Luohan Hall

Luohan Hall

Luohan hall is a hall dedicated to Luohan. Later, Buddhism was divided into many branches. In Hinayana Buddhism, those who believe in Hinayana Buddhism practice according to the doctrine of Hinayana Buddhism to reach the highest level, which is called "arhat" for short. There are sixteen, eighteen and five hundred Arhats in Luohan. In general temples, there are eighteen Arhats on both sides of the main hall, while in larger temples, there are Arhats halls specially built with many Arhats inside, maybe 500 or more.

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Eighteen Arhats

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In general, the main hall of a temple is for the Buddha in the middle. There are nine Arhats on both sides, nine on the left and nine on the right, collectively known as the eighteen Arhats.

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The eldest disciple, bintoulu Zun, was born into a Brahman aristocrat and was originally a minister of King Youshen of jieshemi city. He likes to show off his skills in front of others. Later, he became a white headed and long browed arhat. He lives in West qutuoni island. His image is that he presses the dragon's head with his hand and closes his mouth with angry eyes.

The second disciple, the venerable canodachen, is a disciple who "knows all the good and evil dharmas". He lives in the state of Kashmir, with his hands folded and a smiling face.

Third disciple: Master kanoka Bali, who lived in Dongsheng Prefecture, closed his eyes and pondered, his hair and beard were white.

Fourth disciple: Su pintuo, who lives in beiguluzhou, caresses his right neck and gnashes his teeth in pain.

Five disciples: Master Nuo Ju Luo, who lives in Nanli Prefecture, has a gentle hand and a kind attitude.

Sixth disciple: Master batra is the waiter of the Buddha. He is in charge of xiluoshu. Therefore, some Buddhist temples offer his statues in Luosi temple and live in tanburuozhou. Calm attitude, copy hands and sit.

Seven disciples: the venerable karica, who lives in Senga chazhou, smiles and shows his paintings.

Eight disciples: Lord delovdoro, who lives in Bosi state. Sitting by hand is graceful.

Ninth disciple: the venerable shubojia lived in Xiangzui mountain and sat down with his hands arched.

Ten disciples: bantuojia, also known as bantuo, means "born by the side of the road" in Chinese. It turns out that this arhat was born on his own. Squat, be kind.

Eleven disciples: Lord Luo, also known as Luo Luo, is Sakyamuni's own son and lives in Quzhou, bilibiao. Naked ears.

Twelve disciples: the sharp master of Naga, who lives in guangbandubo mountain, has thick beard and thick beard, and sits by hand.

Disciple 13: the venerable yinjietuo lived in Guangwei mountain. Squatting on the right foot, holding the dust. Disciple 14: venerable varnathus, who lives in the mountains, looks at him with open eyes and shows his teeth, and holds something in his hand.

Disciple 15: venerable adaido, who lives in Jiufeng Mountain, smiles with a long eyebrow and holds Ganoderma lucidum.

Disciple 16: zhucha bantuojia Zun is the younger brother of the ten disciples "born along the road", that is, "born along the road". He is also an illegitimate child, but his elder brother is clever and he is stupid. I have a monk in my belly.

Seventeen Arhats and eighteen Arhats are two heroes in ancient China. However, the specific names of them have always been controversial. Some people say that they are Budao and Xuanzang of Tang Dynasty, but Emperor Qianlong of Qing Dynasty clearly defined them as JIAYE and Maitreya.

In Buddhist stories, there are sixteen Arhats. Because after Buddhism was introduced into China, according to the custom of symmetrical arrangement on both sides, the sixteen Arhats were arranged on both sides, and only eight Arhats could be arranged on one side. In dialects (especially in southern Hong Kong and Guangdong), the word "Ba" means "Fa". Subconsciously, I really hope to get rich. But in ancient Chinese, "eight" means separation. Therefore, in the later sculpture, people added two new statues in front of the sixteen Arhats, and the arrangement was nine on one side, because in old China, the "Ninth Five Year Plan" represented the supreme power and the supreme, and because "Nine" and "jiu" were homophonic, they also represented the everlasting and everlasting. The new two Arhats are dragon subduing arhat Kaya (calm attitude, raise your hand to your ears) and tiger subduing arhat Maitreya (holding a ring and sitting obliquely, glaring and grinning).

