I'd like to know the life of the King of Hell. Who was he in his previous life and how did he become the King of Hell?

The hell has ten halls of Yama. Yama, that is, Yama (Devil) King, originally for the Indian Vedic era of the night of the Mo God (Sanskrit Yama), is generally regarded as the god of death or in charge of the main god of the underworld; then this idea mixed into Buddhism, and imported into our country, and the combination of beliefs with the Taoist religion, deriving from the underworld of the ten kings of the said. In a broader sense, 'Yama' refers to the entire underworld (hell), in addition to the king of Yama; the ten halls of Yama refer to the ten kings of the underworld.

The belief in the Ten Kings of the Underworld began around the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, but there are many different stories about the origin of the Ten Kings. According to the fourth volume of the Shimen Zhengtong and the thirty-third volume of the Tuanji of the Buddha, during the Tang Dynasty when Tao Ming monk was traveling to the underworld, he saw the ten kings of the underworld judging the sins of the dead, and after he came back from his sleep, he recounted each one of them, and the belief was then spread to the world. However, according to the 'Record of the Induction of Jizo by Zhi You of the Ching-Tai Temple', a West Indian, Zhi You, came to China in the midst of the Tian-Fu period of the Later Jin Dynasty (936-944) and brought with him a picture of Jizo and the sutra on the merits of the principal wish, with the image of Jizo in the center of the picture, and the image of the ten kings on the right and left sides of the picture. According to this, the ten kings may be transmitted from India; however, the name of the ten kings used in the text is mostly the name of our country, and their images are mostly wearing the ancient way of our country's clothing, so it is presumed that the saying transmitted from India seems to be insufficiently trustworthy. In addition, after the end of the Tang Dynasty, the 'Preliminary Cultivation of the Ten Kings Sang Seven Sutras' also contained the circumstances of the Ten Kings' trial. According to the Buddha's history, volume 45, Ouyang Xiu early years of disease and suffering, once in a dream to see the ten kings of the underworld, and asked about the fasting monks to build the sutra can be benefited from the matter, woke up after the disease, and then more respect for the Buddha.

In our country general folk beliefs, the idea of hell is y influenced by Buddhism, especially by the 'Earth Store Bodhisattva Benjamin's Wish Sutra' of the deepest influence, so the Earth Store Bodhisattva as the supreme master of hell, called the Lord of the Underworld, which under the jurisdiction of the Ten Halls of Yama, that is, the first hall of the King of the Qin Guang Wang, two halls of the King of the River in the beginning of the Chu, the three halls of the King of the Sung Emperor, the four halls of the King of the Five Officials, the five halls of the King of Yan King of Five Officials, King of Yan (Sen) Luo, King of Chang (Bian) City, King of Tai (Tai) Mountain, King of Equality, King of Metropolis, and King of Wheel of Fortune. Each of these ten kings has a different role to play in judging the sins committed by the deceased in the Yang world and imposing punishments on them.

This mixture of Buddhist and Taoist beliefs in the Ten Kings was also prevalent in Japan, and many of the paintings and carvings of the Ten Kings in the collections of Japanese temples are mostly Chinese, and many of them have been designated as national treasures of Japan. And Japan's Daitokuji Temple, Hiranji Temple in the collection of the ten kings of painting, is China's early Yuan Dynasty Southern Buddha painter Lu Xinzhong painted.

About the ten kings of the local said, according to Jizo Bodhisattva's origin cause ten kings of the sutra cited, ten kings are from the local buddhas and bodhisattvas should be transformed, such as the first hall of Qin Guang Wang of the local for the immovable Ming Wang, the second hall of the local of the king of the first river for the Shakyamuni Rudra, the other three halls to the ten halls of the local, in order of Manjushri bodhisattva, the Buddha's virtue bodhisattvas, the Earth's hidden bodhisattva, Maitreya bodhisattva, medicine master as a Buddha, the Goddess of Mercy, Guan Shiyin bodhisattva, A ■ Rudra, Amitabha Buddha.

