Tianyan Jianbao

Chapter 84 The Jokhang Temple

The Tibetan people have a saying that "there was the Jokhang Temple first, and then Lhasa City". The Jokhang Temple has a central position in Lhasa City.Not only geographically, but also socially.

There are also many beautiful legends about the Jokhang Temple. It is said that when the Jokhang Temple was built, it was flooded several times.Princess Wencheng explained that the entire Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is a supine Rakshasa girl.

Therefore, Princess Wencheng said that the Jokhang Temple must fill the lake to build a temple.First calm down the witch's heart.Then Princess Wencheng also recommended twelve other small temples in remote areas to house the limbs and joints of the witch, and a total of thirteen temples were built.

According to the location chosen by Princess Wencheng, the lake must be filled first to build the temple.The main means of transportation at that time was to rely on goats carrying bags filled with sand and soil.

In this way, the lake was filled up and the foundation was laid for the Jokhang Temple. The word Lhasa today evolved from the Jokhang Temple.

Wang Haoming saw that in the row of the Jokhang Temple, there were many devout Tibetans who walked clockwise around the Jokhang Temple and kowtowed, reciting the six-character mantra.

Put your hands together over your head and take a step forward.Keep your hands together and move them to your forehead, and take another step.Continue to fold your hands together and move them to your chest, taking the third step.After the knees are on the ground, the whole body is on the ground, the palms are down, the hands are straight forward, the ground is on the ground, and the forehead is lightly tapped on the ground.After getting up, go round and round.

These devout Tibetans wear protective gear on their hands and knees, and their faces are weathered and dusty.

Prostrate on the ground, making a rustling sound, relying on strong beliefs, measuring the land with the body, prostrating three steps, and walking slowly around the Jokhang Temple, even if they just walk around the Jokhang Temple clockwise, these people are Wang Haoming. Tibetan believers met on the road to Lhasa.

Tibetan believers from far away traveled mountains and rivers along the way.Sleeping in the open air and kowtowing all the way, it may take several years to reach the holy place in my heart.

When encountering wading, they will also fill the river width on the bank of the river, and then try to cross the river.

Seeing that the Tibetans turning scriptures had poured into the Jokhang Temple, Lama Gegu waved to Wang Haoming, and walked into the Jokhang Temple first through a small gate next to the main entrance of the Jokhang Temple.

Wang Haoming is also very calm, he did not do anything bad.Although they hit people first, Buddhism also advocates punishing evil and promoting good. Presumably these lamas will not do anything to themselves.

Seeing that Wang Haoming came with Lama Gegu, the lama who guarded the door clasped his hands together, smiled at Wang Haoming, and let him in.

"This is the birthplace of "Geshe", well, "Geshe" means doctor among you Han people."

Walking into the Jokhang Temple, Wang Haoming saw a patio-like courtyard, but Lama Gegu obviously did not treat him as a villain, and explained the origin of this courtyard to him. There are several rows of butter lamps on the east side of the courtyard.

Even though it is daytime, these ghee lamps are still always on. It is estimated that someone is responsible for adding ghee.

Wang Haoming saw that the believers who had just passed the turning path kept coming in and out.Slowly or quickly, they returned to the famous turning path of the Jokhang Temple, turning round and round, no matter men, women, old or young, all looked pious and dignified. At this moment, it was natural and harmonious.

Lama Gegu seems to be very prestigious. Several lamas and tourists passing by him bowed slightly to say hello to him. After leading Wang Haoming into the main hall, Lama Gegu said: "Young man, you can visit it in Qili. .You should walk in that direction and don't rush in."

Ge Gu seems to have something else.After explaining to Wang Haoming, he left, as if he had forgotten the original intention of bringing him here, and did not ask about the disputes that occurred in the market at all.

There are many painted lifelike wood carving walls in the main hall. After Wang Haoming saw these wood carvings, his heart moved slightly.

Walking a few steps, approaching the wall, concentrated the spiritual power in his eyes, and released it to the wooden sculpture.

"Huh? How could this be?"

Just when the spiritual power in his eyes penetrated the woodcut pictures, Wang Haoming immediately felt that there was a lot of spiritual power contained in these wood carvings, and the spiritual power in his eyes, compared with it, was probably nothing more than the ocean. Just a drop of water in it.

