Batang Celestial Burial Platform

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Batang Celestial Burial Platform also known as the White Tower Celestial Burial Platform, has a history of nearly 1000 years, it was the largest successful Celestial Burial Platform in Kang District, chosen by the founder of the Tibetan Buddhism Direct Gong Gong School in 1100. The celestial burial platform, the most suitable place for thought is life and death. Twins, is a wonderful thing, it is the most wonderful invention of nature, that all things new life course has its own beauty. Every individual will meet many other life in the space of his own life, although we can not have this space, only have the time of life, have the living period, but this is enough to let us feel. The life experience imprinted in the new life space of all things. Death is another door of time, when it opens, life will inevitably return to its final destination, this door closed and merge, deduces life and death in the world. Life is a play, the previous performance will be closed, the last scene will be updated, the curtain opens and closes, the life scene will be transformed. But so is the reincarnation of life. Yes, death is the beginning of life, life is the end of death. Life is death, death is life. This shore and the other shore, is both the distance and the horizon.

The Batang celestial burial platform is located on the southeastern hillside of the Princess Wencheng Temple, which is more than 20 kilometers away from Jiegu Town, where the Yushu Prefecture is located. The "Gengren" Buddhist hall, corpse platform, and dozens of houses for monks and lay people to recite sutras. The Batang celestial burial platform is one of the largest celestial burial platforms in the Kham area selected by the founder of the Zhigong Kagyu Sect of Tibetan Buddhism in 1100 AD. Eight distinguished lotus phases, there are nine treasures in the sky. In the central underground of the celestial burial platform, there are the terminology of "Ten Xiang Zizai" and three mandala of upper, middle and lower. Therefore, it is an ideal place for believers in Batang, Jiegu and other places to carry out celestial burials for thousands of years.

The Batang celestial burial platform is located on the southeastern hillside of the Princess Wencheng Temple, which is more than 20 kilometers away from Jiegu Town, where the Yushu Prefecture is located. The "Gengren" Buddhist hall, corpse platform, and dozens of houses for monks and lay people to recite sutras. ;;; The Batang celestial burial platform is one of the largest celestial burial platforms in the Kham area selected by the founder of the Zhigong Kagyu Sect of Tibetan Buddhism in 1100 AD. It is said to be described in a Buddhist scripture "There are eight lotus phases in the earth, and nine treasures in the sky." In the central underground of the celestial burial platform, there are the terminology of "Ten Xiang Zizai" and three mandala of upper, middle and lower. Therefore, it is an ideal place for believers in Batang, Jiegu and other places to carry out celestial burials for thousands of years.

In fact, there are very few outsiders participating in this celestial burial in Tibetan areas. You can still watch the celestial burial held at Seda Buddhist Academy if you really want to see it. But here you can see the skulls of some people on the celestial burial platform. It is very gloomy. Even if there is blue sky and white clouds, it is still very bloody. The sound of vultures in the distance is still creepy. Mani stones, prayer flags, stupas, all these elements are available, plus some Tibetan chanting sounds, it seems very mysterious in the place.

Looking down along the prayer flags, there is a flat ground under the high slope with many white pagodas and earthen graves. The most striking thing is a large, smoothly ground stone with some axes, scissors and hammers on it. According to the lama, this is the tool used to dismember the corpse, smash the bones on the big rock, and mix the corpse together with the tsampa for the vulture to eat. If the vulture can eat all the corpses, this person can go to heaven after death. On the contrary, this person must have done bad things when he was alive. If he does not accumulate virtue, the vulture will not eat his meat, so the remaining corpses will be The lama will bury them, but they will still be scolded by the Tibetans!