My first visit to Tibet, when Ago said, into the temple, have a good look, might be able to find the Deity of God. I do not understand the true Buddha is not God be a good do, how should you find them? Ago back said: "This is not necessarily. You may have, and your original Deity no fate, but something else, and an affinity for God, so that God will change your deity transformed. This thing is between you and the deity of God things, no matter what others say. "He said that he himself still have not found their true deity of God, home of the true Buddha Lama to his calculation what God is a King, but every time he read the King, they all thought What is it wrong. He said he looked just feel Milarepa it seemed to his eyes, but not deity, he is uncertain.
Tibetan Buddhism in the 'comfortable' often makes me elated that this be regarded as an example. If we say that Tibetan Buddhism is a religion, then, in my understanding of religion, in addition to India's civil society, religious influence and mixed with each other during a certain degree of tolerance shown by surprise outside of Tibetan Buddhism, for me and other small People who can be regarded as the freest and most humane religion. The rules do not say Islam, notes the shackles of Christianity, Buddhism, and there is no fatalism burden. Buddhism stresses the origins bluntly, is this: something timeless, relative dependence, change and persistent, everything has to consult. So I was in Lhasa, where the major front of the temple deities are flirting, and occasionally a guilty conscience will respect were Boli, by the way of getting a sign to see who want to be my deity of God. Finally one day, sitting in the Potala Palace, a Thangka Manjushri to me on the call. He said, do not waste time, no substitutions, or I.
In accordance with the Tibetans say, the common Tibetan Deity God is Kwan-yin, a common Chinese Deity God is Manjusri. I am a Han Chinese, are naturally subject to Manjusri's to look after them, and according to the algorithm Han Buddhism, my deity happens to be also Monju. In Tibetan Buddhism, seated in his right hand, sword in his left hand held out a Diamond Sutra of the Lotus, suggesting that prestige and power of wisdom and knowledge of the purity of the sacred. My desk at home in Beijing, will be available for the Monju, hoping to discern the direction of wisdom, to be true knowledge.
Why is the Han Chinese deity is Monju? Tibetans explanation is: a good Chinese chicanery narrow field of vision, easy to go astray, which is caused by lack of knowledge and wisdom paranoia. Therefore, as the deity Manjusri Chinese should learn profound knowledge and an open mind, to avoid endless wrangling over the details of things. The Tibetan deity of Goddess of Mercy, it is because Tibetans naturally combative, Guanyin express true colors of things, teach people compassion altruism. I personally think that these explanations justified.
October 2002 at midnight, three in Lhasa, Kham young people to do business the way from Beijing, Mary Hall out of a capsule, Lu-yu another group of young Tibetans, one of whom identified Chou Jia, the two sides quarrel over the open space somewhere in a duel Meet accordingly. Duel at the end of one people were killed and two others seriously wounded taken to hospital. The police for questioning, after investigation, will remain at the scene were brought to the police station. Braved the red lights in a jeep through the dark the Potala Palace Square, from the driver to the suspects, without exception, for the palace of the mountains to pray out loud, the content is naturally quite different.
Back to the police station, the police set the centering head He Lekou tea and then say, I am talking about the number of times, with the contradictions must be good that the experience can not be resolved to come to us and said a gentleman I did not move hands-on, and then difficult problems, legal and government help you all settled. What is the age now, and can not be similar to elders in the countryside, as the former pulled out a knife stabbed began to chop kill. That Tsering died early this year has only just released, Chengguan things that have him, this time to say too late. You have these people, their heads are filled with Han things?
Tibetans have something in mind in the end, this is actually a very simple question. Their minds what is heaven, is the simplest of natural relationships. Tsering slander in the dispute a few years ago a man was in prison. After I got out, he took part in the Chengguan District, held a friend's wedding last Choujia Unfortunately encountered. Tsering said, I have something for Let sit for several years jail, and Chou Jia said that it was the police looking for trouble you run your own unhappiness was caught, it does not matter to me, and now is the time let's accounts. So also is a fierce battle, Choujia once again at a disadvantage. Tsering is now dead, Chou Jia did not go much better, but regardless of living dead, they really be regarded as temporarily calm. And Tsering had no sons, Choujia if we can survive in the hospital, the next rest of my life should not fear. As for the legal sanction, it is another matter.
