Qinghai Travels (2) - Tar Tar in Xining 26 kilometers of the Huangzhong County, is one of Tibetan Buddhism, the six temples. Prior to the Tar known it has a larger scale, but still feel that it is seeing the future of the office does have an extraordinary.
According to reports, Tar covers an area of more than 600 acres, and its dozens of Lotus Temple tower in the deep mountain col in the ups and downs, each other, they are very spectacular. Standing height viewing the mountains around it is indeed like a lotus flower, surrounded by shops started to come. Tar is the Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism (Yellow Sect, also known as Lamaism), founder of the birthplace of Tsongkhapa, who have a significant impact on the world's Buddhist community, known as the generation of Tibetan Buddhist masters, the world's second Buddha. The Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama are his disciples. He shows how the status of religious high. Tsongkhapa era, Buddhism is very different Menpai corruption, abuses, and even employment with the skull and the practice of human skin device has aroused the dissatisfaction of many Catholics. Tsongkhapa in the 15th century in addition to the Reformation, the creation of the Gelug Sect of the theoretical basis of his works include more than 170 volumes.
Eight wishful pagoda, standing in the entrance to the Tar Monastery. They are lined up, do not look carefully, thinking that they are the same, all for the white marble square base, round the same as the North Sea Sule Pagoda tower, spire high 6.4 meters. Can be if you look carefully, they are not the same, between the tower and the base of the decoration varied, with round, square, and octagonal, with a ladder ... ... it is great to commemorate the Buddha's life 8 merit established. Turned one way, one arrives at Xiaojin Watt Hall, when the round tower was standing in front of palace Xiao Jin-watt. 13 meters high tower, in 1942 to commemorate the ninth Panchen when the round of lectures for the Tar Zhongseng large gatherings law built. Three Tazuo supporting tower, the base surrounded by four fallen niches for there are four kings, the fourth floor tower Kannei statues and other law-enforcement there is King Lux. This tower style chic, quaint beauty. Chi-shou Palace was in 1716, Emperor Kangxi confusion due to the current situation in Tibet, in order to ensure the safety of 7 Dalai Lama decided to only nine, seven Dalai Lama sent Tar staying from Litang, Sichuan, in 1717 Chi-shou Palace was built. Inside meaning by the Dalai Lama, shaped Sakyamuni金身, on both sides of Ananda, Kasyapa Buddha, and then both sides of the Manjusri, Samantabhadra and the four kings and the 16 Lohan readily available. Hospital linden Nongyin blocks out the sun, trees have a sallow green rock, the legendary mother of Tsongkhapa back water, often leaning above the rest, after being referred to as "defending rock," people in the above paste notes, in order to safely . Because of the above coated with butter, it can certainly be pasted.
Xiao Jin-Watt Hall is full of a major law-enforcement temple shrine, a two-courtyard, the main hall for the three double eaves and copper-gold-tile buildings, Dianding the middle of the wheel of Dharma for the Xianglin both sides of the decorations, glittering, it is style. Main hall is dedicated to defending God and Panchen mount specimens of Whitehorse. Hospital corridor wall murals colorful, mostly defending statues and Buddhist stories. The second floor corridors furnishings bears, bison, antelope and other animal specimens, which are said to protect the law of God mounts. Some specimens have on the hundreds of years. China's religious biggest problem is closed and inside is basically impossible to photograph, reportedly afraid of meeting the Buddha light. This is very different from Christianity in Europe, where churches are allowed in whatever photography. In fact, Buddhism is not a Purdue living beings do? Why is sensitive to light it? Suppression of human nature here is really too much. The back to see those devout believers nibbling long head, feel even more profoundly.
