Chapter 8 Section 6

As soon as Lama Aruo walked into the gate of the south courtyard of Lama Temple, the gate was closed by the Lama of the courtyard. A young lama walked quickly and whispered in Tibetan: "Lama Aruo, a pilgrim came to you and said that he made an appointment with you." He pointed to a gorgeously decorated Buddhist shop on the right. Lama Aruo walked over and saw that there was no one else in the store except the salesperson, so he was about to leave when he heard someone say, "Lama Aruo, please stay." It turned out that the person was among the salespersons at the counter.

The man threw away the cigarette in his hand, walked out of the counter quickly, and came to Lama Aruo. "Who are you?" "My name is Prince Chambord." Aruo Lama's heart twisted: Prince Chambord?The murderer who killed Pemba?The one who swore to Guru Rinpoche and held the key to the 'Seven Tara Gate'?Look at him carefully: neither fat nor thin, with a slightly dark face, tall, aged between twenty-five and thirty-five, with a shining golden key of a parrot head around his neck. Prince Chambord said mysteriously: "Now, now, start, start." Although they agreed to "meet each other", Lama Aruo said "Oh" in surprise.He never expected that a murderer would become the bearer of the ancient agreement of "Underground Prophecy" with him.

"How did you get the key?" "Then how do you know where the 'Seven Tara Gate' is?" "Today I went to the crematorium to see off a man, his name is Bianba." "Pemba is my teacher. Both of us are studying "Underground Prophecy", and both dream of discovering the terma of the 'Gate of Seven Tara'. But he is better than me. If he doesn't die, he came to meet you today It must be him. Before he died he told me where the key is hidden." Lama Aruo almost said: You must have killed Pemba, and then stole the key to open the "Seven Tara Gate".He thought of the business card left to him by the policeman Wang Yan, reached out and grabbed the phone, and realized for a moment that the most important thing to him was not that the other party killed someone, but that the other party was the only one who held the key. Just won't be back.He relaxed himself, thinking that it would not be too late to call the police after the "Gate of the Seven Tara" was opened. This is the Lama Temple in the style of a palace, with high walls and strong courtyards. As long as the gate is closed, strangers cannot escape.

Lama Aruo led Prince Chambord out of the store, and Wu Jian Lingpa, who was talking to someone outside the store, followed them. The sky was getting dark rapidly, and the lights were shining on the south courtyard of Lama Temple. The huge shadow wall blocked the hustle and bustle of the capital more firmly than the red wall, and at the same time, there was still time to be blocked.The nine-top and three archways have no fragrance but smoke, like the Nantianmen in the clouds.A pair of ancient stone lions, dressed in bright silk, guard the Lama Temple, which never looks old. Prince Chambord was admiring the archway, and suddenly he let out a sigh of remorse, saying that it's a pity, it's a pity, it's a pity that I neglected Lama Temple.Lama Temple was built in 1694 A.D., in the 33rd year of Kangxi. General Specifications of the Forbidden City Palace.Later, the Lama Temple was changed into a Lama Temple, and it became a royal temple where the imperial court contacted various religious sects in the Mongolian and Tibetan areas, symbolizing the unity of Han, Mongolian and Tibetan, and also became a Buddhist resort with the highest standard in China.Such an important monastery was excluded from his vision, and he hadn't visited it for at least two years.When deciphering the "Underground Prophecy" and trying to open the "Gate of the Seven Tara", he almost thought of all the monasteries recorded in the Tibetan area of ​​China, but he did not think of the Lama Temple in Beijing, because it is too rich and bright. , Too prominent, so prominent that it loses all mystery and all concealment.And the "Gate of Seven Tara" is the last and greatest terma, almost synonymous with mystery and concealment.

The three of them walked through the south courtyard, passed through the security gate under the archway, and walked onto the royal chariot road made of large square bricks.The dense tree shade circles the chariot road into a tunnel, and the street lamps are hidden in the shade like night eyes, making the tunnel look deep and secret. Outside the red wall on the east side of the chariot road is an ancient Buddhist warehouse, and a sutra pole wrapped in colored silk rises from the Buddhist warehouse.There is a lamp on the sutra pole and a flag with the words "Putuo Luojia" printed on it.

