After demobilization, he came to Tibet. He spent a year in Nagqu and three years in Medog, but always alone. The Tibet he saw was only his own understanding of it — staying grounded and getting accustomed to the place. In his eyes, everything in Tibet is rounded off to its essence. He doesn’t need to know more about Tibet because, for him, Tibet isn’t just a concept; he likes it here, beyond any name it carries. He never thought about discussing visitors admiring the mysterious Tibetan culture. Why are you here? Grounded in the fresh, thin air, amidst vast snowy mountains, in a quiet snow-covered wilderness resembling paradise, without pompous words. In earlier years, he relied on odd jobs occasionally helping tourists, acting as porters to make money. After Medog, he opened an old restaurant that year, not burning much brainpower looking for the meaning of life in Tibet. Most of his guests were visiting relatives, family members, or border guards at the local depot. Medog is covered with snow for eight months of the year. The male pulled hill has fierce mountain evil snow covering it in January, with few guests. He lives alone in the court behind the restaurant, kind of solitude making him mad, but very few people disturb his tranquility. He didn't know where this desire for disguise comes from, perhaps because of his childhood dreams of standing calmly on the summit of snow-capped mountains, so he pursued it.
However, this peaceful winter isn't every year; 2000 was an exception. That winter, Chen Xue cold does not remember how many months, but remembers continuous snowfall for three days. In the morning, after the snow stopped, he saw a Lama standing at his door. The Gila Temple Lama, named Zhaji, used to discuss wine with Chen Xue cold in earlier years. The Gila Temple, located on the snow-capped mountains not too high above sea level, was frequented by Chen Xue cold when he was a porter. It took half a day from there to here. When the sky brightened, the snow had not stopped, and Zhaji's body was covered with ice, clearly having come down the mountain at night. Even if familiar with the mountain, descending in the snow at night is very dangerous. Chen Xue cold certainly expected something out of the ordinary, so he had to take such a big risk. Zhaji seemed to have exhausted all his strength, standing without response. Chen Xue cold bluntly asked him in Tibetan how he was. Zhaji didn't respond, pulling out some money and saying: "Chen Xue cold was very surprised because crossing the male pull mountain in this season was abnormally dangerous, even if there was a reason, it should cease finding someone to go hand-in-hand, easily running into a small avalanche. At a time when many parts of the mountain can't be seen."
Chen Xue cold let Zhaji into the room, preparing to give him a few barley cakes while asking what happened at the temple. Zhaji secretly requested a few Hujiu (Tibetan alcohol) and said: "So, we have guests, guru to the Max Planck Institute for Temple to tell them things."
Chen Xue cold wondered about strange guests? From where do these guests come? Tourists entering the mountains? Now, with too many male pulling the mountain, even locals don't act frivolously unless it’s an outside team coming in, which he would surely hear about—clearly no. Moreover, this is a snow-capped mountain, temples, guests seem even stranger.
The side wrapping barley cakes said: Tibetan Zhaji spoke with a strange accent. Chen Xue cold listened strangely, not tasting it. Zhaji was a stranger, sent by their parents to be a Lama. Gila Temple is a small, very old temple, but the old Geshe Lama is well known as a wise man nearby, nearly a hundred years old. Many people regarded sending their son to this temple in the snow-capped mountains to learn wisdom.
Guests to where the snow-capped mountains, this may be a secret to say, the Lama speaks obscure words, being very deep rooted. Chen Xue cold doesn’t understand the temple’s matters and asks politely, so helps Zhaji load from the package, putting the wine and food.