But what surprised Wang Haoming and felt helpless was that although he could feel the existence of these spiritual powers, he just couldn't absorb them. This was the first time Wang Haoming encountered such a situation.

The spiritual power in those murals made Wang Haoming suddenly have an illusion, as if his spiritual power was water.However, the spiritual power in the carved wood murals is oil. Although water and oil can coexist in the same container, there is no way to combine them.

"Is it because the amount of spiritual power in my eyes is too scarce to integrate the spiritual power in the mural?"

Wang Haoming withdrew the spiritual power in his eyes.Looking at the mural in front of him, he thought about it. Although the spiritual power in his eyes has been used frequently in the past few days and the amount has become much scarcer, it is no different from before.

But the spiritual power, which was invincible in the past, can't absorb a trace of breath in this mural now.

This surprised Wang Haoming and felt deep disappointment. It was like walking into a treasure mountain and finding that he couldn't take anything away from it.That feeling is insane.

Wang Haoming tried again without giving up, but he still failed. He was so depressed that he almost shouted out loud. Wang Haoming, who was always calm, wanted to pounce on these murals and destroy the spiritual power inside. to release.

"Hey, maybe I have nothing to do with the spiritual power here."

Wang Haoming sighed secretly in his heart, but there was nothing he could do. As the saying goes, out of sight, out of mind, Wang Haoming, who could no longer think of any way, was about to leave here.

"Ok?"

His eyes rolled away inadvertently, and he couldn't help being surprised, because Wang Haoming found that the material of this wooden staircase was actually made of sandalwood. , is also very precious.

"Dangdang" Wang Haoming stretched out his hand and knocked on the surface of the stairs, and there was a sound of metal hitting, and he couldn't help feeling a little interested in the stairs.

Wang Haoming hesitated for a moment, and when Lama Gegu was about to leave, he told him not to trespass. Whether this is a forbidden area of ​​the Jokhang Temple, Wang Haoming also does not know.

He has been standing here for a long time, and he has not seen a tourist go up, but none of the lamas coming and going came to stop or ask him.

After all, curiosity about the unknown prevailed, and he walked up slowly, holding on to the handrail of the stairs engraved with fine patterns.

Regret gradually dimmed the folder.The setting sun falls on the Jokhang Temple. The golden temples, the golden prayer wheels, and even the tourists all present a fascinating golden brilliance, adding a bright and sacred atmosphere to the entire Jokhang Temple.

"The person was brought by you. It has been more than an hour now. I don't ask you for someone. Who should we go to ask for?"

A loud voice rang out in a room of the management office of the Jokhang Temple. It was Li Zhi who spoke, Mao Yong, Lin Jiahao, Luo Yuwei and several other women were all in this room at the moment.

As for the Jokhang Temple, apart from the Lama Gegu who brought Wang Haoming in, there are also a few young lamas and a government employee who are explaining to several people.

"I brought him in the Jokhang Temple because he was afraid of retribution. As for where he went, I don't know."

Lama Gegu said in blunt Mandarin that when he was in Balang Street, he knew that the Tibetan was deceiving customers. Wang Haoming suffered a disadvantage, so he was brought into the Jokhang Temple.

It was also for this reason that Gegu left without asking Wang Haoming anything.

But Ge Gu did not expect that Wang Haoming mysteriously disappeared in the Jokhang Temple.And his friends also came to ask for someone.

In fact, Li Zhi and the others arrived in less than an hour after Wang Haoming entered the Jokhang Temple, and immediately asked the lama who guarded the gate, knowing that it was Lama Gegu who brought a person into the Jokhang Temple.

It was only after finding Lama Gegu that they realized that Wang Haoming had left alone. At that time, they didn't pay much attention to it, thinking that Wang Haoming was traveling with those tourists.

But after waiting for several hours, I realized that something was wrong. The tourists who entered and exited the Jokhang Temple had changed several times, and Wang Haoming had not been seen coming out.

Now Li Zhi and the others became anxious, and found Lama Gegu again. They sent people to search in the temple, but they found no trace of Wang Haoming. If it hadn't been for 24 hours before the case could be filed, Li Zhi might go to the police station. Reported.

They once suspected that the stall owner took revenge on Wang Haoming and hijacked him away, but later they saw the stall owner in the Jokhang Temple, and the man kowtowed in front of the Buddha, confessing his mistakes, and Wang Haoming disappeared The matter obviously has nothing to do with him.

(End of this chapter)