Yumbu Lhakhang

Yongbulakan is the first palace in Tibetan history. It has a history of more than 2100 years. It is located on Zhaxi next day mountain 11km southeast of Zedang town. It is named because the mountain is like the hind legs of a doe, and the temple is built on the hind legs: "yongbulakan" is the DOE, "La" is the hind legs, "Kang" is the palace. The scale of the temple is very small, but it stands on the top of the mountain and is very spectacular. Standing on the top of the mountain, the tower has a panoramic view of the Yalong River Valley and the countryside. It is said that when Princess Wencheng first came to Tibet, she would live here with Songzanganbu every summer.

There is a spring named "Gar spring" about 400m northeast of Zhaxi next day mountain. It is said that this spring can cure all kinds of diseases. Most people who come to yongbulakan come here to drink water to clean themselves.

Yumbu Lhakhang

Yongbulakan is located in Zhaxi mountain, 11 kilometers away from Zedang Town, Shannan City, Tibet. "Yongbu" means "female deer", which is named after Zhaxi sub mountain, which looks like a female deer,

"Lacan" means "Temple". Yongbulakan is the first palace in Tibetan history. It was first built in the second century B.C.

During the period of Songzanganbu, the palace was changed into a temple. When Princess Wencheng first came to Tibet, she would live here with Songzanganbu every summer. In the fifth Dalai Lama's time, he built a four corner gold roof on the basis of the original Diaolou style building, and changed it into a yellow temple.

history

Yiyongbulakan is said to be the earliest building in Tibet. At first, it was not a temple, but the palace of the leader of the early Yalong tribe. According to folklore, "the palace is no earlier than yongbulakan, the king is no earlier than nechizanpu, and the place is no earlier than Yalong". Yongbulakan is the palace built by nechizanpu in Yalong.

According to the records of Tibetan kings and ministers, when the first generation of Zanpu niechi Zanpu descended the ladder and walked to the kuangsimen plain of Zantang, he was seen by twelve talented yongzhongben believers who were grazing there and asked where he came from? He pointed to the sky for a reply. They realized that he had been sent down from heaven. That is to say, he was qualified to be the king of Tibet. So they used his shoulder as his throne and lifted him up to the city. Therefore, they called him Nie chizanpu. This is the same thing as chizan boed in the history of Qing Dynasty.

When niechizanpu built yongbulakan, he also explained the hanjiafamen of Xin family in yongzhongben religion with interpretation. In turn, according to the pubasangjie Gyatso calendar algorithm, niechizanpu came to Yalong in the year of Muhu (127 BC), so the beginning of yongbulakan has a history of more than 2100 years. When niezan was in power in the 28th generation of zapratuori, in the year of the water snake (446 AD), "the baibaibaibuzheng confession Sutra, the gold pagoda, the Buddha's six word mantra of Mahayana's solemn King Sutra and jidamanafamen" came down from the top of the palace of yongbulakan from the air and said: "pass it on for another five generations, you will know these sutras.". The fifth generation of Zanpu after ratuozhenezan is Songzanganbu. It is said that Songzanganbu built two-story halls on both sides of the original palace. The bottom floor of the hall is the Buddha Hall, and the second floor is the Fawang hall. At this point, yongbulakan changed from a palace to a temple. Later, it was expanded in all dynasties. Gradually, an additional hall was built in the west of the hall, and a monk's room was built in the south. During the fifth Dalai Lama's reign, he added the four corner zanjian style golden roof to the Diaolou style building. In the 15th century, kezhudunzhu, a disciple of zongkaba, founded riwuqulin in qihuali, north of yongbulakan, and began to manage yongbulakan affairs by the temple. Every year, five lamas are sent to yongbulakan in rotation once a year. Each Lama is given ten grams of highland barley every year until before the democratic reform.

2. After the liberation of Tibet, the party and government attached great importance to the protection of cultural relics. In 1962, yongbulakan was designated as a cultural relics protection unit at the autonomous region level, and funds were allocated for its maintenance. During the ten-year catastrophe, yongbulakan was demolished, and all the statues, murals, and wooden structures were destroyed. Other cultural relics were also lost, leaving only the remnant walls. In 1982, the Shannan District Commission for cultural administration presided over the maintenance of yongbulakan, which lasted more than two years. Now it has basically restored its original appearance.

brief introduction

Yongbulakan, which means "womb" in Tibetan, is the first palace in Tibetan history and one of the earliest buildings in Tibet. It is located in the southeast of Zedang town in Shannan area and towering over the top of Zhaxi mountain on the East Bank of Yalong River. According to legend, it was built by yongzhongben believers in the 2nd century B.C. for the first generation of Tibetan king Nie chizanpu. Later, it became the summer palace of Songzanganbu and Princess Wencheng in Shannan. It was changed into a yellow temple during the fifth Dalai Lama. Yongbulakan is mainly dedicated to Sakyamuni Buddha. The murals in the palace vividly depict the historical story of the first king, the first building and the first cultivated land in Tibet. Yongbulakan is divided into two parts, the front is a multi-storey building, the rear is a square high-rise blockhouse watchtower, connected with the front. In the 5th century A.D., during the period of Tuotuo nianzan, the king of Tibet, it is said that a Buddhist Scripture fell from the sky and fell on the top of yongbulakan palace, which nobody could recognize at that time. Some sages asserted that the book would be read by someone in the 7th-8th century. So this book is well preserved in yongbulakan.

