Chapter 95 chapter 2

The figure on the water disappeared, and the skeleton killer left quietly.Shampoo stopped the love song, got up and walked down the lacustrine sediment layer at the eastern foot of Yaowang Mountain, suddenly got down on the ground, and drank water again.He drank up the water in the reservoir, as if that was the case. He was a creation god who drank up the water on the ground, so there was land.He raised his head, looked at the clouds and gasped for breath, then knelt down and listened to a song from the high mountain of Yaowang, which was also a love song of Tsangyang Gyatso: The horse started too early,

The reins are drawn late, lover without fate, It's too early to say something intimate. He thought of Mesa, and remembered that he once sang this love song to Mesa's teacher in the loneliness of driving. Mesa always dismissed him, saying that he didn't understand Tsangyang Gyatso and his love song, and humming a few words would not be enough. sang.If only Mesa learned.If only Mesa could sing like the singer on the hill.If only the singer on top of the hill was Mesa.If only Mesa's singing had been his calling.As soon as he thought of calling, he stood up, looked at the top of the mountain and walked up, and he felt a little strange when he walked: how could he be like this, when he heard someone singing casually, he fantasized that it was Mesa.

No, it's not a fantasy, it's a judgment. The clearer and clearer singing made him conclude that it was Mesa who sang.It turned out that she had learned it, and she learned it by humming a few words after him. Why is Mesa here? Prince Chambord looked back at the reservoir and came to the famous Charaleuve Grottoes. "Mesa, Mesa," he yelled.The singing disappeared, and the silence was the answer. Sure enough, Mesa is on Yaowang Mountain? "Mesa, Mesa," he called again.The singing sounded again, and Mesa was indeed on the mountain. But only the singing was missing, and Mesa was hiding, probably in the grotto.Prince Chambord bypassed a pile of mani stones, turned onto a stone road, walked up with difficulty for a while, then turned around from right to left, shrunk his body, and disappeared into the grotto.The grotto is dim and silent, and a huge square stone pillar stands in the most conspicuous place. The three sides of the stone walls and stone pillars are full of high reliefs of gods and Buddhas. Buddha and all kinds of Bodhisattvas, including the thirty-three generations of Tubo Zanpu Songtsen Gampo and his ministers.Prince Chambord knew that there were sixty-seven of these reliefs, most of which were simple and unsophisticated, with stocky torsos, exaggerated facial features, and fiery eyes, which belonged to the Tubo era.He walked three times in a row along the corridor where he could circumambulate to pray, observing the uneven light and shade bumps up and down, and found that it was impossible for Mesa to be hidden here, so he quickly came out again, bypassed the grotto, and walked to a higher place. place.

The singing is long gone, and there is more silence in higher places.There are sporadic tourists without a guide, looking at and walking indiscriminately.Prince Chambord shouted: "Mesa, Mesa." The wind answered from the sky, blowing "Mesa" away suddenly.He searched everywhere but found nothing, and was about to go back to the side of the reservoir when a rock rolled down and nearly hit him.When I looked up, I was taken aback, and saw a woman's head protruding from a large altar without a Buddha statue on a high cliff, with a straight nose, charming eyes, thick hair, Melancholy look, not Mesa who is she?

The two called each other's name almost at the same time. Prince Chambord asked in surprise, "Why are you here?" Mesa cried and shouted: "Prince Chambord, come and save me." Prince Chambord said, "How did you get up to such a high place?" Mesa said: "I didn't come up, I came from the other side of the mountain." Prince Chambord said: "You can go back the same way." "I can't find my way," Mesa said. She couldn't get down and couldn't go back, so she had to stay in this altar on the cliff?But why did she come here from the other side of the mountain?Why do you want to sing the love song of Tsangyang Gyatso to your heart's content after coming here?Could it be that Mesa had foreseen that they would meet at Yaowang Mountain?Prince Chambord didn't have time to think about it, turned around and walked down the mountain, and said, "Wait, wait, I'll go find the rope."

Prince Chambord drove a Land Rover police car and bought hemp rope from a local product store not far away, which was enough to pull from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain.He carried the hemp rope to the top of the mountain, tied one end to the two Lianli pine trees at the highest point, and then lowered the rope down the cliff until the lower end just reached the foot of the mountain. He hanged from the top of the mountain, intending to go down to the altar by himself, trying to find a way for Mesa to slip to the foot of the mountain along the hemp rope, and then go down by himself.He is a person who grew up climbing on Yala Chambord Mountain. As long as he has a rope, he can go up and down no matter how steep the mountain is.

When the altar arrived, he kicked and pounced, grabbing the alcove wall.At this time, if Mesala gives him a hand, he can enter the altar.But instead of pulling, Mesa gave him a hard push.He said: "What are you doing?" Pushing and jumping again, he grabbed the niche wall again, and said excitedly: "Hurry up, give me a hand." He was grabbed, but it was not Mesa, it was the Chinese character face Lama. Prince Chambord was taken aback and wanted to run away along the rope, but it was too late.The five big and three thick Chinese-faced lamas were as strong as a cow, and he dragged him into the altar with one hand, and he disappeared from the altar with another force.

There is a hole on one side of the altar, and inside the hole is a dark grotto. There is a stone door in the grotto, which probably leads to the other side of the mountain.Through the light of the flashlight, Prince Chambord saw seven or eight lamas mixed in the sculpture art of the grotto, as if they were also carved. Lama Guozilian said: "Master Chokyi Sangpo said long ago that you would throw yourself into the net like a moth, and you sure enough flew here from the sky." Prince Chambord ignored him, seeing that Mesa's eyes were full of tears, he rushed to hug her, and asked distressedly, "Are you all right?"

