Chapter 78 Section 3

In the Sutra Debate courtyard inside the gate of the Jokhang Temple, the lama with a Chinese character face took out two stickers, one red and one green, from the sleeve of the cassock, and led them to two swarthy plaques with traces of sheep totems on the left and right. in front of the old pillars. Facing them, he stood still and said, "Now let's start asking questions. The first question is, who built the Jokhang Temple?" Prince Chambord was afraid that he might make a mistake, so he grabbed Mesa and said, "Both of us can answer." Lama Guozilian said, "Of course, she is your Dharma partner."

Mesa raised her eyebrows, as if to say: "Dharma couple?"you appointed? Prince Chambord said: "First, Princess Wencheng, the concubine of the Tang Dynasty, proposed to the king of Tibet to build a temple on Wotang Lake, the heart of the Rakshasa girl under the sea, to bless the safety of Tibet. There is no place to place the eight-year-old Sakyamuni statue. With the consent of the Tibetan king, the concubine personally supervised the filling of the lake to build the temple, but the place was full of sand and water, the foundation was not stable, and the walls were not strong. Concubine Ni turned to Concubine Tang for help. Concubine Tang did some on-the-spot surveys and determined the plan of dredging sand and filling mud. Wotang Lake is a barrier lake left over from the dry swamp. Springs and river water are poured in, and once the sand is dug, the water flows away. Then the sand pit is filled with clay carried from a distance as a foundation, and then stone and clay are used to build walls. Carrying away sand and carrying earth and rocks is one There were not enough slaves for such a heavy labor, so the concubine Tang asked people to borrow groups of goats from the mountain gods as means of transportation. As a result, the efficiency was greatly increased. In just twelve months, a temple with eight halls was erected. The earliest name of the Jokhang Temple was 'Ja Satrilang Zulakang', which means 'a hall of gods built with sheep's back soil'. Later, when the Mongols came to Tibet, they renamed it 'Jokhang', and Jokhang is the great temple."

Lama Guozilian said: "You still haven't explained who built the Jokhang Temple. Is it Princess Wencheng or Princess Chizun? Is it Songtsen Gampo, king of Tibet, or a goat sent by the mountain god? You can't say that everyone worked together, because Qiuji Master Sangpo's request is that you must deduce who contributed the most to the construction of the Jokhang Temple more than 1,300 years ago." Prince Chambord said coquettishly: "It starts from the Ramoche Temple. Princess Wencheng married Tubo, and the most important dowry was a 12-year-old statue of Sakyamuni. When I arrived in Lhasa, the Buddhist chariot that had been walking all the way suddenly collapsed. It got into the mud and sand, and it couldn’t be lifted out. The princess said, let’s put it in this place. Anyway, there is no temple for Buddha in Tibet. So four pillars were erected around the Buddha statue, and white brocade was hung on it. Tents were used to make offerings for them. Later, Jiada Remuqie Lakang was built in this place, which was the later Ramoche Temple. Now that the 12-year-old Sakyamuni statue brought by Princess Wencheng has been placed , the eight-year-old statue of Sakyamuni brought by Princess Nibharachizun was indisputably placed in 'Ja Satrilang Zulakang', which was later the Jokhang Temple. The Jokhang Temple was used as a dowry for the princess The Jokhang Temple was built by the eight-year-old Sakyamuni. The owner of the dowry, Princess Chizun of Nibhara, should naturally be the builder of the Jokhang Temple. The important thing is that whether Princess Wencheng's 'Jadare Muqielakang' or Chizun Princess Zun's 'Jasatryang Zulakang' was built at that time without distinction of size or importance. Hundreds of years later, through successive expansions in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, the 'Jasatryang Zulakang' of Princess Zun 'The scale is getting bigger and bigger, and this is the difference between 'Dazhao' and 'Xiaozhao', that is, the big temple and the small temple."

The lama with a square face shook his head again and again: "We are very dissatisfied with your answer." He turned around and pasted a red diamond sticker on the old pillar on the right, and said, "The satisfactory answer should be that the goat built the Jokhang Temple, because the goat built the Jokhang Temple. It is the son of the mountain god. The goat also originated the name 'Lhasa', which is the second question I want to ask: people say 'there was Jokhang Temple first, and then there was Lhasa City', right?" Mesa hurriedly said: "Yes, that's right, are you satisfied?"

Prince Chambord said categorically: "No, there should be Potala first, and then Lhasa. The reason why Songtsan Gampo moved his capital from the Yalong River Valley in the south of the mountain to Womatang was firstly the Red Mountain Potala that attracted him. Before the construction of the Jokhang Temple, there was already a cave palace 'Qujiezhupu' on the Potala Red Mountain, where Zanpu, his wife and concubines lived. It is the closest to the sky, dangerous and safe. As for 'Lhasa' The name, it means 'heaven and earth' or 'divine land', not the evolution of 'jasa' which is 'goat carrying soil'."

