Chapter 80 Section 5

As soon as he entered the main hall of the Jokhang Temple, Prince Chambord became very respectful.He stood on the stone mirror reflecting the butter lamp at the entrance of the main hall, looked at the Sakyamuni Hall not far away, put his palms together, and silently recited "Om Mani Padme Hum", feeling much more at ease, and said in his heart There are many Buddhas who bless me, so what am I afraid of? Mesa looked down and said nervously, "Why are there demon mirrors all over the floor?" Prince Chambord said: "The main hall of the Jokhang Temple has a history of more than 1,400 years. It is the monastery that receives the most worship in Tibet, and it is also the monastery that has suffered the most. The two incidents of banning Buddha during the Tubo period first targeted the Jokhang Temple. Once, Minister Ma Shang turned the Jokhang Temple into a slaughterhouse, sharpening his knives; once, Zan Prandama turned the Jokhang Temple into a place for burning scriptures and pitting Buddhas, and his axes flew around. The earliest Jokhang Temple The batch of paving stones have been honed into mirrors, which are more shiny than silver mirrors, bronze mirrors, and iron mirrors. If they are said to be demon mirrors, they are worthy of the name. Whoever is a sinner or has a ghost in his heart will not dare to be in the mirror. If you take a photo in front of it, you will be a bone spirit and a black water monster. Look at you, what do you look like? You look like a beautiful woman, which shows that you are a good person."

Having said that, Mesa seems to be much more relaxed. They leaned on each other and moved forward cautiously. They saw Guru Rinpoche standing on the left side. His huge body bowed slightly, and he shone the light and shadow of the butter lamp on his face with his arms, looking at him with kindness. them. Prince Chambord said: "Guru Rinpoche is the patriarch of Tibetan secrets. His almond eyes contain the code to deter the Three Realms. He holds a Vajra in his right hand, a vase of nectar in his left hand, a three-pronged heavenly staff under his arm, and a Vajra lotus hat on his head. All These are all languages ​​dedicated to secret disciples. The language is tender and full of meaning, so that those senior secret disciples who can understand it will be emotionally moved and burst into tears when they see the eyes, gestures and outfits." He blinked When I squint my eyes, I feel dry inside. I just want to show that I am not born with Tantric roots.I thought again, saying that I am not afraid at all and it is not correct, why did the opportunity to discover the "Seven Tara Gate" fall on me?

They paid homage to Master Padmasambhava, and went to see Maitreya Buddha on the right.Maitreya Buddha has kind eyes and benevolent eyebrows, allowing them to search for a ray of light and comfort in the oppressive main hall of Jokhang Temple very sensitively. Mesa said: "You should bless us, bless us to find the 'Gate of the Seven Tara' smoothly, and walk out of the Jokhang Temple safely." The figures of the two people swayed under the light as dim as a dark night, swaying to and fro in front of the mural on the right side of the passage, and a mysterious gloom immediately attracted them.

Mesa whispered, "Wouldn't it be here, 'Gate of Seven Tara'?" "Unless Tsomanjim walks into the mural." Prince Chambord approached the mural, examined it carefully, and said, "This is the Map of the Jokhang Temple." "It looks old," Mesa said. Prince Chambord said: "It is about the seventh century. The Jokhang Temple has nearly 1,000 meters of historical stories and religious murals, but they cannot be regarded as historical scrolls that accurately reflect the style of life. Works of the type of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" In Tibet, there are very few, and you can hardly evaluate them by the presentation of realistic art such as vivid images, authenticity and credibility. But Tibetan art, including the murals of the Jokhang Temple, has incomparable romance and fantasy, and insurmountable colors and images. All All of his works are fantastic and beautiful, agile and flying, boundless in the limited, solemn in the graceful. Humanity and spirit are naturally integrated, there is no boundary between myth and reality, there is no difference between spirit and art, instant appearance and eternal existence Regardless of each other. Art hangs in the palace, but also in people's hearts, and people's hearts are regardless of class, rich or poor, and knowledge. Appreciation is worship, and utilitarianism is the ultimate, so that art has obtained the most serious and solemn treatment."

