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So many monks in Journey to the West are bald. Why do only Tathagata have hair?
In Buddhism, people shave their hair because it is called "troubled hair". So monks shave their heads for better practice. There is also a saying that after a person becomes a monk, his previous clothes, jewelry, gold and silver jewelry, hair, etc. They are all things outside the body, so since hair is also things outside the body, give it up. What we see on the Tathagata's head is not hair, but a bun, which is a bag that will grow from the skull when cultivated to a certain extent. So this is not what we call hair.

However, when we watch the film and television works of Journey to the West, it is not difficult to find that the Tathagata has hair on his head. But the Tathagata Buddha, as the commander-in-chief of Buddhism, should take responsibility for himself! Why does he have hair? Is it that the power is high and the enemy is hard to meet? Can't anyone threaten his position as a master of Buddhist orthodoxy?

In fact, Tathagata is also shaved. As the saying goes, how can you become a monk without shaving? How can a monk who is not shaved be a real monk? In fact, what we think of as the hair on the head of the Tathagata is not hair, but "meat buns".

What is a "meat steamed stuffed bun"? "Meat steamed stuffed bun" is a bag that grows on the skull and passes through the skull, but this long bag has nothing to do with physical illness. The growth of "meat buns" is due to the cultivation to a certain level. In fact, not only the Tathagata has meat buns, but also the right-hand man of the Tathagata, Manjusri Bodhisattva and Samantabhadra Bodhisattva, which also proves that Manjusri Bodhisattva's practice has always been inscrutable.