Snow-covered trip to the Holy City of Lhasa in the eyes of many people, the world's most mysterious places in Tibet may be.
Countless people have to go to Tibet as the greatest hope in this life, but delays in planning their trip, worried about altitude sickness is a cause unbearable, but the subconscious is the awe of this magical snowy.
In my character, the more dangerous place, the stronger the attraction to me, when Xiao-qing proposed Chunhua in full bloom in May trip to Tibet, have no hesitation agreed.
The huge Airbus A340 aircraft, on the east overlooking the western Sichuan and the Tibetan snow-capped peaks and luxuriant glacier, I found exceptionally pure highland air-Chol, the sky in particular blue, line of sight extended to the infinite distance, mood across the mountains, flying freely Qing Wu.
When we taken the aircraft cabin, and set foot on the land Gonggar Airport in Lhasa, is already the afternoon. Sun disappeared, and yellow sand tucked in close to the wind whistling, wearing a summer of us could not help but shiver up, hurry to find winter clothes to wear. Romantic mood has long been dispersed in Tibet in their own way to tell us that there is not a sentimental land.
Gonggar airport is very far away from the urban area of Lhasa, the mountains and along the way is clear Xiong Jun Qi in the Brahmaputra and the Lhasa River. China and Pakistan to carry us to the airport, downtown Lhasa. Lhasa is not, we are carrying heavy luggage, and all the way inquiries on their own to find a cheap and affordable hotel stay there. We considered backpacker, not to participate in travel teams.
Lying on the hotel bed and, after anti-Toru, drowsiness, but he is not come, I know that bad, insomnia is a precursor to altitude sickness, information that, at the plateau to sleep more important than the meal. I have prepared in advance of the sleeping pills, washed down by water quickly find out, but the effect of hypnosis is not very well.
After dawn, we are serious headache, nausea, endless, could not eat anything. Fortunately, there are many small clinics in Lhasa, and we rush to rent an oxygen bag, an oxygen motionless in bed.
The afternoon, I feel like this is not the answer, get a little movement to adapt to the highland environment. Lhasa is the planet closest to the sun city, the sun is almost without any air filtration, authentic way shining earth. The air very dry, a little gust of wind, then dust. Most people from outside of the visor wearing JANSEN, Lhasa have become accustomed to this stiff glaring sun, skin are dark tan color.
Around the Jokhang Temple, the street is a popular tourist souvenir market around the sun was shining and the waves flow, we are caught in the bustling crowd, dizziness, heavy legs like a filling of cement, take two steps to find a a stool sit in the shade. To see those blue eyes and high noses and foreigner carrying a large bag Jianbu like flying, and my heart really envy.
Struggling in a hotel for two days, suffering altitude sickness finally over. In fact, the altitude sickness in Tibet to the outsiders test can adapt to people who are destined to stay and enjoy the mysterious charm of this piece of snow.
Lhasa ancient times known as logic Suo, meaning "goat land", according to legend Lhasa, was originally a swamp, Princess Wen Cheng built the Jokhang Temple in Tibet when the soil back filled with goat named swamp. In the seventh century Tibetan master Songtsan generation of England a unified force in Tibet, moved the capital from the Yaron logic Suo, Lhasa in Tibet's political and cultural center.
Jokhang Temple in Lhasa as well as Tibet's most important and best preserved of the most brilliant Tibetan Buddhist temple built in the period. Tubo Dynasty founder Songtsan sincere Fengfo, successively married Princess statue in Nepal Chi Princess Wen Cheng of Tang Dynasty, the construction of the Jokhang Temple and Ramoche Temple dedicated to two princess into the Sakyamuni Buddha in Tibet 2. Jokhang Temple dedicated to the Princess of the Buddha statue-chee eight life-sized statues of Princess Wen Cheng Ramoche worship Sakyamuni as the 12-year-old life-sized. Tang Princess Jincheng Tibet, will be welcome into the Jokhang Temple, as Ramoche worship Sakyamuni, from the Jokhang Temple in Tibet's Buddhist center.
The Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism after the rise of the Yellow Sect, the Jokhang Temple to become part of the theocratic government agencies. Now see, the Jokhang Temple building, is basically the Fifth Dalai Lama Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso, after expansion of the pattern and scale. First month in Tibetan calendar every year and in February, with the Dalai Lama personally presided over the mass and the large mass of small Zhao Zhao such a grand law would. Tibetan followers to travel long distances across the country kowtowing to Lhasa, Jokhang Temple and the Temple worship is worship Sakyamuni like.
The afternoon of the third day in Lhasa, we have to recover from altitude sickness the first thing is to visit the Jokhang Temple.
