Chapter 17: The Great Puja of Nirvana
As soon as Zhao Ranfu entered the hall, the bells and drums rang out in unison, the gongs and cymbals were loud, the sound of wooden fish and chanting sounded like a mountain and a sea, and Zhang Juzheng on the side turned pale and trembled slightly, and his legs were weakened by the shock.
Zhao Ran hurriedly put his fingers over slightly, and passed a trace of mana, which made Zhang Juzheng stabilize.
According to the process explained in advance, Zhao Ran stepped forward to the Shakyamuni Buddha confession, and the six great monks of the Buddha Realm were already waiting here, and when they saw Zhao Ran, they all joined together: "I have seen the Ming envoy." ”
Master Yinguang, who presided over the old hall of Dean Tianlong, came out and introduced Zhao Ran one by one: "This is the living Buddha of Sangcuo, the national teacher of Tubo. ”
The living Buddha of Sangcuo is dressed in golden ancestral clothes, and the red dongka is embroidered with brocade with flowers, and he looks no more than seventy years old, but Zhao Ran knows that this living Buddha is more than two hundred years old, and he is the oldest of the two living Buddhas in Tibet.
So Zhao Ran clenched his fists: "Xiaodao has seen Sangcuo Living Buddha." ”
Sangcuo Living Buddha squinted at Zhao Ran and smiled.
Master Yinguang continued: "This is the true living Buddha of the Northern Yuan Dynasty National Master Jialin. ”
Jialin True Living Buddha's face was dark, the bridge of his nose was high, and he had a bit of the taste of a monk in the Western Regions, Zhao Ran continued to hug his fists: "I've seen Jialin True Living Buddha." ”
Garin True Living Buddha grinned, his smile made Zhao Ran a little creepy, he didn't dare to look at it more, and continued to salute the remaining few.
"I've seen Master Wenyin...... I've seen Master Miaozhen...... I've seen the great Zen master Xuyongming......"
After a brief salute, Master Yinguang raised his hand to signal, the sound of chanting, gongs and drums and wooden fish suddenly quieted down, Master Yinguang said: "In April this year, Master Xuanci, the abbot of Taici Temple, preached Nirvana in the Hengduan Mountain. Today, the Taoist Sect sent an envoy to return the master's rainbow body, and thousands of monks and tens of millions of believers of the Lao Dynasty Buddhism are here to welcome him!"
Everyone's eyes were on Zhao Ran, and Zhao Ran knew that it was time to hand over.
Zhao Ran couldn't directly fish out the Xuanci rainbow body from the mandala, it would be disrespectful to do so, unless he didn't want to go back to the Ming Dynasty, so he took out the mandala mandala from the wrench, held it with both hands, and gently placed it on the altar.
The first seat of the Bodhi Hall and the first seat of the Xuanye Hall walked out of the queue below, came to the altar, and the Dharma strength entered the mandala, and the mandala instantly became larger.
Yuan and Hongdao reached in, paused for a moment, one person helped the left, one person helped the right, and lifted out a Nanmu lotus throne from the mandala, on the throne, the eyes were slightly closed, and the face of the kind Master Xuanci sat on his knees, and there was a golden bowl on his lap.
As soon as the Xuanci rainbow body came out, the sound of bells, drums, gongs and cymbals rose again, and all the monks in the hall fell down on the futon and paid homage. With the sound of the wooden fish, the hall reverberated with a long-lasting chanting.
Zhao Ran stepped aside, and the six great monks of the Buddha Realm led by him stepped forward one by one, lightly touched the handprint made by Master Xuanci's rainbow body with their foreheads, and then retreated one by one, each offering incense.
Master Wenyin stepped forward to put on a brocade robe for Xuan Ci, Master Miao Zhen put on a Buddha bead for him, Zen Master Xuyongming presented a Pilu hat, and Sangcuo Living Buddha and Jialing Zhen Living Buddha each draped two colorful hatas around his neck.