The name of the ten kings, according to the Buddha's Unification Chronicle, Volume 33, 'Ten King Offerings', the name of the ten kings can be found in the classical biographies of the six, namely, in the Tibbet Sutra in the name of Yama, the two kings of the Five Officials, the King of Equality can be found in the Induction of the Avatamsaka Sutra, in the Yijian Zhi in the first river, the two kings of the record of the Qin Guang, in the translation of the sutras in the past and present. In Yijian Zhi, there are records of the two kings Chujiang and Qin Guang, and in Tuji Volume 2, there is a record of the king of Taishan. In addition, the King of the Five Officials is also found in Volume 12 of the Enthronement Sutra, the Pure Dharma Samadhi Sutra, and Volume 49 of the Sutras and Laws, and the King of Yama is even more widely found in various sutras and treatises. According to the Dharma Garden Jurin Volume 26, which is cited in the Record of the Underworld and the Sutra of Atonement for Sins by Paying Tribute to Taishan with Gold, the King of Taishan was originally known as the King of Taishan Province. In addition, in the Dharma Praises of Shan Guan, he cites the two gods of Wudao and Taishan, in which the god of Wudao is equivalent to the king of the five reincarnated wheels.

The belief in the ten temples of Yama is a mixture of Buddhist beliefs and folk beliefs in China, but this belief has been y rooted in the folklore since ancient times. In addition to promoting the Buddhist principles of 'karma, good and evil retribution', the beliefs play a role in warning and advising the world of goodness.

The Ten Temples of Hell

The first temple is the Qin Guang Wang. The main function of the King of Qin is to be in charge of life and death on earth, as well as good and bad luck in the netherworld.

When a good person's life is over, he will be guided by a messenger from the netherworld, either to heaven or to a rich and noble family. If you are a good or bad person, you will be sent to the King of the Ten Courts of Hell after your death, and you will be reincarnated as an ordinary human being.

For more evil and less good, after death must go to the sin mirror platform, sin mirror platform on the right side of the temple, the platform height of about one zhang, mirror big ten around, hanging to the east, there is a plaque on the top of the seven big words written: sin mirror platform before the good people, especially in the world of evil ghosts, you can see all the sins of the world of the sun, as if a silent movie film live screen, and then in accordance with the sins of the evil he has committed, the ghosts brought to the second temple of hell to be tortured, the ghosts of the second temple of hell to be tortured. Then, according to the sins he has committed, he will be brought by the ghostly messenger to the hell of the second temple to be tortured.

This kind of evil person has a very wide range, such as: being self-interested, bullying the weak and the small, maiming the good, being ungrateful, being unfilial, being murderous by nature, abusing animals, plotting to kill, stirring up quarrels, causing bloodshed, and all kinds of heart-breaking and harming behaviors, which is a combination of sins, and according to the actual information, he will be escorted to the Second Hall to receive the punishment he deserves.

Another thing to note is that those who disregarded the kindness of their parents in raising them, and committed suicide for the sake of very little, except for the martyrdom of loyalty and filial piety and being a god after death, will all go to the hells to suffer sin. These people who commit suicide casually, or are angered and stimulated to commit suicide, are the same to the second temple to find out the past merits and demerits, into the hells still have to be punished according to the crime, but some of these people who commit suicide and commit suicide, the spirit of the ghosts do not remain, unwilling to, and often in the middle of the night, appear to be the appearance of the time of death, so that the world to see the death of shock, when the king of the temple of Yama, sent by the green-faced fangs of ghosts, escorted to the prisons of the punishment, and will never go beyond the life.

If the world on the first day of the second month of the lunar calendar every year, to the west of the sincere prostration, and from the heart to promote the Dharma, universal sentient beings, compassion, relief of the poor, will be able to prolong life, enjoy eternal happiness.

