Successful application of Korean Buddhist Lantern Festival: Introduction of Korean Buddhist Lantern Festival

Just yesterday, the Korean Buddhist Lantern Festival was successfully applied for. Previously, there was an uproar on the Internet. Korean netizens accuse domestic TV dramas of copying their traditional culture. What kind of activity is the Korean Buddhist Lantern Festival and what is its significance? Let's learn more about Korean Buddhist Lantern Festival.

The Korean Buddhist Lantern Festival was successfully applied for 65438+February 65438+June, and the Korean Buddhist celebration "Lantern Festival" was successfully applied for. The UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage held a video conference on the same day, and passed the application to include the Korean Lantern Festival in the representative list of intangible cultural heritage of mankind.

To commemorate the birth of Buddha, that is, the birth day of Buddha Sakyamuni, South Korea holds lantern festivals and mass demonstrations in Seoul every year. The Lantern Festival originated in Silla era more than 1300 years ago. It is a folk celebration that combines the Korean Lantern Festival and the Korean Lantern Festival and has been passed down to this day. In 20 12, the Lantern Festival was designated as the intangible cultural heritage of Korea by the government. 122.

Experts spoke highly of the fact that the Lantern Festival was selected as the UN intangible cultural heritage of mankind, which is of great significance to show the cultural diversity of Korea.

In addition, ancestral ceremonies and ritual music, Pansuoli, Gangneung Daye Festival, Qiang Qiang Shui Lai, Men's Temple Party Opera, Arirang, pickled winter kimchi culture, Jeju sea girl culture and traditional wrestling have been included in the UN intangible cultural heritage of mankind.

Yonhap News Agency, the Korean Buddhist Lantern Festival, said that the Lantern Festival was a Buddhist activity held on April 8 of the lunar calendar to celebrate the birth of Sakyamuni. It originated in Silla period, which means to light up the sky with the light of truth and create a fair and rich world. 20 12 was designated as Korea's intangible cultural heritage No. Although the Lantern Festival originated from religious activities, it has now developed into a representative spring celebration that everyone can participate in. During the Lantern Festival, people make lanterns with bamboo, Korean paper and other materials to decorate temples and streets, and hold parades, which is quite lively.

The cultural tradition of "Lantern Festival" is passed down from generation to generation, advancing with the times, showing the cultural diversity beyond the boundaries of nationality, race, religion and disability in an inclusive way, and playing an important role in uniting society and overcoming difficulties in difficult times.

The Buddha lantern originated from the lantern Buddha, which was originally called the lantern Buddha. In Sanskrit, Tikh Luo Ji is transliterated, Ruiying is translated into Yuanbao Guangfo, and Great Wisdom is translated into Randengfo. "Great Wisdom": "If you are a Buddha, when you are born, everything around you is like a lamp, so it is named Prince Deng. Becoming a Buddha is also called a lamp, and it was formerly called Yuanbao Light Buddha. " "Four Religions" said: "It is also called light, and it is also called Yuanbao light. Famous ingot, nameless lamp. This word is not an ingot, nor is it fixed. "

Burning Buddha is one of the three Buddhas, the Buddha of the past, that is, Sakyamuni now and Maitreya in the future. The Ruiying Sutra says: "When the Buddha was in his heyday, the Buddha Sakyamuni was a Confucian boy. When he saw the daughter of the Wangs, her name was Quyi, and she had seven green lotus flowers in her hand. She spent 500 yuan to buy five lotus flowers. Her daughter entrusted two branches to worship Buddha for the seven-stem lotus. I also saw the ground was muddy and covered with fur coats. That's not enough. That's where the Buddha was put, so the Buddha jumped over it. The Buddha recorded: It was a man robbed in the post-September 11th, and you regarded him as a Buddha, the number of Sakyamuni. "

Burning incense Buddha is the most famous Buddha in the past, and many Buddhist scriptures focus on burning incense Buddha, saying that there are examples of Buddha before and after it. For example, the Infinite Life Sutra says that Buddha was born in the past and enlightened all beings. Later, after 10 robbery, 53 buddhas appeared in turn. Finally, when the Buddha is at ease, he is Amitabha because he is a monk. It is recorded in The Sutra of Great Compassion that after burning lanterns, lotus flowers went to Buddha and even seven buddha, and fourteen Buddhas were born. "On the Great Bodhisattva" said that the third monk robbed 77,000 Buddhas, and the first one was to burn them.