According to his habit, accompanying Zhaji, he walked some distance, helping him carry a parcel, also a way of bowing. Chen Xue cold isn't a Buddhist, but enjoys the peaceful atmosphere in this way. Snow slightly pulls the mountain, far from the multi-male, blending white and gray skies into one, this scenery makes the mind ripple. They both didn’t speak, listening to the sound of stepping on snow, walking for an hour, Zhaji stopped. Chen Xue cold couldn't help but ask whether or find a few villagers together to compare properly. Zha Ji smiled at Chen Xue cold, shook his head, said: Then he coldly bid farewell ceremoniously. Chen Xue cold watched his back ceremoniously, little doubt in heart, ultimately what happened in the lamasery, Lama could expose such a serene look? Him going a little God-like, quietly watching Zhaji away, Zha Ji took a few steps back suddenly said to him a word. He didn’t understand what that meant. That sentence was blown off in the snow. Waiting for him to want to go up, that Lama disappeared in the snow, as if never existed.
Years later, he remembered this period of the case, reflecting breath, in fact, happened after that story was to have a sign, but he was unaware.
1. The end of 2010, I returned from Nepal, after the village Carl Ren-san, had a rest over the week’s time. I brought back a large number of Tibetan Buddhism antique jewelry from Nepal, intending to use them as display samples. Called Medog in that place, I put all the jewelry finishing into three large parcels, respectively, by mail to Hangzhou three different addresses, journey after reducing weight.
Medog, year-round mountain, difficult to get out, the first regular post office can only receive letters, can't send letters, until recent years, the only path that can be postal links, but the coach only a week trip. Thus, in the postal service between the local civil service, in fact, is to find someone to give a lift to bring the mail bags. Crowd out of Medog someone else to carry the mail bags is a very common thing, some people will make some money as a middleman, I find the so-called can guarantee at least a timeliness. As long as someone out of Medog, probably will be able to know when to the outside of the post office, then forwarded more secure.
Left Medog by vehicles, caravan and porters, the carriageway is not open to traffic throughout the year, I just can't be the opening of the season, the caravan had been almost extinct, so we find the so-called Mix or porters. All mail must be by the I was at that time to see askew painting, it is actually a desk stood on a block of tempered glass hanging in the post office counter ------- ------ - behind the wall. That wall painted pale green paint, hanging above the following few things: a painting is not the kind of a look that is from the work of the hands of a professional painter, it is a very common, even drawing a little clumsy painting, painting a profile of a person from the paint peeling off, and color point of view, seems to have been on here for a long time.
Main the painting is a young man, I do not understand Western painting, but the truth of the so-called painting, to a certain extent, are the same, although this is a painting very bad painting, but there was a distinctive flavor. I do not know this feeling is from where, the people in the painting, a Lama of the upper body, wearing clothes, pants, a robe, standing on the mountain behind can see Carl Ren snow-capped mountains peaks. I do not know the sunset or the beginning of the glorious day, the tone of the whole painting, from white to yellowish gray. Clumsy drawings, but very bold use of color directly with the wonderful example of the mood. Of course, even so, also does not mean that this picture has considerable value, I was surprised because I know this person in the painting.
To recognize, rather than feel familiar, because the characteristics of the body of this man and his facial expressions, I have absolutely no doubt. For him even here, I am completely puzzled, because this person really has no reason to Medog, appear in the Medog a bad oil on. The person’s name, say it may be that only I know, he is an old friend, a good brother. This is a rather general character, took place between me and him are too many stories, narrative in my other book. I thought his story five years later and I can continue. I totally did not expect, that he was in Medog again, see his face.
Said his unusual, in fact, now no longer so mysterious, he is one of grave robbers. Or, should I use a more neutral term: explorer. Early just to know him, he has been a secret around the country to explore ancient tombs, but he did not occupy the cultural relics in the tomb, but then I gradually found that he seemed to be looking for some secret, some information may be hidden in the ancient civilization remains. A few years ago, I tried to investigate his life and his attempt to understand the things and had some results, but then I found my survey floating on the surface. And international salvage company he had had an employment relationship, or worked in a small area. That international salvage company is a fairly large consortium, this very seriously, we can see the value of what he was looking for size. Five years ago, our vision disappeared. Of course, I understand the truth of his missing things about him, I can also say a lot, but this is not the subject of this story. He had to do, is not important here, I saw this picture of the first idea is: Medog is not his survey? He appeared here, do you mean, he was investigating something, here?