Daikin watts Hall is the monastery of the most spectacular, the most valuable one palace. Standing above you can see Tar picture, glittering Daikin watts ranked in the large hall on the Jing-tang, Maitreya Hall, Ego King Hall, the center of Buddha and other Buddhist temple hall, the latter in accordance with Nink Fruit Hill, magnificent. It was founded in 1379, 1711, Qinghai, Mongolia Prince financed gold 1300 2, silver, 12000 2, expansion of Sino-Tibetan characteristics has become a palace-style architecture. The top of the distillation stamped bronze tile, Hall Ridge installed gold-Aquarius, flame spray there Po decorated on both sides of the distance you can see the top of the Golden Hall Daikin watts great success, a brilliant eye-catching. In fact, the hall is the most precious and most famous Bodhi big silver tower. Master Tsongkhapa was born when his mother cut the umbilical cord blood from the place where the tree grows a white Zhantan. In 1378, in Tibet, a master of science through the plume of white hair and the mother received a letter, saying that advanced age, I hope he can come back to visit his mother, the master determined to study Buddhism does not return, it drew an irritating self-portrait of blood sent to the mother , and said that if the place I was born, to hundreds of thousands of狮子吼Buddha (Sakyamuni's body, like a kind of), and lime for the Back of Beyond, built a pagoda, just as like to see me face. 1379, his mother's financial support of the faithful, and built a one-lian poly tower, was continually being rebuilt, in 1583, converted into Lime tower, and decorated with silver shell. Christians continue to decorate the door after it, and now tower 11 meters high, silver base, gold-plated tower, mounted a variety of jewelry, silver cut out the middle of a beautiful shrines dedicated to the gold-plated Ni Xiang Tsongkhapa. Only after it built a Buddhist temple outside, should be first, towers, after the Temple, so call it Tar. In 1986, the big silver towers were made repairs, a total consumption of 10008 thousand two silver, gold, 22.6 2. It shows the scale of larger. Large Silver Tower around, all kinds of Buddhist statues, pagodas, Buddhist, Fodeng countless more become a blend of local art treasures. Many eminent monks of the pagoda, and stupa are using the best wood, or silver alloy as well as construction materials, but also furnished the Kangxi and Qianlong Emperor Yu Ci of gold and silver lamps and a variety of instruments used and the use of cinnabar, gold and silver, extended into a variety of jewelry agate color juice Tripitaka written 101 letters, and more than 100 kinds of Tibetan classics. Qianlong pro-mentioning that "the Vatican teachings buildings" in large silver plaque was placed on the cross before the Fang on the tower.
Here there are many devout believers nibbling long head, these people bring bedding every day more than kowtow, generally would also like to nibbling 100,000 head, which lasted more than three months. Them to stand good, and then crawl down the entire, fully extended at the beginning of touching the ground and then climb up to stand, and then nibbling the second, they use Buddha bead counting, that can not be wrong, the pious, is evident.
Daikin watts is a big hall in front of Jing-tang, which is a typical Tibetan style flat-topped structures. Brown linen wall containing a whip and bronze mirrors. Speaking of the wall still whip, said Ma. The windows are sealed in the temple, saying monks ears do not hear out of the window can be ventilation how to do it, so that the plant is compact with the whip after the hemp to make the wall, but also ventilation, insulation also can be comparable with the air conditioning. Hall color Tibetan carpets, painting Liang Fang, Buddhist statues, murals, Duixiu,, Thangka and other bright color, and beautiful. Daikin watts Hall on the right there is Maitreya Buddha Hall, which is the first Tar a Buddhist temple. There is also Hin-Chung, Tantric, when wheel, Yi-Ming four Academy. Butter Sculpture Exhibition is necessary to look at, which is shaped butter works of art, its vivid, colorful, delicate exquisite. Tend to create a large story in the eaves. Fifteenth day each year dedicated to butter, butter lamps on display to form a festival of Tibetan Buddhism. Butter low melting point, generally in the winter production, first flower to do with wire, and then kneaded butter plastic in the above, there are many part of the direct color butter sculpture. The original butter mostly Buddhist stories, but now they added new content. With air-conditioning, not winter, when can see the exhibition of the butter. Butter Sculpture and murals, Duixiu together to become a Triple Tar must.
Tar magnificent architecture of the spectacular, large-scale, in some places looks very like the Potala Palace. Here magnificent temples, pavilions and floor, Zhi-Song, pagodas everywhere, shag crowded together, the mountain on the potential, patchwork, color gorgeous, is beautifully decorated temple architecture. With the main Tibetan, Chinese and Tibetan architectural style is a combination of the characteristics of the Tar Monastery.
If you go to Tar visit, be sure to find guides, recording would be best if we can. Every place I go to a general want to see more growth of knowledge, or watch the fun is not much sense at all. Many people say Qinghai been meaningless, in fact, in which the meaning in your experience in the. This is the same as your life, if you always feel happy, more than a good day would be meaningless. But if you arrange to live, how life in general could live Youziyouwei. Tourism is the same, carefully experience, good things multi-polar, and it's in your side. (I published the photo, there are a few pictures of Tar Unfortunately, in many places can not be taken, my photography is also very general, we can only provide some superficial elements, and all their own to see it, is worth watching.)
Author: songwangjun
