There are several mandalas for the water and land puja, and what sutras are recited

The altar of the ritual is divided into an inner altar and an outer altar from the arrangement. There are seven mandalas in total. The outer altar is divided into six mandalas, namely: the big altar, the Fahua altar, the Jingshi altar, the Zhujing altar, the Lengyan altar, and the Huayan altar.

The inner altar recites the "Faith Inscription".

Great altar: worship "Liang Huang Bao Confession".

Twelve, satirical recitation of the Medicine Master Sutra and the Diamond Sutra.

Sixty copies, twenty-four copies of the "Sanskrit Net Sutra Heart and Earth Products".

Hokketan: Satirical recitation of the Myoho-renge-kyo

Twenty-four, "The Buddha Top Lengyan Sutra".

Twenty-four and so on.

Huayan Altar: Silently recite a copy of the "Dafang Guang Buddha Huayan Sutra".

Lengyan Altar: Satirical recitation of the "Lengyan Sutra".

Twenty-four parts. Pure Land Altar: Satirical recitation of the Amitabha Sutra.

Sutra altar: satirical recitation of "The Buddha Says Amitayus Sutra".

Twenty-four parts, twenty-four parts of the Sutra of Amitayus, twenty-four copies of the Sutra of Golden Light, and twenty-four copies of the Sutra of Yuanjue of the Buddha of Dafangguang.

The water and land puja is a large-scale Buddhist event held in a Buddhist temple, and its full name is "Dharma Realm Holy Fan Water and Land Pudu Lent Event". Some are called water and land dojos, water and land fasting, because this kind of Buddhist thing is mainly for food and drink, and is set up for all the souls of the dead beyond the water and land. The purpose of the Land and Water Festival is threefold:

The first is the pursuit of goodness to the ghosts of the ancestors of the deceased.

The second is to give this merit back to the donor and his dependents to prolong life and increase blessings, and the third is to help the six realms of sentient beings beyond the Three Realms. The water and land puja will be offered to the Buddhas and sages of the ten directions, and the non-jab fasting will be used as the basis to save all sentient beings in the six realms, and set up a wide range of mandalas, so that the participating senthuans can go to each altar to listen to the scriptures and listen to the Dharma with their causes and root organs. Therefore, the range of sentient beings to be offered and saved in the puja is quite extensive, so it is a collection of many incredible and special merits such as disaster avoidance, purification, upper offerings, and lower almsgiving.

Land and Water Puja: Full name"Dharma Realm Sacred Heart Water and Land Pudu Lent Victory Meeting", abbreviated"Land and water"、"Land and water dojo"、"Grifican"、"Mizukusai"etc., commonly known as"Hit the land and water"。It is a grand and grand Buddhist ritual, the content of which is to chant sutras and fast, worship the Buddha and confess, and recommend the dead.

All the rituals generally last for seven days and nights, ranging from seven days to forty-nine days, with a large number of monks participating, rich in content, reciting a variety of sutras, and water and land pujas"Excess"All ghosts on land and water, and all beings in the six realms of purification are for the purpose. During the practice meeting, the sound of chanting is accompanied by the sound of ritual instruments percussion, and the religious atmosphere is mysterious and strong. As for the current arrangement of the water and land puja mandala, the recitation of the scriptures and the number of people, the regulations and procedures for the cardboard scrolls, etc., according to the "Chicken Garden Water and Land General Theory" and so on, the puja mandala is divided into an inner altar and an outer altar.

The ritual is mainly based on the inner altar, and the incense flowers are arranged to make offerings, and strive to be solemn. In the middle hangs the three statues of Virujana Buddha, Shakyamuni Buddha and Amitabha Buddha, and the lower offering table lists the incense, flowers, lamps, candles, and fruit offerings. In front of it, four rectangular platforms are placed into a square, and copper pans, bucket drums, cymbals, handbells and rituals are placed on the platform, which are used by the main law, the main table, the sub-table, and the four people of the main fast.

The four sides are surrounded by a curtain and divides the inner altar into three rooms. On both sides, there are ten portraits of water and land in the upper hall and the lower hall. The following card rod of the portrait is written in detail, and the name of each saint is detailed.