Rule of law is a complete set of social institutions, but it is only those who have already taken place within the system normative role. If everyone consciously abide by the law, the police and the army would not exist. In modern society, because of personal life is considered to be the most valuable, however limited, freedom will be pursued, regulate the conditions for free then. The law to everyone shows the results of various acts, or Yue-choice. The presentation of this choice so that everyone is careful in order not to violate the rights of others, which have their own passive freedom. So, know how to choose the members of modern society, know how to bypass, know what is the price. Tibetans are different. For Tibetans, the mountains and rivers is a direction, wind is the source of life energy in reincarnation to be malleable, others are changing all the small elements, are short and can be discarded, including their own lives. These factors are due to come and go, why to use external force to bind them?
One time in the Potala Palace Square on the idle away the sun walked was spent, they stand in their original fixed, forget that he wants. At this time someone behind me was pushing harder than me, I looked back and is a woman on crutches. She gasped, his mouth kept repeating something, looked at me very sad, it would mean is that you block me so much with the nerve of people Tao! I was that gas呀: Large noon, a huge square, in addition to the sun Let's both, which side you are old scene from simply moving left to right No, to come to hit my little girl of heat stroke? Later I went to Abdallah Yamashita Park, opposite the teahouse where to hide the sun, sweet tea drink of two dollars, his mind still do not understand, feels like being forced to eat a piece of stone. Back later to see Ago, I told him things said, the Ago laughs and says, this must be the grassland people to the pilgrimage. They used to walk on the prairie, and came to the city streets, to see in front of someone, do not know how to respond. You are not the tree, you are not mountains, why she should be around you go? Amdo grasslands slack to Lhasa, pilgrims every year, he saw the car coming and going street pedestrians do not know how to do, all have families to support or even a village staff pulling in front of the gown pulled into a bunch of people go, barreling, and They also had to give way to see the car.
I heard later, I feel nothing more to say. We hide car, is a fear of being run over by vehicles; we hide people, in fact, in order to avoid collision or avoid direct contacts with injuries. Tibetans mind forthright and does not know what kind of possibility exists, walking handy just to walk, other Yigai do not want to, this does not do is also quite good?
However, according to Buddhist theory, everything is temporary, everything can change, and is bound to change. Tibet itself is no exception.
Realistically speaking, on the one hand, the process of urbanization in Tibet will inevitably speed up the completion of Qinghai-Tibet Railway, Tibet had always become accustomed to car to drive to the street, the rule of law society and the acceptance of modern life is only a matter of time. When the majority of Tibetans are aware that "equal opportunities" the meaning of, and actually has a lot of their own material wealth, they will find that the difference reflected the property of "self" and "other people" the difference, they will use various possibilities to expand or at least maintain this distinction, at the same time upset a short life. Law-abiding people in this land will only increase, they may even take the initiative to promote the improvement of the law. The process of natural selection theory of evolution in the most economic activity through the expression and completion.
On the other hand, both natural factors to consider, or the current local human resources, no matter what the implementation, management and operation system, not an independent Tibet itself, the ability to modernize. This condition has produced two kinds of constraints on the phenomenon: The Government vigorously modern education and training in the future be able to take on heavy responsibilities in all aspects of talent, while the introduction of a large number of foreign capital, developing resources and transform nature, to enhance local people's living standards. Modernizing the education of Tibetans will undoubtedly challenge the traditional ways of thinking, but the result of education after all, is delayed, the moment the situation in Tibet makes the transport development and the large number of people to work in Tibet is a must. And Tibetan traditions of different cultures will increasingly affect the in-depth piece of old and young of the land. People from outside their ancestral to the Tibetans had not seen the show fresh things, a variety of lifestyles possibility of gradually understanding the Tibetans. The world, yet one hundred percent successful precedent for the protection of minority cultures, because they were protected from ethnic minorities are at a very weak economy, all kinds of information are one-way flow from outside to inside, outside influences can not be avoided.
The existence of and changes to all the Buddhist interpretation are reasonable, no fault-free pair. However, when the means become the end, forcing mankind down the other extreme departure from the philosophy of Buddhism, the Buddhist theory of it irretrievably farther and farther from reality. By that time, Buddhism will become accepted by modern people are not abstract theory, like some wild refractory Kamba youth simply ignored the law exist? That time, there is the meaning of Buddhism, what is it? Is to save, or show the rationality of the end of mankind? When the evening delighted to Tibet, Lhasa, reported on behalf of young people enthusiastic about the symbols of modernity in Tibet when the Western Hamburg, I wonder if the same time, Tibet was secretly scared about what has been lost.
Is time to talk with the deities have a good time.
Author: mandala
