Buddhism does not always preach that "everything is empty". Shouldn't we cling to our wishes? But how can I build a Buddha statue and a temple with gold, silver and jewels?
1. Count those luxurious Buddha statues. How many have you met?
1998, an extremely luxurious golden jade Guanyin audio-visual image was really considered as the largest golden jade Buddha statue in the world, and it was also recorded in the Guinness Book of Records of 1999.
This golden jade Guanyin consumes about 100 kg of gold and 100 kg of jade, and is also inlaid with 120 South African diamonds and thousands of rare treasures such as rubies, emeralds, corals, turquoise and pearls.
The statue is hollow, inlaid with Sakyamuni relics and contains 108 Tripitaka. Experts estimate that the price of this Guanyin statue is about10.92 billion RMB.
In addition, there are not a few "glittering" Buddha statues, and then I opened my eyes to treasure fans.
Lindong Giant Buddha: The total investment is about 654.38 billion yuan, with 48 kilograms of gold plating.
Lushenafo, with an investment of 654.38+0.2 billion yuan. All Buddha statues use 3300 tons of copper and 0/08 kg of gold.
There have also been jade merchants who spent eight years carving the world's largest jade Guanyin with jade. This jade Guanyin is made of exquisite materials, with violet autumn colors on it, and the market price is about 60 thousand to 80 thousand.
Maitreya Buddha statue, the largest jade crown in the world, is made of more than 200 kilograms of gold and thousands of diamonds, jade and other jewels.
These are all big in China.
Golden Buddha statue
There are countless Buddha statues in Small jade. However, what is the relationship between gold and jade and Buddhism?
Buddhism and gold and silver
In fact, there are many exquisite and luxurious Buddha statues in history, especially in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, when Buddhism spread to its peak, even emperors and generals believed in Buddhism. With believers, incense will flourish, and people will rush to build temples for you to worship Buddha without paying for it themselves.
If it is a royal temple, the Buddha statues in it can't be hasty. We often hear the saying that Buddha statues should be "made of gold" and that "clothes make the man, and Buddha is made of gold". Sticking gold is the main Buddhist event in the Buddhist tradition, and sticking gold on the Buddha statue represents the highest respect for the Buddha. Moreover, the yellow color of gold is imperial, so the royal Buddha statues are mostly rich in jade, and the golden Buddha statues look more solemn, making people feel lofty and respectful, and have a feeling of being illuminated and warm by Buddha nature.
Buddhism and Jade Articles
Buddhism was introduced into China in the Western Han Dynasty. After hundreds of years of development, it has gradually merged with Chinese civilization. The deepening of Buddhism and worship provides good materials for jade articles.
Nowadays, after inviting jade, many people often go to the temple to ask the master to open the light, and some people deeply believe that jade without opening the light is spirituality. Other officials often say that "men wear Guanyin and women wear jade", which is a hint of the integration of Buddhist civilization and jade culture.
Now we wear gold or jade Buddha pendant, which not only inherits the jade civilization and quality of China for thousands of years, but also belongs to the protective care and teaching of Buddhism.
Second, why are Buddha statues made of gold and inlaid with Buddha treasures? This is the secret.
In the impression of ordinary people, Buddhism is detached from the secular world, devotes itself to practice wholeheartedly, and has no desire for the world and material things. However, it is true that some temples are full of precious jade, the Buddha statues are all made of gold, and the Buddhist vestments are also covered with jewels.
Do you remember the blinding robe of Tang Priest in The Journey to the West? It's full of rare treasures.
The purpose and significance of Buddhism using rare treasures to shape Buddha statues do not stop there.
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Absorb people into religion
The reason is that Buddhism itself is really "everything is empty", but everyone is not. It's useless to be serious, but everyone wants property, luck and wishes. Believers are from secular people at first. In order to attract believers, this kind of gold and silver jewelry has become a more intuitive "auspicious feeling".
For the Buddha, precious stones such as gold, silver, glass and so on are indeed indistinguishable from earth and sand, but because secular people can't do without their existing intuition, the Buddha has to absorb them with a relatively simple material view, so that they can practice more actively for the pure land of past lives. Therefore, from the perspective of Buddhism, gold and silver jewelry is only an internal skill for missionary purposes.
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The concretization of religion
From this point of view, the use of treasures such as gold and silver is to concretize religious worship and make people believe that the Buddhist world really exists, and how wonderful it is to have an intuitive sense of bliss. As long as people do more good deeds and accumulate good things for themselves or their loved ones, they can get rid of the pain of "circulation" after death and enter the Buddhist world, where there are rich treasures and food and clothing.
Buddhism must be "solemn" while exaggerating "it's hard to fill the want" and "everything is empty". The pure land recorded in Buddhist documents is not a solemn occasion, but a paradise full of precious stones.
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Jade Buddha: Avoiding evil spirits is a good thing.
Today, when people buy Buddha brand pendants, they still prefer the material of jade. This is of course because Jinyu itself is our unique jade civilization. Wearing a golden jade Buddha statue can protect the body from evil spirits and bless well-being. As far as Buddhism is concerned, gold and silver are the first of the seven treasures. In the Amitabha Sutra, it is recorded that there are seven treasure pools in Elysium, which contain eight kinds of water and the bottom of the pool is covered with gold sand.
Therefore, gold represents health, and many bodhisattvas who go home want to cast a golden body, which means "golden body protects against all diseases." And gold as a Buddha statue can accumulate goodness, strong and short-lived.
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With golden light, the heart is attached to all beings.
The purpose of making Buddha statues is to guide all living beings to stop evil and do good. Therefore, believers believe that it is a good thing to raise three treasures and build temples and statues. Making Buddha statues can make millions of people happy, and at the same time make more people lose their spiritual liberation, assistance and practice. This is physical sponsorship and spiritual liberation.
Gold and silver utensils for Buddhism
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"Golden body" means "permanent"
Apart from hardware, "silver, copper, iron and tin" are easily oxidized, but gold cannot be oxidized and can be stable forever, so gold means "stability".
Giving gold to the Buddha statue means that in the Elysium, the Buddha body is stable and immortal, and there is no "birth, illness and death"; The bliss in the world is infinite, and the infinite body is permanent and stable. But from a practical point of view, the metal stability of gold can make the Buddha statue last longer.
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