Chapter 34 Chapter 33 Return to Dust

After all, Tsangyang Gyatso is politically illiterate, and he does not understand political reactions.His disappearance cannot calm politics, it is just the beginning of another wave. Lazang Khan is very willing to see such a result.Although he reprimanded Tsangyang Gyatso as a fake Dalai Lama, this conclusion was not recognized by anyone.It is inconvenient for him to attack such a person who still has a high authority.He handed Cangyang Gyatso to the court, hoping that the court would help him solve this trouble.Although the imperial court did not recognize Tsangyang Gyatso's false Dalai identity, but following the news of Tsangyang Gyatso's death from illness, the imperial court followed his wishes and defined it as false.Lazang Khan was very proud of this.

Although some people pointed out that this was a conspiracy by Lhazang Khan, who assassinated Tsangyang Gyatso.But such a statement is just speculation.Lazang Khan won the battle, and he happily went to prepare for the selection of the new Dalai Lama. For the emperor, the death of Tsangyang Gyatso made the last means of check and balance disappear.Without this important political bargaining chip, Lhazang Khan is likely to be unscrupulous, and other political forces are also likely to lose control. Tibet is likely to face new political turmoil.In order to avoid troubles as much as possible, he could only admit that Tsangyang Gyatso is a fake Dalai Lama, so as to eliminate the resistance of Tibetans.

The death of Tsangyang Gyatso seems to have become a move to achieve Lazang Khan so logically.In the second year, Lhazang Khan found a young lama and made him the sixth Dalai Lama.According to legend, this lama is actually the son of Razang Khan.It is difficult to determine the authenticity of such a statement, even if it is true, it is not surprising.Two years later, Kangxi awarded the golden seal to the new sixth Dalai Lama, officially recognizing him. But regardless of Tibet and Mongolia, people do not recognize the sixth Dalai Lama from the bottom of their hearts.The upper echelons of Tibet were originally dissatisfied with Lhazang Khan's rule, so they tried every means to find a new reincarnation of the Dalai Lama.They believe that Tsangyang Gyatso is the real Dalai Lama, and they want to find his reincarnated soul boy.

The poem Cangyang Gyatso wrote before his departure became the motto of his reincarnation.A few years later, people found a child named Kelsang Gyatso in Litang. They believed that this was the reincarnation of Tsangyang Gyatso.This child has been recognized by the whole of Tibet and even Mongolia. They believe that this child will continue the Dalai Lama's care for the world and bring blessings back to this world. In order to prevent Lazang Khan from harming the child, people sent the child to Dege by the Jinsha River, then to Qinghai, and finally sent him to Kumbum Monastery to receive Buddhist training.People are ready to go, just waiting for a suitable time, so that the real Dalai Lama in their minds will be enthroned in the Potala Palace.

Ten years after the enthronement of the sixth Dalai Lama supported by Lhazang Khan, the Junggar army invaded Lhasa in the name of avenging the fifth Dalai Lama, the sixth Dalai Lama, and Dipa Sangye Gyatso.Lazang Khan stood firm in the Potala Palace and was finally hacked to death in front of the palace gate. Since Gushi Khan helped the fifth Dalai Lama unify Tibet, the Heshuote Ministry established the "Heshuote Khan Court" in Tibet.From Gushri Khan to Lhazang Khan, they continued their rule with four generations of grandparents. This 70-year rule ended soon after Lhazang Khan deposed the Dalai Lama by force.Back then, they used force to build up the land for Dalai, but now they are ruined because of their forceful aggression against Dalai.Fate is so ruthless, the more you want something, the faster you leave.

The sixth Dalai Lama supported by Lazang Khan was naturally dismissed.A Buddhist believer still has a benevolent heart. He was not killed, but was imprisoned in Yaowang Mountain opposite the Potala Palace.Two years later, he was also summoned to the capital by order.However, there is no spectacular send-off team along the way, no Yiyi's farewell, and no many obstacles.He arrived in the capital smoothly and never returned to the Tibetan area until his death. Kelsang Gyatso, who was protected by the world in Kumbum Monastery, was recognized as the Dalai Lama by Kangxi in this year, and he was awarded the "Dalai VI Seal".The reason why the new Dalai Lama is still called the sixth is because Kangxi wanted to erase the previous disputes, as if by doing so, the previous dispute between the true and false Dalai Lamas could be wiped out.In this way, Kangxi issued the golden seal of the sixth Dalai Lama three times before and after, and the inheritance of the Dalai Lama's lineage has tied a strange knot here.

