kind of thing is more terrifying than the evil ghost. It will hide in the water and eat people. It is estimated that the common people have given it this name since it cannibalized people. There is a book that says "ghost creature It’s really hard to predict, but ghosts and demons are inferior.” Buruo means inferior, and the meaning of the whole sentence is that things like ghosts and monsters are really difficult to deal with, and ghosts like ghosts and monsters are no match for them.But what exactly is this thing, but no one has seen it, let alone want to see it, it is written like this in the book, even if it really exists, who would dare to see it?
Danzhucuo is a holy lake. It is estimated that it may not have been a holy lake before this legend. It is precisely because of this moving legend that demonstrates the vastness of our Buddha's Dharma that everyone named it Danzhucuo.Because in Tibetan, Danzhu means Dharma protector and teaching, and Cuo means lake.

After listening to Deji's story, I told everyone my conjectures along the way. Lao Zhong and Xiang Ru felt that what I said made sense, and the fat man ate roasted rabbit legs while walking.

"You, grandson, have one too. Let me tell you that the body is the capital of the revolution. If you don't eat such good game, you will lose money!" The fat man ate and stuffed me with a rabbit leg.

"I, I won't eat..." Although I was very hungry, I felt like throwing up when I saw that rabbit leg.

On the vast plateau, on one side is the towering Tanggula Mountain.The hundreds of millions of years of snow piled on the top of the mountain seemed to have put a white hat on it. We walked at its feet unconsciously, and it looked down on us like a towering giant.

On the other side is the blue and clear Danzhucuo holy lake. I don’t know whether the majestic Tanggula Mountains first appeared on this vast snow-covered plateau, or the emerald-like mountains first appeared.

It was evening, and we stood beside it, looking at the clear holy lake, which complements the emerald green plateau, blue sky, and snow-capped Tanggula Mountains, forming a magnificent and peaceful ancient wonderland .

When we walked to the trestle bridge, the sky had already fallen into a black curtain, and the Milky Way dotting the sky was reflected in the holy lake. Surrounded by them, the island in the center of the lake looked mysterious and weird, as if waiting for us to go into its belly Uncover an unsolved mystery that has been buried for thousands of years.

"Let's go up again during the day tomorrow!" I looked at everyone who was exhausted and suggested.

Lao Zhongtou once told us that there is a taboo in general 360 lines.In the business of digging pits, the most taboo thing is to fight in the middle of the night.

People say that in the middle of the night, the yin energy is too strong, and the tombs are usually underground. The sky and the earth are two poles of yin and yang, and the earth has an extremely yin energy. Happened, it was good luck.If you're unlucky, don't even think about getting out once you get in.

Therefore, dry planing pits can go in when there is no one around during the day. Generally speaking, it is extremely taboo to enter the deep pit in the middle of the night when it is not necessary.But some people are greedy for profit, and they don't pay so much attention over time.

"Let me take a look at your legs." Lao Zhong turned on the flashlight and pulled up my trouser legs to take a picture: "This evil spirit is poisonous enough, it has reached your thighs now, if you don't take the corpse refining beads, you probably won't be able to bear it." Tomorrow night."

"Don't pretend to be a tough guy, let's go in quickly, keep the green hills there, don't worry about running out of firewood, the health is more important than anything else." Xiang Ru also persuaded me from the side.

I thought to myself that I was a tough guy, how could this be pretending?But since everyone cares about me so much, I can't live up to expectations, can I?So without doing anything, I packed up my things and walked over the creaking trestle bridge with everyone.

There is indeed a temple on the island in the middle of the lake, but it has been in disrepair for a long time, and no one has visited it for many years.

The temple is not very high, it looks like a two-story building, and the headlights shine on it, and you can vaguely see its red roof, white walls and dark windows.There are some abrupt rocks around, and some weeds grow in the crevices of the stones, dancing in the wind in a miscellaneous manner.

