? Seda is located in Sichuan Province, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the northeast, is located in Sichuan and Qinghai border, there are wide grasslands, vertical and horizontal river, dense lakes and marshes, towering snow-capped mountains, gold everywhere, although it is the late autumn season is never inferior; Lalong Temple Wuming Buddhist College in Lalong ditch, 1980 for the King of Dharma Ruyi Bao Jigme Phuntsok masters in the founded; just thirty years, Wuming Buddhist College from the earliest but the 32 people of the Small scale, the development of today's densely packed monasteries built all four sides of the hillside, the resident lama, Jiem (women called Jiem that is the female venerable) has more than 20,000 people. Whenever there is a Buddhist activity, the number of people will increase, it is said; the most can reach more than 40,000 people. All for the red religion, "Sedar mountains and rivers a red" statement is true; this is a small city for the Buddha's shelter, is the source of Gesar culture, for the world's largest Buddhist College; this world, there are really too many things can not be explained scientifically, perhaps in the underworld, there is really we can not see, can not touch the power; said in the era of King Gesar, Sedar once dug out the shape of a horse's head of gold, so this small city will be the most important thing. It is said that in the era of King Gesar, Sedar had unearthed gold in the shape of a horse's head, and thus this small town was named "Sedar", which means "golden horse" in Tibetan; Buddhism shines brightly here, and immerses itself into the depths of everyone's heart, and the zeal and obsession for the religion has not cooled down even a little bit, as they eat fasting food and drink, and are very happy to see that they have been given the opportunity to enjoy their life. The slightest cooling; they eat fasting Buddha, chanting prayers, both the world, always continue a mysterious and awe-inspiring Tibetan customs, that is, sky burial; Sedar sky burial every day, they bring the dead from all over the world, back the body to the sky burial platform, by the sky undertaker to support the body. Take out the viscera thrown around, and the bones and skull smashed, attracting groups of vultures to fly to, scrambling to peck, to eat the most auspicious. They believe that this kind of alms giving is the most honored ritual of Tibetan Buddhism, is to let the immortal soul to be reincarnated, to continue; I did not film the whole process of sky burial, but this unique Tibetan custom will always be in mind; ? Therefore, to come to Seda, not only is an experience, but also to let the soul attached to the full of lead baptized, but also a practice.
? Followed to Seda, encountered a said to come wind and snow, that silver dance day of the spirit, the vast snow field, frozen rivers and lakes and trees hanging thousands of cold silence, outlined a magnificent magnificent scenery; rushed to the Buddhist College early in the morning, the day is not yet bright, the guards for our fleet of cars opened the green light, all the way until halfway up the mountainside, the two Jiemu masters greeted us with smiles; one of them, is the master to the down to the sister (has been a part of the Buddhist College). Sister (has been the weight of the Buddhist College teacher), was brought into the two masters live with the house, the small interior, a light Tibetan flavor to the face; first into the eyes, in addition to the statue of Buddha, scriptures, sutra cylinders, is the ground floor, and even the simple daily necessities of the Buddhists are extremely rare; house small, we had to separate the front and back two standing, Jiem master moved out of the reddish-red Tibetan robes greeted us to sit on the ground floor to keep warm; Unintentionally, and her eyes, that deep gaze, flowing out of endless tenderness; surveyed the small box-like room, I made a comparison in my mind to the treatment of teachers in China, said she should have a spacious and beautiful housing is appropriate, she smiled: "This is good, simple, conducive to cultivation." Faint smile, warm, compassionate, and charming; ate her hand-made tsampa, we climbed to the top of the mountain to the altar; and she, put on a Tibetan robe down the mountain, walking in the students chanting on the way to preach. Da
? It was quite fortunate that the sky cleared up in no time. The plateau of the sun is never hot, only the temperature of the unreserved, for the accumulation of snow on the roof of the red house put on a warm and brilliant robes; look around, all the mountains of the reddish-red, the clear silhouette of the Buddhist College in full view, stretching for several kilometers of reddish-red buildings, in the blue dome of the sky shows the mysterious and solemn religious colors; we are surrounded by the red house, the vertical and horizontal look at the past, a lot of them are padlocked. Sha told me, here is the residence of the Jomo, are to go to the sutra hall to listen to the lesson; across the red is where the monks live; these mahogany house, all practitioners build, they are always in the sutra hall, canteen and small house between the three points of the practice of life, the house is broken, Jomo help each other to do it together, will not go to find male monks to help. Here on the men are forbidden, even if it is like the Jigme master and to the velvet master of the same practice of a pair of brother and sister, but also can not visit each other at the door. There is a "housekeeper" in the institute, who will supervise the life between the mother and the monks, and in case of recording or photographing, it will be publicized as a punishment; I was amazed, sighed, and then questioned, but I had to nod my head in agreement; in fact, I can't even imagine how much patience and endurance it takes for the Jomes to walk through this out-of-this-world city to live and practise; shaving their head is not allowed. After shaving their heads and keeping company with the green lamps and ancient temples, much of what it means to be a woman is gone, and it seems to me to be a very unworthy thing to do.
