Lantern burning ancient Buddha's birthday: August 22 of the lunar calendar today

燃灯古佛寿诞：今天农历八月二十二日

amitabha. Today is the birthday of the Lantern Ancient Buddha. Thank you for the Lantern Ancient Buddha.

-----Zhuge Changqing

amitabha.

Today is September 15, 2014 and August 22 of the lunar calendar. It is the birthday of the ancient Buddha.

We are grateful for the great contribution of the Lantern Burning Buddha to the spread of Buddhism.

Zhuge Changqing shared some information about the ancient Buddha burning lanterns with those who were destined:

Burning Buddha, why is it called burning Buddha?

Because everything around him was as bright as a lamp when he was born, he was called Lantern Buddha or Ingot Light Buddha.

The burning Buddha shines like a lamp in the world.

The Lantern Buddha is also called the Lantern Buddha because it is an ancient Buddha in the world.

It is said that Sakyamuni used five lotus stems to support the Lantern Buddha in his past life, and it was recorded that he would become a Buddha after the ninety-one disaster. Many of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas recorded in the Buddhist scriptures were disciples of him. Zhuge Changqing's research found that Sakyamuni Buddha was awarded by the ancient Buddha.

Buddhism has three generations of Buddhas: all Buddhas in the past, present and future. It refers to the past Buddha as the Buddhas, or specifically the Lantern Buddha, the present Buddha is Sakyamuni Buddha, and the future Buddha is Maitreya Buddha.

Since the Lantern Buddha is the teacher of Sakyamuni in generations, the Lantern Buddha should belong to the "past Buddha". Many temples dedicated to the "Vertical Third Generation" Buddha often offer the Lantern Buddha (left), Sakyamuni Buddha (center) and Maitreya Buddha (right) in the main hall, representing the past, present and future three generations.

The Lantern Buddha is the Buddha who taught the memory of Sakyamuni Bodhisattva in the past. Transliteration of Tihe Jiluo and Tihuan Ji. Also known as the fixed light Tathagata, the ingot light Tathagata, the universal light Tathagata, and the light Tathagata.

Volume I of the "Past and Present Cause and Effect Classic" records that on the day of the Buddha's birth, all directions were clear, and the sun, moon and fire beads were no longer used. It is so strange that it is named Puguang. The ninth volume of "The Theory of Great Wisdom" also said that when burning a lamp in the Buddha's life, everything around you is like a lamp, so it is called burning a lamp. After becoming a Buddha, it is also called burning a lamp.

Lantern burning Buddha, transliterated in Sanskrit as Tihe Jira, Tihuan Jira, Ruiying Sutra as Ding Guang, and Zhidu Theory as Randeng. The ingot is the foot of the lamp. Sakyamuni Tathagata was born when the second monk in his line was only robbed.

Zhidulun 9 said, "As a lamp Buddha, everything around you is like a lamp when you are alive, so you are named Prince Randeng. Being a Buddha is also called Randeng, and the old name is Ding Guang Buddha."

In the interpretation of the four teachings, he said, "It is also known as Ran Lantern, and also as Ding Guang. There are enough Ding Lanterns, but not enough Ming Lanterns. The Ding character or the Ding character is not the same."

The Ruiying Sutra said: "When the Buddha was shining, Sakyamuni Bodhisattva, a famous Confucian child, saw the woman of the Wang family called Qu Yi, holding seven green lotus flowers, and bought five lotus stems for five hundred dollars. The two lotus stems that the woman entrusted to him were seven lotus stems. He also saw that the ground was muddy, and the leather clothes were not enough to cover the ground, but the release place was not enough, so that the Buddha could walk through it. The Buddha gave a note: It was the last ninety-one calamities, the name of the virtuous calamities, and the name of Buddha was Sakyamuni Tathagata."

The mind-ground meditation said, "In the past, when we were the Mona Immortal, Bufa offered Randeng Buddha, so that the eight calamities exceeded the sea of life and death."