The Second Hall of the Chu River King. The bottom of the sea. In the south, under the rock, there is the Great Hell. This heavy longitudinal width of five hundred yuzen, and the following sixteen small hells: one, black cloud sand small hell; two, feces and urine mud small hell; three, five fork small hell; four, hunger small hell; five, thirst small hell; six, pus and blood small hell; seven, copper axe small hell; eight, more copper axe small hell; nine, iron armor small hell; ten, the amount of small hell; eleven, chickens small hell; twelve, gray river small hell; thirteen, hacking and cutting small hell; fourteen, Sword and Leaf minor hell; xv. Fox and Wolf minor hell; xvi. Cold Ice minor hell.

The three halls of the Song Emperor. Yang Shi as a person. Do not think of the king's virtue is the greatest. People's lives are important. The person who is honored with the position and enjoys the salary. The people's life is the most important thing. They don't care about the people's lives. The public forgets justice when they see profit. Husbands are unrighteous. Wives are disobedient. The man should be the heir of his children. They have been favored. And those who have acquired property. A man who has been given a favor, and who has received property, and who has lost it, and who has returned it to his family. A slave who is in default of the master of the house. A servant who is in charge of his or her own affairs. A partner who has lost his property. Or, they have committed a crime and escaped from prison, or have fled from the army. If you are in custody and ask for a guarantor, you will be in debt to the official's relatives. Those who are in debt to officials and their relatives. If you are not repentant, you will not be able to do the right thing. Even though they have done good deeds. If the offender is concerned about feng shui, preventing funerals, or digging up graves to see coffins, he will not immediately stop cultivation and replace the graves with new ones. If you don't change the grave immediately, you will not be spared. Damage to bones and bones, loss of money and grain. Losing the graves of relatives. Luring people to break the law. Abetting lawsuits. Writes an anonymous note to withdraw from a marriage. Fabrication of a contract and negotiation. Recovering money and bonds. Not noting and applying a seal to a pledge. Altering or adding to the accounts. Those who harmed their descendants, etc., will be investigated to determine the severity of the offense. They will be sent to a large prison and sent to a small prison to suffer. The fourth prison will be transferred to the fourth prison. The first is the one that is not a part of the program, but the second is the one that is not a part of the program.

The king of the four halls and five officials. The bottom of the sea is in charge. The first is the Great Hell, which is located in the east of the city, under the Wo Shi. This weight is also wide 500 yu tens of years, there are also another 16 small hell: a pool small hell; two, the small hell of the paper chain bamboo stick; three, boiling soup pouring hand small hell; four, palm side of the liquid small hell; five, broken tendons and bone small hell; six, wean shoulder brush skin small hell; seven, lock skin small hell; eight, squatting peak small hell; nine, iron clothes small hell; ten, wood and stone earth tile pressure small hell; eleven, sword eye small hell; twelve, flying ash plug mouth small hell; Thirteen, medicine small hell; fourteen, oil slippery fall small hell; fifteen, stab mouth small hell; sixteen, broken stone buried body small hell .

