My Pilgrimage To Mt.Khawah Gepoh

• 作者: 澤仁平措
• 来源期刊: 中国民族：英文版
• 学科: 哲学
• 关键词: 西藏 朝圣活动 瓦格博 外转经 佛教
• 年，卷（期）: zgmzywb_2004,（1）
• 页码范围: 62-71
• 页数: 10页
• 分类号: B947.275

摘要

Why ethnic Tibetans are never daunted by the hardships they suffer while making pilgrimages to sacred mountains and lakes by walking round them? I put this question to a man who had walked round the sacred Mt. Khawah Gepoh in eastern Tibet 28 times. Here is his answer: "To endure those hardships during the pilgrimages, I mean to punish myself for the sins I have committed, in order to gain freedom from anxiety and increase the virtues in my soul, my inner world." With help from some lamas, I learned by heart the words of prayer pilgrims keep uttering while walking round the sacred mountain: