Why did the Buddha and Pusa sit or stand on a lotus flower

Lotus] wisdom asks the clouds. All beds can be sitted. Why bother with Lianhua. Answer: The bed is the way to sit in white clothes in the world. It is also pure and crispy. Desire to manifest divine power. I can sit on it. Linghua is not bad. and with a solemn and wonderful law.

Lotus Terrace] (miscellaneous) The pedestal of Lotus Blossom is also the permanent seat of the Buddha and Bodhisattva.

According to the Sutra Asked by the Bodhisattva of Removing Obstacles, Volume 9: The lotus flower is not stained by the sludge, and the wonderful fragrance is widely spread, which makes the seeers happy and auspicious, so the lotus flower is used as a metaphor for the ten good methods practiced by the Bodhisattva. Namely:

1.Detachment from pollution: Bodhisattvas practice and can observe all realms with wisdom without being greedy, even if they are in the five turbid streams of life and death, they are not stained, such as lotus flowers coming out of the mud without being stained! �

2.Do not share with evil: Bodhisattvas practice to destroy evil and produce good, in order to protect the purity of the three karmas of body, mouth and mind, and not to share the slightest evil, such as a lotus flower that does not stay despite a slight drop of water.

3.The precepts are full of incense: the Bodhisattva practice, adhere to the precepts, and use this precept to destroy the evil of the body and mouth, just as incense can remove the smell of dung, such as the wonderful fragrance of lotus flowers, which is widely distributed, and can be smelled everywhere! �

4.The body is pure: Although the bodhisattva is in the five turbidities, because of the vows, the body and mind are pure and unstained, for example, although the lotus flower is in the mud, its body is naturally clean and unstained!

5.Physiognomy Xiyi: The Bodhisattva's heart is always Zen and happy, and all the phases are perfect, so that the heart of the seeer is happy, such as when the lotus blooms, the heart of the seeer is happy! �

6.Soft and not astringent: The Bodhisattva cultivates charity, but there is no hindrance in the Dharma, so the body is always pure, soft and delicate but not coarse, such as the lotus body is soft and moist! �

7.Those who see are auspicious: Bodhisattva's good deeds are achieved, the appearance is solemn and wonderful, and those who see are auspicious, such as the lotus fragrance is wonderful, and those who see and dream are auspicious! �

8.Sufficient prescribing: The Bodhisattva's cultivation is successful, and the wisdom and merit are solemn and sufficient, such as the lotus flower, and the flowers and fruits are sufficient! �

9.Ripe and pure: The Bodhisattva's wonderful fruit is ripe and the wisdom discovers that all those who see and hear it can make all those who see and hear it have six pure roots, like a lotus flower ripening, if you see its color and smell its fragrance, then all the roots will also be pure! �

10.When the Bodhisattva is first born, all the heavens and people are happy to support it, so that they will be able to practice good deeds and realize the Bodhi fruit, such as when the lotus is first born, although they have not seen flowers, but all people have the idea of lotus flowers.

The lotus flower represents the original pure and eternal Buddha nature.

Isn't it the nine-pin lotus as a parent......

It is said that Shakyamuni and Guanshiyin Bodhisattva loved the lotus flower and used the lotus as a seat, and since then all the Buddha statues in the temple have taken the lotus flower as the throne and called it the lotus seat. The lotus petal base is divided into four layers, and the lotus petals are drawn in white, red and white in addition to the edge of each petal. The appearance of each lotus petal is also painted with patterns, and some rosettes do not draw flowers at the lotus place, but only decorate the color and outline the pattern.

The Buddhist lotus seat is made hexagonal, the lower part makes a Sumeru seat, its upper fang, the lower fang are made triple or quadruple, the girdle part is carved on each side of a door, and the upper and lower parts are made of Yanglian and Fulian. Also make the girdle pillar at the corner, the girdle pillar has a bottle shape, has a lotus petal shape, and also uses force to support the top in the girdle part, and the upper and lower fangs are painted with colored clouds, just like the beam fang. At the top of this Sumeru seat, make another layer of large lotus petals.

The lotus petal base is divided into four layers, and the lotus petals are drawn in white, red and white in addition to the edge of each petal. The appearance of each lotus petal is also painted with patterns, and some rosettes do not draw flowers at the lotus place, but only decorate the color and outline the pattern. This is the specific practice of the Buddha statue of the Jin Dynasty that the author saw in the Zongfu Temple in Shuozhou, Shanxi.

All Buddha seats are like lotus seats, according to the "Huayan Sutra" cloud, all the Buddha worlds know, see such as sitting on the lotus. Wang Boguan Buddha Miracle Temple poem: "The lotus god is beautiful, and the pine cliff is complete."

Youyang Miscellaneous Tales "Tang Chang'an Daxingshan Temple monk to "Lotus Sutra" 30,000 seven cadres, there are monk inscription poems: 30,000 lotus scriptures 30 spring, half a life does not step on the door of the courtyard dust. In the "Huayan Sutra", there is the sentence "Lotus Tai".

On the lotus platform, the heart is clasped together, and the positive direction is like coming. These illustrate the importance attached to lotus flowers and rosettes in the temple. In addition, there is also a lotus seat on the stupa, but it is not very common, the stupa is a variant of the Buddha, and the stupa itself is the Buddha, so there are sayings:

The tower is the Buddha, and the Buddha also simplifies it: "The Buddha is the tower", and the Buddha and the tower are not so strictly separated. In the past, when the tower was built, the big rosette appeared on the tower, especially the Liao Dynasty tower made more, there are still nearly dozens of Liao towers so far, almost every tower is designed with a rosette on the pedestal, and the rosette lotus petals on the Liao tower are more.

In addition to Yanglian, there is also Fulian. Then the tower body is built on this rosette, and it is extremely common for Liao pagoda to be decorated with a rosette.

The lotus platform is an advanced life form, and it is also a means of transportation, which is similar to a car and an airplane, and it is a means of transportation, and it can travel through the universe.

Have you ever seen Journey to the West In it, Sun Wukong's means of transportation is a somersault cloud.

The lotus flower represents purity, one.

Bai is spotless. Although it is at the extreme.

Zhi bad mud pond, but still can't affect it, blooming back fragrant and beautiful flowers. Answer.

Because of this meaning, the general Dharma seat in Buddhism is the lotus seat.

Not all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas sit on lotus flowers. For example, the great day is sitting on Leo, the Buddha Shakyamuni is sitting on Vajra, the peacock king is sitting on the peacock, and the Dharma seat on the king of Fudo is the rock, and so on.

The lotus flower symbolizes nobility and purity, and it is consistent with the teachings of Buddhism, which indicates the central idea of Buddhism to be pure and free from dust.