How are relics formed, and what are relics?

Relics are not entirely obtained through cremation.

The formation of relics has nothing to do with doing good deeds, it is mainly related to lifestyle habits, but it is very important that you live a long life if you do good deeds. When a certain food is used for a long time, some elements in it are deposited in the body, and various crystals are formed when it is heated during cremation.

Sheli is a transliteration of the Sanskrit word arīra, which is the general term for the body of an Indian after death. In Buddhism, the hair, bones, and ashes left behind by monks after death are called relics; After cremation, the crystals produced are called relics or sturdy seeds.

In India, it is customary to use cremation to cremate the body after death, and the ashes (relics) after cremation are hidden in metal, stone, and ceramic containers and buried in the ground. The one that is slightly higher than the ground is called the tower, and the tower is the meaning of high appearance, which is equivalent to a Chinese tomb. Containers for Tibetan relics, whether metal or stone, have a special form and can be enshrined in a house, also known as a pagoda.

This kind of pagoda that hides relics is the ** of Chinese pagodas.

The world's three major relics: Nanjing Song Changgan Temple, folding Beijing Badachu Lingguang Temple, Famen Temple.

1. Buddha parietal bone relics.

The Buddha's parietal bone relics (Buddha's true bones) refer to the parietal bone of Shakyamuni, the only one in the world, which is the supreme sacred relic in Buddhism, is a complete skull with a circumference of 35 cm, a diameter of 10 cm, yellow and black color, and clear hairholes.

2. Buddha finger bone relics.

It is Shakyamuni Nirvana under the Sura tree on the outskirts of Jiecheng, and its Buddha finger bone relics are preserved by Famen Temple, which are Shakyamuni's true body relics "spirit bones", and there are three "shadow bones" unearthed at the same time.

3. Buddha tooth relic.

It generally refers to the tooth relics of Shakyamuni Buddha, which belongs to one of the Buddha's relics (teeth and fingers, etc.). According to records, in 486 B.C., Shakyamuni left more than 80,000 relics when he was 80 years old, among which the Buddha's tooth relics and Buddha's finger relics are the most valued. In today's Buddhist circles, there are different opinions on how many Buddha tooth relics were left after Shakyamuni Tuvi, one says that the Buddha left four Buddha tooth relics after the extinction, and the other says that the Buddha left seven Buddha tooth relics after the extinction.

It should be the long-term eating habit of this practice, the stones left after cremation, because human bones can be turned into fossils and stored for thousands of years, not to mention the result of calcination after eating certain foods for a long time? A kind of Buddhist souvenir, nothing more. 、

The relics mean the body and bones, and are divided into whole body relics and broken body relics. The whole body relics refer to the fact that after the death of the high monks after the Buddha, their bodies can last for a long time without decay, and they can be preserved in the world in the form of whole body preservation. Before the birth of Buddhism and after the birth of Buddhism, many practitioners did not form ashes when their bodies were cremated, but produced hard particles or bones of different colors, and the broken body relics can be divided into four forms, namely black hair relics produced by hair, red meat relics produced by flesh, pink blood relics produced by blood and white bone relics produced by bones.

Moreover, the relics are not all granular, such as the bone Buddha tooth relics, the Buddha finger relics, and the Buddha's parietal bone relics.

In ancient times, it refers to the ordinary ashes of the skull of Shakya Maoning, not crystals, and later in the Middle Ages, there were superstitious writers who compiled myths and stories, and only then did monks also write scriptures, revise the original interpretation, and so on.

The modern theory is that it is a kind of beads left after the cremation of stones, and ordinary people also have it, and there are also 10% of rumors, rumors and falsehoods, and some people have seen it stuffed into it.

The relics originally referred to the bones and bead-like gem-like products left behind by the Buddhist patriarch Shakyamuni Buddha after his death and cremation.

It is the meaning of the spirit bone, and the crystals left behind are called sturdy sons.