The five temples of Yama said. I was the first temple, because of the mercy of death. Repeatedly put back to the sun to stretch snow. Descending the Division of the sea at the bottom of the northeastern Wo stone down. Called the great hell. And sixteen small hell. Where all ghost offenders, sent to this temple, has been all the prisons have been suffering for many years, that is, there are in the first four temples, checking not very big faults. Each of them will be released to this temple in seven days. They will be relieved to this temple; they will also check that they have done no evil. Corpse to five or seven days, there is no one who does not rot, ghost offenders are said to have unfulfilled wishes in the world, or said to build the temple bridges and streets. Open the river well. Or collection of books and chapters not yet. Or the number of life release is not yet complete. Or I have not prepared for my parents' births and deaths and burials. Or I have not repaid the kindness I have received. All kinds of things. I beg for permission to return to the sun. All vow. Must be a good person, I heard that. You and others. In the past, you were notorious for your evil deeds. God and ghosts know you. Now the ship to the center of the river to mend the leakage late. I can see that there is no ghost in the netherworld. In the realm of the living, there are fewer people with grudges. A man of true virtue. They are rare in this world. The ghosts in this temple are all criminals. They've looked in the mirror, they're all evil. Don't say anything, Ox-Head, Horse-Face. They can be escorted to the high platform to have a look. The platform set up. The name is Wangxiang Terrace. Face like a bow back. Toward the east, west, south and three directions. Bay straight eighty-one miles. After like a bowstring, sitting in the north sword tree for the city. Platform height of forty-nine feet. Sword mountain for the slope. Masonry on sixty-three, good people. This platform is not to be boarded. The merits and demerits are both equal. They've already passed on to the next life. Only evil spirits. Look out for the township very close, men and women can see and hear. They can listen to the words and movements of the young and the old. Wills are not obeyed, orders are not given. They change everything. They change their ways and earn their possessions. There is nothing left to carry. Men want to remarry. Women want to remarry. Properties are stolen. It's hard to even out the distribution, and the old accounts are clear and muddy again. Those who are dead and owe money to the living are hard pressed for money. Those who owed money to the dead lost their evidence, and they all blamed the dead for their mistakes. Relatives of the three parties, harboring grudges and comments, and children harboring selfishness. Friends have lost their trust. There are a few people who miss the past, cry over the coffin, laugh coldly, and have even more bad rewards. A man is tortured by the government, a woman is strangely ill. Sons are infuriated. A woman is ravished by others. Their karma is dissipated and their houses are burnt down. All family affairs, big and small, are quickly wiped out. The evil they do is repaid to them. Not only the souls, but all ghosts and criminals who have heard of this are sent to the Great Hell. They are sent to the Great Hell. They will be investigated carefully to see what evil they have committed. Then they will be sent to the 16 small hells to suffer. Inside the small hells. Each one is buried with a wooden stake. Copper snakes as chains. Iron dogs as piers. Bind the hands and feet. Use a knife. Open the jaw and break the belly. Hook out the heart. Cut it down carefully. The heart is eaten by snakes and the intestines are swallowed by dogs. Suffer for a full day. Stop the pain and finish the skin. I'll send him to another temple.

The Sixth Hall of the King of Biancheng. He is in charge of the bottom of the sea. The north is under the Wolishi stone. The Great Hell of the Great Calling. The vastness of five hundred by ten. Around another sixteen small hell: one, often kneeling iron sand small hell; two, shit mud dipping body small hell; three, grinding and bleeding small hell; four, pincer mouth containing small hell; five, cut kidney rat bite small hell; six, thorn net locusts drilling small hell; seven, pounding pestle and mortar small hell; eight, cracked skin and ring small hell; nine, fire and close the throat small hell; ten, mulberry fire baking small hell; eleven, fecal contamination of the small hell; twelve, cattle carving horse agitation small hell; thirteen, head off the scarlet hole small hell; fourteen, head off the bottom of the sea, the north of the Wolishi. The first is the small hell of the scarlet hole; the 14th is the small hell of the head; the 15th is the small hell of the waist; the 16th is the small hell of the skinned and rolled up grass.

Seven halls of the King of Taishan are located at the bottom of the sea.

The seven temples of the King of Taishan are located at the bottom of the sea. Surrounded by five hundred by ten years, and another sixteen small hells: one, the shirt self-swallowing small hell; two, cold chest small hell; three, flute leg fire forcing pit small hell; four, the right to resist the hair of the small hell; five, the dog bites the shin small hell; six, under the influence of the Yi Yi crying dog pier small hell; seven, then the top of the forehead small hell; eight, the top of the stone squatting small hell; nine, the end of the bawd up and down pecking and biting small hell; ten, the service of skin pig dragging small hell; eleven, hanging nail foot small hell; twelve, The small hell of pulling out the tongue and piercing the cheeks; thirteen, the small hell of extracting the intestines; fourteen, the small hell of mule stepping on the cat; fifteen, the small hell of branding the fingers; sixteen, the small hell of boiling oil kettle cooking.