The striped flag seems to have just appeared, and Lama Aruo said strangely: "Who hung the sutra flag?" Wujian Lingpa and Prince Chambord looked over and saw a small Putuoluojia square flag flying beside the red wall door leading to the Buddhist warehouse. The wooden door behind the small square flag squeaked once and then again. They quickly walked through the long chariot road and came to the Zhaotai Gate, the gate of Lama Temple.Aruo Lama opened the door.They went in, passed the Bell and Drum Tower and the eight-ton big copper pot of Laba porridge, and walked again, and saw a lama in short clothes standing in front of the octagonal stele pavilion.The lama in short clothes bent down respectfully, clasped his hands together, and held a small sutra flag with the words "Putuo Luojia" on it.

Lama Aruo looked at the sutra flag and gave a doubtful "hmm". The short-clothed lama hurriedly replied: "Someone left them, they are everywhere." As he spoke, he glanced at Prince Chambord. They continued to move forward, and soon entered the Hall of Heavenly Kings, where the plaque "Yonghe Gate" inscribed by Qianlong was hung.Passing through the Hall of Heavenly Kings, passing through the bronze tripod in the dark, the imperial stele pavilion where Qianlong personally wrote "Lama Saying", the bronze Mount Sumeru and the mani pole on the white marble pool seat of the Han Dynasty, the footsteps are rustling and hidden in the main hall of Lama Temple, which is the Daxiong Hall.

Prince Chambord stopped and looked up at the Buddha statue.There are three bronze Buddhas of the third generation enshrined here. In the middle is the Sakyamuni Buddha representing the present, on the left is the Burning Buddha representing the past, and on the right is the Maitreya Buddha representing the future.This is the famous Lama Temple "Standing up the Three Buddhas" in the Buddhist world. It is conceived in terms of time, showing the long-term and infinite extension of the Buddha.In the main halls of Buddhist temples in the mainland, there are generally three Buddhas representing space: Sakyamuni Buddha in the Saha world in the middle, Medicine Buddha in the Eastern world on the left, and Amitabha Buddha in the Western world on the right. .Prince Chambord believes that the emphasis on time is a characteristic of Tibetan Buddhism. The meaning of Buddha is the meaning of life. The meaning is in the afterlife and in the future. Life takes disillusionment as the way and immortality as the goal. Eternity is the only reason for living.

He was stunned, thinking that this is naturally not here, this is the "Third Buddha", not the "Seventh Buddha". Lama Aruo shouted in front, "Let's go." Prince Chambord quickly followed, his eyes quickly swept over the statue of Avalokitesvara in the northeast corner, the statue of Maitreya Buddha in the northwest corner, and the eighteen arhats on both sides of the hall.He thought that there are twenty-four gods and Buddhas here, why only twenty-three lamps are lit?Looking at it again, I couldn't help but wonder: on the right of Sakyamuni Buddha, there was originally an unnamed one-foot golden Buddha, why is it gone now?

After the main hall of Lama Temple is Yongyou Hall.They walked around to the left and saw a young lama meditating in a corner and chanting sutras. He closed his eyes and ignored them. What he ignored was only a small "Putuo Luojia" sutra flag that he waved back and forth. Putuoluojia?I have never seen such small scripture flags in other places. Why are there so many Lama Temples?Prince Chambord walked out of the Yongyou Hall and came to the Falun Hall with his guess about the small sutra flag. This is a traditional Tibetan building with a cross-shaped plane. There are five yin towers and five distilled gold pagodas on the top of the hall. On the huge lotus platform in the middle of the hall sits Tsongkhapa, the founder of the Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism. Grandmaster.Behind the bronze statue is the Five Hundred Arhat Mountain, one of the three wonders of woodcarving in Lama Temple. The mountain is carved from red sandalwood. The stars are scattered.It is said to be five hundred, but in fact there are only four hundred and forty-nine statues, and the other fifty-one statues are said to have been stolen during the war.