However, when I try to find the author of this picture, I found the thing is not entirely the case, or in Medog occur indeed with him and my experience of the year There are a lot, but not an absolute relationship. Things here, it seems that the relationship with his own experience even greater. This is not irrelevant, for me, his own experience, also has considerable appeal.
Action when I asked the post office staff, I remember that it was an old man, with a typical Tibetan people’s faces, I asked him who this painting is painting. The old man pointed to the opposite of the spotlight in the past, to see an early forties, middle-aged man, is the roadside of a boiler room, pour the boiling water. He should be responsible for the janitor to look after the boiler room, inside water to nearby residents to use triangular money then pot. And outside the snow boiler room warmer makes baking sweat, so many people around the edge of the boiler heating, these people wearing almost all the faces in the crowd are not clear.
Very warm Tibetan elderly, look at my confusion, facing the boiler room, shouting loudly: Under a few inches, and what Chen Xue cold, heard the cry of the Tibetan elderly in the crowd raised his head, some doubts look to us here. I walked over, found that he was the Han people, a particularly dark face, rough skin, and looks even younger than that seen from afar. I said in Chinese: I found that his eyes did not look good, it is unique in the eyes of a lived a particularly calm life. Too calm, he does not need to always think about a lot of problems, and entered the state of a step-by-step. I handed him his cigarette, and asked the details of his painting. Chen Xue cold was a bit surprised, looked at me, closed the gates of the water boiler, asked me: Clear. I speak to approximate speaking, also said about the background of this man, and my relationship with him. Reveal a slightly surprised expression to the Chen Xue cold, take off the gloves of white towels made out of the boiler room, ? For his question, I do not know how to answer, because it really was not one or two words to say, Fortunately, he seems to not really want to know what went on: Seen his side of it, right here, in the Medog He pointed to the door in one direction, there is a white, is one of the distant snow-capped mountains, , if you want to know more, you can go to ask where the Lama. In the building. Happen? That lamasery there anything special? Alternatively, the lamasery itself should have a lot in general. Chen Xue cold shook his head, thought it said: >； People leave Medog three days before the painting, original paintings, his painting is a copy of the big Lama made his Grand Lama with leftover paint, try copying the painting, original paintings in the room of the big Lama . Many Tibet Lama has a very high aesthetic qualities and expertise, many a great lama to have a lot of prestigious universities abroad degree, my thanks to the focus of the ascetic and the ascetic life behind. Think of this layer, thinking he was what might have happened in the snow, a little wander. >； Under the leadership of Chen Xue cold, broken snow climbing, snow-covered mountain order, only to remove a tiny one for a person up and down the road, the stairs are very steep, almost can be considered for straight up and down. I took two guys, they insisted to keep me up, and now have to regret to death. The way , Chen Xue cold and I say this lamasery story, the way some of his life because of this narrative, initially I was completely ignored, but in fact mentioned in some obscure, and the subsequent development played an important role, so I hope to record all the way to see the ins and outs of the whole thing. Chen Xue cold special life experiences, he lived for many years in Tibet, the first three years of military service, a year back, in a company as a security guard, three months after demobilization, I feel very not adapt to urban life, he returned to Tibet, Medog idle for a year, earn some money by helping people to lead the way or when the Wizard, very poor, but very nice. In that year, he knew a lot of snow-capped mountains Wizard, and later on after they introduced into the line, and the following years, he been doing this, where there was little Han Wizard of his background, which is not professional, generally do mountain climbing assistance, professional wizard responsible for before and after the open, he was responsible in the middle of the mountaineering team observed, the main work is nothing more than to help the weak physical back something, or deal with frostbite, although hard, but very good income.
