Chapter 37 Section 3

The layout of Kumbum Monastery was originally a village style, with streets and alleys connecting halls, giving people the impression that halls face the streets and temples form alleys.Now walls and gates have been built, and it looks like a big courtyard, almost in the style of Zhongnanhai.However, the courtyards are scattered along the mountain and vary according to the situation. The few are round and regular, and the most are imposing and majestic.Prince Chambord and Mesa walked around the outskirts of the Kumbum Monastery. There were many shops in the daytime, and the resplendent and magnificent shops were hidden in the dark lights, and everything was silent.The two people moved like ghosts, adding a lot of treachery and uneasiness to the Kumbum Monastery at night.

Prince Chambord once studied the topography of Kumbum Monastery on foot. He was familiar with the eight valleys and eight rivers arranged like lotus flowers. He knew that no matter how high or long the wall was, it was impossible to go up and down on the endless mountains.In the depression of Tsongka Lianhua Mountain, the stamen-like Kumbum Monastery is surrounded by mountains in the east, west and south.Prince Chambord brought Mesa to Dongshan first, and then to Nanshan. They felt around by the moonlight, but they couldn't find the way down the mountain.Finally came to Xishan, walking up and down.They didn't know how to get there, and when they stopped to catch their breath, they found that they had already reached the gate of Da La Rang halfway up the mountain.

Prince Chambord whispered happily: "We can reach here, which means we have entered Kumbum Monastery." He told Mesa that Da Larang is a common name, and its official name is Tashi Kangsai. The Han people called it Auspicious Palace. Lai, the Panchen Lama, and the palaces of successive Fatais.Emperor Qianlong once sent people to build palace walls, Huamen and archways for Da Larang, and named it "Yonghui Palace". "Look, this is a place overlooking the panorama of Kumbum Monastery." The thick night is like a layered smear, the sky is light black, the mountains are thick black, the trees are pitch black, and the ten thousand monks' houses are gray and black, and those tall halls that stand upright and low halls that lie down are darkened because of the red walls. It turned purple and black.There are also courtyards with white walls and pavilions with gray tiles, which are smoky.The ones that are not black are the Golden Dome, Aquarius, Fazhu, Falun, Xianglin, Jilu, and Bronze Mirror. They show different styles of gold in the black layer: soft gold, sun gold, incandescent gold, starlight Gold, flare gold, red copper gold, and they are floating, like groups of golden fish in black waves, and lightning that never fades in black clouds.

Mesa was stunned, and said repeatedly: "Good place, good place." Prince Chambord led her down the "Zigzag" Deji Road. As soon as she got to the Hall of Longevity, she saw a group of lamas holding Zen sticks coming out of the Butler Living Buddha Temple, hurriedly Walked into a large courtyard in front.Prince Chambord pulled Mesa to hide, and whispered: "The front is Dajiwa, dispatching troops in the middle of the night, something must have happened." "Dajiwa? What is Dajiwa?" "Dajiwa used to be the administrative organization of the whole temple, responsible for the money lending and renting of the temple, distribution of alms, external liaison, trial cases, etc. The Yamen has no right to interfere. There are squad rooms, torture halls, leather whips, iron chains and other instruments of torture in Dajiwa. People and monks convicted of crimes are fined if they are light, and they are ordered to make tea and porridge for the monks in the temple to make atonement; Sentenced to corporal punishment, whipping, iron tripping, hard labor, etc. People who owe rent and debts will also be sent to prisons, and their relatives and friends will spend money to redeem them. What is "the unity of politics and religion", this is it. "The unity of politics and religion" It is not only the control of the spirit over the political power, but also the control of the political power over the spirit. When power begins to punish crimes with corporal punishment, the texture of the spirit is invincible and is created, and it kills itself. Now Dajiwa no longer has these powers, but majesty And the practice still exists, and at critical moments, they can still obtain the authorization of the management committee to organize scripture hall meetings and assume the responsibility of protecting religion and law.”