The eight halls of the city king. In addition, there are sixteen small hells: one, car crash small hell; two, smothering pot small hell; three, broken cut small hell; four, hole small hell; five, Jian Zhu small hell; six, often rest small hell; seven, broken limbs small hell; eight, frying dirty small hell; nine, burn the marrow of the small hell; ten, crawling intestines small hell; eleven, burn the small hell; twelve, open jaw small hell; thirteen, cut the chest of the small hell; fourteen, break the top of the prying teeth of the small hell; fifteen, cut small hell; sixteen, steel fork small hell; sixteen, cut small hell. The first is a small hell; the second is a small hell with a steel fork.

The King of Equality of the Nine Temples. The nine halls of the King of Equality are located at the bottom of the ocean. In the southwestern part of the city, under the rock, there is the Great Hell of Abi. It is a vast hell, 800 yards wide, with a dense iron net. It is a dense iron net. In addition, there are sixteen small hells: one, knocking the bones burn body small hell; two, cramps beat bone small hell; three, crows eat heart and liver small hell; four, dog eating intestines and lungs small hell; five, the body splash hot oil small hell; six, the brain hoops pull tongue and teeth small hell; seven, take the brain to fill the small hell; eight, steam head scraping small hell; nine, sheep convulsions into the small hell of salt; ten, wood clip top small hell; eleven, grinding the heart of the small hell; twelve, the boiling broth drenched in small hell; thirteen, wasp small hell; fourteen, the small hell of wasps; thirteen, the small hell of the sea. The first is a small hell of wasps; the fourth is a small hell of scorpion hooks; the fifteenth is a small hell of ants and ants; the sixteenth is a small hell of purple and red poisonous snakes and holes.

The Ten Temples of the Wheel King

The Ten Temples of the Wheel King. The halls are located outside of the Underworld, directly east of the world's five turbid places. There are six bridges of gold, silver, jade and wooden planks, such as Naihe. Specializing in each temple to the ghosts. They are authorized to be sent to the four major continents, and those who are male or female, rich or poor, and who are reincarnated. Each name is listed in detail. Monthly remittance to the first temple, registered and sent to Fengdu, Yin law where the fetus egg wetting. No feet two feet four feet multi-legged and other categories , death is; wheel push mill turn. Or the year season birth and death. Or the life and death of the morning and evening death. Turning and changing. For the indefinite kill. For certainty of death and so on. I'll make sure that I'm in the same place as the others. They will check their offenses and distribute them to all parties for punishment. They will be distributed to all parties to receive their reward, and at the end of the year, they will be reunited with Fengdu.

Wherever there is a Confucian scholar who reads the Book of Changes and a monk who recites the Scriptures, he will be sent to the netherworld. They recite biblical incantations. The person who suffers from the punishment of suffering will be The first thing you need to do is to go to the temple. Name by name. And paint their original faces. It is called the Book of Fallen Sangha. Take them to the Goddess of Memphis. Drinking the lost soup. They will be sent to a human fetus. They will be reincarnated and die in the womb, either for one or two days, or for a hundred or ten days. Or they may be born for one or two days, or for a hundred or ten days, or for a year or two and die quickly. After forgetting the truths of the Three Teachings. The First Temple. I will send more soldiers to all prisons to investigate the evils of the past. They will make up for their suffering. Anyone who has been released to a prison where his merits and faults are equal, or where he has already suffered a full measure of suffering. The souls with less merit and more faults. Discretionary for men and women Yeon and ugly Anlao. Where to send the rich and poor family. That is to hand over (You District forget the stage) under the temple name issued. To the living humanity where Yang Shi read Yi Confucianism. Chanting monks and Taoists, hooked to the netherworld. Recite the Bible incantation. To the prison can not be used to torture. So that those who have suffered will be punished. To be released to this temple. Name by name. And paint their original faces. It is called the Book of Fallen Sangha. Take them to the Goddess of Memphis. Drinking the lost soup. They will be sent to a human fetus. They will be reincarnated and die in the womb, either for one or two days, or for a hundred or ten days. Or they may be born for one or two days, or for a hundred or ten days, or for a year or two and die quickly. After forgetting the truths of the Three Teachings. The First Temple. I will send more soldiers to all prisons to investigate the evils of the past. They will make up for their suffering. Anyone who has been released to a prison where his merits and faults are equal, or where he has already suffered a full measure of suffering. The souls with less merit and more faults. They will be designated as male or female, male or female, male or female, male or female. If you are from a rich or poor family. If you are from a rich or poor family, you will be handed over to the temple to be named and released. The first thing you need to do is to go to a place where you can get to know the people who are there.

