Uncover the horror of Tibet's short door and the secret custom of starting a corpse (Photos)

Lhasa, Rikaze, Linzhi and other areas of the residential door are very short. Even if the magnificent pavilion, its ground floor door is still shorter than the standard door less than one-third shorter. Unless it is a child, the average person has to bend low to get in and out. And the doorway terrain within the low outside high inward in a slow slope shape, so that it looks more like the door of the room is short of a surprise, giving a person a room with the door of the proportion of a serious dissonance of the feeling.

Since the democratic reform, large-scale demolition, from the old-style short door has been left. But at present in Lhasa Barkhor Street can still see the old-style short door houses. This is indeed a mystery to the uninformed, perhaps you will think: "This is not a design error, right?" This is not the case.

First, the origin of the short door houses

The construction of the short door houses is actually a means of preventing the intrusion of walking corpses. "Walking corpse" is the Tibetan language "weak Lang" refers to the dead and then get up to wander around, endangering the living. The so-called "weak Lang" is neither resurrection nor fraudulent corpse. Tibetan said "weak Lang", that is, some evil or hunger after death, its remaining sins are not finished, the heart of the regret, so different from the death of the body to complete the evil after life of the remaining sins or to seek unearned food. But it must be realized in a state where the body is intact. In this way, the Tibetan burial custom itself provides an excellent opportunity to raise the corpse.

In Tibet, especially in towns, no matter what people die, and not immediately sent to the sky funeral pyre to feed the eagle, but first in their homes for a few days to ask the monks to chant prayers, superdeath, sent to the birth of a series of funeral activities, the body at home at least three to seven days before burial. If the body, generally have during this period.

Second, the omen of the corpse

Many old men and sky burial masters said that they have seen the corpse, and seen many times. However, they are not sudden, but there is an omen beforehand. Those who are going to get up the corpse, its face swells, the color of the skin is purple and black, hair up, blisters on the body, and then slowly open their eyes to sit up, and then get up and raise their hands straight towards the front of the run all the corpse has a **** the same characteristics: that is, they will not speak, will not bend down, and will not turn around each, and even eyeballs will not be able to rotate, but can only stare straight ahead, and the body also straight forward run. If you meet a living person, the corpse will use the stiff hand "touch the top", so that the living person immediately died at the same time also become a corpse.

This bizarre and horrifying effect is limited to the body of a living person, and is ineffective on other animals.

It is often said that there are five types of necrophilia: the first skin up, the second flesh up, these two types of necrophilia, is the role of its skin or flesh up. The third type is called "blood up", this type of corpse by its blood for. These three types of corpses are easier to deal with. As long as the knife, gun, arrows and other implements to poke its skin and flesh, so that the blood out of the corpse can make the corpse immediately fall to the ground and no longer endanger people. The fourth is called "bone up", that is, the main factors leading to this kind of corpse in its bone, only to wound its bone can deal with. The fifth type is called "Mole Rising", which means that the cause of his rising corpse lies in a certain mole on his body. This is the most difficult type of corpse to deal with, and it will go around harming people before hitting the mole. Therefore, it can only be bait and can not be caught.

According to legend: once upon a time, a Tibetan temple presided over the death of the whole temple monks will be placed in the temple's body in the hall, and then we sit in the temple day and night chanting prayers, for three days and three nights without closing their eyes, on the third night, those who read exhausted monks can not help but fall asleep, snoring like thunder. One of the timid little monks was sleepless because of KB's heart, staring at the master's body. In the second half of the night, he suddenly realized that the zombie had actually sat up. The little monk was so scared that he forgot to wake up the monks and rushed out of the door and rebutted the door of the temple to run for his life. As a result, the whole temple hundreds of monks overnight all turned into a corpse. Fortunately, they can not rush out of the temple door, just in the temple rampage, make a big mess.

Later, a hermit with unlimited magic power found that unmanageable scene, he was wearing a robe, holding a magic weapon, reciting incantations, a single person came to the front of the temple, opened the temple door and danced a divine dance, dancing while walking slowly towards the front, and all the corpses were also in the back of the dance while keeping up with him. Gradually they came to a river, the hermit will lead the corpses to the wooden bridge, and then took off the robe and threw it into the river, so the corpses have followed the robe and jumped into the heart of the river and never got up.

Whether it is reality or legend, this undoubtedly casts a kind of invisible pressure on the hearts of the Tibetan people. In order to prevent the terrible corpse rushed into, according to the corpse can not bend the characteristics of the special design and construction of the kind of short door of the house, is to the corpse set up obstacles.

Of course, in those ancient times, this kind of preventive measures against corpses were only used in the south and east of Tibet where there were houses, and in the vast area of north Tibet, especially the herdsmen living in the border area of Coco-Colli, this kind of precautionary measures could not be used, and the herdsmen were also often afraid to live their lives

Third, the hometown of corpses

Famous for its high altitude, cold and lack of water, Coco-Colli area is a place of great importance. Coco Sicily region due to the lack of water and grass in the cold and lack of oxygen, living in this area of the pastoral people, due to environmental compulsion, can only wander around, living by the water and grass, three days to move a home, all year round in the nomadic state. There is no stable place to live, there is no fixed funeral pyre after death. At the same time, there is no temple in these areas, no monks, not to mention those complicated funeral rituals, people generally practiced wild burial and abandonment of burial. Wild burial is that after the death of a person, the body will be stripped naked and thrown in the wild, where the death of which side, thrown in which side. Abandonment of burial means that after the death of a person, the living family members to pull out the tent to move away, the deceased abandoned in the old site.

