Bemba, as Bemba, tibetan transliteration, meaning "bottle". This term essentially refers to a bottle.
As far as the benba pot seen in the world is concerned, its shape is basically the same, and there is a distinction between having a mouth and not having a mouth. The cardinal pot omits the flowing mouth, which is called the cardinal bottle. Removing the mouth part, the whole apparatus resembles a small lama bottle: the bottom of the bottle is a tower bottom, the abdomen is semicircular, the bowl is covered, the neck is a tully, and the mouth is a canopy. The "Drinking Stream Zhai Porcelain" records that the mouth of the "tower bottle" is flat and flat, the number of items is folded to the abdomen, round but not very large, and the shin is slightly shrunk and spun open to the foot, slightly like the shape of the flat-topped tower, so the number of the tower bottle is also. Qianlong originally had this system..." It can be known that the tower bottle is the Benba bottle.
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It is reported that the pot has three main uses. First, the golden bottle is signed. "In the fifty-seventh year of Qianlong, in order to prevent the Mongolian and Tibetan nobles from manipulating the reincarnation of the Great Living Buddha, the Qing court specially issued two golden vases, one for the Lama Temple in Beijing and the other for the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa. When burying the reincarnations of great living Buddhas such as Zhangjia, Jebtsundamba, Dalai Lama, Panchen Lama, etc., they must sign the names of some of the "spirit children" they find on ivory signs, sign the bottles, respectively, in the Lama Temple, the Jokhang Temple, and are supervised by the Shangshu of the Li Fan Yuan or the Minister stationed in Tibet, and then customized. "The gold bottle used here is the mouthless pot. It is still treasured in the Lama Temple in Beijing.
Second, open the light for the newly created Buddha statue. “...... When the manufacture of a Buddha statue was completed, the statue workers used two small pieces of round yellow paper to cover the two black eye beads of the Buddha statue, or smeared the two black eyeballs of the Buddha statue with mud or white paint, and then used a red cloth or yellow cloth to blind the buddha's head. On the day when the incense offerings began, six different kinds of incense potions were filled in the silver kettle, and the lamas recited the sutra in front of the Buddha, and three higher-ranking lamas, one carrying a silver water bottle, one holding a silver plate and a piece of new cotton, were placed on the left and right sides of the Buddha statue. Another great lama stood in front of the Buddha statue, chanting the sutra, first unveiling the red or yellow cloth on the head of the Buddha statue, then pouring the perfume from the silver kettle into the silver plate, dipping the perfume with new cotton, scrubbing the paper pieces or other smears on the Buddha statue's eyeballs one by one, revealing two dark crystal eyeballs, and then began to burn incense offerings. "The silver kettle used here is the benefactor. Its mouth is like a dragon's head and an elephant trunk, and the Lama Temple in Beijing has such a silver water bottle, with a plain face and no flowers, and its abdomen is wrapped in cloth, which according to the lama said was its clothes.
Lamas chanting to drive away evil spirits
Third, chanting. Before chanting, lamas often filled six different kinds of perfume in silver water bottles, and each person used it to wash his face, ears, and other parts, and then placed them next to the preacher, and then began to chant.
In addition, the pot is also used as a decoration, with peacock feathers on it, which contains six different kinds of perfumes, and is arranged on the small table of the preacher along with bells, rattles, canned water, canned wine, and vajra pestle for the preacher to use. They believe that the perfume in the bottle has a purifying effect, sprinkled with the real thing, and can have the effect of removing obstacles and obscurity. This shows the worship of the pot by lamas at that time.
Qingqianlong green space pastel eight treasure pattern benba pot
The shape of this pot is regular, and both the overall proportions and the handling of the details can be seen from the hands of mature craftsmen. Not only is it exquisitely crafted, bringing us visual enjoyment, but also its real charm lies in its rich historical and cultural connotations.
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