Chapter 58 Section 5

Prince Chambord and Mesa followed the Lama with glasses to the front of the Tsochin Hall.As if just to show them the way, the Lama with Spectacles disappeared as soon as they stepped onto the stone-paved Tsochen Square. Prince Chambord pointed to the Tsochin Hall facing south and said: "This is the heart of Drepung Monastery." Mesa looked forward and saw that the corners of the stone steps leading to the main hall had been worn away, and many foot sockets were imprinted on them. The blue-gray ancientness showed the passage of time, the sun spread evenly on it, and the uneven mouth without shadows The same silence, the same bright eyes.On the square in front of the stone steps, there are two thick sutra poles on the left and one on the right. Behind the left sutra pole stands a huge firewood pile, and the Lama with glasses disappears behind or inside the firewood pile.

Prince Chambord leaned over to look for it, and found the cassock and close-fitting monk's robe of a lama with spectacles hanging on the woodpile. He wondered in surprise: Did he disappear naked?Looking up at the clouds, it seems that the lama with glasses has ascended to heaven.Taking a second look at the monk's robe, he saw a copper pot with a white right-handed snail painted on it lightly with chalk. He yelled, "Mesa, come and see." Mesa rushed over, and before he had time to look, he grabbed Prince Chambord and ran away.At this moment, the tall firewood pile fell down, and the thick logs and roots fell one after another, burying the place where Prince Chambord had just stood.A few shouts came from the side of the firewood pile, and several young lamas were seen rushing away with glasses lamas wrapped in their arms.

Prince Chambord fled to a place ten meters away, trembling all over, and said: "They have prepared for a long time, and they have evacuated the bottom, otherwise such a big firewood pile cannot be pushed down by several people. What I can't figure out is, since the Lama with Glasses wants to kill me, why do you want to kill me?" To herald to me the existence of the copper kettle?" Mesa asked, "Where's the copper pot?" Prince Chambord said, "It's right under the Dharma Conch in the Tsochen Hall." They walked up the stone steps and came to the bright porch with eight pillars under the curtain of gold and black.The two lamas guarding the door bowed their heads and read the long pages of scriptures in their arms without even looking at them.They quickly crossed the threshold.

Gorgeous decorations flooded in like a wave, the light of butter lamps and the colors of hanging objects, carpets, mats, and offerings piled up intensely. Murals such as pictures, pictures of the formation of the world, and pictures of life and death, the Tsochin Hall has pushed the Buddhist monks' preference for bright sounds and colors to the extreme. "Tsoqin" is the Dafa Hall, which is the largest scripture hall in the entire Tibetan area and certainly the world, and can accommodate 8,000 lamas to recite scriptures at the same time. They walked around the column and walked along the passage on the right, passing the "Longbeng Kang" enshrining the Longbeng Shrine, the third Dalai Lama, the fourth Dalai Lama, and the Tibetan King Trilie Gyatso. Passing by the stalwart Manjusri Bodhisattva and the mother of the Buddha with a white umbrella cover, passing by Miwang Lhakang, who enshrines the gold-plated Jampa Buddha in the middle of the apse, and Duisong Lhakang, the earliest temple of Drepung Monastery.Prince Chambord stopped suddenly, walked into Duisong Lakang, put his palms together, bent down and worshiped the statues of the third Buddha, Vajra Hercules, Matou Mingwang, the third Dalai Lama and his disciples inside.

Prince Chambord pointed to a seat covered with gold forging and said: "This is the place where the third Dalai Lama, Sonam Gyatso, practiced meditation when he was the Tripa of Drepung Monastery. If you look carefully, what can you see?" Sa shook his head and said, "Can't you see that it is in the shape of a copper pot?" Mesa said, "Ah, sort of like, how do you know that?" Prince Chambord said: "I have been to Drepung Monastery eight times. I used to think that the shape of this seat is very special. Just now I thought it was in the shape of an ancient bronze pot."

Mesa said: "Why does Drepung Monastery have so much fate with copper pots?" Prince Chambord said: "It must be a kind of Dharma inheritance, but now I don't know what kind of Dharma it is, and what is the relationship with the treasure of the 'Gate of the Seven Tara'. I only know that Tsongkhapa lived in Drepung Monastery Jiongma brought a copper pot with him when he was in retreat, and his disciples took out the copper pot once a week, filled it with milk tea and sent it in." The two came to the east of the Tsochen Hall, in front of a small cave that looked like a dry base.