There are many women who beg and plead, saying that they have not yet avenged their grievances. The first thing I want to do is to get out of the house and get out of the house. I don't want to be a human being. The women were asked why they were there. Most of the girls, or chaste women, because of the reading of the evil young man, or greedy for sex, or to figure out the property. Pretend all the flirtatious all kinds of good, plan to lure into adultery, deceived cloud has no wife and concubine, vowed to be the centralized matchmaking marriage. Or there are sweet and deceitful maidservants. They may take a servant girl as their concubine, or they may falsely promise to support their wife in her old age. Or they promise to raise the children of their ex-husband. I was deceived by the plan. I was fooled and obeyed. After losing their honor and giving it away. After a long delay. I made a scandalous remark. So that my father and brother know it. Neighbors despise them. And there's no way to redress the wrongs. They will die of shame. Or get depressed and die, heard that the negative heart thieves. This section should be in. This hatred is difficult to eliminate. Sobbing and begging for permission to claim their lives. Detailed investigation of the matter is true. But the life of the student, not yet the end. And he has his grandfather's legacy still intact. This court allows a woman to be dragged into the court. To stop them from violating the rules. Replace the name on the list. And then on the day of death. They'll be allowed to enter with the ghosts of the dead to claim their lives. The first time I saw this, I was still checking the judgment at the first temple.

If on the 17th day of the 4th month, the people of the world vowed to have faith and to follow the Jade Calendar, they would know and act according to the warning. If you always talk to people about the above words, you will be able to get to the next life as a human being. In the next life, you will be sent to the world of the living. You will not be despised. You will not be harmed by any crime, punishment, water, fire, or injury to your body.

Jizang, the Sanskrit name is Ks!itigarbha, which is translated as "Beggar's Bottom". Ground, the meaning of residence; hidden, containing the meaning of hidden. It is the Bodhisattva who was entrusted by His Holiness the Shakyamuni to vow to fulfill all sentient beings in the six paths of life before attaining Buddhahood during the Buddha-less era between His Holiness' death and Maitreya's attainment of Buddhahood. Regarding the name of Jizo Bodhisattva, Volume 1 of the Jizo Ten Wheel Sutra states (Daishonin 13-722), "The peace of patience and immobility is like the earth; the depth of meditation is like a secret treasure," hence the name "Jizo". The Dangdang Ten Wheel Sutra, Volume 1, refers to Jizang as a treasure buried in the earth, and the Mahayana Treatise on Treasures, Volume 4, refers to the treasure buried in the earth as a metaphor for "K???a's Tibet".

According to the preface of the Dai Fang Guang Ten Wheel Sutra, Volume 1, and the first volume of the Sutra of the Chanting of Good and Evil Karma, Jizo Bodhisattva, by the power of the Great Compassionate Vow in the past, has manifested himself in the bodies of the King of Brahma, the King of the Emperors, the King of the Voice, the King of Yama, the King of the lions, elephants, tigers, wolves, oxen and horses, and even the Rakshasasas and the Hells, in order to educate and transform the sentient beings and to especially consult the sentient beings who suffer in this world of five turbid evils and, in response to the requests of all the sentient beings, to eliminate calamities and increase their blessings, so as to ripen the He is especially sensitive to the suffering beings of the five turbid worlds. Jizo Bodhisattva is also known as Jizo of a Thousand Bodies because of his countless incarnations to help sentient beings.

