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Bodhisattva Weituo is one of the great bodhisattvas of Buddhism (there is another Dharma God Weitian general in Buddhism. It is said that Weitian general, whose surname is Wei Mingkun, is one of the Eight Generals under the southern growth heavenly king, ranking first among the 32 generals. Each of the four heavenly kings has eight generals.)

According to the Tripitaka, Bodhisattva Weituo was born on the third day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar. He often lives in the Saha world, embracing the great Falun of three continents. He was the general of the 18th and the Prime Minister of the 54th. He built 120 pavilions, opened 130 wells, built eight million cassocks and Bi tree bowls, built 48 roads and 46 Buddhist temples. One thousand sandalwood Buddhas with a height of six feet are made in each generation, one gold Pagoda with a height of seven feet is made in front of each Buddha, and one hundred Tripitaka are made in each generation. The 17th generation is a true child. At the Baohua glass Buddha meeting, he became a Taoist, and was called the Puyan Bodhisattva; at the Sakyamuni Buddha meeting, he was named the true Tongshen Bodhisattva. Holding a diamond pestle, weighing 84000 Jin, the King Kong does not damage his body. He vowed that the Buddha was born to support the Dharma. He wore a helmet with Phoenix wings. He wore black cloud shoes and gold chain armour. If one wishes to make and print one or even tens of thousands of pictures and texts, he will live a long life without disease, and his Bodhi Heart will never retreat!

After holding 999 Buddhas, Bodhisattva Weituo will be the last one to rob the Buddha.

brief introduction

Weituo Bodhisattva, also known as weituotian, is transliterated as private jiantuodiva, which means cloudy day. Bodhisattva Weituo is a great Bodhisattva who upholds the Dharma.

It is said that Mount Tianmu is the Yinghua Daochang for Weituo to show his respect for heaven, so there is a "Weituo hall" specially built in the temple. Among them, the statue of Bodhisattva Weituo worshiping heaven in Weituo Hall of Zhaoming temple is quite different from other places. All temples offer standing statues, and here is a huge sitting statue.

"Beihuajing" says: Bodhisattva Weituo was a disciple of Sakyamuni Buddha after his death. Sakyamuni Buddha was Baohai Fanzhi at that time. There were 100 million disciples. The youngest one was called chilijieji. According to his wish, he would become a Buddha in the future, and he would go to the Buddha.

Ten wishes of Bodhisattva Weituo

According to the book of sad China:

The first wish: to practice Bodhisattva

Buddha. I would like to practice Bodhisattva in your time. Practice all asceticism, keep precepts, give alms, learn more about diligence, tolerance, love, language and wisdom. All kinds of help to know that the order is full.

Second wish: to protect the Dharma

When sages rob Buddhas and become Buddhas. May I give food and drink at the beginning. After the nirvana, he collected the relic. To raise a tower. Uphold the right law. When you see the person who destroys the precepts, persuade the abbot to change the precepts. Stay away from those who have the right view and fall into the wrong view. We should try our best to persuade people to be calm and calm, and make them stay upright. Those who disperse the mind are advised to be calm and calm. Those who have no prestige persuade Hua'an to stop the sacred prestige. If all living beings want to do good. I should give it a good root.

The third wish: to light the lamp at the end of the law

After nirvana, the Dharma fell. When I am here, I will keep the order of protection. In the world, it is burning the positive light.

Fourth wish: all wishes

When the swordsmen robbed. I should educate all living beings. Hold on to the principle of no killing and even the right view. Pull out all living beings from the ten evils. An Zhi Ling lives in the ten good ways. Eliminate the blind and open up the good method. I should destroy this calamity, my life and all living beings should be turbid, and my troubles should be turbid.

In famine. I should persuade all living beings. An stops at tanparami and even Prajna parami. This is also the time when I advised all living beings to live in six paramilities. All beings are hungry. The dark is foul, the thief is foul. And all troubles make silence.

In the plague. I should educate all living beings. He lived in the six harmonies. Also make an stop four shot method. All diseases of all living beings will be wiped out in darkness.

Yu Banxian was so distressed to rob and destroy all living beings.

The fifth wish: the last wish to become a Buddha

One thousand four Buddhas. Born in the middle of a disaster. Nirvana. The law has been destroyed. Then I think of him as a Bodhi.

Sixth wish: no other thousand Buddha wish

Such as the life span of thousand four Buddhas. I've heard about my disciples. And so on.

If Four Thousand Buddhas are in half robbery, they will be able to control all sentient beings. I wish that I would also be able to tune up all sentient beings.

The seventh wish: Tiao Fu Yu's wishes

He is the disciple of all the Buddhas in the half robbery. It is destroyed by prohibition and fallen into various opinions. There is no respect for all Buddhas. Born in the heart of anger. Breaking the law and bad monks slander sages. To destroy the right law and commit crimes against it. Buddha. When I became a Bodhisattva of ardora. It should be pulled out of the mud of life and death. Into the city of fearless nirvana.

The eighth wish: to turn Buddhism into Buddhism

After my nirvana, zhengfaxian was destroyed for a while. If my nirvana, Dharma, sages and robbers are all gone. My teeth and bones and the relic. The Buddha should be changed. The body of the thirty-two prime ministers was wreathed. There are 80 kinds of good in one picture. The world is boundless, boundless and Buddha like. One by one, the Buddha is transformed into three times. Education is boundless and boundless, and all living beings will not retreat when they know the order. If there is no Dharma in that world when the disease starts. The Buddha should be in the middle. Educate all living beings, as I said before.

