After living in Lhasa for a few days, I suddenly felt a little boring after calming down. I should go out for a walk and discuss with my friends to go to the nearest Shannan. I want to go to Yumbulakang, and my friend wants to go to Ramlacuo , friends in Lhasa suggested that we go to Samye Monastery, which is the first monastery in Tibet with complete Buddhist scriptures and monks, but the journey to Samye Monastery will be more difficult. Get off at the ferry of Samye Monastery, wait for the ferry boat to cross the Yarlung Zangbo River, and then transfer to the tractor of the local Tibetans before getting off the boat. My friends in Lhasa didn’t expect that we two were not normal people. As soon as we heard what he said, we immediately decided to go to the Samye Monastery (this article happened in 2011, and now the transportation to the Samye Monastery is very convenient. You can drive directly from Lhasa. two hours' drive away).
When we arrived at the Western Suburb Bus Station, we bought a bus ticket to the Samye Monastery Ferry. After passing the Yarlung Zangbo River, not far from the widest point, the driver stopped the car and asked us to get off at a seemingly desolate place, saying that the ferry had arrived. , we repeatedly confirmed with him that this is the ferry to the Samye Monastery, and he said yes, this is the ferry to the Samye Monastery! After getting off the bus, I turned a corner to the river, and found that it was really a ferry, but it was just a coincidence. The last ferry had just left for five minutes, and the next ferry had to wait for another three hours. My friend and I stared at each other and started. I regretted the time spent in ink with the driver in the car just now, otherwise I would have caught up with this boat.
The ferryman at the ferry saw that we were talking fiercely, so he asked us if we were in a hurry to cross the river. If so, he could give us a ride to catch the ferry. Then he started yelling toward the river, and the ferry boat seemed to understand, and stopped on the river. He hurriedly greeted my friend and I to board his boat, and then boarded the ferry. Brother Ferry was obviously a little unhappy because we were delayed for a while. Before we sat down, he came over and asked us to make up the fare. We thought he would open his mouth like a lion, but in the end he just said viciously: ten yuan per person, twenty yuan for two people, give the money quickly.
After getting off the ferry, the tractor driver who was not very enthusiastic was waiting for us at the ferry. He bought the ticket first and then got on the bus. It cost 10 yuan a person to pull directly to the gate of Samye Monastery. There were about 20 people sitting and standing in the back of a tractor. After hitting the tractor, a whole cart of people staggered towards the Samye Monastery. Although they were in Tibet, they had the feeling of being in India in a trance. Fortunately, the time is not too long. We arrived at the Samye Monastery. Although the Samye Monastery looks like an ordinary temple now, if you think that it is the first temple in Tibet and was built 1300 years ago, you will definitely feel incredible. . The Sanye in the Sanye Monastery means incredible in Tibetan. According to legend, when the Sanye Monastery was built, people who saw him would involuntarily say incredible, incredible, so the name of the Sanye Monastery spread.
The entire temple of Samye Temple faces south from the north. The plane of the temple is elliptical. It is laid out according to the world structure in Buddhist scriptures. It looks like a long courtyard and covers an area of about 25,000 square meters. The Samye Temple was built on the basis of the Odanda Bodhi Temple built in Magadha by the Balo Dynasty in ancient India. Although it was rebuilt many times due to fires in later generations, the architectural pattern has always maintained the style of the original construction.
The layout of the entire temple is designed according to the structural layout of the "Big Thousand Worlds" in Buddhist scriptures and built according to the mandala of Tantric Buddhism: the Uzi Hall represents Mount Sumeru, the center of the world, and the four halls around the hall represent the mountains in the four salty seas. The four major continents and the eight small continents, the Sun and Moon halls symbolize the two temples of the sun and the moon in the universe, and the temple wall symbolizes the Tiewei mountain on the periphery of the world; four red, white, green, and black pagodas are built around the main hall to township. Subdue all evil gods and demons to prevent natural disasters and man-made disasters. There is a gate on each side of the wall, and the east gate is the main gate. Samye Temple will only charge for entering the main hall. If you do not enter the main hall, there will be no charge. Tickets are 50/person.
After coming out of Samye Monastery, it was still early, so we decided to walk around before returning to Lhasa. While drinking tea at the entrance of Samye Temple, I met a few tourists from Guangdong, and they said they were going to the Qingpu practice site. It is said that this is a more primitive, mysterious and unknown place than Seda and Yaqing Temple. My friends and I had nothing to do, so we chartered a van with them. Maybe it's because we didn't say hello and make an appointment for a visit, or it's possible that this style of behavior has always been here. After we entered, we didn't see a practitioner. Later, we learned from fellow tourists that the people here are really doing secret cultivation, and they are all forbidden to speak.
So although there are many practitioners here, we can actually see very few practitioners. Well, since that's the case, we won't bother you Juemu's Qingxiu. After coming out of the Qingpu practice site, I found that there was no bus to Lhasa (the bus from Samye Monastery to Lhasa first went south and crossed the Yarlung Zangbo Bridge, and then went back to Lhasa. It usually stopped at 2 o'clock in the afternoon) On the contrary, there is still a regular shuttle bus to Shannan Zedang. My friend and I thought we should go to Shannan to spend the night, and then hurriedly ended our trip to the Samye Monastery and Qingpu practice site.
