What can you see when you come to Gannan in winter, I tell you Gannan is still beautiful, Gannan before the winter quiet, colorful, winter Gannan quiet outside more than a few holy, especially after the snow, this place is even more beautiful, so that people can not bear to walk on the land here.
Particularly here in the Labuleng Temple, you must come, this temple has a long history, to the winter here has a Maulam Puja, you can enjoy the charm of Buddhism, but also to experience the bustle of the place, we next come to understand the Maulam Puja here!
Labrang Monastery Mawlam Puja TimeLabrang Monastery held the first month of the origin of the Puja began in the period of the second Gyalmudang living Buddha, the Puja from the evening of the third day of the first month of the first three days of the first month of the seventeenth day of the first month of the end of the first month of the first month of the first fifteen days, the first month of the Puja is characterized by the holding of a series of activities.
Labrang Monastery Mawlam Puja ActivitiesThroughout the 15-day festival
Throughout the festival is one of the elements. 15 days, all monks recite the sutra six times a day in the Great Sutra Hall. It starts at dawn and ends at sunrise and is called the Morning and Dawn Gathering.
The sutra recited is the Terror Vajra Sutra, which aims to drive away evil spirits and demons and dispel defilements. Participants threw their own rush of "Chujiwa" (60 food), bad put pills to the south-east and west, indicating that Mo sacrifices to the protection of the Dharma God and Yama Dharma King, and prayed for the four major causes (peace, development, power, and might) to flourish.
The monks ate breakfast and went to the Dharma Defense Conference in a hurry.
Any talented and learned monk or scholar could argue extensively with any opponent on Buddhist issues. The atmosphere of the debating field is warm and tense, three people in a cluster, five people in a group, the two sides of the sword, you and I, each other, until one side of the word no words to answer the winners and losers before stopping.
After the conclusion of the debate, it was immediately followed by the midday assembly. Next is the prayer assembly and the second debate in the evening, the content of which is to recite the sermon, pray for the peace of people and animals, to get rid of disasters and blessings, to repeat the relevant scriptures, wishing that the Dharma is always there, the Buddha's business is prosperous.
Release of life on the eighth day of the first month
Release of life is another element of the Maulanam First Month Prayer Grand Puja, which is one of the various good deeds. The date of the life release festival is the eighth day of the first month.
The morning of the day, "Tudan Puchang" (Buddha Hall) courtyard bustling, people come and go, Jamu-like masters led by the external monks, internal monks, each holding a key to open the door of the Buddha Hall, the exhibition of the temple treasures, treasures collected throughout the year for all levels of monks and laymen officials to see, in order to show off the wealth of the temple, so that the officials at all levels of the cause of Buddhism to be carried out! The temple's wealth is displayed for all levels of monks and officials to see, so that officials at all levels will do their best to promote Buddhism.
After the visit, the monks **** recited the "Inviting Treasures" in the temple courtyard and danced a self-produced dance to cheer up.
Then the horses, cows and goats will be prepared to lead out, by the presiding officer solemnly sprinkled water on them, neck tied with a symbol of the Buddha's release of the five-colored coiled strip, and then released them out of the gate, and later let them free to roam the mountains and grasslands, and self-sustaining.
People see it not only do not harm, and all of them to express their closeness and protection. This release ceremony, one is to show that the compassion of Buddhism; the second is to show that the Buddha's vast, the feelings of admiration of all beings; the third is to hope that more living beings can rely on the Buddha's door for the Buddha's subjugation and edification.
New Year's Thirteenth Day
New Year's Thirteenth Day, is the day of Labrang Monastery to hold Zhanfo, the atmosphere of the festival was pushed to a new climax.
On this day, visitors with pious feelings of reverence come to Labrang Monastery from as far away as the foot of Tanggula Mountain, the shores of Qinghai Lake, the grasslands of Aba, the Bailong River, and the depths of the desert in Inner Mongolia, to see the giant Buddha statue.
At noon, the Buddha viewing ceremony officially began. On the large Buddha viewing platform, the smooth and neatly pasted slate shines brightly.
In the ridge of the gable wall as a hanging scroll, scroll Buddha slowly unfolded, a team of monks at the top of the gable wall tightly touch the edge of the width of a team of monks below the exhibition, left and right sides and two teams of monks, the four sides of a concerted effort, carefully will be a 10-foot-wide, 36-foot-long Buddha clearly shown in front of people.
This moment, the monks and lay people a quiet, silent recitation of scriptures, praying for happiness and good fortune. The statue of the Buddha is different every year, Shakyamuni, Maitreya, Tsongkhapa three kinds of Buddha statues are displayed alternately. In front of this huge, both grace and power of the Buddha, people were born of admiration, automatically take off their hats and kneel down, kowtow and worship.
Fa Dance on the 14th day of the first month
The Fa Dance on the 14th day of the first month is also one of the main elements of the Merlang summoning activities in Labrang Monastery. The Dharma Dance is held on the slate plaza in the front hall of the main scripture hall.
Jiamusu-like masters sitting in the front hall corridor on the platform, around the four "Golden Seat" (second only to the living Buddha Jiamusu-like), as well as other guests, the following and then sit in order of a slip of the bottom of the Buddha's position of the living Buddha. Monks and lay audiences sit in a semi-circular circle with them as the center.
Fa dance began, dressed as Yama King of the actors, wearing a skull necklace decorated with masks from the yard out of the field, jumping around the field for a week, inspecting the presence of haunted demons and devils, in order to use the power of the law at any time to drive out the elimination.
