The senior sister said that since living in this nunnery, the senior sister has told the senior sister a lot of Buddhist things, which Laoshan does not practice, because although the Buddha and the Tao have something in common, in essence, they are still different culturally, and it may be this compatibility that allows the senior sister to go to the next level in her skills. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

At that time, Mrs. Shi had told my sister about some things about this Buddhist card. The senior sister said that the Buddha card is a kind of Buddhist jewelry unique to Thailand, and it belongs to the same category as the Buddha of Tibet, China, but it is smaller in size. It is made from a variety of materials, such as Buddhist scriptures, pollen, medicinal herbs, temple incense ash, metals, ores, gemstones, etc.

The Buddha card is a kind of Buddhist jewelry unique to Thailand, and the Thai people believe that the earth is the mother of mankind, so most of them are made of clay, and rarely use gold, silver, copper, iron, crystal, glass, glass, and rarely use these items to hold the Buddha card.

The Buddha card is a kind of Buddhist holy object unique to Thailand, and everyone calls it the Buddha card. It is generally believed to be a small, lightweight version of a famous Buddha statue that was used to be enshrined in the temple to enhance the temple's mana. It is a kind of Buddha memorial. The purpose is to enable the next generation to have a better and more complete understanding of Buddhist culture and knowledge. It is a preservation of beliefs and traditions. Most of the amulets are made into small ornaments and enshrined in the pagoda. The purpose is that if the stupa or Buddhist culture is persecuted in the future, the Buddhist culture can be passed on through the Buddhist card. In order to remind the world of the splendor and brilliance of the Buddhist culture of the ancestors.

The original meaning of the amulet was to be worn around the neck to protect the fighters who participated in the jihad (to defend the rights of Thailand). Because the Thai people believe that the Buddha will bless those who sacrifice for others. It is used as a talisman and is worn around the neck to protect a person's safety or to strengthen faith.

Historically, Myanmar and Thailand have been at war with each other, and whenever a province or region is looted and a stupa is destroyed, a large number of amulets are found in the ruins of the stupa. These amulets are extremely valuable and often hundreds of years old. Most of these valuable amulets come from the Ayutthaya Dynasty, the Sukhothai Dynasty and the Lopburi Dynasty. Most of them are historical sites.

As a kind of amulet, the amulet has a variety of themes. Some are in the Dharma phase, some are in the Dharma phase of the gods, and some are based on ghosts. There are also some people in Chinese mainland who call the cards of Buddha and the gods "Zhengpai", and the cards made of ghosts and corpse materials "Yin cards", but it must be explained that according to Thai orthodoxy, the definition of the Thai Buddhist Card Association, or the recognition of ordinary Thai people, domestic "Yin cards" are not considered Buddhist cards in Thailand. In Thailand, the amulet card refers to the Buddha, the gods, and the Buddhist temple master himself. The so-called "Yin card" is not a Buddha card.

The so-called genuine card refers to the temple in Thailand, where the monk personally blesses and then sells it in exchange for funds to build Buddhist facilities such as Buddhist temples. The main representative cards are Chongdi, Xiangshen, Bida, Pai Geling (Medicine Buddha), the Master's own Dharma, Butterfly Buddha and other series of Buddha cards.

The so-called yin cards refer to the cards designed by Luang Po, Azan, and Cuba (these are the names of the monks or lay monks of Theravada Buddhism in Thailand) and involve other sentient beings, beings, and spirits in the three realms of ghosts and evil tastes. It is a special amulet.

The white-clothed azan refers to the lay monks of Theravada Buddhism in Thailand, that is, Upa Yi and Upasa. Because they keep the vows pure, and they have some Brahmanical spells or inherit the original witchcraft of the Aryans, in addition to making orthodox Buddhist cards, they will also sometimes make tokens with ghosts and spiritual appearances, which are no longer in the category of Buddhist cards.

In Thailand, when it comes to Buddha cards, they all refer to the orthodox "Buddha" cards, namely Chongdi Buddha, Mask Buddha, Medicine Buddha, and the famous masters themselves are equal. The "Yin card" referred to by the Chinese, which belongs to the hype of card dealers, is not popular in Thailand and is not considered one of the Buddha cards. Very few temples make it, and few people wear it.

These many Buddha cards constitute the Thai Buddha card culture, and what kind of Buddha card did the cloth shop owner invite, so that he encountered such a thing?

(To be continued)