What is the relics?(2)

What is the relics?(2)

Wide can mage sarira

What is the relics?(2)

Wide can law ethics phase

Particularly impressive is the monk passed away heart burnings, not finally unexpectedly also into solid sarira.In 1994, the 93 - year - old round according to the mage in shaanxi province ChangAn County hello ping township kuanyinshan fahua temple practice.Since the beginning of this June, water meters.Look on June 12, suddenly excited, excited, at 9 o 'clock at night, he came to visit the temple of the disciple speech on the dharma, said, "I will be heart for all beings", and was again silent;The people, has a wink eye closure, sat cross-legged, quietly passed away.Four days later, his disciples according to the buddhist Canon, wood on the temple a large green flag set, the mage incineration,The fireBurned throughout the day, the mage method fit hundreds more than sizes and shapes of the relics and sarira.Sarira flower color is white, decorated with the size of a grain of crystal of a red, yellow, blue, brown.Is particularly, the mage long heart burn, not to become a great buddhist relics show dark brown.At the end of the cremation, the heart is soft, then gradually hardens, hundreds of thousands of followers were present at the witness.Allegedly, circle according to master disposition quiet, peaceful, good-hearted, but little appetite. Every meal to eat only the 122.Mage lay disciple, ChangAn County qigong association Wang Xuwen introduction, fahua temple was sent together with the relics in the provincial buddhist association, the master yu yuan identification, confirmation is a rare relics.Later, the local people to permanent storage, and to raise funds specialise in a stupas.

What is the relics?(2)

Circle according to law ethics phase

About the formation of the relics, has always been debated, unable to agree.Some scholars put forward, as a result of buddhist monks are vegetarian for a long time, eat a lot of cellulose and minerals, and through the body's metabolism, easy to form a large number of phosphate, carbonate, etc., in the form of the crystals deposited on the body and eventually formed.However, this explanation is not entirely convincing.Vegetarian thousands in the world, why no buddhist relics?Countless prowess, why not everyone have the relics?Some scholars believe that the relics may be a pathological phenomenon, gallstones, kidney stones and so on.This explanation is hard to justify, many have the patient of stone, after the death of cremation, none of the presence of the relics, and the buddhist relics of monk living is almost always healthy, peaceful, comfortable longevity.

What is the relics?(2)

Round as a mage heart sarira

Also, such as: why is there a small sarira?How much less?Sarira why have different colour and lustre, colours?Baffled and more let a person's heart for a long time and consumes no change from soft to hard, become a great buddhist relics.This also unheard on doctrines.

The sarira species

What is the relics?(2)

The Buddha sarira blood

Buddha sarira blood (1) general sarira and broken body sarira, the former refers to bury the body remains, which is a cremated remains.Say from the bodhisattva in tire, volume 3 > < often capricious.Or refers to all the bones in a tower, known as the body sarira.Vice will more than bones division, called the broken body sarira (a doppelganger sarira).

(2) the body bone (biological) sarira and method (dharmakaya) who had two.Merit the Buddha sutra of Buddha remains for the six, called heritage by Buddha dharma method sarira.After this sarira show out the degree of Buddha, Buddha said law and commandment always live in the world, but for all living rely upon, so, relative to the six body and called ode sarira, or just called method sarira.

(3) the six, hair sarira, meat, who had three.The FaYuan ZhuLin "volume" forty six for white, who is black, who is red meat.

So-called sarira, future generations of adzuki bean big granular, its quality, and the solid, slightly shiny, placed more Yu Xiaoda and dependent.Generally believe that the Buddha's cremation, into small granular, and strong, the cone can't broken.But if it is Buddha disciple sarira, cone was broken.However, in modern India found that one of the eight Buddha sarira, such as bones usually be after fire, neither granular, nor solid.Ancient also spread the Buddha parietal bone, teeth, the content such as finger by believers worship.Therefore, in addition to the granular sarira, also have other Buddha's bones.Again, put the Buddha sarira pagoda, known as the stupas, also called sarira FuTu.The bottle of Buddha sarira, called sarira bottle.Make offerings to the Buddha sarira pujas, says sarira.

In accordance with the "long, including the" volume four parade < the >, interpretation of the arrested resin statue in the city after double trees like nirvana, Buddha sarira.From eight countries each tower.According to the biography of emperor asoka volume load, Buddha destroyed degree of one hundred years later, the emperor asoka gather remaining Buddha sarira, built eighty-four thousand pagoda of feed.

Buddhists for Buddha sarira, being seen to want to, so willing to respect to feed.And often faith sarira, i.e., such as the dharmakaya.So support sarira, namely as week into the bodhi tree, Buddha vajra throne, buddhist scriptures do the matter of interest, such as the footprint to have value to smell, the law of karma and crash the bodhi.The golden light sutra volume four < give product > cloud (dazheng 16, 354 a) : 'sarira, is to quit and concentration of fume, very difficult, the most in futian.'the big non-deluded (fifty-nine call (dazheng 25, 480 a) :' make offerings to the Buddha sarira, and such as mustard, its boundless blessings.'

Ashoka in addition to the above conditions has Buddha sarira sheng bao suitcase in eighty-four thousand, set up eighty-four thousand tower, around also have other support sarira.Such as the monk faxian biography lions (Ceylon) of load, the king in the city have a Buddha's tooth se.'s volume 11 sangha shiva datang western region, they (Ceylon), says it off to the side of the palace se.The monk faxian biography, the dragon's borders of ideal seeing about Buddha parietal sba."Biography of eminent monks and datang western religion on the xuan article according to the load, the xuan had to try and finish the worship Buddha as the parietal bone.The volume of twelve years, datang western ji xuan zang home please have Buddha sarira flesh one hundred and fifty grains get back.The song dynasty monk biography volume load, yijing to carry it back towards the sarira three hundred grains.

About the efficacy of Buddha sarira, which gaumata have circulated, and due to the sincerity and a sense of Buddha sarira record also repeatedly.In accordance with the "biography of eminent monks and a transmit > < Kang Senghui, Lord Sun Quanyuan not believe Buddhism, wu taste calls Kang Senghui asked buddhist efficacy, monk is please phase three seven days, feeling sarira, five colored light shines, Sun Quanling lux with anvil strike, anvil trapped and sarira nondestructive, sun quan is greatly astonished.About this case, the communication record the triple gem, "guang hong Ming set" and "FaYuan ZhuLin, such as books are recorded.

, tang dynasty chang-an famen temple (originally called asoka temple) consecrate Buddha sarira, pode in one's hand in the letter.Xian ZongYuanHe fourteen years (819), han yu 'suggestion to meet Buddha bone table, refers to people not to yi DE (fo) into the GongJin skeletons, should be put into water and eradicate such a time.Emperor see table of rage and fall as the secretariat of chaozhou, and life Zhang Zhongsu Buddha bone tablet.Movable huang (1049) of the first year of the archilife, Chen left to build eight guan temple tower of inspiration, Ann in Buddha's finger sarira, emperor pander of homemade vow.Next, with respect of sarira is rife.

In addition, about the tea which the monk, who is also a lot of."Biography of song dynasty monk and seven < when round pass > years, passed away, the tea which its body, too sarira seven hundred grain;With volume seven < xuan about biography > above and xuan sarira of about hundreds of grain.

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