Next came the consort of the king and the ghosts of Chasi disguised as skeletons, antlered deer and long-horned rattlesnakes. With the accompaniment of the orchestra, they were ecstatic for a while, restless for a while, and triumphant for a while.
After a battle, the Buddhist army led by the Dharma King Yama was finally victorious, and the demons and ghosts were completely incinerated and thrown into a frying pan to be blown up.
Next, His Holiness sent the Dafadai to lead the Buddhist soldiers and generals as well as the monks, and pinched the triangular-shaped dolma to the deserted beach on the outskirts of the temple and burned it with a roaring fire, which means that the evil, demons and monsters have been driven away from now on, and the people of the church have been blessed with good fortune and peace, and the temple has not been disturbed by them.
Fa dance is a rough, bold, anthropomorphic performance. Its prominent feature is the mask dance, through which the identity of the characters and the roles of good and evil are introduced figuratively without the need to go through words.
Large jumps and many revolutions, drawing on the style of folk dance, show the broad-mindedness of the plateau people, their bold temperament, cynicism, and the character of being at home with death. From the Dharma Dance we can see the style of early Tibetan dance.
New Year's Day 15th Ghee Flowers
Ghee colorful sculpture exhibition is the most wonderful scene of the day of Maulam's New Year's Prayer Grand Puja, and it is also a big exhibition of Tibetan Buddhist plastic art treasures. The time is the 15th day of the first month.
When the night falls, the rows and clusters of ghee lamps prearranged around the hall radiate colorful light, illuminating the earth as if it were day.
Special attention 'purpose is a variety of forms of ghee color sculpture modeling, whether it is a character modeling or scenery, each form of realistic, give a person out of God humanized feeling.
Particularly "Elysium" Shambhala scenery and a variety of Lotus modeling, is lifelike, competing, comparable to the fight, so that people are dazzled, and forget to come back.
These exquisitely modeled ghee-colored plastic artwork is Labrang Temple six colleges, Henan Mengqi Wangfu, Jiamusu kind of Buddha's residence and the cause of the Ming, Prajna, in the view of the Kuan, the Kusha, the precepts of the five major divisions of the three classes of the study of the division of labor carefully made.
Because the exhibits have to be evaluated and scored, assessing the winners, so the exhibitors of the modeling design, composition program, production location, completion time are confidential.
Until the nightfall on the 15th day of the first month, only in the Hall around the respective fixed position, quickly set up a wooden frame, in the shortest possible time with the fastest speed of the exhibits, with a view to new and strange to win. After the exhibition, the relevant personnel to form a jury to assess the scores, assess the ranking, announced the list, to give awards.
The ghee color sculpture exhibition of the time of the first creation of the argument is not the same. It is said that when the Tang Taizong Princess Wencheng married the founding monarch of the Tubo Songtsen Gampo, Princess Wencheng to worship their own beliefs in the 12-year-old statue of Shakyamuni Buddha brought to Tibet, for the Showa Monastery.
Gelugpa sect founder Tsongkhapa, in order to show their immense admiration for Shakyamuni, the Buddha statue in front of the offering of a ghee flower and a large number of ghee lamps. After the sect monks have followed suit, since the formation of the first month of the 15th ghee flowers for lamps event.
On the night of the fifteenth day of the first month, people from all over the world come to worship the Buddha, crowded to the front of the main scripture hall of Labrang Monastery, vying to be the first to view the ghee and colorful sculptures, commenting on them and evaluating them, and then bowing down in worship until the late hours of the night before leaving.
The 16th day of the first month of the turn of the Shambhala
Maitreya Buddha (that is, Maitreya Bodhisattva Maharaja) (Sanskrit Maitreya, Pali Meteyya), the Tibetan language is called "Qiangba" or "Shambhala" Buddha. "Buddha.
It is translated as Ts'ai, and phonetically as Maitreya, Metteyya, one of the eight great Bodhisattvas of Chinese Mahayana Buddhism.
Also often referred to in Mahayana Buddhist classics as Ayatya Bodhisattva Mahasattva, the successor of Sakyamuni, who will descend to the World Honored One in the future Saha World and become the next Buddha of the Saha World, and will be the fifth Buddha among the thousand Buddhas of the Hundred Years of the Sage Sage Sacrifice, and often honored as the Dangdang Lower Sangha Maitreya Honored Buddha.
The 16th day of the first month of the year is an auspicious day for the future Buddha to visit the monastery, and the monks and laypeople prayed that he would bring good luck and good fortune to the Labrang area in the new year. At around 10 a.m., the monks carried out a tall statue of Maitreya Buddha (the future Buddha).
From the Great Sutra Hall, accompanied by the Great Temple Band, and surrounded by monks carrying Brahma incense, treasures and offerings, the monks make a vast circle around the temple compound. Because the Maitreya Buddha in charge of the future, so, come to the Buddha pilgrimage people, a large number of believers scrambling around the temple chanting, grabbing the touch like leading irrigation, in order to seek a point of blessing.
Labrang Monastery's Maulanm Grand Puja is open to all major activities, and visitors are welcome to watch and worship freely. The main scripture halls are also open, allowing believers to burn incense and bow, make offerings, and chant around the statue of Buddha or the scripture halls. The monks' houses are also not open to guests, allowing them to rest and stay overnight.
Keeping these times in mind, as well as the activities here, if you have time to catch the puja here, then come and enjoy and visit the place!