Jokhang Temple to Buddha Buddhist temple as the center, size of the hall, corridors, courtyards, shag, warehouse, combined into a patchwork of square mandala. Chi Princess statue of Sakyamuni brought about the age of eight life-sized, as has been lost in the war, and now the Jokhang Temple is dedicated to Princess Wen Cheng brought into Tibet, the Buddha during his lifetime to shape the world's sole and personally holding off 12 plus -year-old life-sized statues. Buddha Buddha Hall, a platoon leader long before the burning of butter lamps, over many years, accumulated a layer of slippery ground of the butter, the whole temple exudes exotic butter flavor.
Around the Buddhist temple is famous for turning the corridor, "Lang profile," Long profile of the inner circle of fine Nyima turn prayer wheels and lateral walls are terra-murals. The Tibetans have come to worship in groups, hands shaking silver clockwise direction by turning the wheel, and then clockwise around the Long profile to promote change through the barrel, in order to pray for his ideal.
Old Lhasa, is a typical Buddhist city. The whole city with the Jokhang Temple as the center to form a Long profile, profiles, and eight within-Lin Kuo and abroad by turning the three-Lime Road. Well-known, the street was actually an important Buddhist path, one can only walk clockwise direction, knock long head of the Tibetans around the Jokhang Temple kept with the body measuring road, forehead constantly bump the ground, over time, actually knock out the black and a big bag full of calluses.
Tibetan "Lhasa," meaning that the Holy Land, originally refers to the Jokhang Temple.
Since the seventeenth century, the Fifth Dalai Lama Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso Khoshut in Mongolia and the Ministry of Gushi Khan, the support of the military defeat of Tibetan Buddhism, Karma Kagyu faction or white teaching force, becoming the highest Tibetan religious and political power after the leader , Lhasa, Dalai Lama驻锡as a calendar, the important buildings by the Dalai Lama presided over the construction calendar.
"Dalai Lama" is a transliteration of Mongolian and Sanskrit, meaning "moral wisdom, broad and deep as the sea is not satisfied that nothing on top of the division", in Tibetan Buddhism is considered the incarnation of Guanyin Buddha in this world.
The world-famous Potala Palace is the calendar Dalai Lama's Winter Palace, is also a landmark of Tibet in 1994, has been listed by UNESCO as world cultural heritage. Sanskrit, "Abdallah," meaning "Goddess Holy Land."
Potala Palace in Lhasa, on the hill outside the Old City Mabu, originally the seventh century to marry Songtsan built in the Tang Princess Wen Cheng and later destroyed by lightning and war the basic. Starting from the fifth Dalai Lama, the Gelug Sect ancient Buddha are committed to rebuilt the Potala Palace. We now see the scale of the pattern is XIII Lama expanded results.
Potala Palace, the White House and the Red Palace points in two parts. Brush with a white wall in the eastern part of the White House is the Dalai Lama's daily life and major events held in place. Brush outer wall of the Red Palace in red in the west, save the calendar Dalai Lama's eight holy stupa and a large number of Buddhist temple. The construction of a Dalai Lama, the need to spend countless gold, silver and pine Greenstone, amber, pearls, agate and other valuables. Dalai Lama pagoda of the calendar in order to V and XIII of the Dalai Lama pagoda of the size of the most ambitious, the craft of the most beautiful, imposing the most magnificent.
When we have experienced the difficulties and dangers, and finally standing on the Potala Palace high standing in the Golden Red Dust top of the world when, surrounded by cloudless blue sky, white clouds Xu knot, distant peaks silence, wilderness aspect. Overlooking Lhasa, people and cars, such as ants, eagle in the surrounding light-xiang. In such a lofty solemn and cheerful place, people will feel from the bone marrow where the soul was thoroughly baptism, worship the Creator in the Zhizun Zhi Wei before God.
The mid-eighteenth century, Gesang Jia Gyatso Dalai Lama VII, built in the west of Lhasa, Norbu Lingka, meaning "precious garden", as his summer palace. Main Building, including VII, built by Kelsang Gyatso Dalai Lama Gesang Jia quite chapter eight Dalai Lama period of strong debate built by Taiwan and watch Peking Opera Theater, lake palace, the dragon palace, and debates through the room, XIII Lama built during the golden Linca, gold is quite chapters, Gesangdeji Palace and Titan m long Phodrang. Garden and partly a combination of Han Chinese garden art features, unusual flowers planted trees, stocking rare birds and auspicious animal, becoming a rare snow-covered plateau both Tibetan and Chinese national style of landscape architecture.
Since VII Gesang Jia Gyatso Dalai Lama began to live in winter and spring calendar Dalai Lama Potala Palace, the summer and live in Norbulingka become custom.
Norbulingka covers an area of large, in the labyrinth of buildings and walk through the woods for a long time until the sun shiny red La Xia, we have not seen most of all the parts.
In Lhasa, time constraints, the Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism, the three major monasteries in Lhasa that the Ganden, Drepung, Sera we are unable to travel to the ceremony, and perhaps this will be our soon went to the snowy reasons why the holy city of Lhasa .
Ming Chan month in the summer of 2002 Fujiya
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