The lama with a square face nodded, and pasted a green diamond card on the old pillar on the left: "We are very satisfied with this answer. The third question: You said that the Jokhang Temple was built to house the eight-year-old statue of Sakyamuni , then why is the 12-year-old statue of Sakyamuni the main offering in the Jokhang Temple?" Mesa said, "Let's change it." Prince Chambord said: "Yes, it was changed. The name of the thirty-sixth generation Zanpu of Tubo was Chide Zuzan. He and the queen gave birth to a son. He was smart and handsome. The son was going to get married when he grew up. The ministers thought that it would be a good match to follow the example of the former king Songtsan Gampo to marry a princess of the Tang Dynasty, so they sent a marriage envoy to Chang'an. The Tang emperor readily agreed that Princess Jincheng would go all the way to Tibet to get married. Unexpectedly, misfortune had already happened. Jiangchi Lawen, the son of the god, fell off his horse and died a month before Princess Jincheng arrived. It is customary to marry the old Zanpu Chide Zuzan. So Princess Jincheng became the concubine of Chide Zuzan. After the grand wedding, the first thing she did was to pay homage to the twelve-year-old Sakyamuni brought by Princess Wencheng. The statue is equal to the body, but the Buddha statue is no longer in the Ramoche Temple. It turns out that the thirteen-year-old Mangsong Mangtsan, the grandson of Songtsen Gampo, came to the throne. It is said that the Tang Dynasty wanted to send troops to Tibet to take away the 12-year-old Sakyamuni. They moved the Buddha statue out of the Ramoche Temple and hid it in the South Gate of Mingjian in the Jokhang Temple. They built walls to block the door and painted fairies of Miaoyin to cover it up. It lasted for 60 years. Princess Jincheng was very moved and urged her husband Chi Dezu Zan immediately invited the 12-year-old statue of Sakyamuni to the main hall of the Jokhang Temple to make offerings, and the eight-year-old statue of Shakyamuni that was originally here was invited to Ramoche Temple to make offerings."

The lama with a square face shook his head and said: "We are not satisfied with this answer. The satisfactory answer should be that both Princess Wencheng and Princess Chizun have hidden their wishes in Princess Jincheng, and Princess Jincheng is just the executor of wishes. She is the Dharma Protector In one night, he changed the positions of more than a dozen Buddha statues that could not be moved by people, so that they were in order. I mean the order of age, eight years old is the youngest, it should be in Ramoche Temple, twelve years old The age is old, so it should be in the Jokhang Temple.” He said, and pasted a sticker of the Red King Kong on the old pillar on the right, and said, “Now is the fourth question: Our Buddhists came to Lhasa from all directions. , the primary purpose is to worship the 12-year-old statue of Sakyamuni?"

"Of course, it is the pride of Tibet," Mesa said. Prince Chambord said: "Sakyamuni believed that my appearance is not appearance, and all appearances of people and sentient beings are not appearances. Why? If you leave all appearances, you are a Buddha. He also said that I had no appearance in those days: There is no appearance of sentient beings, and there is no appearance of sentient beings. That Sakyamuni did not exist at all, and he never taught a law. Dharma body, sambhogakaya, and incarnation body are all empty, let alone sculptured idols. Therefore, he never advocated building temples and statues Before he passed away, all the disciples asked in every possible way before they agreed to make three statues of themselves in the appearance of three different age groups, and personally drew and consecrated the three statues. These are the eight-year-old full-body statue, the twelve-year-old full-body statue, and the sixteen-year-old full-body statue. Among them, the exquisite and beautiful gilt bronze statue of Sakyamuni in the age of the 12-year-old prince is the best. The 16-year-old life-size statue in detention in India has sunk into the Indian Ocean during the religious turmoil. The eight-year-old statue brought along was also damaged during the "Cultural Revolution", and only the twelve-year-old statue was intact. It traveled across the ocean from India to Chang'an, China during the Buddhist eastward migration of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and later accompanied Princess Wencheng on several journeys Wanli, which lasted three years and seven months, arrived in Lhasa, Tubo. As a Buddhist cultural relic, it has reached the peak of preciousness. But what believers worship is not cultural relics, but Buddha. In our consciousness, Buddha statues and Sakyamuni There is no difference in Ni himself. It is in this feeling that there is no difference between people and time and space. Happiness and peace rise from our hearts firmly and gracefully. The 12-year-old statue of Sakyamuni is the holy pole of Tibet. The most important treasure is the sun, because of its existence, all the treasures and sacred objects in Tibet can only be the stars and the moon. But if there is only the sun in the sky without stars and moon, then it is not the Buddha sky. In fact, every star They are all one world. In that world, there is their sun and their holy treasure—the twelve-year-old statue of Sakyamuni.”

