the last priest

Not long after, a jet of water suddenly shot out from the bottom of the water and hit Zha Wenbin directly in the face. Zha Wenbin was caught off guard and had to wipe it with his hand, and a toad suddenly came out of the water and swam happily.

The leg of the three-legged toad was originally blown off, but the broken part has recovered perfectly at this moment, and no wound can be seen.It happily swam around in the water, and from time to time raised its neck and called out to its owner. This toad had never been so happy since it was brought back.

The three-legged toad is born from the essence of the sun and the moon. It is said that it can only be found in places where unworldly treasures appear.The top of Kunlun, the ancestor of the dragon veins, the fairyland of Yaochi, and the snow peak of thousands of years.It has a powerful healing ability, so how could it fail to heal its injured leg?That's because ordinary water, no matter how filtered it is, no matter how clean it is, is always mixed with dust from the world.The three-legged toad does not belong to the human world. Immortals are different. Only the snow water that has climbed nine days can compare with Kunlun. How can it be uncomfortable?

If possible, Cha Wenbin would like to bring it back to Kunlun, only there is its real home.

After taking a bath, the toad regained its aura, and got into Zha Wenbin's pocket and continued to sleep soundly. How could it have nothing to do with it here.

The bad mood was swept away by the naughtiness of this little thing. Everyone came to hold a glass of water to wash off the dust on their bodies, like a pilgrim, with awe.

The right-rotating "Swastika" signs all over the floor can easily make people mistakenly think that they have entered a Buddhist temple, because most people will associate this symbol with Buddha.As one of the oldest religions, Bon Religion, later generations believe that the word "卐" is the doctrine of Bon Religion and the emblem of Bon Religion. The original meaning is solid and eternal.

However, with the deepening of archaeology in recent years, this statement has become increasingly untenable.Undoubtedly, "Swastika" is an important symbol of Tibetan culture, especially its traditional religion.In the traditional Tibetan folklore, white lime is used to draw this pattern on the outside of the door every year, which means good luck; when building a new house, this pattern is painted on the base of the house, which means durable; this pattern is painted on the door of the house , can resist evil, expel disease.

Some Tibetan women will embroider this character on the back of their clothes when they meet their birth year, hoping that the Bodhisattva will bless the year with peace.This symbol often appears in belts, tapestries, thangkas and even sacrificial ceremonies.It is generally believed that "in Tibet, the word '卐' can be seen everywhere whether as a pattern or a symbol. In Tibetan, the "卐" pronounced as "Wan" in Chinese is called "Yongzhong"; It was Wu Zetian, the only female emperor, who decreed that "卍" should be right-handed in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and the pronunciation should be "Wan", which means "the collection of auspicious and ten thousand virtues".

From the perspective of Tibetan areas, '卐' expresses the meaning of auspiciousness, which is the same as that of the Han people.We can call '卐' the auspicious symbol of 'Yongzhong'.In the history of Tibet, '卐' is closely related to religion, whether it is the original Bon religion or the later Tibetan Buddhism.In the original Bon religion, "卐" is a symbol of auspiciousness. When Bon religion was founded, it was called "Yong Zhongben", and the characters used were called "Yong Zhong" scriptures. The place where Bon religion was located was called "Yong Zhongben". Nine-level Yongzhong Mountain' and 'Yongzhong Sand Dunes', the Zen sticks held by the ancestors of Bon religion also have the auspicious pattern of 'Yongzhong', and even the sites of Bon religion temples are mostly located in places with natural '卐' shaped patterns.After Buddhism was introduced into Tibet, '卐' was also widely used.All Buddha portraits must have auspicious symbols on their chests.It's just that there is a certain difference between the use of '卐' in Bon religion and Tibetan Buddhism: the '卐' in Bon religion rotates counterclockwise, while the '卐' in Buddhism rotates clockwise. "

But this word not only appeared in the territory of China, but also appeared in different regions in more ancient and distant times:

In the distant Neolithic Age, modern people discovered the "Swastika" pattern in the pottery fragments unearthed in Khuzestan Province, Iran; in the early Bronze Age, there were also "Swastika" patterns on the pottery unearthed from the Xinda Snow Tower in the southern Ural Mountains of Russia. "" character pattern; this mark is also found in seals unearthed in Rasol in Gujarat, India, and Harappa, Pakistan; It has appeared in the utensils of the times.This pattern even appeared in Africa, and there is a "swastika" mark on the pottery in the temple of Mount Bolgor, and it came from northeastern Africa in the 11th century BC.