Prince Chambord looked at the mountain of five hundred arhats and walked over, and a question he had thought about before reappeared: why is it not the golden arhat that was lost, but the arhat of copper, iron and tin?Are thieves so stupid that they don't know that gold is more valuable? Going forward, you will see Wanfu Pavilion, the tallest building in Lama Temple.Wanfu Pavilion with flying eaves is like a big bird taking off in the night sky.They climbed up the steps, crossed the threshold, and came to a huge Buddha's feet. Aruo Lama and Ugyen Lingpa stopped. Prince Chambord said: "What kind of Buddha is this? How could the 'Gate of Seven Tara' be here?" Lama Aruo said: "We are called Jamba Buddha, Maidala Buddha in Mongolian, Maitreya in Sanskrit, meaning future Buddha, and Cishi Bodhisattva in Chinese. It is hidden here in the future Buddha. This Maitreya Buddha is 26 meters tall and weighs about 100 tons..." Prince Chambord felt that the other party underestimated him, and then said: "Maitreya Buddha's head is in a bun reaching heaven, and his feet are on the ground stepping on hell. It is carved from a whole rare white sandalwood. It is the largest unique statue in the world. The weight of the woodcarving Buddha is infinite. Emperor Qianlong allocated countless silver to carve the Great Buddha. After the carving was successful, the whole body was covered with gold and inlaid with countless jewels. The great robe worn by the Everbright Buddha used up ten thousand feet of yellow satin." Aruo Lama stared at him in surprise. Prince Chambord said: "I mean the 'Gate of the Seventh Tara' should be with the 'Seventh Buddha'." Aruo Lama said: "This is the 'Seventh Buddha. A large amount of jewelry was sent to Nepal to exchange for this rare white sandalwood tree. It took three years and three months from Tibet to Beijing through Sichuan, Shaanxi, Henan, and Hebei. Buddha made by the Dalai Lama." Prince Chambord said: "You mean that more than a thousand years ago, Guru Rinpoche had predicted that the Seventh Dalai Lama would offer the 'Seventh Buddha'?" "It's not a prophecy, it's a prophecy, just like planning for the future now." "This is a plan for history and destiny. Is it possible to realize it meticulously?" "Then it's up to you to see if your key can open the 'Seven Tara Gate'." Prince Chambord looked up, as he had felt many times in the past, he was shocked by the momentum of a huge statue, which made him clearly feel the effect of art in a religious atmosphere.That is the tallness of compassion and the stalwart of Futian, hanging high and pouring down, which can break the heart of any ordinary person who has a relationship with Buddha but is nostalgic for the world in an instant.He retracted his eyes and looked at the surrounding lining of the halls. The candlelight was superimposed layer by layer. The painted Buddha environment, carved eaves, and gorgeous dome symbolized the structure of the world, and the size of the world is as big as the Buddha. . Aruo Lama waved.Prince Chambord and Wujian Lingpa followed closely behind, bypassing the red wooden fence of the guards, and walked to the back of the large carved Buddha. The three stood silently. Prince Chambord saw that the skirt of the Buddha body was fluttering, and the carved lines were powerful and smooth, which was the kind of powerful ax swinging. He saw that the back of the Buddha body was like a steep mountain wall, like a waterfall on the dress Flowing and dynamic.He had never been behind a Buddha statue before, and the novel feeling made him look up and down, left and right. Lama Aruo said loudly: "It's right here, the 'Gate of Seven Tara'." Prince Chambord silently recited the "Guide to Prophecy" from "Underground Prophecy": In the center of the Manjushri Dojo, there are four hundred and eighty-four statues, Buddhas with tens of billions of incarnations, The bodhi tree from the hot mountain country is behind the door of the Seven Tara. Prince Chambord said: "There are at least five hundred and thirty-five Buddha statues in the main hall of Lama Temple." Lama Aruo said: "What if fifty-one Arhats are subtracted from the mountain of five hundred Arhats?" Prince Chambord said: "How can it be reduced? The fifty-one arhats were lost in the