The order of the twenty heavens, the order of the twenty four heavens of the temple Ramadan

Arranged in front of the Buddha, there is a certain order. This order also varies. There are two typical types.

One is the procession that symbolizes the "Buddha Meeting", which is divided into two sides of the main hall (generally in the order of singular numbers on the left, even numbers on the right), and the names are as follows: the Great Brahma King, the Second Emperor Shakyamuni, the Three Duowen Heavenly Kings, the Four Heavenly Kings, the Five Growth Heavenly Kings, the Six Wide-Eyed Heavenly Kings, the Seven Vajra Secret Traces, the Eight Mamala Shura, the Nine Scattered Fat Generals, the Ten Great Debate Heavens, the Eleventh Great Merit Heaven, the Twelve Wei Dao Heavenly Gods, the Thirteen Firm Earth Gods, the Fourteen Bodhi Tree Gods, the Fifteen Devil Mother Gods, the Sixteen Mori Zhitian, the Seventeenth Day Palace Heavenly Son, the Eighteenth Moon Palace Heavenly Son, Nineteen dragon kings and twenty king of Yamamara. The other is the arrangement of the symbolic "Golden Light Dojo" (Smoke Dojo), which is that the merit heaven stands on the left side of the Buddha, and the debate heaven stands on the right side of the Buddha, and the following left and right sides are arranged separately, in the following order:

On the left side of the Great Merit Heaven, the following are the Great Brahma King, the Northern Heavenly King, the Southern Heavenly King, the Sun Heaven, the Secret Trace Vajra, the Fat Scattering General, the Earth Heaven (the God of the Solid Earth), the Devil Mother and the Mother, and the Water Heaven (the Dragon King of the Exhaustion); On the right side, the following are the Emperor Shakti, the Eastern Heavenly King, the Western Heavenly King, the Moon Heaven, the Great Freedom Heaven, the Wei Dao Heaven, the Bodhi Tree God, the Mori Zhi Heaven, and the Yama King of Yamara.

The picture shows the mural of Fahai Temple for twenty heavens.

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The Twenty Copies of the Four Heavens are based on the Twenty Heavens, and the four heavenly gods are added to form the "Twenty-Four Heavenly Zhi". The names of the twenty heavens are all derived from the Hindu religion (Brahmanism), specifically:

One Great Brahma, Two Emperor Shakti, Three Duowen Heavenly Kings, Four Heavenly Kings, Five Growth Heavenly Kings, Six Wide-Eyed Heavenly Kings, Seven Vajra Secret Traces, Eight Great Freedom Heavens or Maha Shura, Nine Scattered Fat Generals, Ten Great Debate Heavens, Eleven Great Merit Heavens, Twelve Wei Dao Heavenly Gods, Thirteen Firm Earth Gods, Fourteen Bodhi Tree Gods, Fifteen Devil Sons and Mothers, Sixteen Mori Zhitian, Seventeen Sun Palace Heavenly Sons, Eighteen Moon Palace Heavenly Sons, Nineteen Suo Exhaustion Dragon Kings, Twenty Yamamara Kings, Twenty-one Jinnara, Twenty-two Ziwei Emperors, Twenty-three Dongyue Emperors, and Twenty-four Thunder Gods.

The 20 heavens are often seen as a group in statues and murals, and are also sometimes seen in land and water paintings that hang during land and water pujas. However, there are also many temples dedicated to the 24 heavens, such as the Yuantong Treasure Hall in Kunming, the Shanhua Temple in Datong, Shanxi, and the Golden Pavilion Temple in Wutai Mountain.

In Chinese Buddhist cave art, the image of the heavens appeared very early. For example, in the Buddhist story mural painted on the left wall of the main chamber of the 100th Cave of Kizil Caves in Xinjiang, the images of Emperor Shakti and the Four Heavenly Kings appear on the left wall of the main chamber of the 100th Cave of Kizil Caves in Xinjiang. On both sides of the door of the eighth cave of Yungang Grottoes, there are carved with the Maha Shou Luo Tian who rides a bull and the Gu Mo Luo Tian who rides a golden-winged bird.

The heavens lined up in front of the Buddha[1].

There is a certain order. This order also varies. There are two typical types.

One is the procession that symbolizes the "Buddha Meeting", which is divided into two sides of the main hall (generally in the order of singular numbers on the left, even numbers on the right), and the names are as follows: the Great Brahma King, the Second Emperor Shakyamuni, the Three Duowen Heavenly Kings, the Four Heavenly Kings, the Five Growth Heavenly Kings, the Six Wide-Eyed Heavenly Kings, the Seven Vajra Secret Traces, the Eight Mamala Shura, the Nine Scattered Fat Generals, the Ten Great Debate Heavens, the Eleventh Great Merit Heaven, the Twelve Wei Dao Heavenly Gods, the Thirteen Firm Earth Gods, the Fourteen Bodhi Tree Gods, the Fifteen Devil Mother Gods, the Sixteen Mori Zhitian, the Seventeenth Day Palace Heavenly Son, the Eighteenth Moon Palace Heavenly Son, Nineteen dragon kings and twenty king of Yamamara. The other is the arrangement of the symbolic "Golden Light Dojo" (Smoke Dojo), which is that the merit heaven stands on the left side of the Buddha, and the debate heaven stands on the right side of the Buddha, and the following left and right sides are arranged separately, in the following order:

On the left side of the Great Merit Heaven, the following are the Great Brahma King, the Northern Heavenly King, the Southern Heavenly King, the Sun Heaven, the Secret Trace Vajra, the Fat Scattering General, the Earth Heaven (the God of the Solid Earth), the Devil Mother and the Mother, and the Water Heaven (the Dragon King of the Exhaustion); On the right side, the following are the Emperor Shakti, the Eastern Heavenly King, the Western Heavenly King, the Moon Heaven, the Great Freedom Heaven, the Wei Dao Heaven, the Bodhi Tree God, the Mori Zhi Heaven, and the Yama King of Yamara.