Prince Chambord pulled Mesa, put his cat waist close to Dajiwa, stopped suddenly, and squatted under the black stone wall. The door of Dajiwa opened, and the team of temple guardian lamas carrying Zen sticks came out of the double-opened wooden doors, and went straight to the Great Sutra Hall under the leadership of a bare-armed Living Buddha.Prince Chambord was stunned: behind the Great Sutra Hall is the place where "the red umbilical cord, the emerald green of enlightenment, and the lion's roar of Manjushri" are located, and it is the Great Golden Tiled Hall that enshrines the Bodhi Great Silver Pagoda.There are traces of Wanma Living Buddha and the temptation of the Holy Gate: "The Gate of Seven Tara" - "The Last Terma" - "Cangyang Gyatso's Last Words" - "Happy Yizhuo Ram", a Layers of fog, layers of scenery, each layer is a paradise.He realized by feeling: If there are many temple guardian lamas in the Dajinwa Temple, they must be aimed at Prince Chambord and Mesa.

"What?" he asked Mesa. "How do I know? It's up to you, find a way." "Don't say rely on me, I have to rely on you. Now I imagine you as the Buddha Mother and Wisdom Dakini. As long as you bless me, we can break through." "How to support?" Prince Chambord moved closer to her and took her hand: "Kiss me." Mesa shook off his hand: "What time is it, you are still playing hooligans." Prince Chambord said earnestly, "I can give you a kiss." Mesa dodged backwards, but saw Prince Chambord rushing forward, and hurriedly followed.

Prince Chambord stopped and said: "Actually, you have already blessed me. I held your hand just now and found it slippery and hot. So I imagined it as your heart. Just like a woman Like two hands, a woman also has two hearts, one is the beating heart that produces thoughts, and the other is the flowing heart that produces love. One heart is inside the body, and the other is outside the body. The outer heart is the center of the body , the inner heart is the center of thinking. Two hearts are the most secret and alluring thing for a woman. More importantly, the two hearts are interlinked and consistent. No matter which heart you get, it means two The heart belongs to you. In Greek mythology, it is said that whoever is shot by Cupid's arrow will have love. In fact, it is about the reproductive movement of men. Although a man shoots a woman's external heart, what is really captured is the inner heart Heart. Tsangyang Gyatso is our Tibetan God of Cupid, he shot all women's hearts with his love songs, including yours."

"What carelessness, what you grabbed was my hand." Mesa rubbed his hands on himself in disgust. Prince Chambord said: "It's not this one, it's just that one." Seeing her rubbing that hand again, he smiled and said: "It's useless, you know, the greatest contribution of Buddhism is to open up human imagination, imagine what it is, that is What. It requires devotion and skill, which I was born with. You are already in my imagination day and night, and imagination can't be wiped away." Mesa gritted her teeth with hatred: "If I can kill someone, I will kill you first."

Prince Chambord said: "Kill someone who loves you and the one you love?" They moved forward along the stone wall and came to the courtyard door of the Great Sutra Hall. The door was half-closed. They listened and looked around, but there was silence and nothing.Lifting her foot across the threshold, with a bang, Mesa's head bumped against the protruding door bolt, causing her to "hiss" in pain.A lama came out from a small gate in the northwest corner of the courtyard, walked forward a few steps, and then hurried back, as if he didn't see them.They approached the Great Sutra Hall from the eaves on the right.

In the Great Sutra Hall, the light of butter lamps flickered like balls of hot fireballs, and the places where the fireballs concentrated became fire streams.The figure of the lama swayed in front of the stream of fire, and the sound of sutras pierced through the darkness, making midnight even more silent.The wind was reverberating at a constant speed, diligently sending those sincere sutras and mantras to the sky. Prince Chambord leaned on the doorpost of the Great Sutra Hall, looked around for a moment, took Mesa's hand, walked through the small door in the northwest corner, and came to the famous big kitchen lane.The west end of the lane connects the Sakyamuni Hall and the Yihu Hall. Next to the Yihu Hall, facing the back wall of the Sutra Hall, is the Dajinwa Hall.