The cards are painted with treasure covers, and lotus flowers are painted below, and yellow paper is used in the middle; The next hall uses red paper to distinguish it.

There are six mandalas on the outer altar: the big altar has 24 people, dedicated to worshipping the "Liang Huang Bao Confession". Seven people in the altar of the scriptures, reciting the scriptures.

Seven people from the Lotus Altar recited the "Lotus Sutra of the Mystic Law". Seven people in the Pure Land Altar recite the name of Amitabha Buddha. The two people of the "Huayan" altar read the "Dafang Guangfo Huayan Sutra".

The yoga altar, also known as the almsgiving altar, is used to cast flames at night, and the number of people is temporarily called by each altar. In addition, there was one prisoner, a total of forty-eight people.

The inner and outer altar ceremonies are generally seven days (or from the third day if there are also five days at the inner altar). Its procedures: the first day of the three watches, the outer altar sprinkled clean, the fourth watch of the inner altar enchantment, the fifth watch sent to the construction of the book (旛上书"Build the Dharma Realm Shengfan Water and Land Pudu Lent Victory Victory Treasure Treasure", hanging high on the brake pole in front of the left side of the Daxiong Treasure Hall).

On the second day, please go to the church, and the fifth watch will be bathed. On the third day, the fourth watch was offered to the church, and the fifth watch was forgiven. Fasting monk at noon.

On the fourth day, the third watch, please go down to the church, the fourth watch bathes, and the fifth watch says the precepts. On the fifth day, the fourth watch, reciting the "Faith Inscription", the fifth watch is for the next hall, and the monk is fasting at noon. On the fourth watch of the sixth day, the main Dharma personally wished to go up and down the hall, and released the life before noon.

On the seventh day, the five watches, the general offering to the upper and lower halls, the monks fasted at noon, and the upper and lower halls were not greeted to the outer altar from time to time, and the holy time was sent, and the water and land puja was completed. During the puja, from the first night onwards, a flame is set off at each yoga altar every night, and on the sixth night, five flames are placed, and the inner altar water and land monks participate in the puja, which is the culmination of the water and land puja ceremony, and then the practice is completed.

The Water and Land Festival, abbreviated as the Water and Land Meeting, also known as the Water and Land Dojo, the Sadness Meeting, etc., is one of the most solemn Chinese Buddhist scriptures and confessions. This practice was developed by a combination of Emperor Wu of Liang's Six Paths of Compassion and Confession of the Liang Emperor and the Tang Dynasty Esoteric Path.

Origin: Song Zongjian's "Shimen Orthodoxy" Volume 4 said: "The so-called water and land people, because Emperor Wu of Liang dreamed of a monk and said:

Six realms and four beings, suffering immeasurably, why not be a water and land (Lent) Puji group of spirits? 'The emperor was persuaded by Zhigong to search for bay leaves and look at them in the morning and night; And in detail, Ananda met the ghost king to establish the meaning of equality and food, and used the ritual text, so it was built in Jinshan Temple in Runzhou (now Zhenjiang). The emperor bowed to the ground and ordered the monk to bless the Zen master to proclaim the text.

It may be dated to the seventh year of the Heavenly Prison (508, according to the "Chronicle of Things", or 505 in the fourth year of the Heavenly Prison, according to the "Buddha's Chronicles", etc.). After the Zhou and Sui generations, its transmission gradually declined. To Tang Xianhengzhong (670-673) Xijing Fahai Temple Daoying obtained his ritual text from Wu monk Yiji, and then re-established the puja in Shanbei Temple ("Shi Ji Guluo" volume 3).

Song Sushi restated "Water and Land Law Portrait Praise", which was later called "Meishan Water and Land". Xiningzhong (1068-1077), Dongchuan Yang Yi ancestor recounted the old rules, and made three volumes of ritual texts (lost), in Shuzhong, the most ancient. Jianghuai, Beijing and Zhejiang, using the image of one hundred and twenty people, is the sublimation of future generations, in order to worship its law.