Chief Golden Throne Living Buddha

Author: Gacang Tsadang
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: In the vast snowy plateau, the abbot of Jiazhong Right-rotating Temple, Jianbei Yang, decides to erect a stele for his own legacy. This news causes an uproar throughout the temple, especially for the chief Golden Throne Living Buddha Jitang Cang. Starting with a mysterious set of Buddhist beads, he becomes entangled in a rivalry with Jianbei Yang. To fulfill the last wish of the fourth-generation Jianbei Yang regarding the search for a reincarnated child, Jitang Cang travels thousands of miles to Sikang in search of the reincarnation. Meanwhile, his once beloved, Yunchana, is gravely ill, leaving Jitang Cang heartbroken. At the same time, the Ma family army and the steward Zongzhe collude in treachery, and a catastrophe is looming over Jiazhong Right-rotating Temple.
The Chief Golden Throne Living Buddha tells the story of various characters, each with unique life experiences, loves and hates, and rich inner worlds, in elegant language. Written in a serial style, it depicts a rare multi-ethnic historical panorama. With abundant historical facts and folk customs, it showcases the distinctive cultural landscape of Tibet, where you can also see the bandit culture of the west, the subtle interdependence between ethnic groups, the prescient rituals of religion, as well as the practices of divination, medicine, film, thriving commodity circulation, intricate regional etiquette, and the western scenery of the slightly distant Republican era.