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想请问阴影的长度会发生多大变化？特别是关于菩提伽耶东边的里瓦尔达山，以及据说靠近它的里波札拉山。但在汉传佛教的典籍中，说汉地中部的菩提树没有阴影。如果是这样，因为需要菩提伽耶的东边和西边，请明确说明那个地方位于哪个方向。6. 关于冬至，许多贤哲如布顿大师等都说会提前到来。益西孜和特别是普巴并不认为冬至会提前。在西藏，这两者是历算师们非常重要的研究依据。请务必明确说明，汉地的学院是否认为冬至会提前。7. 此外，在西藏，对于新年（藏历新年）的月份（虎月）的认定有三种不同的方式。赤松德赞父子时期，认为新年是嘉月（藏历新年第一个月，也称作虎月）。萨迦派大德和成为蒙古皇帝的供养对象的时期，则以楚月（藏历十二月）为新年，认为楚月就是虎月。还有一种说法是，蒙古皇帝认为楚月是得到班智达的月份，所以作为新年。普巴、琼孜的追随者等很多人则认为第一个月（孟月）是虎月。但在印度，没有虎月的说法。计算闰年时，虽然从冬至开始计算，但虎月是否正确是一个非常重要的研究课题。因此，为了那些依赖世俗缘起历算的人，请明确说明汉地没有类似情况，实际认定哪个月为虎月。8. 藏族人认为新年正月初一是虎日。但如果问汉地的历算家，他们似乎也不确定。那么，月份和日子的阴阳力量如何组合？对于年份的九宫格，素克东巴、琼那贡东巴三种说法各不相同。现在汉地自己的羊年，九宫格的中心是哪个？等等，想详细询问关于黑算（占卜）方面各种细小但重要的问题。9. 当太阳到达北回归线的尽头时，据说在肯特地区夜晚只有喝茶的时间。在西藏，以前就有各种类似的说法，但都被忽略了，而您却将其写在了佛教史中。从那以后，它就被认为是确定的。
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I would like to ask how much the length of the shadow changes. Especially regarding the Riwardha Mountain east of Bodh Gaya, and the Ripo Tala Mountain said to be near it. However, in Chinese Buddhist scriptures, it is said that the Bodhi tree in central China has no shadow. If so, since the east and west of Bodh Gaya are needed, please clearly indicate in which direction that place is located. 6. Regarding the winter solstice, many wise men such as the great scholar Buton, etc., have said that it comes earlier. Yeshe Tse and especially Phukpa do not think that the winter solstice will come earlier. In Tibet, these two are very important research bases for astrologers. Please be sure to clarify whether the academies in China believe that the winter solstice comes earlier or not. 7. Furthermore, in Tibet, there are three different ways of identifying the month of the New Year (Tibetan New Year), the Tiger Month. During the time of Trisong Detsen and his son, it was thought that the New Year was Gyal Month (the first month of the Tibetan New Year, also known as the Tiger Month). During the time when the great Sakya master and the Mongolian emperor became the object of offering, Chu Month (the twelfth month of the Tibetan calendar) was taken as the New Year, and it was thought that Chu Month was the Tiger Month. There is also a saying that the Mongolian emperor considered Chu Month to be the month in which the Pandit was obtained, so it was taken as the New Year. Many followers of Phukpa, Khyunze, etc., think that the first month (Meng Month) is the Tiger Month. However, in India, there is no term for Tiger Month. When calculating leap years, although the calculation starts from the winter solstice, whether the Tiger Month is correct is a very important research topic. Therefore, for those who rely on mundane interdependent astrology, please clarify which month is actually identified as the Tiger Month in China, where there is no similar situation. 8. Tibetans believe that the first day of the New Year is the Tiger Day. But if you ask the Chinese calendar experts, they also seem unsure. So, how are the yin and yang powers of months and days combined? Regarding the nine palaces of the year, the three theories of Suktonpa, Khyunnak Kongtonpa are different. Which is the center of the nine palaces for the Year of the Sheep in China now? And so on, I would like to ask in detail about various small but important issues in black calculation (divination). 9. When the sun reaches the end of the northern tropic, it is said that in the Kent region, the night is only the time for tea. In Tibet, there have been various similar sayings before, but they have been ignored, but you have written it in the Buddhist history. Since then, it has been considered certain.