Mesa said: "This is the charm of Tibetan art?" Prince Chambord said: "In fact, there are only two words, pious. Life and art, life and art, faith and art are completely integrated and equal. You must be pious if you are alive. Many people come to Tibet to find artistic inspiration, what color? Ah, lines, layout, imagination, surrealism, primitivism, harmony between man and nature, I have learned a lot, but I have not learned piety. Liking, obsession, piety, these are three levels of attitudes, The result is very different. Devout people can use their souls to embrace the soul of art. Tibetan art is embraced by the soul, rather than hand-drawn strokes. Entering into art, entering the realm of forgetting both things and me, often There is a stroke of genius. Art is not created by man, it is the expression of God to the world, and your hand is just one of God’s hands.”

Mesa said: "Like us, embrace the 'Seven Tara Gate' with our soul, or the 'Seven Tara Gate' embrace us with its soul." The creaking of an old door interrupted their conversation.Following the prestige, a black figure suddenly disappeared.Prince Chambord was stunned, thinking that maybe death would happen before dawn when the Chinese-faced lama pasted the red diamond on the pillar, so he couldn't help becoming nervous again, and whispered: "Let's hurry up, the sooner the better. " Mesa looked around and said, "Yeah, this place is too scary, even if you don't get killed by the poisonous poison weapon, you will be scared to death."

They tremblingly walked towards the Sakyamuni Hall in the middle. Prince Chambord said: "The Shakyamuni Hall is called 'Juewokang' in Tibetan, and the Buddha statue inside is also called 'Juewokang'." As soon as he entered the door, Mesa was immediately surprised: "Such a tall twelve-year-old life-like figure, can't it?" Prince Chambord said: "The Buddha is a giant. He was already very tall when he was a prince at the age of twelve, so he is much stronger than the twelve-year-old statue of ordinary people." The Buddha statue wears the highest Buddha crown symbolizing the five wise Tathagatas. The five-color Hada is hung on the top of the crown, and the colorful gemstones are embedded in the crown tassel. Gold and various jewels are decorated with various auspicious patterns to form a brilliant outer cover. Mesa is dizzy to see : "Too luxurious."

Prince Chambord said: "Don't be dumb." Mesa said, "What for?" "You saw the Buddha 2,500 years ago, and you still didn't kowtow." Mesa quickly knelt down.Prince Chambord also knelt down, stroking the ground, and couldn't help saying: "Every slate here is imprinted with the essence of history, every flash is the highest expression of human spirit, and every sound is a chord of sounds of nature." I knocked my head loudly, and when I got up, there was a gust of wind, and a burst of vajra bells came. Behind the twelve-year-old full-length statue offered by the Lord is another statue of Buddha, surrounded by the twelve disciples of Sakyamuni.Both of them bowed, and then cast their eyes on the altar.On the altar is a series of long lamps on tall feet inlaid with red and green gemstones.

Prince Shampoo said: "This is the most famous butter lamp in Tibet. It is all made of pure gold, and it is all donated. The one in the middle is donated by the 10th Panchen Lama. It has his signature and prayer on it: 'World Peace , All things Anshun'. Although the Jokhang Temple does not belong to any sect, it is the common belief of all sects in Tibet, but after the rise of the Gelug Sect, the Jokhang Temple has basically become an important place for the Gelug Sect. Wood praying for Dafa, sometimes the ordination ceremony of the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama, and the "drawing lots from the golden urn" ceremony in the living Buddha reincarnation system are also held at the place where we are standing. The one I saw with my own eyes was the tenth world determined in 1995. The ceremony of drawing lots from the golden urn of the reincarnated soul boy Erdeni Choji Jeb of Panchen Lama Erdeni Choji Gyaltsen."

Mesa pointed to a vase inlaid with gold leaf in the center of the golden lamp and said, "Is this the one, the golden vase of the golden vase?" Prince Chambord took a look, took out a roll of white paper that blocked the mouth of the bottle, and put it back: "It's definitely not. The gold bottle that draws lots is called the Golden Bemba Bottle. Like this one, stuffed with paper to keep dust from falling in." Mesa glanced at the roll of white paper that was stuffed back into the vase by Prince Chambord, and wondered why such a high-end vase was stuffed with white paper?It would be nice to cover it with a piece of warp silk.He looked at the colorful and exquisite gold ornaments and silver sculptures around the Buddhist hall and said, "It's too quiet. Why isn't there a lama on duty at night in such an important place?"

