The Most Scary Monastery in the World: Here You Will Know Life is Easy, Why Do We Make It So Hard!

Hello, Tashi Delek, good morning to everyone. Hope you are having an amazing day. It's Jamyang and today I will drive to Nachu Biru county which is like 500 kilometers north of Plaza and with this awesome chance I will show you the local nomads lifestyle and the more scariest monastery with lots and lots of human skulls. And through this video you will get to know deeply about Tibetan sky burial culture and I hope that you will enjoy my video. And now I am on the express highway from Lhasa to Nachu and this road has just finished last month and it is about 350 kilometers. It is a part of the road from Lhasa to Beijing and in the past we drive the old way which takes us about six hours but nowadays by this highway it only takes three hours and it is really really convenient. And now we are driving on the world's highest expressway and the altitude now is about 4,800 meters. Nyanjintangla mountain range and Nyanjintangla is 7,650 meters and it's still in cloud now. It's a really really holy snow mountain in northern part of Tibet. And after three hours driving we finally arrived here at the world's highest city called Nachu and the altitude here is approximately about 4,800 meters and right now I am in the central of Nachu city. I'm gonna show you how this city looks like okay. Now we are driving from Nachu to Biru which I have to drive another 250 kilometers and it will take us approximately about three to four hours. So let's rock and roll. And here's been frustrating for more than 28 days and really amazed me you know because he's only 28 years old and he was going to proceed to Lhasa which will take him approximately about two months to reach to Lhasa. Really really proud of him you know because he's not only praying for himself he's praying for every other living beings which is really uncherished work. Amazing. And now I'm 350 kilometers far away from Lhasa. Accidentally I've seen the most scariest bridge as well. So this is the source of Selvin river. I mean it's amazing. It's a great experience. So the river here that in Tibetan we call and in Chinese call it and in English we call it Selvin. Why we have given this name is because we have a saying that back to 1,300 years ago when the Chinese princess married to our king she came along this river to Tibet. So that's why people are calling this river as After driving three hours we arrived here at the most scariest and the most historical monastery of the world. You see right behind me. So this is the most scariest monastery okay. But before we visit this monastery first I'm gonna go up to this village and gonna find some villagers that can help us to show this monastery. So let's see if I can find some villagers who wants to help me. I am now in this village and we are really lucky that we found the most kindest man here that was going to help us to show this most scariest monastery of the world. And as well as he also told me that his ancestor skulls was also put it there at this monastery. So it was going to be really interesting to show you this most scariest monastery of the world. But first I'm gonna show you how Tibetan peoples here are living. They have really amazing beautiful temple. This gives me some different feelings. It's so clean and so beautiful in this small village. Awesome. We have 10 children. Can you imagine that? So she is the eldest one. She is 23 years old and the other eight are now in school. This is their winter house. In summer they used to spend most of their time in tents because they also live under animals. So his wife is at the nomadic area. So in a while we are also going there and going to show you the nomadic lives of the Tibetans. And now I am here at the nomadic area. This is their family. This is his wife. And the face is really an original typical Tibetan face. And now all his yaks are in the mountains. So we are here relaxing. And by using this time I just want to share some of our knowledge that when Tibetan people died we usually send the dead body to the mountains and cut it into pieces and then we feed them to the vultures. So this is what we call sky burial. It is our culture. So almost all the Tibetan people will do the sky burial after death including me. I'm also going to be cut into pieces you know. So I accept my death. And here just near to his village there is a famous sky burial site which is quite mysterious. And today my friend will take me there and please follow me to see how it looks like. The scariest monastery in the vult, Damu monastery which is right behind me. And before we go to the sky burial site and the skull vult we need to pass the monastery Damu monastery. The most scariest monastery in the vult. Let's go and have a look first at Damu monastery. I am here at Damu monastery. So this monastery is really a famous monastery in Nachu which is northern part of Tibet. It is said that it was built by princess Wenton in Tang dynasty. When she passed here on the way to Lhasa she married to a Tibetan king and the history of this monastery 13 years earlier than Chokhang temple or Portala palace. So this monastery was founded in 7th century which have history about 1300 years. And I will try my best to show you this monastery. This monastery is founded in 1820 so which is like around 200 years ago. They have founded this sky burial and the founder of this sky burial is called Tapu Pema Benza. This part of the skull here are the oldest skull that we have here in the sky burial. So sky burial usually hold in the very early morning. So now at this time the rituals are finished and actually we are not allowed to watch the ritual unless you are their family members otherwise it is not respectful. Sky burial is very very common in Tibet but the sky burial here is little bit different from other parts of Tibet. In other place of Tibet the whole body will be given to the vultures including bones everything right. But here the skull of the dead body will be kept and then they built a skull wall that will be blessed. This is very different local culture here in this monastery. Here we have two different sky burial. So this plate from here is the sky burial of Yaman Daga. So this is the place where they do the cuttings and then feeding to the vultures. And people who die naturally they'll do the sky burial here. If you die under weapons or people who die under accident or people who suicide then they can't do the sky burial on this mandala. They must have to do the sky burial here onto this plate. This is the place where he will chop down all the bones into powder and then mix it with blood or other parts and then they feed it to the vultures. This sky burial we have two gate that you must have to know. This gate here is just for the dead body. The gate there is for alive people to go in and out but this gate there is just for dead body. Finally I got it. I can see lots and lots of fake holes under the skulls and he told me that he'll take the part of the skulls and then he make the rosaries. So this rosary is actually made out of human skulls. And why they are collecting all the skulls is just because to remind that tomorrow doesn't belong to us. You know many people think that we only die when we become old but that's not true. Onto this wall we can see 130 skulls and here we can see the skull of a three years old boy. He was trying to tell us that time doesn't matter whether you are young whether you are old everyone have to die. So that's what it was trying to tell us. Here we can see the whole family and he just told me that this family has died under poison. So there you can see the twins, the sister and this is the brother and this is the mother. The skull of the family that we can see here. Just in front of me you can see the fresh skull that was like just few days ago okay. Especially this one here is just two days ago after the sky burial is finished and then they have to leave it here for 49 days and after 49 days when the spirit was reincarnated to someone else then they will start to put the skulls into the walls. Actually my friend's ancestors sacrificed themselves to the vultures by doing sky burial here and their skulls are also kept here. That's why my friends will come here time to time to make prayings. So here we can see his grandfather's skull. So he comes over here often just to pray for his ancestor and the reason why Tibetan people do the sky burial is because Tibetan people believe in Buddhism and we sacrifice our body to the vultures like Buddha Shakyamuni sacrificed his body to the tiger and it is the last and greatest kindness for us Tibetan people. And please remember that Buddha says nothing lasts forever. If you died nothing is left. So we should cherish what we have now and I really wish from bottom of my heart please live happily and hopefully.