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Raytheon of the twenty-four heavens

is the leader of the tripterygium wilfordii. Thor is found in ancient myths of South Asia subcontinent and China. Taoism believes that Raytheon is the ninth son of Yuanshi Buddha-Jiutian Yingyuan's thunder popularized Buddha. In the Chinese Buddhist temples and Taoist temples, his typical image is mostly a ghost shape with unkempt hair and Rendan Hu style, armored and holding a mountain axe. Fengbo, who plays the downwind flag, Lei Gong, who holds a hammer chisel and raw wings on his back, and Lei Mu, who holds a bronze mirror with two cymbals. They are all derived from the legends of the Han Dynasty below the Middle Ages and were first absorbed and reformed by Taoism.

Serious Buddhists generally only recognize the "Twenty Celestials". They are often molded on both sides of the Hall of the Great Hero, and their typical posture is based on that of Huayan Temple in Datong: they lean forward 15 degrees to show their respect for the Buddha. This formula is allowed for new sculptures after the 197s, such as Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou and Huiji Temple in Foding Mountain in Putuo. There are also murals painted on the east and west walls of the main hall as a background, such as the "Buddha-worshipping map of the heavens", which are typical of the Ming Dynasty murals of the fahai temple main hall in Beijing. They are wonderful and unusual, and can be regarded as national treasures. Compared with statues, murals can freely add clouds, attendants, utensils, props, flowers, birds and animals to form a large hand-rolled picture, which is more elegant and vivid in effect. As for the images of the heavens, there are quite different descriptions in various Buddhist classics since the Tang Dynasty, and craftsmen also have their own biographies, which are more influenced by the times and regions, and what the temples see is not consistent.

the heavens are arranged in front of the Buddha

in a certain order. This order is also different. There are two typical types. One is the queue for worshipping Buddha, which symbolizes the "Buddha Meeting". It is divided into two sides of the main hall (generally, the singular order is on the left and the even number is on the right). The names are as follows: One Great Brahma King, Two Emperors Relieving Heaven, Three Heavenly Kings, Four Heavenly Kings, Five Heavenly Kings, Six Heavenly Kings, Seven Mysteries of King Kong, Eight Monkeys, Nine Heavenly Generals, Ten Days of Debate and Eleven Days of Meritorious Achievements. The other is the arrangement symbolizing the "Golden Bright Dojo" (smoked monastery), in which the meritorious deeds stand on the left side of the Buddha, the eloquent deeds stand on the right side of the Buddha, and the following left and right sides are arranged separately, in the following order: the meritorious deeds on the left side, the following are the Great Brahma King, the Northern King, the Southern King, the Sun King, the Secret King Kong, the Fat Dispelling General, the Earth God, the Ghost Mother, and the Southern King. On the right is the Great Debate Heaven. The following are the Emperor Shi Zun Tian, the King of the East, the King of the West, the Moon Tian, the Great Freedom Tian, the Wei Tuotian, the Bodhi Tree God, the King of Moro.