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那个城堡距离大王宫锡金（锡金）哪个方向有多少路程？现在属于哪个国王的统治之下？从清朝开始夜晚的时间，和那个一样长，还是比那个更长或更短，如果能说明就太感谢了。10. 如果根据《有义铁钩陀罗尼》等正量经典，希达河也应该流到中国边境尽头的俄罗斯附近，或者超过那个地方的对岸，那里有被称为希达河的大河吗？一般来说，香巴拉在北方，那个地方的人们普遍知道吗？如果普遍知道，那个地方以前有中国的有志之士去过香巴拉吗？也很乐意请您说明。11. 同样，中国的禅宗宗派，虽然西藏人有各种议论，但根据《业之禅眼》和《八十经》的教证等来看，是大乘的清净见。在西藏，阿若的口诀中，有印度化身七传承和中国和尚七传承的口诀融合，以前可靠的古籍中是这样记载的。但是，后来由于西藏人普遍的妄语，那些历史都变成了虚构。但我从小就认识到这是清净的道路。您详细地阐述了中国佛教史，我认为这对于让很多人从舍弃佛法中回头有不可思议的必要，所以随喜。因此，请务必提供一份中国禅宗的历代祖师的完整名单。12. 还有，如果西藏人依据根本论师世亲的论著，认为长寿六严的来源是中国，那么详细的历史是怎样的？为了吉祥的缘起，请您说明。13. 此外，关于东方地区的圣法历史，以及在学术方面值得请教的问题有很多，但没有时间在这里全部请教，只提出一些我个人迫切需要的问题，进入法界甚深的虚空之中。
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How far is that castle from the great palace of Sikkim, and in which direction? Under whose rule does it currently reside? From the Qing dynasty onwards, how long are the nights? Are they the same length, or longer or shorter? I would be very grateful for clarification. 10. According to authoritative texts such as the "Meaningful Iron Hook Dharani," the Sita River should flow to the edge of China, near or beyond the border with Russia. Is there a major river identified as the Sita River there? Generally, is it widely known among the people in the northern regions that Shambhala exists there? If it is widely known, have diligent Chinese individuals traveled to Shambhala before? I would also be pleased to receive clarification on this. 11. Similarly, although Tibetans have various opinions about the Chinese Chan (Zen) school, based on sources such as the "Eye of Karma Meditation" and the "Eighty Sutras," it seems to be a pure view of the Mahayana. In Tibet, the oral instructions of Aro include the combined instructions of the seven Indian incarnate lineages and the seven Chinese Heshang lineages, as stated in reliable ancient texts. However, due to the general falsehoods of Tibetans in later times, those histories have become fictionalized. But I have recognized this as a pure path since childhood. Your detailed exposition of Chinese Buddhist history is seen as immensely necessary to turn many beings away from abandoning the Dharma, so I rejoice. Therefore, please provide a complete list of the lineage masters of the Chinese Chan school. 12. Furthermore, if Tibetans rely on the works of the fundamental teacher Vasubandhu and believe that the origin of the Six Ornaments of Longevity is from China, what is the detailed history? Please explain this for the sake of auspicious connections. 13. Additionally, there are many questions regarding the history of the sacred Dharma in the eastern regions and points of doubt in academic matters that I would like to ask, but I do not have time to ask them all here. I only present a few that are urgently needed, entering into the profound space of the Dharmadhatu.