war, unless... ah, unless... there is no such possibility?" Lama Aruo said: "No one thinks that is possible, but just recently, I know from the secret blessing of my deity Buddha that the treasure of Lama Temple, the five hundred Arhat Mountains, was not actually lost in the war. There are only four hundred and forty-nine arhats in one arhat. That is to say, if you don’t count the fifty-one arhats that didn’t exist before, and you don’t count the thousands of golden Buddhas, bronze Buddhas, Sandalwood Buddha, in the heyday when Lama Temple became a royal temple, the Buddha statues in the main hall happened to be 'four hundred and eighty-four' statues." Prince Chambord said: "But how do you explain 'the center of Manjusri Dojo'? Everyone knows that Putuo Mountain in Zhejiang is the Avalokitesvara Dojo, Emei Mountain in Sichuan is the Puxian Dojo, Jiuhua Mountain in Anhui is the Ksitigarbha Dojo, and Manjusri Dojo is the Wutai Mountain in Shanxi. , has nothing to do with the Lama Temple in Beijing.” Lama Aruo said: "The Daoist Temple is just the heart of a Bodhisattva. Wherever the heart goes, the Daoist Temple will go there. The emperors who have made achievements in the past are all the incarnations of Manjusri Bodhisattva. Enlightenment. In this way, the 'Manjusri Dojo' is Wangtu, and the 'central' of Wangtu is naturally Beijing." Prince Chambord said: "This is the understanding of a practicing lama, not the interpretation of a rigorous scholar." Lama Aruo also said: "What if you are a practicing lama and a rigorous scholar? As for the 'Buddha of thousands of billions of incarnations', it refers to Maitreya Buddha. The ancient verse is like this, 'Maitreya is really Maitreya, with thousands of incarnations. Tens of billions, always show the people of the time, and the people don't know it'. "The Bodhi tree from the hot mountain country" is a better explanation. The "mountain country" is Nepal. The Buddha said that there is no Bodhi tree, and he also said that "the hot sandalwood produces incense". , the sandalwood tree grows only in hot places." Prince Chambord said: "For hundreds of years, many people have been frantically looking for the 'Gate of the Seven Tara', and the prophesied 'four hundred and eighty-four statues' almost blocked all the steps of exploration, why did you not get it until recently? What about the secret blessing of your main Buddha?" Aruo Lama said: "Not all times have a special origin. Our Uzhana Buddha, Master Rinpoche, is on top of his head. When the 'Seven Tara Gate' opens, the deity will come to bless you. Mind." Prince Chambord nodded: "It seems that I can't fail you by asking Lama Aruo, now you can ask me." Lama Aruo said, "I don't want to ask too much, so I just ask where is your key?" Prince Chambord recited the "Dictionary Guide" of "Underground Prophecy" in a low voice: You have to open the door of Seven Tara, go to the last terma, and remember the big black agate behind the skirt of the Seventh Buddha, which string, which one, how many times to press. Lama Aruo and Wujian Lingpa stared at Prince Chambord intently. Prince Chambord put his hands on his chest and continued to recite the "Dictionary Guide" of "Underground Prophecy": A person with seven names, with the voice of the Buddha mother in his heart, the gods have decided the date of birth for you and the saint, which is the key to open the door of millennium meditation. Prince Chambord said: "The key is 1131, the birthday of Jiji Buchi, and the birthday of the sage Cangyang Gyatso. Corresponding 1131 and the "Guide to Prophecy" of "Underground Prophecy", it should be the 11th string and the 3rd string. One, press once." Prince Chambord counted from top to bottom, and then put his hand behind the hem of the single wooden carved Buddha, where there was a carved agate ornament.He stroked the carved wood agate, and suddenly his hands trembled. He looked at his hands distrustfully and said, "You should do the counting, Lama Aruo." Lama Aruo said: "The 11th string, the 3rd, press 1 time?" Prince Chambord said: "Maybe it's still a credit card password, you can't spend it." Lama Aruo said: "Let's count together, we must not make mistakes." Prince Chambord, Lama Aruo and Wujian Lingpa walked around in front of the single wooden Buddha, and