First time I saw Tar I was very disappointed.
In my imagination, the Tar Monastery is this: it should be located in a small valley in the mountains covered with lush trees, regardless of summer and winter it always get sentimentally attached to the sun, especially in the setting sun shining there should be a dim sense of the next and the sense of mystery; It should also be a bit gentle breeze, when you can hear the streamer gently Piaowu things aside and concentrate when the voice, but also be able to smell the faint aroma of butter; it might be 3322 visitors, but they are only In the quiet visitors, no one will make much noise, tour guides will be as much as possible Yadisangyin for fear disturbed by the quiet.
But the real Tar is so, we must first bypass the rows of stalls selling everything from souvenirs to buy, and also survived a few hawkers selling knives in order to come to Temple and bought tickets, they still get rid of Numerous Chinese and Tibetan guides entanglement of the two communities, in the 2700 meters high where some hard work after this, I have already exhausted. My heart felt a sad, is not a shrine but the "civilized society" to tarnish. However, I am still holding a glimmer of hope, hoping to find a quiet share of the imagination.
Came to Temple and thing you see is "as good as coming eight tower", and now it has become a parking lot next to visitors, tour guides bustling Huoxiang large sets in a hurry. I had thought of another angle to the eight towers to a full-body photo, but then someone I do not know fun to break into my lens, with a sigh, do not shoot worth mentioning. Next to the tour guide tourists in the urging her forward, some with disdain, said: "We first went to visit the Tar, otherwise unable to understand the meaning of the eight towers." Yes, ah, I am confused, perhaps surrounded by a car and visitors The Tathagata eight towers are also confused: "I am living in a Buddhist holy sites are what have become so noisy?"
Tar no real sense of the door, leaving Tathagata eight towers, rising slowly along a path forward, it can be said to have entered a Tar. Is still a lot of tourists here, and even driving the car. Honors the patron saint of the Yellow Sect of Oscar-watt house and pious or Buqian Cheng groups of tourists come in groups of out again, I wonder if strangers who do not like to see whether the law-enforcement tired but there was nothing?
Move on a little something to visitors, the entrance hall in the Chi-shou met a Tibetan sounded eolian Aunt, she came to me to reach out and talk over his mouth in some I do not understand, I understand her meaning, will be placed in her hand a little coins, and she took a voice told me that, "le," then left. I do not want to guess in the end she is really for the life force, or learned in the Mainland professional beggars lifestyle, because I do not want to own even more disappointed.
Plateau variable weather conditions, while still gloomy, the moment becomes sunny, while the impression is also the time when the warm winter. Had just climbed a small hill, the sun down to enjoy the crisp, and soon felt some bare skin burning. Fortunately, my skin has more melanin, which absorbs a lot of ultraviolet rays, that I have not been this high altitude "small gift" hurt, can continue to share of this temple I have a dream to find the tranquility.
Move on, I slowly discovered the hands of this ticket, and not much use, although many monks the monastery gate, there will be a pair of scissors sitting there holding a ticket for tourists, but if you really do not have tickets, they do not will not let you enter. Daikin watts in the hall, those who check-in of the monks do not even have tickets to see tourists. Perhaps they feel should not be because of a ticket, but blocking people求佛heart for good.
Speaking of Tar lamas, some of it is very cold, as if never to speak, for the tourists coming and going are virtually invisible, just concentrate on to do their own thing, perhaps they think this is the realm of Buddhist self-cultivation, These monks to make sense of frustration in my mind slightly weakened some, perhaps their hearts that I am looking for on the preservation of the kind of quiet; while some monks had with them the contrary, they learned fluent Chinese, I am happy to talk with visitors, Even when played tour guide for visitors the knowledge of Buddhism, in their view might then be able to Buddhism majority. Indeed, the world is always changing, some people prefer to inconvenience to the status quo, others to change their own initiative, the two does not matter right or wrong, but just a different way of life.
After visiting the hillside on the east side of the Tantric College, I went to the west of Hin-Chung University, this institute also known as the Great by the Church. After entering through the hall I felt a touch of shock, by the very large hall, a gently flickering butter lamps You Ji Jing-tang adds a certain mystique, and halls are also filled with the faint air of butter flavor. The front hall dedicated to many Buddha statues, Buddha, Tsongkhapa (founder of Yellow Sect), the Panchen Lama, etc., while on both sides of the walls are filled with a variety of Buddhist scriptures. According to tour guide said that in the Tar Monastery of the most flourishing time, there are 3000 people here to study Buddhist scriptures, halls that are lined up in dozens of Tibetan carpet is to chant Buddhist lamas Wing's "desk", but now the whole Temple is only more than 300 monks, when the spectacular had to rely on imagination. I walked through the empty hall, except a few tourists and tourist guides no others, but added appeared to be very quiet, but I am not looking for the kind of quiet.
In the Great Hall followed by the main hall is the Tar Monastery - Daikin watts Hall, where I first witnessed the knock long head of the people, both of them young people, there are the elderly, but they are repeating the Similarly, an Action: placed their palms together overhead, after head, mouth, nose, heart, body prostrate, prostrate when the hands, feet and head should be connecting with the land, that is, five bodies to bid for land, and then again separated Mozhuo hands clasped together on the ground to the top of the head stood up, and then repeat the same action. Then each of them is a devout, right next to the visitors turned a blind eye, perhaps in their hearts at this time only the Buddha. 拍几张照片wanted for them, but out of respect for them and ultimately I did not press the shutter. Next to a guide to listen to say that each of them should be enough to knock 100,000 times, be considered as complete, most young people spend about half a year's time, and elderly people are at least 8,9 months, many of them are Trinidad far away from the hinterland of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau came a day during the day is here and bowed to the Tar night next to the Tibetan people spend the night in the home. I happen to think I have met Tibetans who came here to knock Aunt is perhaps the end of the long head, ready to go home believers Minato-point toll bar. For those of us from the "civilized society", they all of these acts are incomprehensible, but this is their real life, that is, the pursuit of their hearts, but also those of us who do not believe people are incomprehensible. Tar for us may be just a tourist attraction, but for them it is always the Holy Land. I suddenly felt as if I imagined the Tar exists, it's in the hearts of these people, perhaps there will still be in my heart.
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