When is the fifteenth day of the fourth lunar month?

Buddhist Festival-April15th of the lunar calendar Buddhist auspicious day Buddhist auspicious day April15th of the lunar calendar is a traditional festival of Tibetan Buddhism, which is called Sagadawa Festival in Tibetan. This festival is the same festival to celebrate the birth, enlightenment and nirvana of Sakyamuni Buddha (that is, Vesak Day in Southern Buddhism countries). Buddhist Knowledge-Bathing Buddha Festival The bathing Buddha Festival on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month every year is an important festival for Buddhists in China to commemorate the birth of the founder Sakyamuni Buddha, also known as the Buddha's Birthday Festival. According to legend, more than 2,600 years ago, when Sakyamuni was born from Mrs. Moiev's ribs, he said, "Heaven and the world are the only ones." So the earth shook, and Kowloon spat and bathed. Therefore, Buddhists of all countries and nationalities usually take a bath to commemorate the Buddha's birthday. Before the Buddha Bath Festival, Buddhists had cleaned the temple and wiped the Buddha statues in the hall. Usually on the seventh day of April, many good men and women have gathered in the Buddhist temple to prepare for the memorial ceremony to be held the next morning. I saw the temple buildings covered with banners, incense lamps and candles, and all kinds of offerings. There is a copper basin in several cases of fragrant flowers, which contains fragrant soup made of sandalwood, rosewood, turmeric, borneol, agarwood, musk and clove. There is a bronze boy in the soup, pointing to the sky and the ground, which is the statue of Prince Sakyamuni. Before the bath, the abbot of the temple led the monks in the whole temple to chant and recite the scriptures, and then burned incense, bowed down, sang the Buddha bath, or read the Buddha of Sakyamuni, the master of Nanwu. When chanting, monks and laymen take turns to scoop soup with spoons and bathe the Buddha. After bathing the Buddha statue, bathe yourself with a little delicious soup, which means to turn over a new leaf, eliminate disasters and solve problems. If too many people attend, the monks will take the clean water from Yang Zhi's bathing Buddha to bathe the believers. The whole ceremony was solemn and full of auspicious and festive atmosphere. Regarding the method of bathing Buddha in India, Bao Siwei's translation of The Merit Sutra of Bathing Elephants is the most detailed and clear. The Buddhist scripture says, "If you want to bathe an elephant, you should use sandalwood, tamarind, Gan Song, bear, white sandalwood, turmeric, borneol, agarwood, musk and clove, so that you can get all kinds of wonderful scents. First make a square altar, apply a wonderful bed seat, and put a Buddha on it. Take a bath with all kinds of perfumes. Use all kinds of perfumes, and then rinse with water. People who take a bath should each take a little water to clean the image and put it on their heads. When the image goes up and down the water for the first time, they should say this silently:' I have bathed like this, and my wisdom and merits have gathered solemnly; The five turbid beings make people leave the dust, and I hope that the Tathagata will purify the Dharma. "Before China went to the Tang Dynasty, the ritual system of bathing Buddha in temples was hard to find, and the ritual system popular in the Tang Dynasty was also lost because of the difficulty of making peace with the law. The existing bathing statues and rituals in the Tang Dynasty (see Volume IV, Volume IX, Part II of Continued Collection) is an idea written by Tang Huilin to reform the traditional four-volume bathing Buddha ritual system in China. Based on the ancient printing "The Statue of Sunbathing in the Monk Garden", combined with poems, ode and secret spells, it has not been popularized because of its different significance from the popular ritual system in China. In the Yuan Dynasty, the article "Buddha's Birthday" in Volume II of the Revision of Baizhang Clear Rules was clearly defined and widely implemented. The article said: "On April 8th, the treasurer ordered the setting up of a flower pavilion, and placed a statue of the Buddha's birth in the middle, which was placed in a fragrant soup basin. After the Buddha's sacrifice, the abbot took a class and wished Xiangyun:' The Buddha's birthday, the abbot of a temple ... took sincerity as the incense and sacrificed the ancient beauty of monks and nuns in our normal university to repay it with kindness. May all beings in the dharma world miss the buddhas. "It is said that ... lead all the people to the temple and stand on the side of the Buddha. The abbot worshipped incense three times ... The abbot knelt on the stove. Na Wei Bai Buddha said:' January is in the sky, and the shadow contains much water; When a Buddha is born, each sits on a flower. Bai Hao is free of three points, and the dew is four points moist. "After preaching, sing a bath Buddha." (See the section on "merits and demerits of bathing Buddha" above.) While singing repeatedly, the monks were allowed to bathe Buddha, and finally the merits and demerits of bathing Buddha were returned to the Supreme Buddha Bodhi. