Chapter 777: Tsa Tsa Buddha

Compared with the previous situation, the tomb situation in front of me has indeed undergone tremendous changes.

The tomb passage is wider than before, but not long, only about four or five meters long. At the end of the tomb passage, a huge open space suddenly opens up, and the area is far larger than what we have seen before.

The tomb chamber, especially the height, is even more astonishing, almost three to five times the tomb chamber we have seen before. At first glance, it looks like a "tower"-shaped space has been dug underground.

Excavating such a space underground is not on the same level of difficulty as digging a tomb chamber. Whether it is the materials used or the stress design, if something is slightly wrong, it will collapse after a short time of support. It is even easy for a landslide to bury the craftsman during the excavation.

Inside.

As far as I know, unless it is someone with a very special status during their lifetime, such a structure is generally not adopted.

Compared to the entire tomb, this tower-shaped area seems very abrupt and tasteless.

At least, I don't see the use of expending huge efforts to dig out such a place.

It is not a tomb, but it is not a tomb, and there is no coffin or other things. It is not true to say that it is for feng shui or to benefit the dead. Anyway, I don't see the use of this aspect.

A cross-shaped corridor runs through the entire open area. The corridor is made of white marble. After exiting the tomb passage and walking along the corridor, there is a heavy tomb door in front of it. The tomb door is no different from what we have seen before.

It is much wider and majestic, and there are reliefs on it, but after all, it is a door made of filled steel. After the ravages of time, the relief cannot be said to be lifelike. It is just a rusty lump. However, looking at the shape, you can vaguely guess what the carving is.

Dragon, there is no doubt that behind the door is the main tomb chamber.

The left and right sides of the corridor should lead to other relatively critical tomb chambers.

No matter how you look at it, this tower-shaped underground space is just an overuse. It's useless, but it takes a lot of effort. To build such a place is like taking off your pants and farting. It's unnecessary. Only people who have their heads caught in the door can do it.

It would be a waste of time and effort to do something like this, so it would be better to just build two tomb passages.

Therefore, I instinctively felt that this tower-shaped space was strange, and I felt the desire to explore it, so I walked forward quickly.

One thing I have to admit is that with the addition of such a place, it does look a lot more luxurious.

Just the two corridors decorated with white marble are very eye-catching at a glance, not to mention that the tower-shaped space is still shining with stars and lights, as if the walls are inlaid with countless luminous pearls and gems, and the corridors are mutually exclusive.

Echoing, the indescribable wealth is compelling.

No wonder Brother Yao Zi said that this scale and posture are more than enough to bury an emperor.

However, when you really step into this place, the so-called wealth and wealth become like a mirror and disappear in an instant.

The walls are not made of luminous pearls and gems. They are full of pits. There are hundreds of pits all over the wall. The pits seem to be some reliefs or something. The carvings are all figures, and the eyes are decorated with some phosphorescent substances.

, looking from a distance, it feels like a vast starry sky.

I jumped over the white marble guardrail and got closer to the holes in the wall to look at them.

Each pit is only over a foot high and about 20 centimeters deep. It is indeed a relief carving inside, and it contains various Buddha statues...

This appearance is somewhat similar to the Thousand Buddha Cave in Mogao Grottoes.

I stepped back a little, looked up at the tower-like space structure, and my heart moved slightly.

"This is Tsa Tsa! It's a Buddhist cave!"

Fu Huicheng's voice rang in my ears: "What's going on with this tomb? It's obviously the tomb of a royal vassal of the Li and Tang Dynasties, but why did it inexplicably escape from a Buddhist cave?"

I came back to my senses and asked, "What is Tsa Tsa?"

"Takasa Buddha! How to explain this..."

Fu Huicheng scratched his head and said: "The word Tsa Tsa is said to originate from the dialect of central and northern India. It is a transliteration of Sanskrit from Tibetan. It probably means 'copy'. It is actually a kind of clay.

Clay Buddhas or clay pagodas are not big in size. The smaller ones are about the same size as a human thumb, and the larger ones are no more than a foot long. The one we see in front of us is already a big Tsa Tsa Buddha. This thing is usually placed inside the pagoda.

Yes, only a very small part will be placed in Mani piles and Buddhist niches. However, this thing appeared relatively late, probably only in the seventh to ninth centuries. At that time, it happened to be the Tubo period in history, that is,

During the early propagation period of Buddhism, the Tsa Tsa Buddhas at that time were still very rough, basically made of clay, and not many of them have been preserved. By the 17th century, this thing was considered to be a mature and serious thing."