Prince Chambord said: "This is 'Jijiongma', where Master Tsongkhapa left the sacred site of meditation and enlightenment. After he came out from here, he became the 'Second Buddha' in the eyes of Tibetans. It can be said that the copper pot maintained Tsongkhapa’s life and helped him practice the highest realm of secret law. His disciples are grateful to the copper pot, so they worship the copper pot.” The cave is so small that only one person can enter and exit, and the atmosphere inside is oppressive. You can imagine how difficult and firm the practice of the "Second Buddha" was at that time when there were no buildings and the surroundings were desolate.

Mesa wanted to go down to have a look, but just bent down, he heard a lama shout: "No." Prince Chambord said: "There is no need to go, Tsongkhapa's copper pot is no longer here." Mesa asked, "Where?" Prince Chambord said: "This copper pot has appeared in many places, but it must be false. Now we need to consider, what is the relationship between Tsongkhapa's copper pot and the lost copper pot of the seven sisters 'Ajie Ram'?" In the "Prophecy Guide" of "The Gate of Seven Tara", "the faith of ninety-eight copper pots", does this include this copper pot? The seven sisters "Ajie Ram" were killed, killed The inheritance is still there, and they are still repeating the bloody incidents of history, who are they, do you know?"

"'The Temple of the Invisible Man's Blood Curse,'" Mesa said. Prince Chambord said: "It is more likely that it is Lama Ugyen, or they conspired intentionally or unintentionally. I have already met the people in the 'Hall of Blood Curse of the Invisible Man', and now what I want to know most is where is Lama Ugyen?" The two walked to the third floor of the Tsochen Hall and came to the Jampa Thong True Buddha Hall. Prince Chambord said: "Here is the main Buddha of Drepung Monastery, the life-size gold-plated bronze statue of Jampa Buddha when he was eight years old. It was consecrated by Tsongkhapa himself. Among all the Jamba Buddhas in Tibet, it has the most spiritual light. , the one with the most supernatural power.” He brought Mesa to Jamba Buddha, and said, “Jamba Buddha is Maitreya Buddha, the future Buddha predicted by Sakyamuni, after Sakyamuni passed away, After another 4,000 years in the sky, that is, 5.67 billion years in the human world, he came to Hualin Garden in Jitou City, became a Buddha under the Longhua tree, turned the wheel of Dharma, and spread the Dharma. Because he is still waiting in the Tushita Heavenly Palace. In the next life, he has not yet become a Buddha. He is a Bodhisattva at the lower level of Buddha, so he is Maitreya Bodhisattva dressed up as a Bodhisattva. In Chinese Buddhism, Maitreya Buddha with a big belly who always smiles is the reincarnation of Maitreya Buddha in the future. Tibetan Buddhism Here, the treatment of Maitreya Buddha is particularly respected, because the Maitreya world in the future is extremely beautiful, and people hope that Maitreya will come to the world as soon as possible and end this long and suffering reality as soon as possible. In the temple, Maitreya standing and sitting on a chair shows that Maitreya's current status as a Bodhisattva; among the Buddhas of the past, present, and future, Maitreya, who sits cross-legged and has hair in a bun, represents Maitreya's future status as a Buddha."

Prince Chambord and Mesa knelt down together, worshiped reverently, then left the Jampa Tongzhen Buddha Hall, and walked quickly to the Buddhist hall where the right-handed conch was enshrined. Prince Chambord said: "The right-handed conch is the highest belief object of Drepung Temple. It is taller than any Buddha statue. It is called the 'treasure of the temple'. Sakyamuni gave this conch conch to his disciple Mu. Qianlian, Mujianlian hid it in the Dharma Library of Wangboer Mountain where the Heitou Tibetans gathered. It was predicted that a sage would build a temple here to promote the Dharma, and he would dig a conch to benefit all living beings. In 1409 AD, Tibetan Buddhism Ge Tsongkhapa, the master of the Lu sect, advocated the construction of the first Gelug sect monastery, the Ganden Monastery, on the Wangbul Mountain in the Dazi area of ​​Tibet, marking the official birth of the Gelug sect. Tsongkhapa treasured his love and worshiped every day. When the time of karma came, he gave it to his disciple Jiangyang Qujie Tashibandan, hoping that he would build a Gelug sect. The temple was used as an offering. So the Drepung Monastery broke ground, and the magical right-handed conch became the top treasure in the eyes of monks and laymen." Prince Chambord said, pinching Mesa's shoulder, "Look, the conch. "

