▲ The main hall of Shalu Monastery. Located in the southeast of Shigatse City, Shalu Monastery is one of the larger Buddhist temples in Tibet and the ancestral temple of Tibetan Buddhism Xialu Sect. Shalu Monastery is famous in Tibet for its architectural style of combining Tibetan and Han. Its murals are known as landmarks in the history of Tibetan art. A large number of retained images have become valuable materials for exploring China's multi-ethnic cultural exchanges in the Yuan Dynasty. To study the unique historical mechanism of exchanges, exchanges, and blends among ethnic groups in the history of the development of Chinese civilization, and then answer the internal logic of why Chinese civilization can promote Political union, cultural inheritance, and create a civilization miracle in the complex national conditions of vast territory and large population. ▲ "Four arm Avalokitesvara" mural in Shalu Monastery. Experts and scholars, centering on the theme of "building a solid awareness of the Chinese Volksgemeinschaft in the new era and building a history of Chinese civilization by multiple nationalities", shared their research achievements in Shalu Monastery, Song and Yuan dynasties, Han and Tibetan civilizations, and other aspects, to supplement new academic materials for building a solid theoretical system of awareness of the Chinese Volksgemeinschaft. Zhang Yun, a researcher of the History Research Institute of the China Tibetology Research Center, started from the historical background of the unification of China in the Yuan Dynasty, investigated the thoughts and cultural views of Drogön Chögyal Phagpa, the emperor teacher of the Yuan Dynasty, on joining the world, excavated his stories of promoting the cultural mutual learning of all ethnic groups in his exchanges with representatives from all walks of life, and the historical facts of the construction of temples, pagodas and other projects in Dadu and Sakya led by him, "The purpose is to show a historical section of the evolution and development of Chinese culture in the early years of the Yuan Dynasty, and explore its internal laws." The "Four arm Avalokitesvara" mural on the east wall of the north side of the cloister of Cuoqin Hall in Shalu Monastery was painted in the 14th century. The mural has a wide range of images, complex graphic structure, and numerous inscriptions. "This mural is one of the most sophisticated, beautifully drawn and well preserved murals in the Shalu Monastery murals." Dang Zengzhasi, a research librarian of the China Tibetology Research Center Tibetan Culture Museum, believes that the mural content reflects Buddhist doctrines and contents such as Buddhist precepts, wisdom, three disciplines, six degrees, and thirty seven bodhi, and is a method to guide Buddhist practitioners to practice Buddhist doctrines in the actual practice process. "Therefore, it can be called the practice picture of Avalokitesvara, which is an example of Buddhism's localization in Tibet." The mural "The story of Wang Bensheng, Dinghui" is one of the well preserved Bunsheng murals in the cloister of the Tsochin Hall of Shalu Monastery. The image shows the space concept and custom picture
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