Ninth wish: Moni pearl wish

A world without treasures. Wish to be a Mooney pearl. The treasures of rain are naturally hidden in pure gold.

The tenth wish: to be a great doctor

If all beings in the world. Leaving all good roots and suffering. I should worry about all kinds of incense in the rain. So that all sentient beings can be rid of vexation and diseases, and all evils can see the four major diseases of the body. Practice diligently at Sanfu. To live in heaven and man at the end of one's life.

Weituo and temple

Weituo Bodhisattva is the Dharma protector of the Buddha, also the Dharma protector, and also protects all living beings who practice the Dharma. Temples will worship Weituo Bodhisattva, whose duty is to protect the Dharma and the monk. He will protect 999 Buddhas in the Thousand Buddhas of Xianjie and protect them. He is the last one to become a Buddha in the Thousand Buddhas of Xianjie!

He looks like a boy, indicating that he has a childlike heart for Buddhism; holding a Vajra magic wand, indicating that he has the ability to destroy evil and assist the right, remove evil and defend the way. According to Zhuding Yuwen: "those who hold pestle together are to receive the temple, and those who visit the temple are to be supported. It can be seen at a glance that the person who holds the ground by his pestle is not

There are three forms of Weituo statues, which represent different meanings

If Weituo's magic wand is carried on his shoulder, it means that the temple is a big one, and the monks who come here can eat and live for three days for free;

If Weituo's magic wand is in his hand, it means that the temple is a medium-sized temple, and can entertain monks who travel here for a free day;

If Weituo's demon subduing pestle is on the ground, it means that the temple is a small one and can't entertain monks who come here for free.

Induction story

Temple fire, Weituo warning

In the late Qing Dynasty, there was a temple in Putuo Mountain. At night, a nameless fire broke out. That night, a little monk was sleeping under the statue of Weituo Buddha. In his dream, he saw a Dharma protector in gold armor who looked like Weituo saying to him, "there is a fire in the temple. Hurry to escape. "Little monk suddenly woke up and saw the fire burning in the temple. In a hurry, he picked up the statue of Wei Tuo and ran to the gate of the temple. The fire was extremely rampant. After burning overnight, until the morning, when people looked at the disaster, they found that the temple was full of damage, and only the statue of Wei Tuo was standing outside the door. The statue of Wei Tuo weighs several hundred jin. It must be carried by several strong men with all their strength. Now a little monk can carry it on his own, which shows the effectiveness of Wei Tuo. Wei Tuo is a Buddhist Taibao who is good at walking and flying. In China, Wei Tuo stands behind Maitreya Buddha in the temple of heavenly kings. Facing the main hall, he looks at the pagoda in front of the main hall and guards the bones and relics in the pagoda to prevent evil spirits from stealing. In addition, it also protects the monks in the temple to protect the Dharma. (the legend of Mount Putuo)

Personal experience, two kinds of business

During the northern and Southern Dynasties (QI), sengyuan lived in Xuesi temple in Liangzhou. He did not obey the rules and drank and ate meat. Suddenly, mengweituo angrily accused him, "you are a monk. Why don't you take a look at yourself in the mirror?" in the morning, when you get up and take a look at yourself, you can see that the edge of your eyes is dark black. You think it's dust. You wipe it with your hands and your eyebrows fall off. He was shocked and remorseful. From then on, he wore old patchwork clothes, broke shoes, ate Changsu, and only had a meal at noon. Sooner or later, repent and shed tears. More than a month later, he dreamed that Bodhisattva Weituo said to him with a smile, "if you can recognize and correct your sins, you are a wise man. Now you're forgiven! "He was surprised and happy, sweating all over his body, his face was shiny, and his eyebrows were born again. After experiencing these two kinds of karma, he firmly believed that the cause and effect of the third generation was not false. Therefore, he sincerely followed the religion without retrogression, and finally became a famous monk. (published in zumen Chongxing Lu)

If you owe the permanent residence money, the Bodhisattva will return it

(Qing Fuyan ordained monk) the next ordained monk of the Fuyan Fei old man Association in the Qing Dynasty. When he was ordained, he owed five yuan of silver and did not return it for four years. After the old man passed away, the monk dreamed that Bodhisattva Weituo ordered him to return the silver, and said, "although the capital is five yuan, plus the interest, it should be two Liang." The ordained monk said, "the monk has passed away. Who can I return it to?" Bodhisattva Wei Tuo said, "the monk is not alive. You can send him to Lingyin Temple to settle this case." When the monk woke up, he personally sent the silver to Lingyin Temple to explain the situation and offer sacrifices to the old people. The temple presided over a drum call for monks to explain the incident, hoping that the public should be cautious about the cause and effect, and said: "our temple is currently under construction, and there is a large amount of money and food revenue and expenditure, so Bodhisattva Weituo specially used this incident to warn us!" (published with the record of the results)

The statue of Weituo

The statue of Weituo in Shuanglin temple in Pingyao, Shanxi Province, has an exaggerated shape, S-shaped body, opposite eyes and head, right arm clenching and sagging, and elbows stretching out. It is powerful and powerful, and has obvious sense of momentum in vision. It is known as the top of similar works in China.

The solemn statue of Bodhisattva Weituo

Chinese PinYin : Wei Tuo