Mesa wiped her tears with the back of her hand and shook her head. "It's fine, we're together again at last." Prince Chambord hugged her tightly and shouted at the lama with a square face, "What are you going to do?" Lama Guozilian said: "We know that you will go to the Jokhang Temple again. Instead of you going secretly, why don't we invite you to go." Prince Chambord flatly refused: "I won't go." The lama with a square face said, "Then you mean you want to go down the cliff?" He said, beckoning some lamas to come and tear Prince Chambord.

Mesa huddled in Prince Chambord's arms and said: "They will really throw you down, compromise, maybe we still have a chance to continue to open the 'Gate of Seven Tara'." Prince Chambord said: "If you are arrested by them and taken to the Jokhang Temple, you will have no chance." The lama with a square face pulled Mesa out of Prince Chambord's arms and shouted, "Listen to my password, one, two, three..." The lamas carried Prince Chambord and threw it up.Prince Chambord shouted: "Wait a minute." The lama with a square face strode over and hugged him: "You are a man who does not recite crooked sutras, but closes your eyes and walks in the underworld when the lights guide the way. Now you know that we are not trying to scare you, let's just let it go?"

Prince Chambord sat on the ground without saying a word. Lama Guozilian said, "Get up and follow us." Prince Chambord looked up at the canopy-shaped square roof of the grotto, stood up slowly and said, "Mesa, look at the top, is it the shape of seven Tara? I saw it when they threw me up, seven Tara is smiling at me." Mesa looked up, and all the lamas looked up. The shape of the Seven Tara on the square top seemed to be particularly clear when people looked at it, and each of them seemed to be engraved just now, without weathering. There are no damaged details, and each of the simple lines appears powerful and solid.What's more conspicuous is that the seven taras are all dressed in animal skins and fur suits, standing on horseback, with broad noses and big eyes, round faces and square ears, fine braids, and thick collars, typical and vivid images of ancient Tubo noble women. portrait.Legend has it that White Tara once appeared as Princess Chizun of Nepal, the concubine of King Songtsan Gampo of Tibet. She is a representative of ancient Indian beauties; represent.They all have gorgeous and quiet appearances, sentimental and gentle expressions, wisdom and kindness, and images of relief from suffering. They are the gods of kindness, beauty, and luxury that Buddhism dedicates to mankind.But why does the Tara here have no divine grace at all?All of them are real people, with appearance, size, clothing and posture. If it is not for the wish-giving handprints and big chrysanthemums that are Tara's logo, no matter how you look at it, they are your wife or your mother's young lady dressed up to attend the festival celebration. era. Prince Chambord said: "What is the age of this grotto? Why is there no record in it?" No one answered his question, and it seemed that there was no need to answer. He immediately thought of Princess Ruyong of Songtsan Gampo.No, it’s not that I thought of it, but I saw it. He saw the female symbol of the Tubo royal family engraved in the center of the canopy-shaped square top—a female goat. He saw the oldest Tibetan language entrenched in simple lines On the goat, it is clearly the original writing of the word "Ru Yong".Maybe this is the first grotto excavated by Princess Ruyong?Just like the legend, it was blocked by the collapsed mountain, and all the craftsmen and relief statues were blocked inside. Prince Chambord said: "How did you get in? Take me out quickly." Fearing that he would run away, the lama with a square face grabbed his arm tightly.The lamas flashlighted and walked forward along an S-shaped passage.Prince Chambord found that there were some shallow reliefs and murals on both sides of the passage, and concluded from the style that they were also works of Songtsan Gampo's era, and thought that ordinary grottoes have such long passages, only the tomb passages of the royal family can be like this.Concubine Ruyong nominally excavated grottoes, but in fact she built a tomb for herself. She engraved seven Tara in animal skins and clothes, wide noses and big eyes in standing posture on the canopy-shaped square roof of the tomb according to her own image. Like Princess Chizun and Princess Wencheng, become a member of Tara and then reincarnate. Prince Chambord was thinking, and suddenly had an inspiration: Is this the earliest formation of "Seven Tara"?In Tibet, there were only two original Tara—White Tara and Green Tara. Seven, and later, it became the twenty-one mother, and the twenty-one mother turned into countless taras.If it is believed that the Tara seen from the top of the grotto is the earliest "Seven Tara", can the history of the "Gate of Seven Tara" be pushed back to the Songtsan Gampo era? So, what is its relationship with Guru Rinpoche and Tsangyang Gyatso?What is the relationship with the "Seven Tara Gate" he is opening? Prince Chambord knows that in the research and practice of the "Gate of the Seven Tara", there is such a saying: Through the inheritance of the "Gate of the Seven Tara", the Dakini protector has foretold the birth of the first grotto of Princess Ruyong. The location, the reason why the grotto was instantly blocked, the names of all the craftsmen and relief statues blocked inside.Now, he actually found the grotto. The first grotto and the first batch of stone Buddha statues in Tibet, which had disappeared for more than a thousand years, met him unexpectedly.What surprised him was that since these lamas took Mesa into the grotto, it meant that they were familiar with it, but they didn't seem to know where they had arrived. Is it true ignorance, or pretending not to know? They walked for half an hour before they walked out of the passage. The exit was in the cliff stone carving group at the southern end of Yaowang Mountain. Among the 5,000 statues of gods, there was a statue removing obstacles and another statue hiding in the void. There were two exits. One left and one right are hidden behind them.Prince Chambord understood why the advanced detection equipment could not detect the first grotto excavated by Princess Ruyong, because the instrument detected the collapse of the mountain, and there was no trace of the cave's collapse at the exit of the grotto.Standing under the cliff, he looked at the blue, yellow, and white barriers and voids that blocked the exit. He seemed to be vaguely aware of something, but he was pulled away by the Chinese-faced lama. Prince Chambord and Mesa walked down the mountain under the hostage of the lamas.