Why do you light Jizo incense today? What is the allusion

This is a kind of Tibetan incense. The Tibetan incense is a long history, has a very long culture and high praise. Burning Jizang incense is because of the traditional custom.

Tibetan incense, most of the Buddhist ritual activities, there are a small number of home purification of obscurity and evil spirits. Its production process contains the essence of Tibetan culture. The main ingredients are saffron, snowdrops, musk, Tibetan ko and so on. Tibetan incense is said to have been created by Songtsen Gampo's minister, Tunmi Sambuzha, in the 7th century A.D., with a history of more than 1,300 years. Tibetan King Songtsen Gampo devout believer in Buddhism, in order to enshrine from Chang'an and Nepal to invite the two Shakyamuni personally opened the light of the Buddha's 12-year-old and 8-year-old statue of the Buddha, Songtsen Gampo entrusted the minister Tumi Sambuzha to develop the incense for the Buddha. Tumi - Sangbuzha to Tibetan medicine as a guide, carefully developed a handmade water grinding incense-making techniques, since then Tibetan incense began to circulate in all parts of the world. In 2008, the Tibetan incense-making technique was included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.

And the history of Tibetan incense is derived from the Tibetan Tantric practitioners is to incense on the Three Jewels, the Dharma protector of the blessed things, so that the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, the Dharma protector of the heart to be happy, when the protector of the presence and can be given to the ghosts and spirits and the six paths of life to be able to receive, so that to satisfy the obstacles do not come to the line, and worse can be a pure altar to send the Devil hooks to call the Dharma, so that the practitioner to rise up the cessation of the, The first step is to make sure that you have a good understanding of the concepts and concepts that you are looking for. The Tibetan incense method is based on the Buddha's tantric classics, adding the heart medicine nutmeg, lungs of the medicine bamboo Huang, liver of the medicine saffron, vitality of the medicine cloves, kidney medicine nutmeg, spleen of the medicine nutmeg, and musk, red and white sandalwood, black incense, ice, angelica and other dozens of kinds of Chinese herbs, and also add the precious dzi beads, gold, silver, copper, pearls, coral, and the Himalayan holy mountain herbs, some of them are also added to various kinds of blessed nectar pills. Some of the incense is even added with various kinds of blessed nectar pills, which are really precious, so that the incense is not only an offering to the Guru Triple Gem, but also accumulates infinite blessings and wisdom, which is beneficial to the practitioner's body, chakra, and mind, which is also the characteristic of Tibetan incense, and is also the treasure under the ancient Buddhist culture inherited from Tibet.

After the collapse of the Tubo Dynasty in the ninth century AD, Buddhism entered a period of "post-expansion". At that time, the king of Tibet, Yixiwo, invited the Atisha master to Tibet. ....... (excerpt) From this, the various sects of Tibetan incense inheritance in the temple, whether it is incense growing place, or spice formula, have written a unique mythological Tibetan incense legend. "After the Hong period" era, incense and many other offerings in the rituals of Tibetan Buddhism has been quite complete. There is a special description of incense offering in the Dharma Gate of Kadam's Four Dharma Venerables, and in the "Handprints of the Eight Great Offerings", the handprints of incense offering are recorded as follows: "......'Dube The 'Dube' is an offering of burning incense; one must make hand seals and visualize the celestial maiden holding a smoky incense burner to make the offering. ......" "'Gandai' is an offering of applying incense; one must make hand seals and visualize the celestial maiden presenting the balm. ".

And Jizo incense is influenced by these cultures. On the last day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the 30th day of the lunar month and the 29th day of the lunar month, there is a folk custom of burning Jizo incense. The last day of the month is called "Hai", what the Chinese call "Hai Qi", probably the heaviest day, so there is always a need to do something to eliminate Hai Qi and seek peace of mind, in order to seek spiritual comfort.

In fact, the burning of Jizo incense on the last day of July comes from the Buddhist Bon Festival.

Bon is the phonetic translation of the Sanskrit word "Ullambana", which is also translated as "Ullambana", "Ullambara" and so on. Ullambana" is also translated as "Ullambana" and "Ullambhara", which means to save suffering and difficulties. In the Buddhist scriptures, there is a special "Bon Sutra", which says that the mother of Megane was suffering in hell, Megane wanted to save his mother, and Buddha told him a way:

On the 15th day of the 7th month, for the seven generations of parents and the present parents in distress, we should have rice, all kinds of food, five fruits, draw pots of water and irrigation, scented oil, ingots and candles, and beds and beddings, and make all the world's sweetness and beauty, and then make offerings to the ten great virtues of the monks and sangha 。。。。...

This is the first time that a Buddhist monk has been sent to the hell. The Sangha of the Ten Great Virtues () will be offered in the pots. On the fifteenth day of the seventh month of every year, we make a bon for the Buddha and the monks to repay our parents for the kindness and love they have shown us.

Megaman followed this, and his mother was finally free from suffering and happy. For this reason, the ancient Chinese attached special importance to the Bon Festival, and often copied the Bon Sutra in order to pray for the death of the deceased. However, the rituals recorded in the Bon Sutra were very solemn and costly, and not something that could be done by ordinary people. Therefore, later on, the Bon will also be slowly simplified, changing into ancestor worship, outdoor incense burning, lotus lamps, women take off their skirts, oil pouring "monk" and other forms, less money spent, but became more "entertainment" sex.