As soon as we stood still in front of the temple, we saw the whole earth flicker for a few moments, and there was a loud crack in the sky.

I looked up and saw billowing dark clouds in the black sky, and a few golden dragon-like thunderbolts shuttled through the dark clouds. There are many thunderstorms in summer on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, as expected.

As soon as we walked to the gate, another thunderbolt pierced the sky. The angry beast painted with red lacquer and gold powder on the dilapidated temple gate seemed to be alive, which shocked us.

The inside of the temple was pitch black, and the surrounding butter lamps had already run out of oil. The huge golden statue of Sakyamuni was enshrined in the center of the temple. It had thick lips, a protruding nose, and long eyes, looking down at us from a high position.

Although Deji was a young man, he began to worship as early as at the gate of the temple. He kowtowed all the way to the temple, kneeling three times and kowtowing nine times. He was extremely devout.

We took photos on the walls around the temple, and saw that there were plump and vivid flying apsaras, flowers, ligers and tigers, shuttling vividly in the smooth and gorgeous cloud patterns.

There are also exquisite gold-lacquered double deer runners on the temple, and the most amazing thing is the thangka hanging on the wall.Woven on it is the image of a heroic but plump and beautiful woman, holding a sharp knife and riding a white lion, as if she is walking towards us heroically.Seeing the woman's appearance, I asked Deji, and he said that this must be the image of a Rakshasa girl, which was unanimously agreed by everyone.

We searched around the temple a few times, but we couldn't find the secret passage leading to the tomb that we hoped to see.

However, Xiang Ru found a small door next to the Buddha statue. Inside the door was a very narrow staircase, which seemed to lead upstairs.Everyone climbed up with trepidation, listening to the creaking sound, but I was secretly worried about this decayed staircase, wondering if it could bear our weight.

The second floor is an open lobby, and the surrounding walls are faintly flashing some majestic statues under the lightning and thunder outside the window. I turned around and counted, no more, no less, a total of twenty, it seems that this is Buddhism. The picture of the twenty heavens.

The twenty gods are the twenty great gods of Buddhism, and their names all come from Indian mythology.For example, the heroic man with three faces and two arms headed on the wall next to us.He has three eyes, holds a white lotus in his hand, and performs the fearless seal, surrounded by smoke.Mountains, rivers, sun, moon and stars are around him, and all living beings are at his feet. Judging from this appearance, he should be called the "Brahma" together with Vishnu and Shiva, the three main gods of Hinduism.

Legend has it that he created some things in this world, as well as people's joys, sorrows, sorrows, and joys, and was later absorbed by Buddhism to become Sakyamuni's right-hand attendant.

The non-male and non-female god sitting in a city built on a mountain behind him, wearing a crown, wearing a leather wreath, holding a vajra, and riding a white elephant with six tusks, should be Indra.

Di Shitian means "Emperor Nengtian" in Sanskrit. After being classified as a guardian deity by Buddhism, he is regarded as the master of "Tao Li Tian".According to the world described by Buddhism, in the center of the world we live in, there is Mount Sumeru, and Emperor Shitian lives in the city of Shanjian on the top of Mount Sumeru, commanding the rest of the world.

Some of the images of these great gods are full of angry eyes, and some have kind faces. They seem to burst out of the wall in the thunder and lightning, which makes us feel intimidated.

The curtains on the windows were already tattered, and they danced in the stormy night, making my already impatient mood even more restless.

Seeing me like this, Xiang Ru was also very anxious, so she suggested to dig outside with a Luoyang shovel, maybe the source of the corpse could be dug up.

There was nothing we could do, so we went outside, chose a place and dug down.

But experienced people know that this Luoyang shovel is okay for a small fight that is close to the ground, but when it encounters such an unnecessary big fight, it becomes a wooden pole.

Everyone explored several places in a row in the rain, but when they pulled it up, they found that the soil here was the same.

(End of this chapter)