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པ་ནས་ཕེབས་འོས་སོ་སོར་གསལ་སྣང་བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེན་པོས་ཁྱབ་པ་ཞུ་རྒྱུ་དང་། རྒྱ་ནག་ཆོས་འབྱུང་དུ་རི་བོ་རྩེ་ལྔ་ཡི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་དཀར་ཆག་ཞིག་ཀྱང་དེ་ནས་མཛད་ཡོད་པར་ཁ་འཕང་འདུག་པས་སྔར་དངོས་སུ་མ་མཇལ་བས་དེ་ཡང་ཐུགས་སྟབས་བདེ་ཚེ་གནང་ཆ་དང་། བོད་པ་རྣམས་རྒྱ་ནག་གླང་ཆེན་འགྱིང་རི་མཇལ་འགྲོ་བ་ཆེས་མང་ཡང་། དེའི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཀྱི་རིགས་གཏ་ནས་བོད་དུ་མ་འགྱུར་སྟབས། དེའི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཞིག་འགྲོ་བ་མང་པོའི་དགེ་བའི་རྩ་བ་འཕེལ་བའི་སླད་དུ་གནང་ཐུབ་ན་སྙམ་པ་ཡང་ཆོས་དབྱིངས་ཟབ་མོའི་ཀློང་དུ་བསྟི་བའི་ཕེབས་ཚོགས་ཀྱང་ཞུ་ཞུ་ཞུ། དེ་སྐད་གནམ་བསྐོས་རྒྱལ་པོའི་ཁབ་ན་གནས་པ་སློབ་གྲྭའི་དཔོན། ཆེན་པོ་ཧོར་གྱི་གདུང་ལ་སྐད་རིགས་བཞི་སྨྲ་འཇིག་རྟེན་མིག །དེའི་རྣམ་དཔྱོད་རྔ་ལ་ཉེར་མཁོ་འདྲི་ཚིག་དབྱུ་གུ་འདིའི། །བསྐུལ་བས་ལེགས་བཤད་སྒྲ་དབྱངས་བཟང་པོ་སྒྲོགས་པར་གདོན་མི་ཟ། །དེ་འདྲ་ཕྲ་གནས་ཞིབ་དཔྱད་དམ་པའི་སྲོལ། །དོགས་གནས་ཆ་ཤས་སེལ་ཕྱིར་འདི་ལ་ཡང་། །དགེ་བའི་ཆ་ཤས་གྱུར་པ་ཇི་སྙེད་ཀུན། །སྐྱེ་མང་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་ཐོབ་པའི་རྒྱུ་རུ་བསྔོ། །ཞེས་པ་ཡང་དཔལ་རིག་པ་འཛིན་པས་སོ། །སརྦ་མངྒ་ལཾ། ལགས། དོགས་གཅོད་ཞུ་འོས་ཡི་གེ་མ་མོར་མ་འཐུས་པ་ཡུལ་དེར་ཉི་མ་ལྷོ་བྱང་གི་བགྲོད་གཉིས་མཐར་ཐུག་པའི་སྐབས་ཉིན་མོའི་ཆུ་ཚོད་ཇི་ཙམ་དང་། མཚན་མོའི་ཆུ་ཚོད་ཅི་ཙམ་པའི་གྲངས་ངེས་གསལ་ཞིག་དང་། ཏཱ་མིང་གི་རྒྱལ་སྲིད་འཆོར་བའི་ལོ་དེ་བོད་དུ་ཤིང་སྤྲེལ་ལོར་ཡིན་ཞེས་རྒན་པོའི་རྣ་གཏམ་དུ་བརྗོད་ཀྱང་ཚད་འཛིན་དཀའ་གཤིས། དེས་ན་ཏཱ་མིང་གི་རྒྱལ་ས་འཕོས་ནས་ད་ལྟ་ལ་ཐུག་གི་བར་ལོ་གྲངས་ཅི་ཙམ་སོང་རྒྱལ་རབས་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ལ་མཁོ་གཤིས་ཞུ་འདོད་དང་། འཇམ་དཔལ་ཕྱག་སྟོང་གི་གཟུངས་རྒྱ་ནག་ཆོས་འབྱུང་གི་དཀར་ཆག་ཏུ་གསལ་བ་དེ་ཡིག་ཚོགས་མང་པོ་མེད་ཚེ་སྔར་བོད་དུ་མ་འགྱུར་སྟབས་བསྒྱུར་ནས་གནང་ལུགས་ཅི་ནས་ཀྱང་ཞུ། དགེ་ལེགས་སུ་གྱུར་ཅིག །རྟེན་སུ་ཝརྞ་སྲང་། ༡༣༥མཛོད་བཏགས་ཕྱག་མདུད་དམར་པོ་ཆེ་བ་བཅས། ༈ རྒྱ་ནག་ཏུ་གུང་མགོན་པོ་སྐྱབས་ལ་དྲི་བ་མཛད་པ།
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请您以大恩大德普照一切的方式，清楚地说明您从何处而来。听说在中国佛教史中，有一部关于五台山的目录也是在那里编纂的，因为以前没有亲眼见过，如果方便的话，请您赐予。虽然很多藏族人去中国朝拜峨眉山，但是关于峨眉山历史的这类书籍，至今没有翻译成藏文。为了增长众多信徒的善根，如果能赐予那样的历史，我将把它珍藏在深邃的法界中，并多次恳请您能前来。如是，居住在天授王都的学校负责人，伟大的蒙古后裔，能说四种语言，是世间的眼睛。以此人的智慧之鼓和必要的提问之杖的催促，定能发出美妙的善说之音声。像这样精细的研究是圣者的传统。为了消除疑惑之处，对于此（提问），所有成为善的部分，都回向给众生，愿他们获得一切智。这是由吉祥持明者所说。吉祥圆满！是。关于需要澄清的信件，在那个地方，当太阳南北两端的运行达到极致时，白天的时数和夜晚的时数分别是多少，请明确告知。关于大明王朝灭亡的年份，藏族老人说是木猴年，但难以确定。因此，从大明王朝迁都到现在，已经过了多少年，这对于历史研究很重要，所以想请教。如果在汉文佛教史目录中记载有千手文殊菩萨的陀罗尼，如果文字不多，因为以前没有翻译成藏文，无论如何请翻译并赐予。愿一切吉祥！供养金：黄金一百三十五两，以及一个大红色的仓库封条。