But the world still believes that the new Dalai Lama is the reincarnation of Tsangyang Gyatso.They are more accustomed to calling the new Dalai the seventh Dalai Lama. In this way, under the escort of the Kangxi army, the seventh Dalai Lama walked out of Kumbum Monastery and went to the Potala Palace.Compared with Tsangyang Gyatso's confusion and pain back then, the seventh Dalai Lama's heart is much calmer.He has accepted the reality of his living Buddha since he was a child. Although he is only 12 years old at this time, he has already understood his mission. When the team marched to Qinghai Lake, he also saw the endless lake.The lake water is still rippling mercilessly, and that movement has an eternal emptiness.The Seventh Dalai Lama recited scriptures with palms together without stopping.He must rush to the Potala Palace, officially enthroned on the bed, become the new Tibetan leader, and complete the mission that Tsangyang Gyatso should have completed but not completed.

The dust raised by the team at the edge of Qinghai Lake soon fell quietly again.Since then, the turbulent waves of Tibetan politics have finally returned to calm.At this time, it has been 14 years since Tsangyang Gyatso passed away. In the face of time, people's choices often become ridiculous.Time can make right choices wrong and wrong choices right.Time can also set off terrifying waves, and it can also subdue everything to calm.At this time, ashes return to ashes, dust returns to dust, and the world operates according to its plan.The resurgence of the hustle and bustle will be in the distant future.

However, in order to avoid such turmoil in Tibet, the imperial court enacted a series of measures. One was to designate a screening system for the reincarnated soul boy of the Dalai Lama, and the other was to confirm the Dalai Lama's supreme ruling power.So far, the inheritance of the Dalai Lama's lineage has become an important political event, and the ups and downs during it are another story. But everything, is it true that what returns to ashes returns to ashes, and what returns to ashes returns to ashes?When everything went on in such a logical way, one day 37 years later, a lama named Ngawang Lhundrup Daji wrote a book "The Secret Biography of Tsangyang Gyatso".According to the book, Tsangyang Gyatso did not die of illness that year, but he actually fled away anonymously.He traveled to Gansu, Qinghai, Kham-Tibet, Sichuan-Tibet, U-Tsang, Nepal, India, Mongolia and other places. He promoted Buddhism in these places, and accepted Ngawang Lunzhu Daji as his disciple, and ordered him to establish Guangzong Temple.

In fact, 10 years before the publication of this book, Ngawang Lhunzhu Daji went to Lhasa to pay homage to the Seventh Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama.He told a group of eminent monks the news that Tsangyang Gyatso passed away in Alxa.As a result, Ngawang Lunzhu Daji was awarded the title of the Seventh Dalai Lama. He was named Khan, and he was also awarded many Buddha statues and spiritual objects. He also got a full set of Khenpo utensils. Since then, Ngawang Lhundrup Daji has maintained close contact with the seventh Dalai Lama.He sent people to Lhasa five times to pay his respects to the Seventh Dalai Lama. The Seventh Dalai Lama not only replied, but also taught him Buddhism.All these seem to be the evidence that the Seventh Dalai Lama acknowledged Ngawang Lhundrup Daji's statement.