Prince Chambord found that they couldn't pass through the alleyway of the big kitchen. In the light at the west end of the alleyway, a row of lamas protecting the monastery stood upright with Zen sticks.Not like a burglar, but like a football player blocking a close free kick in front of his own door.They retreated quickly, and just as they retreated outside the courtyard gate of the Great Sutra Hall, they heard a shout: "Catch the thief." The two trembled and almost hugged each other.After waiting for a while, when no one came to arrest them, I realized that it had nothing to do with them. I heard the chaotic footsteps in the alleyway of the big kitchen, and the shouts of the lamas protecting the monastery from time to time.They looked at each other, and the question in their eyes was: Who is it?In this dark night where there is nothing hidden, is there anyone else who, like them, has the same ambition to dig hidden treasures and is sneaking close to the Bodhi Great Silver Pagoda in the Great Jinwa Temple? Whoever it was, this "thief" had already come here before them, and walked the same path as them.They searched around, saw Dajiwali behind them, and several temple guardian lamas walked out, hurried away, ran south, and plunged into Tiaoshenyuan. They hid in the dark corner of Tiaoshenyuan.Prince Chambord observed the movement in the yard, and told Mesa without losing the opportunity: "The Kumbum Monastery holds four large-scale pujas and two small pujas here every year. One of the grand rituals is to dance the Dharma King Dance, commonly known as 'dancing God'. ’ or ‘Lama Shehuo’.” Mesa asked, "Does it look good?" Prince Chambord said: "Of course it looks good. In Tibetan culture, as long as it is related to the sixth Dalai Lama Tsangyang Gyatso, it is both good-looking and good-sounding. Tsangyang Gyatso is not only good at singing love songs, but also an expert in Vajra dance. , proficient in various steps and dances of "Yi Leng Vajra", "Three Leng Vajra", "Five Leng Vajra". Dance to spread the Dharma, instructed the 20th Fatai of Kumbum Monastery to build the Shenwu Academy and Tiaoshenyuan, and presented many civil and military Dharma masks, dance clothes, and ritual tools. Now Kumbum Monastery has male and female warrior dances, There are 360 ​​kinds of dances such as male and female wrath dance, peace dance, teaching inner dance, secret mantra dance, single-minded dance, many of which originated from Cangyang Gyatso's original creation, and several dances have backgrounds The music is the tune of Tsangyang Gyatso's love song, which is very precious." Mesa was puzzled: "Why do lamas dance?" "In order to eliminate the evil views from the mind and the external world and the bad practices of Tantric Buddhism, and to dispel the heretics and demons that endanger the holy religion, dance is used to interpret the firm, bright, sharp and empty Vajra body. It can be said that Tibetan Buddhism Buddhist dance is a model of the religiousization of entertainment and the religiousization of art." "And the Tsangyang Gyatso you keep talking about is probably also a model." "Yes, entertainment, art, religion, love, life, belief, no one understands their inner connection better than Tsangyang Gyatso. There is actually no difference between them, at least in Tsangyang Gyatso's view." Prince Chambord suddenly shut up, and pulled Mesa to squat in the darkest corner.Two lamas passed by not far away, talking, their voices were not loud, but they were exceptionally clear. "This Dr. Jiayang shouted 'catch the thief' to warn the thief. Who doesn't know it. He caught a thief, but it turned out that he was also here to guard against the thief." "Come all the way to our Kumbum Monastery to guard against thieves, what kind of thieves?" "Didn't the great monk already say that those who come to Kumbum Monastery to inquire about the 'Seven Tara's Gate' are thieves and should be strictly guarded against? The whole of Buddhism is on guard." "Then what about the thief guard you caught?" "Let it go, Dr. Jiayang doesn't want to let it go, the monk said that the people in the 'Invisible Man Blood Curse Palace' can't be offended, let him go wherever he wants." Prince Chambord watched the two lamas disappear, recalling their words, as if he saw the skeleton killer approaching with a knife.Standing up suddenly, he regained his composure and said, "There are many smart people in the world. The good people are smart, and the bad people are also smart. I'm afraid I won't be able to escape the danger. Which do you think is scarier, expecting danger or facing danger?" Mesa said, "Don't ask me, ask your Tsangyang Gyatso." Prince Chambord said: "For Tsangyang Gyatso, as long as he has a singing voice, he can sing love songs. As long as he has love songs, there