Back to the Buddha Road India Ganges RIver River to see the cycle of life and death

Imagine you pack a car in Beijing, going to Shanxi to visit the grotto datong. One night, you find yourself actually wake up in Shenyang. But the driver, he insisted on his route, and to ensure the target in sight. After a long time, we find ourselves almost to Harbin. The driver managed to stop for directions, but he ask the way is easily intercepted a pass by the villagers, he know how to get to Yungang Grottoes. Wonderful, the villagers began to seriously refers to the way: "in front of the crossroads turn left, another three miles to see the bus station turn right straight......"

"Birth, every day", is a true portrayal of the Ganges RIver River in Varanasi. The Indians since ancient times to samsara has a unique understanding of. Before 2500, Buddhism is also was born in this background.

I do not exaggerate, this hypothetical example only for the convenience of the reader we know a group of people who have just arrived in India the first two days of the real situation. Come back for several months, I still clearly remember the van driver, stubborn and silence. Every time the rest he walk away alone bow, tea or eating bread, occasionally smoking a cigarette. Every time he drove all be absorbed in, any one identification of unknown bifurcation junction are determined to turn; although later proved to be wrong every time. Because of his dialect accent heavier, the car even if there are two India local mage, also after three rounds of translation, can effective communication. That kind of communication in fact also did not say what is communication, because most of the time he will only answer one or two simple words, meaning "OK" and "no problem". In this lost two days, on the driver body, I learned a lesson one Hindu gave me: whenever a person and you say "OK" or "No Problem", it said that must happen, and it may be very serious. Faced with this situation, we should be more careful, deliberate, beware of anything anyone? Or simply quit, resign oneself to one's fate? The answer to the end of this trip, I had the vague outline of.

With a Ganges RIver, in the eyes of foreigners, may only be a pile of India wonders, is messy and cluttered the most typical demonstration; but in Indian eyes, she represents the supreme sacred and tolerance, people make light of travelling a thousand li to the bath, to wash away sins.

This is not a sightseeing trip, we are pilgrims. Pilgrimage to India? This is a very strange thing for many Chinese people, China may have the largest number of the Buddhist world, but everybody back on the Buddhist birthplace of it seemed less interested in. If you really want to pilgrimage, why not go to Mount Wutai, Mount Putuo, and Shaolin Temple? Even the textbook will tell you, the origin of Buddhism in India, but also in the fall of India and China; it carry forward, spread all over the world.

Yes, Buddhism is sung in Chinese, so prosperous to be a country situation, Wang to could almost forget Buddhism in other parts of the world to India degree. In the ten days journey inside, we met a Tibetan, respectively from Lhasa and Kathmandu, to join in the Buddha was born in Nepal is located in Lumbini, this one family is going to travel around the holy land for 90 days. We also met in a continuous line of the Thailand pilgrims, the one that is several buses, each to a place will leave traces on such as scales with gold foil.

From the Buddha Dharma in the deer park, to the death of Kushinagar, gold foil in a tree in the wind horse flag and Theravada Buddhist posted on the pillars on the Tibetan Buddhist systems are most prominent signage. I even saw the Japanese Nichiren Buddhism and made the "Lotus Sutra" stone, and numerous exercises a multi-language blonde pilgrims, but rarely met han to pilgrims. If anything, it is mostly Buddhists in Taiwan. Nowadays, people who go abroad is not too small, why are we in the world heritage of all sects from the northern India land but it is difficult to see them?