Friday, December 24, 2010

Nepal at a glance (4)--the Hindu cremation

Nepal at a glance (4)--the Hindu cremation

Afternoon very nervous, we do not know what places to go, every place far apart.

But just take a guided tour, Kathmandu traffic jam is anytime, anywhere, 10 km to go 1 and a half hours, therefore, in spite of the attractions are close to that time, we are wasting in the road. About 3 o'clock, we came to the most mysterious and terrorist. From Canada are five kilometres paspa mention monastery, this is the most important Hindu temples.

Get off, they see the monkey in the Bush, wall running around.

Estimated there will be plenty to eat, so a monkey is here. Walk less than 100 meters, see Nepal Holy Bagmati River, it is ultimately the Ganges flowing into India. At this point because it is the dry season, the annual rainy season will be flooded by the San River, horizon is far lower than the Bank, but also very dirty, the water almost black, many soldiers of cleaning up the River, it is estimated that the taste is enough a choke, those soldiers were wearing masks. Here is the India Christians died cremation.

We are across the River, saw several cremation platform, the river there is a bridge that is located upstream of the two is the Royal or aristocratic private, located downstream of the four platforms is civilian crematorium.

We, the civilian side of the cremation platform is burning corpses as if using a straw that I saw the smoke, stifling smell. It is said that the cremation ceremony of Nepal is very simple, cremation, the eldest son of the deceased in the river head shaving, and went into the net as the River (the river of dirty devil, see are sickening), after a simple ceremony to dead white bags, placed in close proximity to the river bed of the four root wood burning on the shelf. We saw this scene, incineration, ashes, together with the plant ash is a brain boost the River died along with the water. You can imagine that he could sing anything.

The bridge upstream Department there is a Mall just put up, this is noble in cremation.

The dead body wrapped huangbu, straight lies in the River. The deceased's relatives in a variety of ceremonies and deceased do final farewell, also seen family to Sahara some flowers on the River. Subsequently, the deceased cremation ashes sprinkled into the Holy Bagmati River, and with the Bagmati into the Ganges, and the deceased soul from the body and sublimation and big fan. In reference to the paspa monastery Santa River Bagmati is cremated, every Hindu faith steep maximum final wish.

Cremation ceremony held in Nepal, there is no prohibition of tourists taking pictures, so most visitors, local residents are standing on the bridge or sit in the other side of the watch.

Here is a little sad atmosphere, everyone is the same as the theater watching the opposite to be cremated, or are in the process of cremation. An old man in the River a shampoo, a child in the River walking of fishing. According to the guide said that people would put some funerary thrown into the River, it was also picked up sell will make money. But out of fear of the deceased, who will do it.

In India, tour gave us a Rhesus cremation, the situation is and here the same, it is said that if the death of children, pregnant women or the serpent biting, you do not burn it directly into the River, people still take a bath in the River, over the years, so backward, not even health habits funeral playful than the plague, many scientists study for a long time, and that is what's killing the river of minerals.

But so much beside the burning of corpses, throwing a dead body, what minerals can have such disinfection function?

Anyway, I'm in the face of death there are unrealizable fear death territories in atheism people seem insurmountable, but Hindu as well as many theism looks, merely a reincarnation, you go to paradise, down for life may be more than happy now.

So they can work pretty well in the face of death, to the afterlife ascetic successfully. Here, we saw many practitioners. Nepal is still quite cold in winter, the minimum temperature is 0 degrees, can these spiritual practitioners, bare feet and put a piece of cloth, some even naked. River mountain took many monumental Baita, understates the here is, evening burning several root wood heating, alms begging in the daytime. That kind of self-flagellation, the ascetic, one does not understand. In order to empty the afterlife, give up this life's happiness, is we the atheism education for many years, people do not understand nor accept.

Paspa mention monastery at the other side, it is a three-tier roof of the building, around there are painted yellow and white buildings, here only allows India Christians into, if you are a visitor can only stand in the doorway curiously watching.

Then the next station is called little Tibet Boda Harvard Tower, this is our unique line of India Nepal see Buddhist shrine.

This white giant stupa. It is the Buddha eyes on all four sides. I stood in the white pagoda, see the following people in religious worship, and insight into all of Buddha's eye just stares, detached from the people's emotions, but those things like long headers, prayer, turret, everything in sight. Here is like Tibet, bajiao Street, however small. I like them all, clockwise around the tower. Take down all around.

(Corpse)

(Burned corpse)

(See cremation)

(Practitioners)

(White)

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