Prince Chambord said: "No, it's because you can't see them. They are hidden in all the blind spots." Mesa said: "I think so too. We didn't come here to worship and visit. We came to find the information left by Tsomanjim, Tsangyang Gyatso's lover. The place where she and Tsangyang Gyatso hid should be left behind. Where the information even directly reveals the 'Gate of the Seven Tara', the Jokhang Temple will not let our every move go." Prince Chambord said: "But there is none here. I have already felt it. Tsangyang Gyatso is a tantric master who practices the Supreme Vajra Dafa, but here there is no deity he has to face, there is no Majestic King Kong, Shengle King Kong , Kalachakra, Gujarat Vajra, and Joyful Vajra. There is not even one of the five Vajra Dafa. It is impossible for him to stay here with Tsomanjim who is the mother of the Buddha. Because he left the dominance of the scene by the Angry King Kong and the control of the visualization , it is impossible to enter the practice process of "Happiness and Empty Dual Luck" and achieve the goal of "controlling desires with desire". Do you know what is "Happy and Empty Dual Luck"? It is to obtain real happiness and enter the illusory world. In the state of no desire, there is desire without desire, there is sexual pleasure without sex, that is the happiness that comes from sensuality and surpasses sensuality, it is the joy of Dharma, it is the joy of emptiness, and it is the wonderful fruit of practice.” Mesa nodded: "Practicing esoteric dharma is the prerequisite for terma. If you don't see the deity of esoteric dharma, it must be a place where terma cannot be hidden, even though it is the supreme holy place." The two dragged each other and walked out of the Sakyamuni Hall carefully. The skeleton killer came to the platform on the second floor of the Jokhang Temple, like a ghost hidden in the dark, floating towards the stairs leading to the first floor.He squatted at the corner of the stairs, listening to the movement below. He heard the buzzing and slightly echoing voices, and heard the strange footsteps of chachacha. He hurried back to the second floor and walked to the northeast along the closed hall. corner stairs.From here, he stepped onto the third floor of the main hall of the Jokhang Temple, stayed for a while, and then came to the lion gate leading to the golden roof on the fourth floor.He tiptoed across the threshold, looked back, and thought that if this man and woman all came up, I would be hard to deal with.He touched the open door of the Lion's Gate and a locked chain lock wrapped around it, bent down to look at the keyhole, and stretched out his hand to the "Pick Everything" hanging on his waist. A few minutes later he unlocked the chain lock and locked the Lions Gate.The Lion Gate is very high, and the top of the gate is open to the air.He believes that Prince Chambord, who will never give up on the golden summit, can only turn it over by himself. The skeleton killer stood on top of the golden dome, touched his bald head, took off the black cape that covered his face, looked up at the sky, took a long breath, and said with a sneer, "I'm here, I'm here." At this moment, his chest trembled. He took out his mobile phone and saw that it was the caller of the master of black squares, and put it on his ear respectfully. The master of the black square said gloomyly: "You have probably reached the Golden Summit. The Golden Summit is your last chance. Don't forget your oath." The skeleton killer immediately said, "Either Prince Chambord dies, or I die." The master of black squares said: "The situation now is that you are getting closer and closer to death as a skeleton killer, while Prince Chambord is getting farther and farther away from death." The skeleton killer said: "No, I will not let go of the last chance." Then, he showed his skull knife and stabbed a mouse crawling out of the flue like lightning.The mouse died instantly. The master of the black square said: "I believe in the solidity of family inheritance, and in your devotion to the consummation of practice. Please remember that your destiny is to 'return after death'." The wait was long, and the long time was just spent thinking about it. The skeleton killer called Gesang Deji again.This time, he didn't stay silent like before.As soon as he dialed, he began to sing in a low voice, from beginning to end, word for word: Beneath a pair of bright eyes, Tears are like spring rain, My friend, if you have a conscience, Come back and look at me. It's a pity that I only know this song, and it's so short, like air-dried meat, a lot has become a little bit, but the taste is mellow and strong after a long time.He took a breath and did it again, over and over, until she hung up. But before hanging up, he heard a sob. She cried, and he sang her crying, using Tsangyang Gyatso's love song.There was a surge of enthusiasm in his heart: love songs that are more expensive than gold, is it really like what Prince Chambord said, as long as you can sing, there is no woman you can't hold back?