What does it mean when Tibetans build stone piles?

The stone piles built by Tibetans are called mani piles, which are used for praying for blessings, and mani piles have also become the protective deities of local people.

In Tibet, almost everywhere in the mountains, intersections, lakeside, riverside, you can see an altar made of stone blocks and slabs - Mani Pile. They are also known as "God Piles".

These stone blocks and slabs, most of which are engraved with the six words of truth, wisdom, statues of gods, various auspicious patterns, they are also the masterpieces of Tibetan folk artists. As long as persistent meditation day and night of the six words of truth engraved on the stone, these stones will have a supernatural spirituality, to bring them good luck.

Mani heap, the Tibetan language called "Duo Gang", is the meaning of the base up the stone. "Duo Gang" is divided into two types: "to prevent the obscenity of the disaster Duo Gang" and "suppress the evil Duo Gang".

Mani heaps are mostly piles of white stones, often square or round, placed on mountain tops, mountain passes, road junctions, ferries, lakes, or temples, cemeteries. In Tibetan primitive ideology, people believe that everything has spirituality. The white stone is of course a part of the white worship.

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Legend of Manidu

Tongtian River rushes down from the hinterland of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, and on both sides of it are the Tanggula Mountain Range, and the Bayan-Ka-La Mountain Range of rolling Snowy peaks. On both sides of the peaks, between the grassy beaches, there are piles of rocks scattered. Piece of stone of different sizes, piles of different heights, each piece of stone on the smooth surface, are engraved with neatly handwritten ancient Indian scriptures, which is the Tibetan Plateau, the famous "Mani stone pile" mystery.

Legend has it that when the Tang Monk took the scriptures, he passed through the Tongtian River and was helped by a giant tortoise. The giant tortoise entrusted the Tang monk to the Western Heaven Rulai there to inquire about it, when it can be cultivated. However, when the Tang monk went to the Western Heaven, he was so busy fetching scriptures that he forgot to consult the giant tortoise about becoming immortal.

Taking the scriptures back, and then pass through the river, the giant tortoise again pack Tang monk teacher and disciple across the river, traveling to the middle of the river, ask the trust thing, the Tang monk told the truth, the giant tortoise in a fit of pique, sank to the bottom of the water.

The Tang monk teacher and disciple fell into the water, the sutra all wet. The monk and his disciples fished out the scriptures and put them on the rocks near the river to dry. Fast drying time, a gust of wind blowing, scriptures flying all over the sky, master and disciples tight stop slow grasp, there are still a large number of scriptures scattered on both sides of the Tongtian River. Scriptures scattered, it became the current Mani stone.

Tibetans believe in Buddhism, they will be these Mani stone collection into a pile, composed of a star-studded Mani stone pile landscape. There is also a saying: Mani stone is the Tang monk teacher and disciples of the sunshine stone, wet sutra put on the slate to dry, sutra text printed on the slate formation.

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