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, was once a place I yearned for and admired very much. It seemed like an independent country of faith, full of mystery and difference. The world’s largest Tibetan Buddhist academy has put this place on the altar, making countless people who are fascinated by Tibetan culture crazy about it.
However, I know a little bit
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Everyone knows that in recent years
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With massive construction projects, a large number of houses have been demolished (also for safety reasons), and the atmosphere of commercialization has become increasingly serious.
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It has gradually become less pure. Many newly built hotels, cranes everywhere, and even department stores, seafood restaurants, karaoke and other foods that are incompatible with this place have destroyed the original sanctity of this land. Regarding this, I can only sigh from the bottom of my heart…
If you want to talk about the highlights of Seda, there are still some, first of all, it is the Buddhist Academy.
At the highest point of the Buddhist Academy, there is a magnificent building - the mandala. The Sanskrit name of the mandala is “Mandala”, which means a dojo where certain sacrificial activities are performed according to Buddhist tantric rituals. It is usually a place where people turn to pray. The upper part is a place for praying, and the lower floor is a prayer wheel. It is said that if you have any disease, you can cure it by turning it a hundred times. Now the mandala has become
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an iconic attraction.
Here you can see monks from the Buddhist academy praying, worshiping, studying, chatting, etc. at any time.
The old monks worshiping… These worshiping movements are very physically demanding even for us young people. It is really hard to think about what supports them to do such things repeatedly every day…
Continue walking up the path in front of the mandala, where you can see a panoramic view of the entire Buddhist academy. Sometimes, you can occasionally see a few monks in this uninhabited highland.
Panoramic view of the Buddhist Academy. I think many people come here because of this picture they saw on the Internet. In a valley, there are thousands of densely packed red houses. I don’t know how many people were shocked!
The tower cranes in the Buddhist academy always make me feel a little disturbed. I feel that the purity and sanctity of the place have been destroyed by these tower cranes.
People with trypophobia must think carefully before coming here, hahaha.
Under the densely packed red wooden squares, there are several local monks sitting.
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One of the most representative cultural landscapes.
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Through the incense burner outside the sutra hall, I saw two faces full of vicissitudes of life and full of faith…
At the gate of the sutra hall, I saw a young monk cleaning the ears of another older monk. It looked like the relationship between a child and his mother, which moved me a little.
When you walk into a Buddhist school, you can see monks sitting on the floor and immersed in studying everywhere.
Some monks like to study together in small groups, while others like to cover their heads with red Tibetan robes and hide in a corner to study alone.
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In such an atmosphere, many tourists will become part of it, quietly find a place to sit down and feel the sacredness of this place.
In addition to Buddhist colleges,
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Another attraction is the sky burial.
This is where a lot of people come
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one of the main purposes.
Now, before the sky burial, you can also visit the sky burial platform.
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The Yama Mountain of the Celestial Burial Platform is now
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The Celestial Burial Platform is a landmark building that represents death and the endless cycle. This one also feels like the King of Hell accepting his fate.
Boy, where are you stepping? What I actually want to say is that if this picture was a tourist, he would probably be turned into a scumbag by the internet moral emperor.
Entering the mouth of the statue of Yama, you can see that it is filled with skulls of the dead, which shows us the meaning of death and impermanence (these skulls outside are all fake).
Before the sky burial begins, you can see many vultures circling from the sky and staying together on the hillside not far from the sky burial platform. The corpses buried in the sky can be said to be their prey!
On the grass above the sky burial platform, there is a cute yak. It should be used to make soy sauce.
Hundreds of vultures stay on the hillside. They are one of the largest birds of prey on the plateau. They generally feed on the carcasses of various mammals and are known as the “cleaners on the grassland.”
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The main feeding targets of sky burials are vultures, because there are sky burials every day, so they don’t have to look for food everywhere.
The dense crowds of vultures circling in the sky give people the illusion that the end of the world is coming.
On the earth, the Sky Burial Master looked calm and composed among the vultures. He seemed to have been used to such scenes for a long time. He completely ignored the pairs of vulture eyes staring at him eagerly and concentrated on chanting sutras and performing sacrifices.
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Regarding the scene of sky burial, I will not show it here. After all, the scene is still very serious, and everyone knows that there is a lot of controversy about this matter on the Internet.
Here I just want to express my feelings about
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Regarding sky burial, I personally think
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Sky burial has actually become a driving force
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It is an important sight in the tourism industry. Many moral emperors always like to take pictures of sky burials. This is extremely funny in my opinion. Tibetan law clearly stipulates that it is prohibited to watch or take photos of sky burials. Therefore, when many people who watch sky burials say that those who photograph sky burials are 100% laughing at them. Besides, if you want to prevent people from watching,
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All the government needs to do is simply close the roads…
In addition, I personally don’t understand how sacred sky burials are. Visiting sky burials is purely a curiosity for me. Many people read some introductions about sky burial on the Internet, and after understanding the meaning of sky burial, they claim to understand sky burial, understand life and death, and empathize with others. Isn’t this a bit too superficial and funny? In my opinion, everything becomes meaningless when a person dies. I really cannot agree with this kind of advocacy of “there is a level in death”.
in addition,
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The winter of winter also has a special flavor, and I think that the winter after college
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, will make people feel the purity here again.
On the snow, a Tibetan man walked past the White Pagoda with a group of yaks. Let me see the sacredness and purity of this land again.
At the Buddhist Academy, you can see the red houses covered with thick snow after heavy snowfall, as well as the red figures walking on the snow-white ground.
Along the newly built plank road, we walked towards the highest point of the Buddhist Academy. On the way, we could also see some students from the Buddhist Academy walking out of the red houses next to us.
This pure land shocked us again.
after heavy snow
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, as if to remind us that this is still the sacred pure land, a place where the soul can be purified.

At the end of this article, I just want to say that I hope all pure beauty can last forever in this world… There should be more places like this in this world…

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