The aged snail is shining with old and blunt light, just like the appearance of the ancient Himalayan seabed, the whiteness is hidden, and light purple is emerging, and the years and holiness can be seen.But they are not here to worship the conch, they want to know what is under the right-handed conch?The lama with glasses lightly drew a copper pot with chalk on the monk's robe, and the lid of the pot is a white right-handed snail. Doesn't this mean that there is a copper pot under the snail?But no, there is no copper pot, only a line of red copper characters flashing under the snail: Nengren. Mesa asked, "What is capable benevolence?" Prince Chambord said: "Go." He took her to Jue Lakang on the fourth floor of the Tsochin Hall, and then told her: "Nengren is Sakyamuni Nengren is Sakyamuni, and Jue Lakang is the Hall of Shakya Buddha, also known as Nengren Hall." Nengren Hall enshrines the image of Sakyamuni preaching, and there are thirteen silver pagodas on both sides.Prince Chambord and Mesa first stared at the statue of Sakyamuni for a long time, and then observed each exquisite silver pagoda one by one, but did not capture any information about the copper pot.I was looking around, wondering if I should go to the Arhat Hall next door to see the statue of the Arhat and the main living Buddha of Drepung Monastery, when a group of tourists came in, and the hall suddenly became noisy. Mesa frowned and said, "Hateful." Prince Chambord said: "The Buddha said, 'Purify your mind, that's all Buddhism'. It's not that people are arguing, it's that your heart is not quiet." Then he raised his index finger, "Hush—listen, what sound did you hear?" Mesa listened and said, "It seems to be... a law name." "Behind the dharma name, Hongyin can't hide it..." "God dance?" "It's not a divine dance, it's a song and dance." At this time, I heard a tourist say: "Listen, the lamas are singing hymns in chorus. Why is it the same as Christianity?" Prince Chambord's heartbeat: Tsangyang Gyatso's love song?Pull Mesa to the window of Nengren Hall.The wind was blowing, the singing came in waves, then went away, and disappeared all of a sudden.Listen again, there is nothing but the dharma name and Feng Xiao.But there was indeed singing just now, it was the love song of Tsangyang Gyatso sung by all voices. Mesa stuck her head out of the window and listened attentively: "Why is it so mysterious? It's like a ghost, it seems to come, but it doesn't seem to come. Maybe this is the footsteps of termas." Prince Chambord said: "That's right, it's terma's footsteps, so soft and long, like a lover's eyes, bright and beautiful in the colorless. Listen, listen, do you hear it?" Accompanied by the singing of lamas, he sang in a low voice. stand up: Girl, you open your mouth and smile, hook my soul away, Can you really love each other, Please make an oath. Mesa closed her eyes, listened hard, and shook her head: "No, only your voice." Prince Chambord said intoxicated: "I feel that the sound seems to seep from the stone wall, an ancient sadness, ding ding dong dong in sadness. The chorus is over, and now it is a solo, and I'm sure it's the warehouse. Yang Gyatso's original song. Listen, listen with your heart. Ah, I see, you don't have a heart, I mean you don't have a heart for Tsangyang Gyatso." "As a woman, I should have no heart for Tsangyang Gyatso." "Then you should have the heart of a lover, the heart of Maggie Ami." "But what does it have to do with the 'Gate of Seven Tara'?" "Tsangyang Gyatso guided us to open the 'Seven Tara Gates' one by one. Now we need to figure out why he guided us here?" "Yeah, why?" "I will tell you, no, Tsangyang Gyatso will tell you." Prince Chambord leaned on the window sill and listened, "Listen, it's still a solo." He sang softly: Although there were several parties, But don't touch the depth of the girl, Why not draw circles on the ground, The energy reaches as far as the stars. Seeing Mesa's anxious look, he said, "Of course you can't tell the story behind the love song, let me tell you directly why Tsangyang Gyatso led us here."