The Lama with a Chinese character face said: "You didn't answer our question, but we are still satisfied with your ambiguity. The Buddha holds the 'Middle Way See'." After that, he pasted a green diamond sticker on the old pillar on the left. The high clouds disappeared, the courtyard was darkened, and the vision was blurred by the dark night painted by the gods, but the danger appeared more clearly than the day: on the two old pillars on the left and right, two red sheets appeared. King Kong OEM, two Green King Kong OEM.That is to say, the fifth question - the fifth sticker determines their fate, either they can go unimpeded in the Jokhang Temple and continue to search for the 'Gate of the Seven Tara', or they will be regarded as the enemy of the sect, and they will be treated as the enemy of the curse. During the process, the heart was rotten and the lungs were rotten, bleeding five steps.Prince Chambord and Mesa closed their eyes and prayed, trying their best to calm down in their last confidence as they approached the gate of hell.

The Lama with a square face said: "The fifth question, you heard clearly." He raised his head and looked at the golden butter lamp under the eaves on the east side of the compound.Behind the butter lamp, some lamas wearing ghost masks and shaking spearheads in their hands are flashing back and forth. It seems that the people in the "Hall of Blood Curse of the Invisible Man" are ready, and the action of punishing the religious enemies will begin immediately. The poisonous curse like a scourge is about to be sprayed out.He also said, "This question is very simple. Who erected and carved the stele of the Tang-Tibetan alliance in front of the Jokhang Temple?"

Mesa no longer had confidence in his flattering answer, and pounded Prince Chambord with his fist. Prince Chambord said in a low voice: "This is purely to make things difficult. Who knows who erected it." But he immediately raised his head and said loudly, "My grandfather Tashi erected the Monument of the Tang-Tibetan Alliance. At that time, the two leaders Emperor Muzong of the Tang Dynasty and Tubo Zanpu Chide Zuzan wanted to lift it up, but their strength was insufficient, so they invited my grandfather Tashi, a strong man. My grandfather supported the stone tablet that can only be lifted by a crane with one hand, and gently lifted it. Push it, and then stand it up. One is my father and the other is my elder brother. My father engraved Chinese, and my elder brother engraved Tibetan. When engraving, two people forgot to take the manuscript, so the Chinese and Tibetan characters on the stele The contents of the two texts are actually different. My brother sings Gesar, and the Tibetan engraved by him is more literary than the Chinese engraved by my father. You will know when I recite the beginning of each to you.' Da Tang Wen Wu Emperor Xiaode and the Dafan holy Zanpu, uncle and nephew, discussed the country as one, and formed a covenant of great peace, which will never be replaced. The gods and men have proved their knowledge and praised them from generation to generation.' This is Chinese, it is Strict official document form. But the beginning of the Tibetan is a romantic prose form: "The holy Zanpu Fur told Xi Boye to incarnate in the lower realm, and came to the master's room as the king of Dafan. The land, from the gods, is the master of the people, and the virtues are passed down, and the foundation that will never be uprooted will be built forever, and the love of the nephew will be cherished forever." Back then Songtsan Gampo married Princess Wencheng, the niece of the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, so naturally he should follow Wencheng The princess called the emperor of the Tang Dynasty her uncle, so there is a saying of 'Yongchong's nephew and uncle'." Mesa whispered, "Why are you talking nonsense when your grandfather, your father, and your brother are at stake?" Prince Chambord said: "It's not nonsense, it's legends. Legends and myths are everything in Tibet. I can also tell stories. Believe it or not." The Lama with a Chinese character face held up the sticker of the Red King Kong and the sticker of the Green King Kong. He looked back at the two old pillars on the left and the right with the remnants of the sheep totem, but there was no sticker of any kind.He looked at the lamas behind the butter lamp under the eaves who were about to punish the religious enemies, then turned and left.When I walked to the gate of the main hall of the Jokhang Temple, I suddenly turned around and said loudly: "I am not sure whether Master Chokyi Sangpo is satisfied with your answers, so I can't put the sticker on it. The final result has not yet come out, although the Jokhang The temple is not fortified against you, but before dawn tomorrow morning, once you cannot prove that the Jokhang Temple is the location of the 'Gate of the Seven Tara', and you cannot discover the traces of Tsangyang Gyatso's lover Tsomanjim in front of us, I will paste the red diamond stickers that you are not willing to accept, and the end of the enemies of the Holy Cult will be rotten, heartbroken, liver and stomach will be your no choice. Remember, before dawn tomorrow morning." The lama with a square face disappeared, and in the empty Sutra debate compound, the darkness was like filled with sand, sharpening their senses.Quietly, the mystery is growing, and the terror is increasing.The needle light of the poisonous curse is still flying, becoming more sinister and unpredictable.The sharp sword hanging viciously above his head suddenly changed the time to execute them, and went to the front to wait for them again.Mesa involuntarily grabbed Prince Chambord's sleeve.Prince Chambord looked at the closed door behind him, and looked around in circles, trembling all over. Suddenly, Prince Chambord grabbed Mesa's hand: "What should I do?" "I don't know." Mesa looked back timidly. "Do we still have a way out? Let's go." Prince Chambord took Mesa and walked quickly towards the main entrance of the main hall of the Jokhang Temple where a river of butter lamps passed.