Original name

According to legend, yongbulakan was built in the second century B.C., and niechizanpu, who was dizzy and became the first Tibetan king of Tubo, not only became the "king of England with the neck as the throne", but also got the three-story "red willow Xiangsha Palace" specially built for him. In fact, this story sounds familiar. Generally speaking, it's like the story of someone who suddenly won the grand prize and ran to the "advanced stage" of owning a house and a car. The murals on the second floor of the palace are also painted with this legendary story, which makes people like me admire it. As a result, this palace also became the palace of Zanpu of Tubo in the past dynasties, until the 33rd generation of Zanpu Songzanganbu unified the plateau and moved the king's capital to Lhasa. However, even if she was as wise and powerful as Songzanganbu, she did not forget Yalong, the fundamental place of Tubo, and came back to live from time to time. It is said that Princess Wencheng spent her first summer in yongbulakan after she married to Tibet. Yongbulakan also has a magic point. Since the first generation of niechizanpu, all previous Zanpu took yongzhongben religion as the national protection religion, until the 28th generation of zanpulatori nianzan period. It is said that one day a "divine object" came down from the sky on the top of yongbulakan. There were some scriptures, magic weapons and incantations in it. But at that time, no one knew the wonder of these things. They only knew that they were good things. So they offered them up and named them "Ningbo sangwa", which means secret room. It was not until many years later that some posterity recognized such precious Scriptures as the Sutra of the names of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the chamber of secrets, and realized that in fact, Indian Buddhism had entered Tibet long before the period of matsumzanganbu. Only because the religious power on the ground was too strong at that time, they had to "air drop" and then "ambush" for the future. As a result, the palace became a holy land of Indian Buddhism, a Buddhist temple, a place for many eminent monks to practice their virtues, and a place for many "hidden" discoveries and burials.

Main buildings

Diaolou architecture

It is located in the middle of the east end of the whole building, which is the earliest building built by Nie chizanpu. It is 11 meters high, 4.6 meters long from north to south, and 3.5 meters wide from east to west. The appearance seems to be five layers, but the interior is actually three layers. The first floor is 1.2 meters high and 0.6 meters wide, with a passageway leading to xumizuo on the first floor. On the second floor, there is a small gate leading to the top of the second floor hall. On the third floor, there is the original golden roof added by the fifth Dalai Lama. The building has thick walls and narrow interior. The first floor is only 2.28 square meters, and the second and third floors are only 4.18 square meters. It can not be used as a palace for more than 30 generations of Zanpu. There should be a large area of palace buildings in the early days. It is quite possible that this watchtower style building will be preserved as part of the late palace architecture.

palace

It is said that it was built by Songzanganbu. The original three-story building is now restored to two-story building.

The front half of the first floor is the foyer, and there is a small platform with eaves outside the gate, with more than ten folding steps. The hall is 6.3m from north to South and 5.2m from east to west. The original four pillars are now restored to two. There are no Buddha statues and other furnishings in the hall. Further into the Buddhist hall, 6.3 meters north and south, 9.3 meters east and West, eight pillars. The eastern half is on three sides

The wall is built with a "concave" xumizuo. The original statue has been completely destroyed. According to Wang Yi's notes on the construction of cultural relics in Tibet, it is said that "in the hall, there are three Buddha statues, the north wall is Songzanganbu, the two king statues of chisongdezan, and the south wall is Princess Wencheng and princess Chizun. Besides the statues on both sides, the statues of tunmishanbuza in the north and ludongzan in the south. On the side of sambuza, there are three statues of Manjusri and Changshou, and on the side of ludongzan, there are wooden Shenyu. In the front of the hall, there are eleven statues of Sakyamuni. In addition to the three Buddhas in the middle and nine statues of Tubo king, Queen, king and minister, the rest are added later. In the early days, the nine statues were very exquisite in shape and simple in shape. Ru Shijia's face is wide and short, eyes are narrow and long, and ears are upward, which are the characteristics of early Tibetan sculpture techniques. "According to the original Temple Lama, there are 20 Taras painted on the south side of the temple, and 21 zidamani Taras and eight medicine King sculptures on the north wall.

The second floor FA Wang hall is also divided into two parts, the former front is north and south, the north is empty room, and the south is staircase. The second half of the hall is the same size as the Buddha Hall on the ground floor. In the back wall of the hall, there is a multi lattice Buddha cabinet, in which there are many bronze statues such as Maitreya, zongkaba, Mother Buddha, lianhuasheng, Manjusri and so on. The front is a magic cupboard, and the front is a magic cupboard

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