According to the volume of the Book of Practice, in the past, there was a holy king in the kingdom of Tihe Wei, with a famous lantern. At the end of his life, he gave the order of the state government to the prince's lamp (ingot) light. The prince knew that the world was impermanent, so he gave the state government to his brother and became a monk immediately. After becoming a Buddha, he marched around the world and enlightened people. At that time, there was a Buddhist scholar, who was in the light of the Buddha's travel, who scattered flowers for the Buddha, untied the bun cloth and sent it on the mud path, and asked the Buddha to dance. The Buddha gave the Confucian child the record of becoming a Buddha in the afterlife. This Confucian child is Sakyamuni Buddha. The original origin of the Lantern Buddha is also described in Volume 13 of the "Zengyi Ahan Sutra" and Volume 31 of the "Quadruple Law", but there are some differences.

In addition, according to the third volume of the "Sage and Fool Classic", "The Poor Woman's Nantuopin", in the past two monks had only ninety-one calamities, and Yan Futi had a great king, named Bosaic. Wang has a crown prince named Lena Zhiju (i.e. Baoji), who became a Buddhist monk after learning Taoism. At that time, Bhikkhu Alemira lit a lamp to support the Buddha day by day. The Buddha gave a note to Bhikkhu, telling him that when he came to become a Buddha, he was named Dingguang Tathagata. This is the reason why the Lantern Buddha was recorded from Baoji Buddha in the past.

As for the time of the appearance of this Buddha, Volume 13 of the "Zengyi Ahan Sutra" and Volume 3 of the "Buddhist Sutra Collection", such as "Heart Furnishing Supplies", let's just talk about the long past; The first volume of the Sutra of Practice and the first volume of the Sutra of Prince Ruiying's Sutra of Practice are said to be in the past 91 years.

The Lantern Buddha is the most famous among the Buddhas in the past. In the theory of sutras, many people take the Tathagata as the center and say that there are examples of Buddhas before and after it.

For example, the Infinite Longevity Sutra said that in the past, the Buddha came out and enlightened all living beings. After ten calamities, fifty-three Buddhas appeared in turn. When the last world is free, the Buddha is Amitabha (Amitabha).

The third volume of the Great Compassion Sutra, "Cultivation of Good Roots", said that after the Tathagata, there have been Lotus Buddha and even the past seven Buddhas, and there are always 14 Buddhas. In the volume 178 of "On the Great Buddha Buddha", it is said that the third Buddhist monk, the Buddha, only robbed and met 77000 Buddhas. The first of them is the Lantern Buddha.

However, it is a key event for the Buddha's practice of relieving the Buddha. Because it is confirmed that when Randeng Buddha gives the memory, the Bodhisattva has "no living method to endure", and then "the Bodhisattva is willing to have evil interests and be able to go at will" for the sake of mercy, so as to show the power of the Great Bodhisattva and save all living beings.

According to the second volume of the "Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty", the remains recorded by the state of Nagaraho in northern India for the release of the Buddha and the offering of the Lantern Buddha. In the carved paintings of the Yamasaki Pagoda Gate in India today, there is an image of the fixed light Tathagata transformed into a big city, which is consistent with what is described in the Quadrant Law.

Since the Lantern Buddha is the teacher of Sakyamuni in generations, the Lantern Buddha should belong to the "past Buddha". Many temples dedicated to the "Vertical Third Generation" Buddha often offer the Lantern Buddha (left), Sakyamuni Buddha (center) and Maitreya Buddha (right) in the main hall, representing the past, present and future three generations.

(Reference materials of this article: online Buddhist materials of Lantern Ancient Buddha)

阿弥陀佛。今天是燃灯古佛寿诞，感恩燃灯古佛。

----- 诸葛长青

   阿弥陀佛。

   今天是2014年9月15日，农历8月22日。是燃灯古佛的寿诞。

    我们感恩燃灯古佛对佛法的传播，对佛法的巨大贡献。

   诸葛长青把一些燃灯古佛的资料分享有缘者：

    燃灯佛，为何叫燃灯佛？

   因其出生时身边一切光明如灯，故称为燃灯佛或称为锭光佛。

    燃灯佛祖，如明灯照耀世间。

   燃灯佛，因为是上世古佛，所以又叫燃灯古佛。

   传说释迦牟尼过去世曾以五茎莲花供养燃灯佛，而受记，将在九十一劫后的贤劫成佛。在佛经中所记载的许多佛﹑菩萨都曾是他座下的弟子。诸葛长青研究发现，释迦牟尼佛是蒙燃灯古佛授记。

