Brahma of rosary is called bowl of calligraphy, also known as digital beads and rosary, and people usually call it Buddha beads. As the name implies, it is of course a tool and symbol used by Buddhists. Others call it "tying the horse rope". The original origin of rosary is the garland of ancient Indians. Jewelry gradually evolved into an ornament, such as a necklace. Brahmanism in ancient India began to use prayer beads before Buddhism, and there was a suspense bead in the Brahman statue unearthed in India two centuries ago. Before Buddhism, Buddhists in India always held prayer beads.
Around the middle of the second century, Buddhists began to use prayer beads. In early Buddhism, monks used beads to count and capture people's hearts. There were thirty beads, black and white, to commemorate this day. According to Buddhist classics, the prayer beads originated from the Mujuzi Sutra, which says: Always hold several beads, regardless of walking, living, sitting or lying down, and recite the Buddhist monk's name wholeheartedly for 200,000 times, surpassing life and death for one million times. The use of prayer beads is indicated in Buddhist scriptures, such as the Jingangding Yoga Sutra and the Buddhist Sutra of Measuring the Merits of Beads.
After Buddhism was introduced into China at the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, with the development of Buddhism in Middle-earth, rosary was also widely spread. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, China people began to know how to use rosary. The use of rosary was quite common in the Tang Dynasty. In some monasteries, Zhunti Bodhisattva and Eleven Guanyin statues all carry prayer beads, and some arhat statues also hold or hold suspense beads. In the Tang Dynasty, Daoxuan wrote "Continued Biography of Monks", and it has been said that "everyone pinches pearls, and the mouth is the same as the Buddha's name". Su Dongpo once wrote a poem praising "holding the scriptures and holding pearls, leaning on the shoulders with a cane, planting a cane, and making pearls idle." If you can't stand, sit or lie down, ask the teacher where the staff are on this trip. "On Dunhuang Quzi Ci-Twelve o'clock of Zen Gate" said: "When that day comes, you will know your body soon, you will never be eccentric, and there will always be several beads in your hand." The "Fixed Frame Joint Chapter" said: "When you read Guanyin, you will hold momentum. In a string of beads, the current disaster is inviolable, and there must be sleep at the end of life. It can be seen that monks have widely used prayer beads.
First of all, rosary is divided into four grades: 1, top crystal 1080. However, this kind of rosary is too long, and only a few monks and practitioners use it, or it is used as an ornament for famous monks at Dafa meetings, and few people use it. 2. The top grade is 108 capsules. Tantric practitioners use 1 10 pills. In practice, some people wear 2 16 or 360 pills for the convenience of counting. 3. The number of China products is 54. 4. There are 27 inferior products.
2. According to the number of beads, rosary beads can be divided into ten types: (1), 1080:(2), 108: (3), 54: (4), 42: (5), 36; (6) thirty-three capsules; (7) Twenty-seven capsules: (Twenty-one capsules; (9) Eighteen capsules; (10), fourteen capsules.
Third, the difference in the number of beads has its representative significance: 1. 1080, of which 108 is in the tenth method. "Ten dharma realms" refers to the mysterious and enlightened world, which is divided into ten categories, namely, six realms and four sacred realms: ①. Hell realm: ②. Hungry ghost realm: 3. XX realm: ④ Shura realm: ⑤. Heaven: ⑦. Audience realm: 8. Kingdom of Jue Yuan: 8. Bodhisattva realm; Attending doctor. The Buddhist world. The first six realms are the mystery of ordinary people, that is, the world of six divisions in the wheel of karma, and the last four realms are the consciousness of the awakened one, surpassing the world. 2, 108 pills, representing the elimination of 108 kinds of troubles, 108 kinds of proof of infinite samadhi. Samadhi refers to living in a quiet but not scattered state, that is, in a positive definite state. 18 Samadhi refers to one hundred and eight kinds of Samadhi, such as Lengyan Samadhi, Yin Bao Samadhi, Miaoyue Samadhi, Lion Samadhi, Innocent Samadhi, Wonderful Samadhi, Visualized Samadhi, Happy Samadhi, Jubao Samadhi, Interpreted Samadhi, No Samadhi, No Hatred Samadhi, Pure Samadhi and Destroyed Samadhi. One hundred and eight kinds of troubles are all kinds of troubles of all beings, which can give birth to all kinds of bad karma. From bitterness, pleasure and abandonment, six kinds (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind) are combined into eighteen kinds; The other six kinds have three kinds of good and evil, which are combined into 18 kinds, a total of 36 kinds, and the past, present and future are combined into 108 kinds of troubles. 108 kinds of troubles are also called 108 kinds of graduation. It also explains 88 kinds of puzzles in the three realms, namely, greed, anger, infatuation, slowness, doubt, body awareness (holding the root of five connotations), edge awareness (holding the constant awareness), Jaken (slandering no positive fruit, bad fruit), seeing (holding prejudice, not counting fruit) and forbidding seeing (holding it, not being right). One hundred and eight grains can also represent the merits of one hundred and eight Buddhas, or the original rank of fifty-four and the rank of fifty-four in practice, and of course there are other meanings. In the Song Dynasty, Chen Shan recorded in the "New Theory of Qin lice" that Han Yu asked the monks at the ceremony, and the ceremony smiled and said, "One hundred and eighty days and nights." The language contains the front. 3. Fifty-four grains represent the fifty-fourth stage of the bodhisattva's practice, which means ten faiths, ten residences, ten lines, ten directions and ten places, plus four good roots. 4. forty-two tablets. They represent the forty-two levels of Bodhisattva's practice, namely, ten dwellings, ten lines, ten directions and ten places, plus equal sense and wonderful sense. Thirty-six capsules have the same meaning as 108 capsules, so for the convenience of carrying, two thirds of them are thirty-six. 6. There are still 33 rosary beads in the Tibetan secret, or 33 incarnations of Guanyin Bodhisattva, or 33 days. 7. Twenty-seven Pills represent the twenty-seven sages of Hinayana who practice four directions and four fruits, that is, the first four directions are "eighteen learning" and the fourth fruit is "nine learning". 8. Twenty-one pills refer to ten places, ten places, Buddha fruit, or ten places, ten paramita and Buddha fruit. 9. Eighteen capsules, which means the same as 108 capsules. For the convenience of carrying, one sixth is eighteen capsules. Or eighteen realms, that is, six roots, six dust and six senses. 10 and fourteen grains represent the fourteen fearlessness of Guanyin Bodhisattva. Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, with Samadha, no magical power (unintentional power), and all sentient beings, such as Shifang, Shisan and Liudao, share the same sorrow and envy, so that all sentient beings can gain fourteen merits without fear; or they can express fourteen forbearance as mentioned in Jing Wang Jing.
Fourth, the rosary structure is divided into two categories: L. Single rosary. In other words, a rosary consists of a mother pearl and other beads with different numbers. 2. Assemble prayer beads. That is, a string of prayer beads, in addition to mother beads and child beads, there are Buddha beads (also called numbers), disciple beads (also called records), records, or some ornaments. Generally, there is only one mother bead, and there are also two. Tommy Famen's rosary is two mother beads, representing introspection. One hundred and eight rosaries, fifty-four rosaries, one for every twenty-seven, one for every nine for twenty-seven, and one for every six for eighteen.
Brother Yuzhu is generally small, with a dozen or twenty pearls. It is strung at the other end in front of the mother bead. A string of ten pearls represents ten kinds of paramita: giving, keeping precepts, enduring humiliation, diligence, meditation, prajnaparamita, convenience, willingness, strength and wisdom. Disciple beads can also be used for counting. Every time you say a rosary, dial a disciple's bead.