is nothing to be afraid of." "You can sing too." "You begged me not to sing any more, you said you were sad." "Yes, you shouldn't make me feel bad, but you have to make your opponent feel bad." Prince Chambord dragged Mesa and walked forward. They stepped up the steps, walked past the third Dalai Lama Sonam Gyatso's stupa hall and the big mani wheel pavilion, turned right to the entrance of the Manjusri Bodhisattva hall, and walked through the corridor.The famous nine Buddhist halls and ten eight-sided red pillars pass by, and the statue of Manjusri Bodhisattva, which contains Tsongkhapa's self-portrait and relic bone, looks at them calmly through the board wall.Manjusri Bodhisattva represents great wisdom and courage, and is also the chief god of culture, art, and ingenuity.Lamas establish sects and debates, and literati help the world and manage the country. If you don't worship Manjusri, you will accomplish nothing.Prince Chambord worshiped while walking, bumping his forehead against the walls and red pillars from time to time, and chanted "Namo Manjushri Bodhisattva" repeatedly. "Namo" is Sanskrit, pronounced "Namo", which means to take refuge and prostrate.He knew that in the nine Buddhist halls there were Avalokitesvara, Mahasthamaprapta, a thousand small bronze statues of Sakyamuni, Lion Roaring Buddha, Vajra Venerable Victory Mother, White Umbrella Buddha Mother, Wonderful Sound Goddess, Two Saints and Six Adornments, and the Buddhist monks. Tsongkhapa, known as the "Three Masters and Disciples", and his disciples Jia Caojie and Ke Zhujie, the third and fourth Dalai Lamas, etc., all the Buddha's names and titles are "Namo". "Nan Wu"'s prayer seemed to come true immediately. He and Mei Sa walked along the nine Buddhist halls, passed the small gate in the northeast corner, and came to Maitreya Temple. The Maitreya Temple is next to the Dajinwa Temple, and the lama who guards the temple patrolling around the temple has just walked past.Prince Chambord and Mesa flashed out of their sight, circled an S between the colonnades, circled another S, and disappeared under the famous linden trees in front of the back wall of the Great Sutra Hall.This is a bodhi tree that grows from the ground of the Dajinwa Temple. In this luxuriant season, it faces the "Vatican Teaching and Dharma Building" inscribed by Emperor Qianlong above the main entrance of the Dajinwa Temple, covering a large area of ​​darkness. hiding place.There was a porch under the plaque, and a row of black shadows rose and fell one after another in front of the porch, scaring Prince Chambord and Mesa to turn around and run, then stopped suddenly and took a closer look, only to find that they were believers who kowtowed all night. Prince Chambord looked left and right, grabbed Mesa's hand, rushed over, and squeezed into the middle of the believers.They got down on the ground, became black shadows, and began to kowtow their long heads while reciting the six-character mantra.While kowtowing, Prince Chambord observed the Dajinwa Temple, and saw that there were no people inside, only layers of embroidered banners and strips of khata, which were as colorful as flowers under the light of butter lamps; Diffuse, the thick base is magnificent.But he didn't see the existence of the Holy Gate, and he couldn't imagine that there were a collection of 100,000 leaves and 100,000 lions roaring Buddha statues in the tower. The bare-armed Living Buddha walked past behind them with a few temple guardian lamas holding Zen sticks. Kowtow, kowtow.Prince Chambord meditated on the "Guidelines for Prophecy": "Within the holy gate, the trace of Wanma, Yizhuo Ramji." I don't know how many times I kowtowed, and I don't know that the bare-armed Living Buddha led the lama who protected the temple from him and Mei. How many times did Sa pass behind her.When the last long head rang, surprise and joy appeared on his upturned face: it was dawn, and the morning light streamed obliquely from behind, and on the heavy and majestic base of the Bodhi Great Silver Pagoda, suddenly appeared A narrow gate half a person's height was opened.He thought he was dazzled, rubbed, blinked, looked again, and looked again, the narrow door of the black hole became clearer and clearer, so clear that he could see what was inside, it was a white hand bent towards He seduced, no, it was a lama, waving at him. holy door?Finally, the photo came. The holy gate with 100,000 leaves and 100,000 lion roaring Buddha statues, leading to the "Seven Tara Gate" and the holy gate leaving traces of Wanma Living Buddha, has been opened, and it seems to be about to close. He said, "Mesa, Mesa, look." Mesa saw it.The two climbed over the high threshold of the Dajinwa Temple, and rushed towards the Holy Gate one after the other.