Today is October 5 in the morning visit the Potala Palace, the sky gloomy. Some Tibetan prayer wheels along the hand forward to turn clockwise turn around the Potala Palace. Station wagon from the temple next to a cement road drag us into the back door to visit the Mid-Levels from the temple. As slept well for several days, my spirit of the extreme poor, tired, anxious to immediately back to the hotel fell down asleep. We followed the guides inside the mosque and turn, You explained what I do not remember, just remember reading this Buddha Look at the Buddha, out of the hall into the hall and that, like the same revolving door. Head milling around everywhere, and many Tibetans carrying the same bag as the packaging of butter milk pious butter lamps to the Buddha under the tanks, and the Buddha on the stage to donate a few cents.
Back to the hotel after the noon break the spirit of a good many, from 3 pm to visit the Jokhang Temple.
Jokhang Temple in Lhasa Old City's most striking buildings, is dedicated to Nepal Red Songtsan to bring the Buddha statue Princess 8-year-old built like a. This is a seven century old buildings, covers an area of 25.1 thousand square meters, existing in Tibet the most brilliant period of building a Tufan. Jinding front wheel and two deer lying is that it is an important symbol.
Jokhang Temple positive porch there are many devout believers prostrate body of the knock of the long head, prostrate underway, and from another volts. They cover the palm of your hand leather or wood, the ground covered with pad. Stood next to a number of baggage, there are white-haired old people, but also middle-aged, many of them are in Qinghai, Sichuan and Tibetan pilgrims come.
Jokhang Temple Square, people coming and going, there are shaking turn prayer wheels and carrying baggage Tibetans, there are many Chinese and foreign tourists. Next to the famous Jokhang Temple, the street was crowded, there is a Tibetan architecture, shops everywhere, pedestrians, such as weaving.
Komago guide led us into the Jokhang Temple inside, for a homogeneous ear short hair, round face, big eyes, wearing jeans, a Tibetan girl said: "You give us guides, I will give you 20 yuan, will you?" "I speaks English well, or do you talk about it. "" You're the line. "" Well, I can not accept your money. "The little girl agreed. Our hearts are whispered: this little girl talk right?
I did not expect a little girl He holds the hands of the command flag from the tour suddenly became serious and as an adult, in all seriousness introduce the Jokhang Temple, but also speaks Tingxiang going on, rhythmic. Into the hall to visit, she is the 8 by stressed: "into the temple to respect the Buddha, are not allowed to wear a hat; 2 are not allowed to wear dark glasses; three Buddhist statues are not allowed to finger pointing, can only refer to the palm." And stretch out of hand gestures. Looked at both naive and mature a little girl, we are curious.
Enter into the Temple, the appearance of precocious little girl surprised us. She did not consent by the tour guides neatly pulled the flags on the flagpole when the baton. She explained quite professional standards, both fluent in another well-organized. But also on our very strict requirements from time to time holding a baton pointing to counting the people, not one less. Found someone not keep up or watch something else, she would tiger face was not polite to say: "You come listen!" Was the critics always laughingly to obediently follow. I used to go out with the regiment also has dozens of travel, and had never seen such a homogeneous group but then listened carefully guided tours. This little girl really have the means.
Sometimes a naive little girl moves to make us laugh. Serious when she talks abruptly and inexplicably the baton knock a person's head, I thought that the tour did not seriously listen to what was learned. We are looking the other one and saw a strange young man Bao Zhuotou to avoid. The original guide the youth is also a temple, she was joking with him. Turn led inside the mosque when we saw a monk after, she suddenly crashed into the monk's bottom after "Haha!" Soon as fled to. Some of the monks to the angry, and also learned to that. Attracted us burst into laughter.
Terauchi forbidden to take pictures everywhere notices affixed. In a statue, she said seriously: "You can be here for photography." "In the temple permitted to take photographs." We say. "I said OK on the line!" See we're not moving, from a tour in the hands He holds the camera move to and fro in front of a statue would be taken up. A monk came to stop will not help.
She is also very stubborn, when the tour guide explain the discrepancy between Komago to move her, she always insists that right.
I think this little girl is very strange, to Komago about her situation. Xiao Sun said that the child is only 12 years old, did not attend school. In the past, begging money in front of the Jokhang Temple, the monastery monks see her again bright poor people, then let her into the Temple study guides, and now also a few simple spoken English.
After the visit, Komago gave her 20 yuan, and she accept it and then pass a pair of water Lingling, seems a sly eyes, said: "This money is not what I want is to give my mother for medical treatment."
I would like to learn more about this little girl, and she talked it up. She pointed to her transfer had been around for about six or seven of the boys, said: "This is my brother, his hungry, eat something." "Well, you took me to buy something to eat."
Si Wai came to a shop, and she want to be blunt, a lot of chocolate. She told me that she called Sonam, and has repeatedly stressed that "Long" is not a satyr of "crying wolf." Afraid I do not know, there is a finger in my palm gestures of "Lang" is used. She said with a former study guide Han aunt, his father has passed away, my mother was sick at home. Income varies from 20 yuan a day, as many as 500 yuan. But she did not mention the past Siwai begging for money, things.
Back to the Jokhang Temple, she took my camera: "Uncle, I'll give you photography." Continuous took me a good few. In a small shop, she took two cans to soft drinks, handed the jar to the next to the mosque young male tour guide: "You give money." "She was always in such a paying for." The tour guide took the soda helpless said to me. Solange took out a pile of money out of the day's income and a 50 yuan said to me: "This is you give, and this money, I give the mother for medical treatment."
A few days later, I went to the Jokhang Temple, I saw wearing a light green coat of Solange and her brother in the temple, we walked over: "Solange, but also recognize me?" "Uncle, I remember that!" She immediately ran over. Perhaps the habit of action, and she seemed to reach out and ask me for money. "I do not give off it?" She smiled shyly Suzhuobozi. I said: "We have a photo please?" "Yes." She laughingly over arm around my waist and my photo. I gave her camera, she made odd movements, the collapse in the left leg and right foot on the rickety camera to me.
If Solange have the opportunity to go to school with her wisdom, there may be a better future.
Author: zzy988