Where the use of this burial method is generally a disrobing, he was covered by the clothes of the original cover in the body of the deceased, looks like a living person sleeping.

This nomadic tribal burial practices are more likely to cause the body. Although they can not build a short door to prevent the rise of the corpse, but people also have no other way to take some appropriate measures. For example, when a body, especially one that shows signs of rising, is left in the field, it is tied to a natural stone or boulder with a rope to prevent the body from running off and harming others. Nevertheless, there are still many cases of dead bodies. There are also people who have encountered dead bodies. Example one, Ando County Sima Township Clerks Zaduo (this person in the past is a robber), one year he rode a horse with a knife to the northwestern part of the Naqu Na Cang Tribe (now the jurisdiction of the county of Nyima) to rob a horse. He snatched a good horse, a ride a lead to set off on the return journey in a hurry. Continuously run a few days and nights after the evening of the day, in an open and unoccupied place to dismount, with more heat (northern Tibetan herdsman language, meaning the long rope used for tethering horses) will be two horses with the tether on a small stake, sitting cross-legged on the stake side of the fire burning tea (which is the habit of all the robbers), would like to be in the cover of night to let the horse to eat a bit of grass, and also add to fill the hungry flat stomach, I do not expect that the two hungry horses did not eat grass, but only care about the The two hungry horses did not eat grass, but only focused on looking at his back in fear, nostrils even roar. Zado puzzled to look back, only a few steps away from him, standing a naked zombie, as if a beast of prey staring at himself, left leg is also tied a hair rope, where the intention of tethering, did not see, perhaps because of the extreme nervousness of the sake of it. Without thinking, he turned on his horse and fled. In the hazy moonlight he could clearly see that the corpse had caught up with him. About five kilometers away, there is a small hill, ten herdsmen live under the mountain. As a bandit Zado naturally can not be found, so he circled around the mountain and up to the top of the mountain to hide, his heart is still "fluttering" jumping around. About a quarter of an hour later, heard the pastoral village under the mountain people shouting dogs barking one after another, he understood in his heart is up corpse into the village. He mounted his horse and flew back to his hometown. Those tented pastoral villages with neither houses nor short doors were attacked by corpses, and the end could be imagined!

Example two, Ando County, the color of the township chief Babu went to that warehouse tribal theft of horses on the road, encountered a pastoral households abandoned the old site, the tent around the one-meter-high windbreak wall intact, so that people know at a glance that the household has just moved not long ago. He wanted to go in to take shelter and rest a little, just took a step forward, found the southeast corner of the earth and stone enclosure has a brand new seven-color lace sheepskin robe, lying in the robe is clearly a woman. When he fixed his eyes to look, the head of the female body has raised his head, open eyes in looking at him, needless to say she was abandoned buried female corpse. Luckily, it was discovered in time to avoid the disaster.

Example three, Naqu come to my tribe (now Nima County jurisdiction), there is a shepherd called Urba, after his death, the body will be sent to the wild burial of the day afternoon, a crow fell down to peck, just pecked a few times, the zombie suddenly got up, one hand caught the crows on the run, and so in the tribal left the "Urba corpse to catch the bird" said.

Example four, Ando County, the jurisdiction of the township of Sima has a pastor called Mai Erta, his family's female slaves live in the Garb mountain package, because she is poor, even a name has not been, people live in her place of the mountain name her for the old lady of the Garb one day in the early spring of 1967, the old lady of the Garb finally ended up in the life of the misery, quietly lying in the top of the tent that can only accommodate one of her own rags. Although this was in the heart of the county, unlike the remote areas, where she could be sent on her way to the place of life by the crisp sound of the Dharma bells, she was unable to enjoy the kind of treatment she deserved at the end of her life because she was single. Out of compassion, one of the senior monks of Andromeda Monastery and the heavenly undertaker of the Ministry - Dalro - went to chant for her and send her to her heavenly burial.

When they came to her, the poor old woman with half of her face exposed outside her collar, her eyes closed tightly, her mouth half dry and cracked, and her withered body occupying all the space in the tent, had no choice but to borrow a corner of the herdsman's house for chanting the sutra and the sky-burier. While chanting the sutra, the senior monk asked the sky undertaker to go over and take a look at the old woman's body. When the sky undertaker went over to take a look, he found that the old woman's head was completely exposed outside her collar. When he went over to take a look for the second time, the old woman was already sitting up with her eyes open and leaning down, her skin color was black, and the blood vessels on both sides of her nose swelled up to the thickness of her fingers. He quickly told the senior monk about this scene. The senior monk immediately blew up the human bone horn practice, the use of tantric spells to break the blood, not long, see her nostrils out of blood, and then fell down to restore the original calm. It was evident that she belonged to the category of "blood rising". I do not know why? When they carry the old woman's body on horseback to the funeral pyre, found that her body is heavier than any corpse, so heavy that the strong horse lying down on the road a few times. This is what Dalro, the sky-burier, saw with his own eyes, and what he himself told.