The Two Religions of the Dragon King of the North Sea

In fact, since the creation of the dragon, has been on earth to exercise the mission of the clouds and rain, is honored as the belief that the omnipotent dragon, the real dragon king of the word arose after the introduction of Buddhism into China. Buddhism was introduced to China in the Han and Jin dynasties, and flourished during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, making the dragon, which had already diluted its religious significance, injected with religious content, and turned into a fully personalized dragon king from the original sacred beasts. Buddhism was founded in the fifth and sixth centuries B.C. by Siddhartha Chodama, a prince of the Indian state of Kabiravi, who is known in Buddhism as Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Rudraksha. After the founding of Buddhism, it gradually spread through the western region to the interior of China, and in Yunnan, still in the Nanzhao period Buddhism was very popular. In the course of spreading, in order to gain a foothold in China, Buddhism was substantially Chineseized, which included the absorption of traditional Chinese deities and sorcery, so that the concepts and terminology were as close as possible to traditional Chinese culture. In the Buddhist scriptures, there is a mythical beast named Naga, which has a long body and no feet and is the king of the water, but in fact, this Naga is the prototype of the python in the tropical rain forests of South Asia. However, Naga in Buddhism is the Buddha's protector, according to the scriptures, after the birth of Buddha, it guarded in the Buddha's left and right, spit a warm and cool water for the Buddha's bath, singing and dancing in the air, scattered a variety of wonderful flowers, and it can also be Xingyunbuyu, deciding to open the blasphemy, to the blessing of the disaster, residing in the sea and rivers and marshes in the abyss. In this way, there are many places similar to the dragon in traditional Chinese culture, Naga's identity and the prince of the Chinese royal family Chonglong beliefs, in this case, the scriptures in the translation into Chinese, it would be logical to be translated into the dragon, the Chinese people originally to the dragon as a deity, but also to the dragon in the Buddhism of the dragon acceptance, and to the Chinese culture of the dragon to understand the king of the dragon in Buddhism, and the scriptures by the deduction of the Dragon Palace! The treasure palace.