It is the rainy season, the evening had just rained, 8:00 (equivalent to the mainland 6:00) We are marching across the street was illuminated quartzite came to the Jokhang Temple in the door, on the ground a bit wet, the morning after the rain, the Jokhang Temple seems sacred and solemn, the Jokhang Temple by way of transfer has begun sporadic team, turning the small stalls along the road and many are not operating. Jokhang Temple in front of Buddha have been more than 10 people. They are in front of a small square on the cadence to chant the scriptures, for the chanting is accompanied by hands and drops out of the brawl on the floor of friction sound can clearly see the bluestone on the number of Erdaogou mark . No one to speak, people came leisurely manner, looking a little dry place to lay down their shoulder pads, his hands clasped together Gaojuguotou, to the forehead, then to the heart, the final knock long head, and then repeat in front of the same action. I am intimidated by their actions, look for a long time can not be transferred. The gate prostrate Koubai believers, young and old, the poor for decades or even their life savings, tirelessly, according to their length, three-step a prostrate Koubai the line, spent about three years to ten years to come Lhasa, even pay with their lives is also balk!
Jokhang Temple is the heart of the holy city, the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa on the main entrance of this piece of a small plaza opened up a brand new day. The Jokhang Temple's reputation than its size should be large, the Jokhang Temple, there are the Tang Princess Wen Cheng and Zao Songtsan the like. There are dowry of Princess Wen Cheng - Sakyamuni brought in from India, 12-year-old life-sized statuettes. Dian-high four-layer, the whole building roofs typical Han-style brackets. Towers, carved beams is the Tibetan style, the main hall 2, Yan Xia three rows of 103-volt animal carvings and Sphinx, but also showing features of the style of Nepal and India. Temple House Temple interleaving, winding corridors over, the door number, and we climbed down the ladder drill, the one will be imbued with butter-flavored dark cramped of the statues in the world to listen to monks chanting, an eye-catching platform will be in the sun to see maintenance workers were singing and dancing ( Jokhang Temple was being engaged in maintenance). Walking in the Jokhang Temple, as in the yin and yang, shuttling back and forth between the two circles. Each small hall overcrowded, although crowded, but the order was maintained very well. Tibetans generally a hand full of butter an open bottle or a bag of butter, one hand is upon her a stack of a dime, in front of the Buddha to add your own worship. Too many people, they put themselves in front of the hall into the bottles to the monks and lamas was handed by the Buddha, after a trip out to reclaim their own marked bottles. Like the Buddha before the next steps for people to Koubai the guards snapped lamas and pushing the person out of the Koubai. While waiting for some self-serving people who remembered scriptures, and some focus on looking at the flames beat butter lamps, and some just sitting around, cross-legged chanting. Temple has a long nearly 1000 meters of the Tibetan fresco "Princess Wen Cheng to Tibet Map" and "the construction of the Jokhang Temple map", as well as two of the protective deities Ming embroidery Thangka, and many other description of the origin of Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan murals. Dianwai week is by turning the Road, devout Tibetans through the promotion of copper cylinder rotation, mouth continually recited the sixth mantra "OM MANI moo hum." Roof landscape very well could be the Red Hill on the Potala Palace, many well-known scenes in the Potala Palace from here.
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