There are many stories about the origin of Jizo Bodhisattva. According to the Jizo Bodhisattva's Original Vow Sutra, it is said that Jizo Bodhisattva was the son of a great elder in the long past, and that he had a feeling of respect and admiration after seeing the magnificent appearance of the Shizi Fenxun, the Buddha of ten thousand deeds, and that in order to realize this magnificent appearance, he wished to free the sinful and suffering beings of the six paths of the universe for as far as possible in the future and beyond the countless eons of time. In the same sutra and the same article, it is also said that Earth Store Bodhisattva was a Brahmin woman in the past, in order to save her mother from the hells, she made offerings and cultivated blessings for her mother, and made a wish to liberate all sentient beings from sins and sufferings for as long as possible in the coming kalpas. In the same sutra, the Karmic Sensations of the Sentient Beings of Yama Flo also cites two statements: (1) Jizo Bodhisattva was the king of a country in a long time in the past, and when the people in his country committed a lot of evils, he made a wish to bring all sinful and suffering sentient beings to Bodhi, otherwise he would not wish to attain Buddhahood. (b) Jizo Bodhisattva was a woman named Kōmei in the long past. Her mother was suffering in hell, and Kōmei, in order to save her, wished to save all sentient beings from sin and misery, and would not attain Buddhahood until all sentient beings had attained Buddhahood. All of the above statements have been spread to the world through Jizo's beliefs. Therefore, in Buddhism, the words "Only when all sentient beings have been destroyed will one be able to attain Bodhi, and one will not attain Buddhahood until the hells have been emptied" and "If I do not go to hell, then who will go to hell?

There are many kinds of statues of Jizo Bodhisattva, including the Dainichi Sutra Volume 3, which is in the form of a bodhisattva adorned with a crown of jewels and a necklace. The Dainichi Sutra, Volume 3, is in the form of a Bodhisattva, adorned with a crown and necklace. In general, the image that is widely spread is that of a bodhisattva in the inner world and a monk in the outer world, holding a jewel in his left hand and a staff in his right hand, either sitting or standing on a lotus flower.

In Tantra, Jizo Bodhisattva is the main deity of the Mandala Jizo House of the Fetal World, in the form of a bodhisattva, holding a lotus flower in his left hand, with a Ruyi treasure block on the flower, and holding a precious pearl in his right hand, seated on a lotus flower. His secret name is Vajra of Sorrow and Wish and Vajra of Wish. The samadhi is in the form of a precious pearl or a block on a lotus flower. The seed is [fan(i)] (i, i), or [fan(ha)] (ha, ha). There are two types of mantras, but they are generally referred to as "Nam-mo Samantabhadraksha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. The seal is the Flag Seal; the sixth volume of the Dharani Sutra refers to the seal as the Dharma Body Seal and the Dharma Seal. In the Mandala of Vajra Realm, the Vajrapani Bodhisattva in the four closest relatives of the Southern Baosheng Rulai has the same body and the same name as the Earth Store Bodhisattva. In addition, according to the Eight Great Bodhisattvas Mandala Sutra, Jizo Bodhisattva is one of the eight great bodhisattvas. It is also said that Jizo, together with Guanyin, Seiji, and Longshu, are the co-conspirators of Amitabha, and are called the Five Buddhas of Amitabha. It is also said that the Dharma Bodhisattva of Amitabha Buddha in the Causal Position is the same as Jizo Bodhisattva.

