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This shows that you have a relationship with the Buddha, your good roots are not shallow, and your heart is towards the Buddha, a benevolent person.

The lotus flower represents purity and spotlessness. Although it is in a very bad mud pond, it still does not affect it, and it blooms fragrant and beautiful flowers. 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 Taisho Zang classic says that the lotus flower has four virtues, one fragrance, two pure, three soft, and four lovely. In fact, many flowers are soft, clean, and full of fragrance, but the flowers have a special ecology that other plants do not have, so they have undertaken the symbolic mission of Buddhism, "The early Buddhists attached importance to the lotus flower based on the characteristics of plant fertility," wrote Ryoichi Hayashi, a scholar of Buddhist art of the older generation in Japan, in "The Decorative Patterns of Buddhist Art".

Spring, summer, autumn and winter, the four seasons rotate, the flowers fall and bloom, and the flowers have the vitality of thanksgiving and renewal, which is the theme that many cultures love to cherish. However, the flowers in the world bloom first and then bear fruit, and the lotus flower blooms at the same time, and the fruitful lotus pod is already in place. The Ming Dynasty's book "Qunfang Spectrum", which details various plants, particularly emphasizes the characteristics of the lotus flower.

Therefore, the lotus flower is regarded by Buddhists as embodying the past, present, and future at the same time.

The Buddha said that equality, regardless of the past, present, future, heaven and earth, time and space, the size of the direction, people and people, so and so on, the rich and the poor are equal. The Pure Land of Bliss has no past, present, or future. The lotus flower with a super-space-time appearance enjoys "good fortune" exclusively and becomes the flower of the Pure Land world.

Lu Yanbing, who has studied Buddhist art for many years, explained that for believers in the Pure Land Sect, Western Elysium is the last place of refuge. In the representative classic of Pure Land thought, "Amitabha Buddha", it is recorded that if sentient beings receive good retribution, no longer fall into the cycle of viviparity, oviparity, wet birth, etc., and obtain the Elysium of the past life, Guanyin will be greeted by Guanyin holding a lotus flower, and the deceased will be "reborn" as a member of the Elysium in the lotus.

The Amitabha Sutra also records, "In the land of Bliss, there are seven treasure pools, eight merit waters, filled with it, and the bottom of the pool is pure gold and gold and the earth is ,......."The lotus blossom in the pond is as big as a wheel, cyan and blue, yellow and yellow, red and red, white and white, delicate and fragrant. ”

There are good roots, and good karma is encountered. What a lot of Buddha recitation.

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.

Buddhism, Taoism, and gods all sit on lotus seats.