When soldiers three years, the foundation where do familiar does not feel Kulei. Year, Chen cold about four months in Medog a tour guide, and two months in Nyainqentanglha mountain, other times because tourists are highly mobile, so there is no fixed sphere of influence. Climbers have a Management Association, the receipt of the application will be assigned the task down, At that time, most of the time wizard to help get these procedures, most of the job is relatively easy, the general visitors do not climb too high too hard, and now people get upset, know a lot of things that do not require persistent. Tibet is a mysterious and sacred places, tourism development in recent years, and Chen Xue cold experience of life in Tibet, once let him feel the fog of the surface of Tibet has become thin, but that year tell him, but it is not, Tibet has been, except that it had to reveal social change the face of our one face behind it, and that the wide fertile boundless depths of the snow-capped mountains, that glacier snow layer under the ancient and mysterious, far from people not yet aware of.
That April in Medog received a bunch of tour groups from Germany, is a team of FIT, a total of six people. Four men and four women. Route is a Medog to nyainqentanglha mountain. With the whole team, in addition to a Tibetan tour guide Jiao Karma, his job is connected. This group of people have the experience of mountaineering. Which is said to have three a year ago, been to Meri. So when the summit plan. Of course, the summit also have a variety of categories. If it is the board nyainqentanglha Hill, he did not have a little confidence can go up. On the constitution does not allow this amateur mountaineering tourists go, they plan Teng some altitude peaks in about four thousand five hundred meters, when the route is also set down. This foreigner see him much, generally over two purposes, one is feeling about Shambhala, then one is to feel the snow board. So feel this job is quite easy at that time. This is a big job, and high returns, he and Karma A very happy, long ago made preparations. Contact porters and mountaineering collaboration, probably ahead of the four days first Lhasa them. He has been expecting to see a few looked like a classic kind of Jingzhuang foreigners, has been to travel, want to climb Nyainqentanglha mountain adventure enthusiasts. He did not think that this group of people who are not so few people to the very young small, four men and only one looks solid, the other three are wearing glasses, bulging beer belly. It touches the two woman looks healthy. In addition there is a small older accompanying female translator, is said to students in Germany. He looked at the shape of these people feel terrible, but did not say anything, take them on the car, the route is more male pull mountain → Khan Lhasa → send Township → pine mouth → close → back collapse → Medog, the vehicle left the car, and no car left foot. The Medog trip the beginning of this period are fine, porters many. Along the way can rest, into the multi-male pull the mountain will be able to basically into Medog, into the mountain there is no retreat, and can only go all the way.
A tour guide in Tibet, this wizard does not need too many words, because a lot of scenery casually introduce you can, A Karma responsible for the things that lead the way and contact the rest point him in the ranks, to see to the famous mountain in the court pointed to shout a few foreigners on the All the way down did they have any weakness, it seems that these people did not think so useless. More painful the first five hours into the mountains, because the afternoon weather changes a lot, so they must be in time for the noon too many male pull snow, during his walk very depressed, because the German is not very co-operation always adhere to stop camera to delay a lot of time. Finally, from starting to enter the Medog They agreed that a good foothold, about eight days, go slow, according to the contract in Medog for a week, then on foot through. At this time, a strange thing happened, the rest of the evening, the woman translator with a foreigner to their room to find them, that they want to discuss things.
He began to think they want to change the route, heart thump a bit, talk about money is not his strong suit, did not think they came up with a Medog map refers to a position, and asked if he could take them to that place. Medog very familiar one to see if he refers to the location, it is found that one side of the Yarlung Zangbo River Mamba mountains, there is not a tourist area, but there are a lot of tourists go, because there is a very very old lamasery, it was built on the mountainside, but not open to the past, only to take the vision to take pictures at the foot of the mountain. Opened a price then the female translator, It would have been not what illegal things, they were relieved - generally this sort of thing will set trip on a good to Medog raise the issue again, few people do so, and this time we can mention a high price as long as their hearts are black spots, and his strange, strange here. Only consider perhaps a few foreigners spur of the moment or the entire trip to Tibet easily than they want