Master Yinguang stepped forward to tidy up a little, and then waved his hand, and the two masters, Liyuan and Hongdao, lifted the lotus throne and circled around the hall, and then went out of the Mahavira Hall to patrol the Dharma field outside.
The lecture field outside the Daxiong Treasure Hall is a circular corridor, divided into three layers, each layer is full of Buddhist monks, monks of various temples, magnates of various ministries and officials in the court, densely packed and do not know how much, at this moment I saw the real body of the rainbow body, immediately shouted to worship, the cry resounded through the Xingqing Mansion, and caused the believers of all parties waiting outside the Tianlong Courtyard to shake the earth.
The lotus throne on which the Xuanci rainbow body was seated was carried by the Yuan Yuan and Hongdao, so that everyone who attended the Great Dharma could witness the Nirvana rainbow body of Xuanci with their own eyes, which immediately triggered a mountain of prayers.
Hongdao asked Yuan: "What's the matter?"
Liyuan replied: "It is the Nine Hearts Sect Mandala, it can't be wrong!"
As the first seat of the Bodhi Hall, he can be regarded as the first holy hand in the country to appreciate the Buddha treasure, he is sure that this is a real object, then it can never be fake, in other words, even if it is fake, it is true at this moment!
Hongdao immediately said: "After the Great Fa, go and exchange with him!"
Yuan said: "After a while, I will go to find Master Yinguang, and ask him to come forward to discuss with Zen Master Xuyongming, regardless of what Yan Futi Temple wants, first take out the Xuanyuan Ten Son Diagram to exchange for the mandala, and then compensate Yan Futi Temple, they are all in the same vein of Buddhism, how to say!"
While transmitting the sound and discussing, the two eminent monks carried the Xuanci rainbow body around the Dharma field three times, setting off a wave of frenzy of worship by monks and believers. In the meantime, Hongdao explained the origin of the golden bowl loudly, which caused bursts of amazement.
After the patrol was completed, the Xuanci rainbow body was carried into the Daxiong Treasure Hall, and the nine-hearted mandala on the altar had been taken back by Zhao Ran, and was replaced by a rosewood Buddhist shrine made by Buddhism, and the two monks carefully carried the rainbow body into the Buddha shrine, and then the monks of the Tianlong Monastery cast the spell to close the Buddha shrine, and the golden bowl was also contained in a treasure box.
Believers from all walks of life began to enter the temple, offering offerings to Xuan Ci, there are butter lamps, pure water, Buddhist scriptures, prayer beads, incense tripods, robes, five precept crowns, prayer documents, etc., all kinds of categories are different, not long after the temple is piled up like a mountain, among which there are ten Huangluo umbrella covers are the most conspicuous, but it is the famous umbrella of 10,000 people given by the people of Ningxia.
Seven years ago, Ningxia drought, Master Xuanci at the cost of three years of life, vows to pray for rain, countless people, this is the local people spontaneously sewn the Huangluo umbrella, three months to name more than 100,000, even the production of ten umbrellas can be tolerated.
Zhao Ran watched with envy from the sidelines, and secretly said that if he could get a 10,000-person umbrella, what a merit it would be!
After the offerings were completed, under the leadership of Master Yinguang and the great monks of the Buddha Realm, thousands of people recited prayers and vows in the Dharma preaching field inside and outside the hall of the Daxiong Treasure Hall, over and over again, the entire Tianlong Temple was filled with incense and candles, and the chanting shook the sky!
This is the ritual of the first day of the Great Festival, which lasts for 7749 days, focusing on the first seven days, interspersed with chanting, offerings, and teachings by senior monks. Seven days later, the Vidhi Puja is held, which is the most solemn ceremony of the entire Great Puja, and after that, the Dharma is performed by the senior monks, and the eight fasting methods of the devotees are held.
Unlike the Daomen, the Nirvana Puja of Buddhism to celebrate Xuanci's enlightenment is mainly held in the Tianryu Temple, while the Daomen are scattered throughout the temples. The differences in the concepts and implementation methods are also quite interesting.
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