Since the Sui and Tang dynasties, the belief in Jizo has flourished. For example, in the Sui dynasty, the belief in the ten rounds of the Jizo Sutra, which advocates the "universal Buddha and the universal Dharma," and the practice of the ritual of Jizo, which was known as the Three Steps of the Sutra at the time, was practiced. In addition, in the Song Dynasty, Chang Chun wrote a book on the spiritual experiences of Jizo Bodhisattva, which contains 32 spiritual experiences of Jizo Bodhisattva from the Liang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty. Because of the popularity of this belief, so the people of the time every turn mold painting Jizo Bodhisattva statue, placed in the temple or private Buddha Hall to worship and feed, the more famous one is the Liang Dynasty, Deyang County, the good silence of the temple on the wall of the east corridor of the Jizo Bodhisattva statue.

And China's Buddhist community regarded Jizo Bodhisattva as one of the four great Bodhisattvas, and it is said that his transformation of the saying of the road in the Jiu Hua Mountain in Anhui Province. According to the Song monk biography volume 20, Jizo bodhisattva born for the Silla king family, surnamed Jin, name Qiao Jue, after leaving the family in the Tang Xuanzong came to China, into the Jiuhua mountain cultivation, residence for several decades to show the death, the flesh is not broken, with the whole body into the pagoda. The Temple of the Flesh on Jiuhua Mountain is said to be the place where Jizo Bodhisattva became a monk.

Jizang Bodhisatta is especially compassionate to the sinful and suffering beings in the hells, and he manifests himself in the body of King Yama and the body of the hells and speaks to the sinful and suffering beings to educate them and save them, so he is generally regarded as the incarnation of Jizang Bodhisatta. For example, in the Ten Kings Sutra on the Causes and Consequences of the Development of the Heart of Jizo Bodhisattva, the King of Yama is cited as the incarnation of Jizo Bodhisattva. Another example is that in the folk beliefs of our country, the idea of hell is y influenced by the "Jizo Bodhisattva's Ben Wang Jing", and Jizo Bodhisattva is regarded as the supreme lord of hell, called the Lord of the Underworld, and under his jurisdiction are the ten Yama kings. Recently, in Dunhuang thousand Buddha Cave found in the ground Tibetan ten king map, that is, painted with Jizo Bodhisattva and ten kings and other images, and with the Song Dynasty Taiping Xingguo eight years (983) made the inscription.

According to Volume 1 of the Ten Wheels of Jizo Sutra, Jizo Bodhisattva possesses an infinite number of incredible virtues that cannot be measured by the voices and monks of the world. The same sutra also states that if you chant the name of Jizo Bodhisattva or worship and make offerings to his portrait or statue, you will be free from all sorrows and sufferings and will not fall into evil paths, and you will be able to obtain ten or twenty-eight kinds of benefits.

In Japan, the belief in Jizo started in the middle of the Heian period and has flourished ever since. After the Kamakura period, this belief was incorporated into folk beliefs. For example, Jizo is said to have appeared in the Saikawara region as a savior of children, and is praised in Japanese hymns. In addition, Jizo Jizo and Jiyasu Jizo are dedicated to saving and raising children. In addition, there are many who pay homage to Rokujizo (Jizo Bodhisattvas of the six paths of enlightenment), Yonsei Jizo, and Seijun Jizo. (Vajra Samadhi Sutra, Da Fang Da Jie Jing, Volume 57, Old Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra, Volume 44, Dabao Jie Jing, Volume 1, Jizo Bodhisattva Dharani Sutra, Dainichi Sutra, Volumes 1 to 4, Jizo Bodhisattva's Rituals, Preliminary Cultivation of the Ten Kings of Life and the Seven Sutras, Bukong Bindoso Sutra of the Divine Transformation of Truth, Volume 9, Dainichi Sutra, Volume 5, Volume 10, and Volume 13, Dharma Court Juran, Volume 14, and Jingde Zhuanluan Dengluo, Volume 11) ((See: Six Jizo's) 1259), "Yantai Jizang" 2878, "Yama King" 6340) p2318

FROM:Buddha's Great Dictionary