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, bathing Buddha generally followed the ritual system in the "Xiubaizhang Rules", but made some changes. For example, according to the regulation of "Xiubaizhang Rules", temples have the habit of frying "fragrant soup" and cooking "black rice" for the public on the day of bathing Buddha, but it gradually disappeared in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. However, despite the great influence of Xiubaizhang Qinggui, the method of bathing Buddha in some temples is different from its regulations. Generally speaking, the bathing Buddha in these temples pays more attention to the ceremony of the Dharma Association, which is divided into four steps. First of all, welcome the Buddha statue. On Buddha's birthday, the monks put on their clothes and went to the temple, standing in a row according to the order of things. After hearing the three kowtows of Qing Dynasty, six people came out to meet the Buddha statue. The second is to hold an introduction ceremony, and the second is for the deacons to hold incense trays. After the big monk stayed, the waiter accompanied him and sang "Sakyamuni Buddha is in the south without a teacher" in chorus. The Buddha statue greets into the Hall of the Great Hero from upstairs, and the great monk offers incense, displays the apparatus and bows. The people sang praises: "kowtowing to the great sleep is extremely kind and sees the suffering of all beings." The next pocket leads to the heavenly palace, the palace descends, and the snow ridge is repaired. At the top of the magpie's nest, there are three barriers, and six years of asceticism. If a person converts to enlightenment, he will not sink. " Second, take a bath. Bells and drums rang in the Hall of the Great Hero, and the great monk put the Buddha in a golden basin, then burned incense, exhibited and bowed down to the Buddha three or nine times. The public read Bathing the Truth, and called it "There is no fragrant cloud in the south to cover the Bodhisattva" three times, and then sang a hymn: "The Bodhisattva descended from the clouds and was born into the King suddhodana Palace. Maya gave birth to the golden boy on the right, and music played in the sky. Look around seven steps and point to the ground. Kowloon spits water and is kind, and everything is right. " Third, bless the Buddha. When the monk heard the voice of Qing, he bowed three times and said a eulogy. Everyone sang "Ode to the Buddha" and then sang "Ode to the Buddha": "There is no end to praising the Buddha, and the merits are boundless. Magnificent and majestic, feel the snow peak. The jade color between the eyebrows is bright, revealing six dark lights. Longhua Sanhui is willing to meet and play the truth. " He also sang: "There is no Buddha in heaven and earth, and the world of ten sides is unparalleled. I have seen everything in the world, and nothing is like a Buddha. " After singing, he began to walk around the Buddha, saying, "There is no South Bodhisattva, the world's third mentor, the fourth loving father, the founder of heaven and man, and the incarnation of Sakyamuni Buddha III!" "There is no Sakyamuni Buddha in the south." Fourth, return to conversion. After circling the Buddha, return to the standard and read "palindrome" first: "I wish to get rid of the troubles of three obstacles, to get wisdom and to be clean; It is generally hoped that the obstacles of sin will be eliminated and the Bodhisattva Road will be practiced forever on earth. " Then sing "Three Converts": "To convert to Buddhism, you should be willing to all beings, understand the Tao, and be supreme. To convert to Buddhism, we must wish all beings to go deep into the scriptures and have wisdom like the sea. Since you have converted to a monk, you should be willing to be willing to all beings and govern the public. Everything is fine. " The success or failure of bathing Buddha will be complete, and all the people will sing together: "The success or failure of bathing Buddha will bring all the blessings ..." On this day, monks will hold a ceremony of offering sacrifices to Buddha and ancestors before breakfast or noon. Good men and women are willing to come to the temple to burn incense and make wishes on this day, or to worship Buddha and recite scriptures, or to give money and things, or to fast for the public, or to burn good luck, recommend death, or to listen to a master's lecture, or to invite monks to do Buddhist services. Outside the temple, various economic, trade and cultural activities are also colorful. Because such activities before and after the Buddha bath festival often last for many days, many people attend, even year after year, and traditional temple fairs have been formed in many temples.