With that said, Fu Huicheng reached into the cave and grabbed a handful of the Tsa Tsa Buddha. This thing had only one shape left. As soon as he grabbed it, he grabbed a handful of loess foam and looked at it carefully with a flashlight.

After a while, he said with a smile: "Looking at the appearance and shape, this should be the earliest Tsa Tsa Buddha. However, the material is rare. This should be regarded as Tsa Tsa Buddha's cloth, which is wiped with soil.

It is made of salt from the blood of the living Buddha and some precious Tibetan medicines. Folks even think that this thing can be used as medicine. However, the early Tsa Tsa Buddhas have not been seen made of this material. If this thing is to be put on the market,

I guess anyone who has no eyesight will regard it as a fake!

However, I have heard this saying that when some living Buddhas in Buddhism who went out to preach the Dharma died in a foreign country, they did not have time to build many Buddha statues when building tombs, so they would burn this large-sized Tsa Tsa Buddha and make a Buddha cave.

The shape of the tomb is also like a tower!”

I nodded, and what he said came to my heart. I had also heard this statement before, and it was exactly this idea that came to my mind just now.

"Times have changed and things have changed. You cannot look at things from the past through the eyes of now."

I said: "What you said is correct now, but Lao Fu also said that this is the earliest Tsa Tsa Buddha from the seventh century AD. At that time, we were still in the Tang Dynasty here, and Xue

The Tibetan Plateau was still under the rule of Tibet. During that period, burials were really popular there. In fact, the burial system has been around for a long time. There are many tombs from the Neolithic period there, which shows that burials were popular there during the Neolithic period.

During the period of Tubo rule, burial was the most noble funeral mode. The Tubo royal family's replicas are still in Shannan today. The funeral rituals are complex and there are many burial objects, which all show the glory of the burial system at that time. However, in the ninth century AD

In the 19th century, civilian slaves in Tubo rioted and destroyed many tombs. With the change of political power, the once noble things were trampled into the soil, and burials became the lowest funeral situation today. There is such a thing in between

A sudden change of history.

The tomb we see in front of us, with its tower-like structure, is one of the highest-standard tombs!"

Zhang Xinya thought for a while and said: "In other words, we have now left the tomb of King Jiangxia and ran into another tomb?"

I pointed at the tomb door of the main tomb and said with a smile: "No, it's still in the tomb of Jiangxia King Li Chengyu. It can be seen from the poison pit before that the geomantic omen of the place where we are now is probably very domineering, and people gather together.

The children were buried inside, forming a huge tomb group. The tombs were intertwined, and it was normal for some overlaps to occur. Li Chengyu, the king of Jiangxia, was the latest to arrive. As a result, when construction started, he found that the underground was already full of people.

Fortunately, there was a monk who stayed alive and slept in the spot they had spotted. With the Li and Tang royal family’s peeing habits, how could this be tolerated? Then they simply invited the old monk out, and they came to visit Jiuzhanque.

It's a pity that the tomb has been dug into the shape of a Buddhist cave. They can't dig out all these Buddhas, right? Then the tomb will be impossible to see. It's full of pits. I don't know, I thought I had the pockmarks left by smallpox.

Well, they don’t look good on people, and they are short of things when placed in tombs, which damages luck, so we can only keep these Tsa Tsa Buddhas and then repair them..."

Zhang Xinya was dumbfounded and murmured: "Can such an operation be possible? This... won't something happen if you do this?"

"Of course there are some problems. You were sleeping peacefully at home. Suddenly, a group of burly men broke in. Without saying a word, they picked you up from the bed and threw you out. Afterwards, they even said that this was their house.

Can you let it go?"

I sighed: "I just hope they will be more polite when they invite the old monk out, otherwise it's hard to say what will happen if the main tomb is uneasy..."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a muffled "rumbling" sound.

I thought someone had touched the tomb mechanism, so I immediately became alert. I looked back at everyone, and they all looked at each other in shock!

Lao Bai shouted with self-awareness: "I didn't do anything..."

No one paid attention to him. After a brief moment of astonishment, everyone's eyes were fixed on the tomb door.

But I saw that the tomb door that no one had touched was slowly opening...
Chapter completed!