counted the agate strings on the Buddha with their heads up. When they counted to the 11th string from top to bottom, it happened to be the one that Prince Chambord had just stroked. Carved agate onyx behind the skirt of the Buddha. Prince Chambord restrained his excitement and whispered, "Great, great, this proves that there is nothing wrong." They counted again, also from top to bottom, and stopped when they reached the third.Lama Aruo took a closer look and put his thumb on a black and shiny wooden agate. Prince Chambord and Wujian Lingpa looked straight at Lama Aruo. Lama Aruo recited the White Tara Mantra devoutly once, and the Green Tara Mantra again, and then pressed it hard, only to hear a "click", at the end of the skirt, between the folds and folds , A piece of seamless Buddha clothes suddenly bounced up. The three of them said "Ah yo" at the same time, and their voices changed in surprise. "The Gate of Seven Tara"?Is it really the "Seven Tara Gate"?It seemed that in a blink of an eye, everyone couldn't believe it again, and they were stunned. Suddenly, Aruo Lama rushed over first, followed by Prince Chambord, and finally Ugyen Lingpa. The door that pops up is three feet square, and the inside of the door opening is dark. Prince Chambord turned on his phone.The three of them went to the door and peeped in, and found a deep natural gap inside, just between the feet of Maitreya Buddha, and a scent of white sandalwood entered their nostrils.He wanted to climb in and have a look, but was grabbed by Lama Aruo's strong hand. Prince Chambord said excitedly: "The last terma, the last terma, I will go and get it out." Lama Aruo said sternly: "Don't be reckless." Then he recited the White Tara mantra and the Green Tara mantra again. While chanting the mantra, he blocked the door opening with his chest, for fear that Prince Chambord and Wu Jian Lingpa would enter. After a while, Lama Aruo got into the doorway, took a big candle that Ugyen Lingpa handed him, and crawled inside. Prince Chambord and Wu Jian Lingba looked at the entrance of the cave calmly, not daring to be disturbed in the slightest. Twenty minutes later, Aruo Lama crawled out. Prince Chambord widened his eyes, seeing that his hands were empty, and asked, "Where's the terma?" Lama Aruo was extremely disappointed and threw the candle on the ground: "It's empty, it's empty inside." "Impossible." Prince Chambord grabbed Aruo Lama and wanted to search him. Lama Aruo pushed him away, took off his cassock, leaving only his underwear and panties, spread his hands, looked at Prince Chambord, and then at his silent fellow disciple Wujian Lingpa, and said, "I swear to Maitreya Buddha that I am clean. " How could Prince Chambord be reconciled, climbed into the doorway, lit the inside with his mobile phone, searched carefully, but found nothing.He crawled out, stood on the ground, and looked at Aruo Lama with a puzzled expression: "How could it be, empty?" Lama Aruo said, "Someone has already opened it." Prince Chambord asked: "Who?" Lama Aruo narrowed his eyes, pierced Prince Chambord with needle-like eyes, and said, "Isn't it you?" "Me? Ho, I'm actually a thief?" "You killed your teacher Pemba and stole the key. You have already opened the 'door of Seven Tara'." "How can you, a lama who recites Buddha's name, talk nonsense?" Lama Aruo snorted and said, "I didn't say it, it was the police who said it. The police have found your car. There are dents on the car. The hair and blood on it belong to the deceased Pianba." Prince Chambord roared: "Framed, framed, it's all framed. Since I have already opened the 'Seven Tara's door', why do I come here?" "Sly devil, you are acting, you want to prove that you have never been here, and you want to cover up your crime." Prince Chambord looked at Wu Jian Lingba, and found that the other party's eyes were also malicious, so he looked at the door opening and took a breath of sandalwood from the inside of the large carved Buddha, and said angrily "haha", "I suspect that I stole the inside The terma? You should go and report the case, that is wealth that the entire Lama Temple can’t exchange for.” After saying that, he walked away. At the entrance of Wanfu Pavilion, a big fat lama blocked Prince Chambord majestically.