Editor's note: Hongfo Temple is located at the junction of Yuluwan, Henan Province, Xiayi County, Handaokou Town, HongfoSi Village, the village is named after the temple, is the Zen Jing Double Monastery built by the Zen Da de Pu'an ancestors, in October 2014 by the Xiayi County Minzong Bureau and the Xiayi County Buddhist Association of many courtesies, Henan Buddhist College professor presided over the work of the Master Keats Shangren Ci Ling Miao Ming Ming Dharma Master, De Sheng Ming Introduction, Ren Kuan Ming Jing Master, Ming En Master, Neng Jing Ming Qian Master, Miao Boat Ming Xiang Old Master stayed at the Hong Buddha Temple, began the restoration of the ancient temple of Hongfo Temple In consultation with the Xiayi County Minzong Bureau, the Buddhist Association, and the Monastery Democracy Management Committee, Shangren Keats himself adhered to the teaching of the teacher and did not promote the Yuan, and asked his apprentice Desheng Old Master Jinyuan to be the abbot, and the Xiayi County Minzong Bureau and the Xiayi County Buddhist Association and the Hongfo Temple Civil Management Committee invited Keats Shangren to be the monk of the ancient temple.
Since October 2014, De Shengming has led the old master to let the old master Master Miao MingMing Buddha old master as the first seat, Master Ming En as the supervisor, old master Ming Xiang as the great zhike, Ren Kuan Ming Jing old master as the second zhi ke, and the old master of Neng Jing Ming Qian as the canon, and according to the instructions of The Keats Master, while reviving the temple, while carrying out construction and re-practicing. Beginning in August of the lunar calendar in 2015, Hongfo Temple has made the 15th month of August and the Seven Readings of the Burning Lantern Buddha as an important symbol of the revival of Buddhism in Hongfo Temple. The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, the Moon Worship Festival, or the Reunion Festival, has the meaning of family reunion and auspiciousness. In fact, Buddhism and the Mid-Autumn Festival also have deep roots and connections. The Mid-Autumn Festival is the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, which coincides with the fullest day of the year. Represents the perfect wisdom of the Buddha and the Bodhisattva. The Buddha is a wise man and an enlightened person, and in his teachings, the Buddha will use heaven and earth and all things to compare life at any time and everywhere, and the most interesting comparison is to compare the moon to life. In the darkness, the most complete light that can give all kinds of troubles and sufferings to life is the fifteenth moon. The improvement of wisdom, the improvement of self-awareness and self-consciousness to the fullest, this is the process of the moon becoming round from the first to the fifteenth day of the first year. However, Buddhism's concept of round and bright moonlight during the Mid-Autumn Festival is a little different from the world, not "the moon is born on the sea, and the end of the world is at this time", nor is it "I hope that people will be long-lasting, and thousands of miles will be cherished together". Rather, the moon is usually used to symbolize the pure and clear Buddha-nature and samadhi (concentration), as stated in Book VIII of the Mahayana Rikkyo Rikkyo Sutra: "Looking at this concentration is like a full moon, and all delusions are like floating clouds, and this right concentration is like a cool wind, which can remove all clouds from the void, and shine brightly and purely, and all sentient beings are happy." If the full moon is bright and solemn, it can give a cool and happy feeling. If it is a contemplative cool wind, it can remove the sexual emptiness and delusion. The full moon of Zhengding appears in the world of great compassion and light, which can remove the heat of sentient defilements and make pure and happy nirvana. ”
In the dark sky, there is only one round of the moon, just as in the sea of troubles, only the pure Buddha-nature is immovable. In addition, from the moon itself and the appearance of its circle and lack, we can appreciate the essence of the Mahayana Buddhist teachings of "self-realization, enlightenment, and perfection": 1. The moon itself is self-realization. 2. The illumination of the moonlight, the benefit of all beings, is to realize him. 3. The purity, truthfulness, and constant presence of the moon's nature is the perfection of enlightenment.
