According to legend, after the death of Buddha, disciples burned the Buddha's body and got four teeth, phalanges, skulls, hair and other things in the ashes. The disciples raised the relic, Buddha, and worshipped him. Later, King Ashoka took out all the relics, divided them into 84,000 pieces, put them into treasure letters, and built towers around the world to support them, many of which were introduced to China. 1987 The Buddhist relics were excavated in the underground palace of Famen Temple, which has been dreamed of by the Buddhist community for thousands of years. It's a middle phalanx of Buddha.
According to historical data and inscriptions, the hair of Buddha in Leifeng Pagoda Underground Palace is the hair relic of Buddha Sakyamuni, that is, the hair relic. (Zhang Le Shen Haixiong Zhang Yinshu)
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sarira
The relic is a transliteration of Sanskrit, which means corpse or bone. Later, it refers to the bones burned by monk Gao De after his death. It is said that sarira has three colors; Bones, black hair, red meat. It is also called "relic beads" because the ashes are white, like balls or crystals of other colors.
In 486 BC, Sakyamuni? When I was 80. (About Fournier? S, generally considered by Buddhists in Southeast Asia as 545 BC). After the death of the Buddha, the remains were cremated. The kings of ancient Tianzhu wanted to take the Sakyamuni relic, divide it into eight parts, and build towers on their own land. Since then, the atmosphere of offering sacrifices to relics has gradually prevailed.
China Xishan Lingguang Temple has a Buddha's Tooth Pagoda. Textual Research on "Escorting Buddha's Tooth to Myanmar" recorded by Zhao Puchu? Quot According to Buddhist classics, after Sakyamuni was cremated, he left four teeth, one of which was introduced to China. "1955, a Buddhist delegation from the ten-day federal government of Myanmar came to China to welcome this tooth to Myanmar for sacrifice, which lasted for eight months and was sent back to China. 1959, the Chinese Buddhist Association built this tooth pagoda in the north courtyard of Lingguang Temple in Beijing for a long time, which added new glory to Buddhism in China.
198 1 year 1 1 month, the staff of Yunju Temple in Fangshan County, Beijing, when cleaning the Lei Yin Cave of Shijingshan Tibetan Scripture Cave, found two relics in the white marble letter, which has a history of more than 1370 years. It is confirmed by textual research that it is the Buddha bone of Sakyamuni. This is the first time that China discovered the Buddha statue. 1On May 5th, 987 (the eighth day of the fourth lunar month is the birth day of Sakyamuni), people from the Buddhist circles in Beijing held a grand ceremony to welcome two Buddhist relics to Guangji Temple in Beijing. Zhao Puchu, president of the Chinese Buddhist Association, said that the discovery of the relic is of great significance in the history of world religions. After the restoration of Yunju Temple, the relics will be moved to Yunju Temple for people to pay their respects.
Buddhist relics
Ye Guo Jun
Buddhist monks often find "relics" in the ashes after long-term practice and cremate them in silence. These relics are considered to be the fruits of the great virtues of monks. It is said that Sakyamuni Buddha was cremated after showing silence. Wutai Mountain, which died not long ago, was as clean as a mage's tea and got more than 5,000 relics of various colors.
According to the fifth issue of Guangdong Buddhism 199 1, Shi Youqiong Bhikuni 199 1 passed away at Shuangfeng Temple on August 25th and held a tea ceremony at Lingshan Temple in Chaoyang on the 27th. The next day, the disciples searched for the ashes and found that there were many ashes shining with black and light jade, such as more than 20 mung beans and more rapeseed, which were crystal clear and amazing.
According to Xinmin Evening News (104/07, 993), people collected more than ten relics after the death of the French monk in Shanghai Jade Buddha Temple Prison and his recent cremation. The author of this paper got three of them, one of which looks like a Buddha's bead with a hole in it, and the other grows from the bone, which is very small, just like a dead ganoderma lucidum. The other is a fragment, not round, but similar in texture to the other two, with mottled turquoise on the surface. Dorris and the bones in the sun are obviously different. The bones are dull in color, but the relics have moist light.
According to the August issue of Fa Yin magazine (1993), Zhao Wuji Lama, a 79-year-old monk of Tibetan Buddhism in Shi Sheng Temple in Shenyang, died on May 7th, 1993. After cremation, there are beads of various colors, including crystals of dozens of colors such as red, green and white, soybeans and small ones. Appraised by experts, it is a colorful cultural relic, which has not been seen for many years and can be called a national treasure. In addition, there are some different sizes, such as coral relic flowers.
Judging from the above three reports, the so-called relics have the following characteristics:
(1) a monk;
② All of them were found in cremated ashes.
③ Different colors and sizes;
④ Various shapes, mainly round;
⑤ The number ranges from dozens to dozens or even more;
6. Hard texture, can shine.
From the perspective of modern medicine, the author thinks that when these monks were alive, there could not be so many hard relics like soybeans and mung beans in any part of their bodies. If there is, I don't think there is any benefit, but it will definitely lead to illness, and surgery is necessary. Like gallstones or kidney calculi, as long as there is one. Will make the patient feel pain. If there are dozens, it is unimaginable, let alone dozens or hundreds. But these monks didn't suffer when they were alive, so they went to the hospital for X-ray or cT scanning, otherwise they could completely diagnose whether there were relics in their bodies at this time. From the perspective of modern medicine, it is impossible for monks to have so many Buddhist relics in their bodies when they are alive. Why can they find such a relic from the cremated ashes? The author believes that they have reached the high realm of "the unity of man and nature" through long-term cultivation when they are alive, and they can naturally absorb high-energy substances in the universe and enhance their physique. These high-energy substances penetrate into various tissues of the body, especially bones. The longer they practice, the more enlightened they become, and the more high-energy substances in the universe are contained in their bodies. They were cremated after death, melted at high temperature, and condensed with ashes in the cooling process, becoming circular relics of different sizes and quantities. If possible, just take a relic and test it, and you will know which elements are made up and what substances make the relic shine. On the other hand, if these monks are buried without cremation after their death, the author suspects that it is impossible to find relics in their coffins after they only have bones, teeth and hair.
It is said that many monks died and were cremated before they got the relics. I don't understand or want to talk about the wonderful phenomena, such as good men believing in Buddhist scriptures, Buddhist relics in their mouths, monks rubbing their backs while taking a bath, Buddhist monks shaving their hair into a string of Buddhist relics, and Buddha burning lamps on snuff.