The Indian name of the relic is Tuodu, also known as Sherilo, which is translated into Chinese as spirit bone, body bone and body. It's a crystal left by a person after cremation. But the relics are completely different from the bones of ordinary dead people. Its shapes are ever-changing, including round, oval, lotus, Buddha or bodhisattva; Its colors are white, black, green and red, and there are also various colors; Some relics are like pearls, while others are like agates and crystals. Some are transparent, others are bright, just like diamonds.
According to the scripture, the relic is obtained by a person through practicing discipline, determination and wisdom, plus his own great will. It is very rare and precious. For example, after the Buddha's nirvana, as many as one stone and six buckets of relics were burned. At that time, eight kings competed for the Buddha relic, and each got a share. They brought the relics of the Buddha back to their own country and built pagodas for people to watch and worship. In addition, accomplished monks and believers at home can also get Buddhist relics after death. For example, Huineng, the sixth ancestor of China, and modern masters Hong Yi, Yin Guang, Taixu and Zhang Jia all left a considerable number of relics.
The golden blood relic of Sakyamuni Buddha is recorded in relevant Buddhist documents. After the death and cremation of Buddha Sakyamuni, believers found many round hard objects in his ashes, which were bright, transparent, colorful and hard as steel. This is the relic, commonly known as the relic, which has always been regarded as a Buddhist treasure.
According to observation, relic is a kind of bone crystal, and its composition and structure are unknown. It is said that Taoist can only appear after being cremated after her death. Traces are very rare. However, in recent years, the relic phenomenon has appeared frequently and become an anecdote in contemporary Buddhism.
1990 65438+ February. Master Hong Chuan, a monk from China, died. After cremation, 480 colored hard objects similar to crystals were found in his ashes, some of which sparkled like diamonds. This is recognized. This is no different from the treasures of Buddhism.
1On the evening of May 7, 993, a 79-year-old monk, Wuliji (Mongolian), the only Tibetan Buddhist Shi Sheng Temple in Shenyang, northeast China, felt unwell and wanted to go back to his hometown in Fuxin, Liaoning. Unexpectedly, he died quietly as soon as someone in the temple sent him to Shenyang Railway Station. The monk's body was sent to funeral home cremation, a civil servant in Shenyang. After cremation, dozens of multicolored precious crystals such as red, green, yellow, black and white were found in his ashes, which were identified by Buddhist experts as precious relics left by a monk after his death.
It is said that some monks left as many as 10,000 relics. 199 1 March, Master Tong Xian, executive director of Chinese Buddhist Association, vice president of Shanxi Buddhist Association and vice president of Wutaishan Buddhist Association, died and was cremated, and 11,000 pieces of five-color relics were obtained, the highest in ancient and modern times and the highest in the world.
Some monks left relics as big as eggs. 1On September 27th, 989, the 93-year-old abbot of Xishi Temple in Guiping County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region passed away. After cremation, he got three bright green and crystal clear relics, each with a diameter of 3-4 cm, which looked like an emerald.
The golden blood relic of Sakyamuni Buddha is particularly magical. After the death of a monk, the heart can't burn, and finally it turns into a solid relic. 1994 93-year-old Master Yuan Zhao practiced in Huokeji, Guanyin Mountain, Wuziping Township, Chang 'an County, Shaanxi Province. Since June, neither water nor rice has entered. On June 12, she suddenly appeared very excited and excited. At nine o'clock in the evening, after giving a lecture on Buddhism to the disciples who came to visit the temple, she said, "I will leave my heart to all beings", and then she was silent. When everyone watched, they had closed their eyes, meditated cross-legged and died quietly. Four days later, according to Buddhist rules, disciples set up firewood on a large bluestone board in the temple and burned the mage to death. The fire burned all day, and the mage had hundreds of relics and flowers of different sizes and shapes. The relic flower is white with red, yellow, blue and brown crystals the size of rice grains. What is particularly amazing is that the mage's heart will not burn for a long time and become a huge dark brown relic. At the end of cremation, my heart was still soft, and then it gradually hardened. More than 100 disciples present at that time witnessed it. It is said that Master Zhao Yuan is quiet, peaceful and kind-hearted, but he only eats one or two ounces per meal. Wang Xuwen, a lay disciple of the master and the president of Chang 'an Qigong Association, said that Huo Keji had sent someone to bring a relic to the provincial Buddhist Association, which was identified as a rare relic by Master Yuyuan. Later, the local people raised funds to build a pagoda for permanent preservation.
There have been different opinions about the formation of this relic. Some scholars have suggested that Buddhist monks have been vegetarian for a long time and ingested a lot of cellulose and minerals. After human metabolism, it is easy to form a large number of phosphates and carbonates, which are finally deposited in the body in the form of crystals. However, this explanation is not entirely convincing. There are thousands of vegetarians in the world. Why is there no relic? There are countless Buddhist disciples. Why doesn't everyone have a relic? Some scholars believe that this relic may be a pathological phenomenon, similar to gallstones and kidney calculi. This explanation is also difficult to justify. Many patients with lithiasis were cremated after death, and none of them had any relics. Moreover, almost all monks with Buddhist relics are healthy, peaceful and comfortable long-lived old people.