English
Please clearly explain where you come from, spreading your great kindness and grace in every way. It is said that in the Chinese Buddhist history, a catalog about the history of Mount Wutai was also compiled there. Since I have not seen it in person before, please grant it to me if it is convenient. Although many Tibetans go to China to visit Mount Emei, such historical accounts have not been translated into Tibetan. In order to increase the roots of virtue for many beings, I would like to request that if you could grant such a history, I would cherish it in the profound realm of Dharma, and repeatedly request your presence. Thus speaks the head of the school residing in the divinely appointed royal capital, a descendant of the great Mongol, who speaks four languages and is the eye of the world. Urged by the drum of his wisdom and the necessary questioning staff, he will surely proclaim the beautiful sound of well-spoken words. Such detailed research is the tradition of the holy ones. To dispel doubts, whatever part of this (question) becomes virtuous, may it be dedicated to all beings, so that they may attain omniscience. This was said by the glorious Vidyadhara. Sarva Mangalam! Yes. Regarding the letters that need clarification, in that place, when the sun's northern and southern movements reach their extremes, please clearly state the exact number of daylight hours and nighttime hours. Regarding the year of the fall of the Great Ming Dynasty, Tibetan elders say it was the Wood Monkey year, but it is difficult to ascertain. Therefore, how many years have passed from the relocation of the capital of the Great Ming Dynasty to the present? This is important for historical research, so I would like to inquire. If the Dharani of Thousand-Armed Manjushri is recorded in the catalog of Chinese Buddhist history, and if there are not many words, please translate and grant it, as it has not been translated into Tibetan before. May there be auspiciousness! Offering: 135 taels of gold, and a large red warehouse seal.