Thousands of years before the advent of the age of great voyages, this kind of symbol has spread all over places with human civilization, and Buddhism has carried it forward, but no one is sure that it must come from Buddhism, because it is more important than this kind of symbol. Religion came much earlier.

And Cha Wenbin thinks it comes from Taoism!

This symbol is generally rotated to the right in Tibetan areas, but the ground here is indeed divided into two types. Anticlockwise rotation.This left-right rotation is different, and people who are not careful will not notice it, because they are too similar.

"Zhalu, do you have a swastika with a rotating swastika in your Tibetan area?"

"No." Zha Brown replied simply.

Because this character is not only used in Buddhism, but also in Taoism, but it is more used in Feng Shui.

The shape of the mountain is also called "Tiansheng Baguading". Its feng shui pattern is that the west mountain folds north from the first point to the eight point, and the Phoenix Mountain comes out. There is only one place in China that has this feng shui: the famous mountain Shuangfeng in the east of Hubei has one point, two points and two peaks. There is a small hill here, which is recognized as the top of Taoism's natural gossip.

And Cha Wenbin is more linking it with the Book of Changes. "Swastika" and "Swastika" correspond to the two fishes of Yin and Yang in the Eight Diagrams. Are there many similarities?One left and one right, opposite to each other and environmentally friendly to each other, their motion trajectories are all the same as a circle.

If we draw the swastika on a transparent film and hang it in the air.Viewed from the front, it is the symbol "卍", and viewed from the back, it is the symbol "卍".Viewed from the front, when the "卍" rotates counterclockwise, it happens that the "卍" rotates clockwise when viewed from the reverse side. "In other words, "卐" and "卍" are two congruent figures. If they are drawn on two transparent papers respectively, and one of them is reversed and stacked on the other, the two The symbols are stacked together and become one. Doesn't this just confirm the Taoist theory that yin and yang are complementary, opposite and the same?

"Where the sun is, there is eternal light; where I am going, there is a bright sun, where I live forever, where our desires and desires are fulfilled!" The ancient Indian classic "Rig Veda" There is this praise for the sun; "When Shiba was first formed, Yin and Yang were mixed together, and Yin and Yang were separated to form the sun." The ancient Tibetan folk song "Shiba Question and Answer Song" also sang in this way.

More and more people believe that this symbol originally meant "sun", which is why it is so popular. Everything comes from the sun, which is the only way to obtain light and energy in ancient times.

Standing on the tower floor covered with sun marks, doesn't that mean that you have become a fairy?

Cha Wenbin laughed suddenly and said: "How can there be a sun that never sets in the world, and a temple that never sets, that's why!"

The high priest once told him that their ancestors lived on a distant plateau, where the mountains reached to the sky, and the people there lived in the clouds.Whether it is Taoism or witchcraft, they all rely on the power of nature. The ancients regarded the sky as the greatest, and the place closest to the sky is naturally the easiest to become a fairy. Apart from Tibet, where else in the world is closer to the sky than here?

No matter how good Kunlun's feng shui is, it is also the ancestor of the dragon's veins. By borrowing the aura of the dragon, you can change your fortune and even affect the world.The dragon is just a kind of god in the sky. What if people can also go to the sky to practice?There are many famous Taoist mountains, and Fudi Dongfu chose the peaks of the mountains just because practitioners want to get close to the sky. If they preach here, they will get twice the result with half the effort.

The author of the thread-bound book, why did he come here, Zha Wenbin already has the answer in his heart.It's a pity that religion, since ancient times, can't accommodate two tigers, let alone Tibet, where Bon Buddhism is unified, and the sacred snowy land will not accept civilizations from the middle land, even if they have so many similarities.

After washing away the dust, it's time to step into the main hall, and then go up to the next floor, and it's time to crawl at the feet of the gods and wait for the call.But is God so easy to see?There are too many decapitated corpses in the passage, priest, a bloody event that has never disappeared is about to be staged...