Chapter 185 – The Heavenly Authorized Choir
Turn the mountain or around the lake, is living in the roof of the world this special resistance to the unique way of worship, is a kind of all things have the spirit of nature worship beliefs, and the Tibetan primitive religious concepts of the manifestation of a lineage, the regular action can be divided into two kinds, the first most common, is walking on foot, there is a more pious way, both hands set of wooden boards, high above the head, and then collected in front of the chest, the whole body flopped down, the forehead touched the ground. Five bodies to the ground, with their own bodies to a little measure of the circumference of the sacred lake of the sacred mountain, every week around, will abate the sins, accumulation of merit, if the road around the lake to die, will be a kind of creation.
Iron rod lama’s behavior, not like in around the lake, and let me think of the Northeast jumping god, in Inner Mongolia when the insertion, picket goddess and shaman these things have seen, he is not in the process of an exorcism of the ceremony? But in the holy land and what evil will there be? Thinking of this I walked up quickly.
Iron rod lama also recognized me, stopped his strange movements, came over to meet me, a goodbye of more than ten years, the lama does not seem to have changed much, only the clothes are more tattered, I told the lama about the current situation of my two comrades, the lama was also overwhelmed with emotion: “Those who rushed into the tomb of the demons, to survive is already a blessing from the Buddha, I hope that in my lifetime I can be in the lake accumulate more merits and blessings for them.”
Lama all these years, never left Ramlatso, every day is chanting around the lake, clothing and food are relying on the believers who come to the lake to worship the alms, in fact, those who worship all the way over the pilgrims, on the way to accept alms, the saints of the alms is also a kind of accumulation of merit.
I asked about what the lama was just doing, iron rod lama said after, the original lama in the medicine king bodhisattva divination, because there are two mainland poachers, in the nearby nagusi junction hunting, but these two people are novices, waiting for five days, did not see what a decent animal, and finally saw a never seen a small beast, and immediately shot it, while fresh, skinned and boiled and eaten.
Two poachers ate, immediately rolled on the ground with stomach pain, and so have Tibetans found them, have been unconscious foaming at the mouth, there is no hospitals and monasteries here, in Tibetan temples in the pharmacist lama is responsible for giving the people to see a doctor, although the iron rod lama is a protector of the Dharma, young, but also did the pharmacist lama’s position, often to the lakeshore of the Tibetans and pilgrims to cure the disease and eliminate disasters, so the Tibetans to come to ask the iron rod lama So the Tibetans came to ask Iron Stick Lama to save them.
Iron Stick Lama heard that they were poachers, originally did not want to care, but the Buddha’s teachings are very compassionate, the death of a person can not not be saved, so he agreed to do so, and instructed the Tibetans to bring the two poachers, reciting Ganjur to pray to the Medicine King Bodhisattvas to save the people.
We are talking, six Tibetans have two poachers back over, lama ordered them to lay them flat on the ground, only to see these two people face like gold paper, gas like swimmers, down the corners of the mouth to flow white foam, the stomach swollen big, in my opinion this symptom is not very strange, according to say that ate unclean things, or malignant food poisoning may have this kind of reaction, it is very dangerous, must be sent to the hospital for first aid. I don’t know whether the Iron Rod Lama can save them with a few pills of Tibetan medicine.
Lama looked at the patient’s symptoms, immediately frowned, said to a few local Tibetans: “one of them ate too much, already hopeless, the other one is still save, you go to the sacred lake to find some dead fish rotting white scales.”
Tibetans in accordance with the lama’s instructions, immediately split to the lake to look for, one of the two poachers, the white foam out of the mouth has turned purple, in a short while on the stop breathing, the lama rushed to let me and wangdui to help, will be the other person’s teeth pry open, and take two Tibetan medicine with water for him to swallow, the man was in a trance, barely ate only half of it.
This Tibetan medicine has a hanging life of the spirit of the effect, immediately after eating wow vomit, spit a lot of black water, that life in the death of live poachers, although still bellyache such as strangulation, but has regained consciousness, the lama asked him what he actually ate?
Poachers said he himself and this dead companion, heard in the mainland to Tibet hunting and selling skins, can make a lot of money, was dashed, also want to come to a fortune, but the two are not hunting experience, no man’s land of animals, and do not dare to venture into, but only in the snow-capped mountains under the forest around, want to take a chance, even if the head of the Tibetan horse bear is also good.
In this way has been on the edge of the forest walked for five days, what also failed to hit, carrying the dry food first eaten, had to be prepared to roll on the luggage to return home, do not want to leave, saw a black big cat, the size of the goat than that is not much smaller than the look very ugly, not afraid of people, so that the beginning of the leopard, the two rely on the sharpness of the firearms, and even fired a number of shots to the black big cat! Killed on the spot, just when the belly hungry, but also do not care about whether the cat meat is delicious, haphazardly skinned, boiling pot of water to eat half of the meat, the meat of the fiber is very thick, it seems how to cook can not be cooked, so half-baked eaten.
Poachers tears, claiming that their own brothers, although a moment of ill will, want to poach to make money, but after all, in addition to this bobcat what did not hit, please lama pharmacist must be merciful, save their lives, and will certainly be reformed, he said off and on after the abdominal pain and hair, and immediately died.
