Lamaling Temple is located in Bujiu Township, downstream of the Niyang River. It is a Tibetan Buddhist Red Sect (Ningma Sect) temple. The temple's unique architecture and beautiful surrounding scenery attract many tourists who want to go for worship and sightseeing. The temple is surrounded by mountains and rivers and is built in layers of forests at the foot of the mountains. It is shaded by trees and has a quiet environment. The most important building in the temple is a pagoda-shaped Buddhist hall, which is rare in other temples. The relics of Padmasambhava footprints stone in the temple are very precious, and the exquisite murals are also the only ones in Eastern Tibet. In addition, when looking down the mountain from the temple, you can also see the beautiful scenery of the Niyang River in the distance, which is very open.
On both sides of the path in front of the Lamaling Temple, wooden models of male and female characteristics are erected, attracting the attention of many tourists. It is not uncommon for genitals to be enshrined in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries, but only Lamaling Monastery enshrines both male and female sexual characteristics. It turns out that Lamaling Temple is a temple for dual cultivation, and nuns and lamas chant sutras in the same sutra hall. In the early days of the Nyingma sect of Tibetan Buddhism, lamas and living Buddhas were allowed to have wives. For example, the statues of Padmasambhava and his two wives are still enshrined in the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa. However, the Gelug Sect(Yellow Sect) does not allow lamas to marry and has more than 250 clear rules and precepts.
Both sides of the path leading to the Buddhist temple are filled with all kinds of colorful flowers. The Buddhist temple in the distance and this beautiful flower gallery form a complete picture, and it has become a favorite photo spot for tourists.
The shape of the entire temple is square inside, with twenty-corner eaves on the outer bottom floor and eight-corner eaves on the second to third floors. The Buddhist hall is more than 20 meters high and has an inner diameter of more than 10 meters. It is covered with a golden roof and is in the shape of a tower. The four walls are printed our colors: white, blue, red and green.
Take your shoes off before entering the temple. The ground floor has a statue of Guru Rinpoche, with two stone footprints of the guru on the alter and puppet-like images of the protector Tseumar to the left. A passageway behind the alter leads up to a mezzanine level with four protector chapels in each corner. The chapel above this house statue of Chenresig(Avalokiteshvara), flanked by Jampelyang(Manjushri) and Chana Dorje(Vajrapani), known collectively as the Rigsum Gonpo. The top-floor chapel contains a statue of Opagme.
If you want to stretch your legs, a trail leads off from the corner of the car park to an atmospheric prayer-flag-draped Chorten and then winds up the hillside for about 40mins to Norbu Ri, where the original Lamaling Temple stood before it was destroyed in a 1930 earthquake. Look out for the Sakyamuni footprint on a cloth above the door.
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