In addition to the solemn significance of the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Bright Moon, which symbolize purity, happiness and self-consciousness, they are also grand gatherings of Buddhas and children, and many monasteries will hold Activities such as Zen Tea Tasting, Listening to The Guqin and Enjoying Osmanthus Flowers on the Mid-Autumn Festival, and spend the Mid-Autumn Festival together in the temple. You may wish to bring your family to the Hongfo Temple to worship, visit the temple, watch the scenery, chat, taste tea, and admire the moon.
August 15 coincides with the Christmas of the Moonlight Bodhisattva of the Three Saints of the East, and Buddhism has a consecration activity to worship the Moonlight Bodhisattva, which is in line with the folk moon worship. The Moonlight Bodhisattva is the attendant of the Medicine Buddha, also known as the Moon Pure Bodhisattva, the Moonlight Illumination Bodhisattva. Its image is white, the left hand is a fist, resting on the waist, and the right hand holds a lotus flower, and its lotus flower has a half-moon shape, but the half-moon shape is a three-shape. The moon and Buddhism are inextricably linked, and at the most complete time of the Mid-Autumn Festival, while celebrating family reunions and family reunions, please do not forget the Buddhist path to perfect liberation, but also need to practice intensively and remember the pure and perfect Buddha of self-nature.
Every year on August 15th, after morning classes, Hongfo Temple celebrates early fasting
At 8:08 a.m., the drums sounded in unison, praying for the country to be smooth and the people to be safe
At 10:30 a.m., the Moonlight Bodhisattva's blessing ceremony will extend the life of the Buddha
At noon, we will fast
At two o'clock in the afternoon, read the Medicine Man Ruri Guang Rulai Hongan Sutra
Evening class at 4:30 p.m
5:30 p.m. Medicinal Stones
7 p.m. tea party (Sanskrit song offering, tea tasting)
At 8:30 p.m., the Moon Worship Festival
Every year, hongfo temple starts from August 16th to the 22nd Christmas day of August, and the seven buddhas are refined. The Burning Lantern Buddha represents the Buddha of the past. Burning Lantern Buddha is a Sanskrit transliteration of "Tihe Shura", when he was born, everything around him was like a bright lamp, bright and transparent, so people later called him the Prince of Burning Lamp. It is recorded in the Great Wisdom of the Fallen: "When he was born, the light of the Ten Thousand Paths was illuminated, and his body was like a lamp shining brightly, so he was called the Prince of burning lamps." He became a Buddha in the past when he was solemnly robbed, and when he was a Buddha, he was also called Burning a Lamp Rulai." The Burning Lantern Buddha was the teacher of the Dharma of Shakyamuni Buddha in his past life when he was not a Buddha. In past lives, Burning Lantern Rulai was the master of the time, teaching sentient beings, and at that time Shakyamuni was practicing the bodhisattva path, as a Confucian child bodhisattva, and was a disciple of the Burning Lantern Buddha. The Burning Lantern Buddha is also a Buddha who taught Shakyamuni Buddha. Once, Confucian Bodhisattva's entourage came out to spread the Dharma, and after passing through a muddy road, Confucian Bodhisattva, fearing that the mud would stain the body of the Burning Lantern Buddha, did not hesitate to take off his clothes and cover them on the dirt road, but there were not enough clothes, and he spread his hair on the mud floor. His demeanor greatly touched the Burning Lantern Buddha, and knowing that the Confucian boy's heart was pure and had attained the realm of forgetting the Dharma, the Burning Lantern Buddha gave him a note and told him that after the ninety-first calamity, he would attain the fruit of the Buddha, and called Shakyamuni Rulai.