I remembered in the Kunlun Mountains heard a Tibetan legend, the huge black bobcat, not a cat, is the newly deceased into the death, of course, can not be eaten, I asked the lama how to do, this person is still saved?
Lama said: “they eat probably snow mountain muskrat, that kind of animal can be eaten, but they ate too early, the Tibetans never the same day slaughtered animals, because the souls of those animals have not yet completely detached from the physical body, once eaten, it is not good, I used to serve the Buddha, I had learned some secret formula, as to whether it can work or not, it depends on their destiny. ”
Go to the lake to look for rotting fish scales of Tibetans have come back, add up to find about a large handful, iron rod lama will fish scales around the sick, and find a piece of rodent repellent finch wood burned into carbon, mixed with the rotting and stinking fish scales, to that poacher ate it down.
After this series of strange behavior, the poacher began to vomit again, this vomiting is more violent, the things in the stomach all vomit clean, finally until the vomit are clear water, the lama only gave him Tibetan medicine to stop vomiting.
Lama looked at his vomit filth, said the man’s life is saved, but this life can not eat meat, a meat will vomit more than, I went over to look, only to see that the pile of vomit seems to have something in the writhing, to be a closer look, are a mass of hairless mice.
Poachers kneeled down to bow to thank the lama for saving his life, asked the lama whether he could bury his dead companion in the lake, the lama said absolutely not, the Tibetans believe that only sinners should be buried in the soil, buried in the soil soul can never be relieved, the sun during the day, the soul of the soil will feel like being boiled in a hot pot of torment, the moonlight at night, and will feel as if falling into an ice cave, the cold shivering intolerable, if it rains, it will feel like a million arrows through the heart. If it rains, it will feel like ten thousand arrows piercing through the heart, when the wind blows, it will feel like being cut by a thousand steel knives to pick the bones, which is unspeakable, not far from the lake, there are eighteen heavenly funeral pyres on the mountain, so put the body there, so that his soul can be relieved.
Poachers reluctant to do so, after all, and the mainland is too big a difference, the lama explained in Tibet itself, all the methods of disposal of corpses, in addition to burial, all popular, but because of the lack of fuel for cremation, so the body is generally carried to the top of the hill hill of the sky burial platform, namely chopped up and thrown to the birds and animals to share (Persian Zoroastrianism in Bombay is quite similar to the line), if the deceased is because of some kind of dangerous contact with the contagious disease If the deceased died because of some dangerous exposure to an infectious disease, burial is also customary.
Generally speaking, Tibetans are opposed to burial because they believe that it upsets the spirits, or even turns the body into a zombie, which can be avoided by cremation, or other methods of rapid decomposition of the body, and that the locals feel uneasy about burying the body there if it is insisted upon.
Poachers are finally convinced by the lama, even if it is into the local customs, with the help of a few Tibetans, lifting the body of his companions ready to go to the summit of the sky burial platform, I saw his duffel bag is slightly longer than ordinary, which must have weapons and ammunition, we have not yet been equipped with weapons this time into Tibet, and now there is an opportunity of course will not be missed, he stopped him, and would like to talk to him to buy it.
Poachers told me, these two guns are in Qinghai poachers to buy, he finished handling the bodies of his companions, he went back to his hometown to live in peace, keep the gun is not much use, since you are the iron rod lama’s friend, this gun will give you, as a thank you for saving the life of a little bit of intention.
I looked at the two guns in the bag, but it is a shotgun, Remington, the model is relatively old, 870 type 12 mm caliber, police car equipment version, the product of the fifties, but the maintenance is good, no wonder the muskrat so flexible animals are killed under the gun, there are more than seventy rounds of bullets, were loaded in the two shoulder bags of bullets, this firearms fifteen meters to think that the power of the amazing, but it seems to use it for hunting is not appropriate, attacking long-distance targets or using assaults on the target. Attacking long-distance targets or assault rifles, that kind of weapons with a longer range is better, shotguns can be used for self-defense melee, and finally I still put the money stuffed a him, the gun and bullets, including the packaging of the duffel bag I will stay.
Waiting for these people to disperse, I explained to the lama, want to go to find the tomb of the evil god of the magic country, beg Lama Ake, for our expedition, to find a familiar with the history of the magic country and the ridge country chanter and guide.
Iron rod lama said digging the ancient mound, the original is hurtful thing, but digging the devil’s tomb is not the same, the devil’s tomb sealed with demons, is a big threat to the people, history has a lot of cultivation of monks, want to get rid of the devil to protect the law, the devil’s tomb will be completely eradicated, in order to eliminate the evil god again on earth of the trouble, but bitterly do not have any clues, since you guys are willing to go, this is the merit of the good deed, know the ancient history of Tibet The choristers, all of them are authorized by heaven, the cover does not recognize the form of transmission from father to son, teacher to apprentice, are some people in a serious illness, suddenly become able to sing millions of words of poetry, I am a Buddhist monk before the people have been authorized by heaven, but has been almost thirty years have not said, the world’s enemy control beads Xiongshi Da Wang, as well as those who transmute the jade eye beads of poetry, alas … … …I can’t remember them all.