But the title of the seventh Dalai Lama and Ngawang Lunzhu Daji is the same Khan.This means that what the Seventh Dalai Lama gave him was the power to rule.Therefore, Ngawang Lunzhu Daji has a legitimate reason to unify Alashan.But this reason, what brought Ngawang Lhunju Daji, was destruction. In the face of power, no one has the slightest ambiguity.Although the Mongolian nobles in Alxa are willing to hear the news of the sixth Dalai Lama Guangzhe Alxa, they will not allow anyone to covet their power.Therefore, when Ngawang Lhunzhu Daji took the "Secret Biography of Cangyang Gyatso" as his political capital and sought political domination, he was unanimously opposed by the Mongolian nobles. Soon, Ngawang Lunzhu Daji's head was chopped off and buried under the stone sill outside the city gate.Alxa's unity of politics and religion was destroyed just like that. With such a result, the rumors that Tsangyang Gyatso is not dead should also dissipate.But the fact is that such turmoil has raised speculation about Tsangyang Gyatso's death.More people believe that Tsangyang Gyatso is not dead.It is speculated that he was rescued or escaped from the team himself.Cangyang Gyatso's envoy could not be found, so he had to lie that he died of illness. However, these are just people's good wishes without any evidence.But in the same way, there is no evidence to prove that Tsangyang Gyatso really died of illness that year.In many records, the place of his death is different.In the end, people can only say that Tsangyang Gyatso disappeared in the Qinghai Lake area. As for whether he died or fled far away, it is a mystery of history. It is worth mentioning that in the Tibetan "Biography of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama", it is recorded that when the Thirteenth Dalai Lama went on a pilgrimage to Mount Wutai in Shanxi, he visited the monastery where the sixth Dalai Lama Tsangyang Gyatso retreated and sat in meditation.Judging from this record, it seems that Tsangyang Gyatso really did not die at that time, but the specific details have long been lost in the dust of history. However, the Guangzong Temple in Alxa regards Cangyang Gyatso as the first living Buddha of the temple, and has kept his stupa and relics all the time.According to the records in the temple, Tsangyang Gyatso swallowed a relic when he was 64 years old, and then recited the Infinite Life Sutra and sat down.For the next 19 days, transparent oily liquids of various colors flowed out from his body.Although it was a scorching heat, his body was not decomposed at all. Therefore, after Guangzong Temple was built, his Dharma body was enshrined in the spiritual pagoda of Huanglou Temple in the temple.This is a place in the temple dedicated to enshrining Cangyang Gyatso's dharma body.Among them, the spiritual pagoda is the statue of the whole temple, with a 3-meter-high tower body, full of gold and color.The gate of the tower is inlaid with gemstones of various colors. It is a pity that in 1966, the flames of the "Cultural Revolution" burned down everything representing Tsangyang Gyatso in the temple.In order to re-enshrine, the monks retrieved his ashes and built another columbarium on the hillside behind Huanglou Temple.If this dharmakaya is true, then Tsangyang Gyatso has truly returned to dust.A columbarium, becoming the final point of its history. But does Cangyang Gyatso still care about all this?He was always fighting for his freedom when everyone cared about his existence.No matter what method he used, he had already been liberated by the Qinghai Lake back then.Freed from his past identity, his heart can be completely free. Perhaps, he really escaped far away, and finally obtained the final enlightenment in the wandering practice.In any case, for Tsangyang Gyatso, in a free situation, to realize is the life he wants. However, in those legends of Tsangyang Gyatso's life, there are no more poems.I don't know if it's because people in the world can't make up the fresh and clear poems, or because Cangyang Gyatso's heart no longer has poetry after experiencing vicissitudes.Those love poems that have been circulated in the world have become the swan song of Tsangyang Gyatso.The world copied them down, engraved and published them again and again.Every time I read it, it seems that Tsangyang Gyatso still has love in the world. I especially like his parting poem: put the hat on your head, Leave the braids behind. He said, "Please go slowly!" He said: "Please live slowly!" He asked, "Are you sad in your heart?" He said: "We will meet soon!" (translated by Yu Daoquan) It was his poem when he said goodbye to the girl he loved.He put the hat on his head, she threw her braids back, and they got up to say goodbye, saying what Tibetans always say when they part: "walk slowly", "stay slowly".But there is reluctance between them.One asked: "Are you sad in your heart?" The other endured the pain of parting and comforted him and said, "We will meet again soon." The sky is full. Reading Tsangyang Gyatso's poems, I have been infected by such sadness.All the true feelings, enthusiasm, resentment, and persistence are turned into a trace of sorrow in the poem, as if life is composed of this sorrow.But this sorrowful sentient being infects people's hearts in a hopeless world.Thinking that even the Buddha has love, there is a glimmer of hope in this world. A world with pain and joy needs to be tasted slowly by the world.When you sink into it, accompanied by Cangyang Gyatso's poems, you will be able to gain freedom of heart in the midst of sentient beings.Feeling the momentary spiritual soaring is enough for the world to get the comfort of life. Whether Tsangyang Gyatso is alive or dead is no longer important.What is important is the sincerity he passed on to the world. Perhaps, this is the highest state of being in harmony with the light.