The three Buddhas refer to all the Buddhas of the past, present, and future three lifetimes. It is said that the past Buddhas were the seven Buddhas of the past, such as the Gaya Buddha, or specifically the Burning Lamp Buddha, the present Buddha is Shakyamuni Buddha, and the future Buddha is Maitreya Buddha. According to the "Dictionary of Religions," the Burning Lantern Buddha is the past Buddha of the three lifetimes and three thousand Buddhas, Shakyamuni Buddha is the present Buddha, and Maitreya Buddha is the future Buddha. The Burning Lantern Buddha was the teacher of Shakyamuni Buddha, who predicted the birth of Shakyamuni after the ninety-first apocalypse. The Lunar Calendar celebrates the Birthday of the Burning Buddha every year on August 22. According to the theory of the destruction of the world, the lamp was born in the past life. He prophesied that after the ninety-first apocalypse, Shakyamuni would succeed him as a Buddha. Shakyamuni became a Buddha in the fifth century BC, more than 2,000 years ago. The burning of the lamp is a pre-91st book of prophecy, according to the most conservative method of calculation in the Buddhist scriptures (the first calamity is 4.32 billion years), and the conversation between the teacher and the student was at least 390 billion years ago.
One of the major features of Hongfo Temple, or a big monster, is the "Two Passage Halls in the South Buddha Hall". On the first night of the inauguration, a piece of tile fell off and smashed on the shoulder of the old bodhisattva of The Ming Xiu Wang Kun Rong, the old bodhisattva did not perceive the pain, the tile fell from his shoulder, the tile fell from his shoulder, fell to the ground, fell to the ground, smashed, some people exclaimed that the broken tiles became a "reading" word, Keats heard the "accident", rushed to the scene, saw the fragment "read" word, first comforted the old bodhisattva of Ming Xiu, and warned everyone to pay attention to safety after passing through the reconstruction site. Then Master Keats used to kneel down and pray and beg for the Three Jewels to teach. The monks of the temple eventually understood the inscription of the tile fragments as "nian buddha hall", but this is a planned "lecture hall" and is not suitable for "nian buddha hall", but the three treasures show "nian" and force their scalps to do "nian buddha hall".
After the opening of the Chanting Hall, the old bodhisattva Ofe-Yun Tao Fulin always heard a group of monks like Buddhas discussing and talking at the northern end of the Chanting Hall when he was circling around, and only when he went around to the southern end could he hear the sound of the Buddha's trumpet. The old bodhisattva reflected this matter to Keats Guru many times, and Keats Guru always ignored it in time on the grounds of "Tao Old Man Mai Er Shen" and so on. Nianfo Hall was opened for more than a month, and when it came to Midas Birthday, the first recitation of Buddha Seven in Hongfo Temple, the accident occurred again, the window glass on the east side of the north end of the Nianfo Hall was shattered to the ground for no reason, and The old master Desheng used cardboard to temporarily cover it so far there was no glass. Why is that? Everyone thinks that the problem of the chanting power of the monks in the temple was originally to build a lecture hall, but when it was built, it was made into a buddhist hall, but what if they wanted to go to class in the void? There can only be a division between north and south. Finally, Master Keats instructed to move the Three Saints of the West to the center of the temple, sit north and face south, and then ask the Third Buddha to sit in the south facing north, the south end is the Western Hall of the Buddha, the north end is the Lecture Hall III, and the north window of the north end is like the door of the Lecture Hall III.
This is the origin of a big monster in Hongfo Temple, The old master Desheng once said, "There are two halls in the Hall of Reading Buddha, the southern section of the Recitation of The Buddha at the northern end, the detour of the two halls at the same time, the southern gate where the Buddha walks, the cardboard block of the door of the lecture hall..."
What scriptures do you read every August at the Seven Hong Buddhist Temples? - The Sutra of Cause and Effect in the Past, Present
From August 16 to August 22, there are seven days, reading the scriptures in the morning, reciting the Buddha in the afternoon, and listening to the teachings of the Seven Masters in the evening
Before the beginning of the seventh, the public offers the seven days of illumination
Those who had the opportunity to go to Hongfo Temple to participate in the Seventh Of August Buddha' merit were incredible.