How to kowtow in Buddhism

To kowtow long head is to prostrate on the ground, with hands stretched out straight in front of you. Every time you prostrate, you mark the ground with your hands, get up, walk forward to the mark and prostrate again, and so on and so forth. When encountering a river, wading or crossing a boat, one should first knock on the bank to the river width and then cross the river. After resting in the evening, you need to depart from the place where you kowtowed yesterday. The piousness of the thousand miles is not far away, the rock for wear, marvelous.

Knocking long head in the march

Believers follow this procedure: first of all, take the upright position, the mouth reads the words, mostly for the chanting of the six words of truth, read as "ah mani aba mimmo", is the Indian Buddhist Tantric "true treasure words" (like Chinese Buddhists often recite). Like the Chinese Buddhists often recite "Namo Amitabha Buddha". While reciting the Six True Words, put your hands together and raise them above your head, then take a step; continue to put your hands together and move them in front of you, then take another step; put your hands together and move them in front of your chest, and when you take the third step, move your hands away from your chest and parallel to the ground with your front body, palms facing downward and bend down on the ground, with your knees touching the ground first, then your whole body bending down on the ground, and knocking your forehead to the ground lightly. Stand up again and start again. During this process, the mouth and hands are used together, and the sound of chanting the Six True Words is continuous.

Knocking long head in place

Inside the temple or the periphery, devotees and believers spread a blanket in front of them, constantly knocking long head in place, just not step, the rest of the marching with the long head, or to return the wish, or pray for blessings, blessings and disaster relief due to the different mental willingness, but also into the no man's land; devotees believe that in the practice of a person at least 10,000 times to kowtow. Barefoot when kowtowing, so as to show piety.

Knocking long around the temple

Beginning at the main gate of the temple in a clockwise direction, kowtowing in a sideways direction facing the temple, also three steps at a time, walking around the temple; or sideways to the temple, kowtowing forward, also three steps at a time, reciting the Six Character Truth

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