Luohan Hall

Five hundred Arhats

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Generally speaking, only large temples have Rohan hall. Arhat is the short name of arhat. In Mahayana Buddhism, arhat is lower than Buddha, and Bodhisattva is the third class, while in Hinayana Buddhism, arhat is the highest fruit that can be achieved in practice. According to Buddhism, to get arhat's status is to give up all troubles, to be supplied by heaven and man, and to stop reincarnation of life and death.

Five hundred Arhats usually refer to the five hundred Arhats of the great bhikkhs who are often enlightened by the Buddha in the world, or the five hundred Arhats who gather Buddhist classics after the Buddha's nirvana. In ancient India, "five hundred" and "eighty-four thousand" were used to describe many meanings, which is very similar to the Chinese ancients who used "three" or "Nine" to express most of them. Therefore, "five hundred Arhats" is not necessarily five hundred, and their names are not clear.

Because the number, names and statues of Arhats are not based on the classical rituals, the number, scale and figures of Arhats in temples may be different.

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Luohan hall, Jile temple, Meishan, Sichuan

Luohan Hall of the blissful temple in Dongpo District of Meishan city was built in 2002, covering an area of about 4000 square meters. It took four years and invested more than 10 million yuan. The Luohan Hall of the blissful temple, with flying eaves and brackets, is ancient and magnificent. The internal structure is based on the Luohan array, in the shape of "meter", with 16 patios and 32 roadways, in order.

At the entrance, there is the Peacock King Ming. The King Ming has a four armed face, holding a lotus flower, a Juyuan fruit, an auspicious fruit and a peacock tail, and riding on the Golden Peacock King. Among the four objects held, the lotus flower shows respect and love, the Juyuan fruit shows subdue, the auspicious fruit shows gain, and the peacock tail shows disaster. This Ming king is the equivalent of the Buddha of piluzana (the Dharma Buddha of Sakyamuni Buddha). The left is led by Gaye and the right by Ananda.

At the center of the main hall, there are four statues of Guanyin, and there are thirty-two Body Portraits of Guanyin painted on four sides.

There are 1250 Arhats in the arhat Hall of the blissful temple. These Arhats are usually monks with shaved hair, dressed in monk's clothes, simple and pure, reflecting the virtue of Buddhist practice, wisdom and serenity in reality. These Arhats are lifelike, colorful and full of wit. They have both solemn and serious posture and lively life charm. Some are happy, angry and sad, some are free, some are solemn and kind, some are cynical

In a corridor of Luohan hall, there is also Jigong monk. It is said that Jigong does not belong to 500 Arhats, so he can only stand on the corridor and never ranks in the ranks of Arhats.

Every arhat has a legend and a story.

Luohantang, Chengde, Hebei

Luohan hall is located in the Lion Garden in the northern suburb of Chengde City, the north of summer resort and the west of Guang'an temple. It covers an area of 12000 square meters and imitates the Anguo temple in Haining, Zhejiang Province. It is a Han style temple.

Luohan hall is located in the north and faces the south. The original gate, bell and Drum Tower, Tianwang hall, dongxipeidian hall, Luohan hall, etc. form a courtyard pattern. In front of the mountain gate, there is a five hole stone bridge leading to the temple. Inside the temple are blue stone corridors. There are eight monsters at the foot of the four heavenly kings in the tall heavenly king hall, which are vivid and eye-catching.

In the arhat hall, 508 arhat statues made of wood and gold paint are vivid, with different and lifelike expressions, which is a unique landscape here. According to historical records, all the arhat statues built in temples all over the country, except for the arhat hall in Chengde, are all clay sculptures, only here are wooden ones.

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