I know that my own mind is distracted from the Buddha is still very far, is not worthy of talking about the Buddha on the road; would like to change the topic, the three after-school Jiemu come to each other, their pace is light, the form is completely different from ours, especially when the wind lifted up the reddish robes of their reddish color, I quickly raised the camera to catch the lens, in the moment of half-pressing the shutter, the face of that the serenity and peace of mind, so that I for their own offense, and I feel guilty. ."
? About eleven o'clock or so, we stood in front of the altar; this in the mountain on the golden roof of the building, approached or marveled at its momentum, under the blue dome, white clouds like hada set off in the altar city of the golden building next to the altar city, making the altar city more solemn and sacred. The square side of the promenade, a lot of people wearing Tibetan robes, over and over again kowtow long head; kowtow long head is the most devout rituals of Tibetan Buddhism, if the temple with its solemnity and prestige to become a scenic spot, that everywhere kowtow long head of believers is a flowing landscape; Tibetan people never stint on the Buddha's admiration and followers, they are always across a mountain, flowing through a river, not afraid of a thousand difficulties and sufferings, with devotion. Thousands of difficulties, the heart of the idea of piety, from their hometown knocking to the sacred mountains and lakes, knocking to the Buddha's temple; they put their hands together, raised above their heads, from the chest to move away from the ground parallel to the front, palms facing downward to bend down on the ground, the knees first on the ground, after the whole body to bend down on the ground, forehead knocking on the ground, the sound of the six-word truth chanting continuously; stand up, and then prostrate; the first time I saw the believers knocking on the long head on the road, the heart lifted up tightly, as if the I felt a sense of calmness at this moment. At this moment, I felt a calm warm current surging through my body, and I could not help chanting the "True Words" with them: "Ah? What? What? Ab? Mee? Moo, sincerely praying that under the light of the Buddha, their wishes come true!
? Along the downhill walk, passed the lecture hall, the radio came from the young male voice chanting, the room outside the room is full of red-clothed male lamas and Tibetan old and young sitting on the floor, warm sunshine, reddish-red Hall of the scriptures, seems to be this golden sunshine dyed with a touch of someone drunken burgundy;
? Dumb look for a while, did not talk to any of the lamas, I am very clear that I have no relationship with the Buddha, is with a body full of dust towards Seda, at this moment, I think, a place with enough cultural atmosphere can lift up a whole piece of heaven and earth; in front of the eyes of this piece of Zang red world, as strong as a woman's flaming red lips, but no sense of charm, there is just that the can be far from the solemnity of blasphemy; here I no longer entangle on the The religious believers of all kinds of understanding and incomprehension; they keep the innocence, we bring is not all secular, indeed, there is also admiration;
Shah once said to me, "Learning Buddhism is not in the pursuit of divine induction, to deliberately get what, but lies in the deep analysis of the self, as well as the ensuing enhancement of the state of mind and the enlightenment of the cognition of the matter, and she also said that the benefits of learning Buddhism Cannot be described ......
? Thus, within the Buddha's gate, I folded my hands and expressed my inner reverence for the Buddha; I also understood what the talented woman of the Republic of China, Eileen Chang, had once said, "Don't think that I'm a condescending person, I never have been, at least, outside the walls of the Hongyi Venerable Master's monastery, I'm so humble."
I was in Sedar, enjoying a piece of red like the Buddha's light, that cold and lonely, the temperament of independence does not give a person a strong attraction, so that people are fascinated. Here the lack of material, even the air is thin, it is precisely these internal needs and the external environment to create a deep foundation for the promotion of Buddhism rooted, resulting in visitors have to admit that each of the landscapes of this land is a page of scripture can be read, Sedar, the trip is complete and wonderful!