   佛教有三世佛：指过去﹑现在﹑未来三世的一切佛。谓过去佛为诸佛，或特指燃灯佛，现在佛是释迦牟尼佛，未来佛为弥勒佛三者。
  由于燃灯佛在辈分上是释迦的老师，所以燃灯佛当属「过去佛」。许多供奉「竖三世」佛的庙宇，往往在正殿大雄宝殿中供奉燃灯佛（左侧）、释迦牟尼佛（正中）、弥勒佛（右侧），代表过去、现在、未来三世。

 　燃灯佛是过去世为释迦菩萨授记的佛陀。音译提和竭罗、提洹竭。又作定光如来、锭光如来、普光如来、灯光如来。   

   《过去现在因果经》卷一记载，此佛初生之日，四方皆明，日月火珠复不为用。以有此奇特，故名为普光。《大智度论》卷九亦云，燃灯佛生时，一切身边如灯，故名燃灯，成佛后亦名燃灯。

  燃灯佛，梵文音译为提和竭罗，提洹竭，瑞应经译曰锭光，智度论译曰然灯。锭为灯之足，释迦如来因行中第二阿僧祇劫满时逢此佛出世。　　

   智度论九曰：「如然灯佛，生时一切身边如灯，故名然灯太子。作佛亦名然灯，旧名锭光佛。」
　　四教集解中曰：「亦名然灯，亦名锭光。有足名锭，无足名灯。锭字或作定字，非也。」
　　瑞应经上曰：「锭光佛时，释迦菩萨名儒童，见王家女曰瞿夷者，持七枝青莲华，以五百金钱买五茎莲，合彼女所寄托二枝为七茎莲奉佛。又见地泥泞，解皮衣覆地，不足，乃解发布地，使佛蹈之而过，佛因授记曰：是后九十一劫，名贤劫，汝当作佛，号释迦文如来。」
　　心地观经一曰：「昔为摩纳仙人时，布发供养然灯佛，以是精进因缘故，八劫超于生死海。」
   依《修行本起经》卷上所述，往昔，提和卫国有圣王，名灯盛。临命终时，将国政嘱付太子灯（锭）光，太子知世间无常，更将国政授与其弟，即时出家。成佛后，游行世界，开化群生。是时有梵志儒童，值灯光佛游化，乃散花供佛，并解髻布发于泥道上，请佛蹈之，佛乃为儒童授来世成佛之记。此儒童即释迦牟尼佛。《增一阿含经》卷十三、《四分律》卷三十一等，亦述及燃灯佛之本缘，但所说略有差异。
　　另据《贤愚经》卷三〈贫女难陀品〉所载，过去久远二阿僧只九十一劫，阎浮提有大国王，名波塞奇。王有太子名勒那识只（即宝髻），出家学道而成佛。时比丘阿梨蜜罗日日燃灯供养彼佛，佛乃为比丘授记，告知当来成佛，名定光如来。此系燃灯佛昔时曾从宝髻佛受记之因缘。
    关于此佛出现之时劫，《增一阿含经》卷十三、《佛本行集经》卷三〈发心供养品〉等，单说过去久远劫；《修行本起经》卷上、《太子瑞应本起经》卷上等，则谓系在过去九十一劫。
　　燃灯佛为过去佛中之最著名者，在诸经论中，颇多以此如来为中心而说其前后出现诸佛之事例者。

   如《无量寿经》谓过去久远劫，锭光如来出世，教化众生，其后历经十劫，依次出现五十三佛。最后之世自在如来时，有法藏比丘修因行而成道者即为阿弥陀如来(阿弥陀佛)。

   《大悲经》卷三〈殖善根品〉谓此如来以后，有莲华上佛乃至过去七佛等，总有十四佛出世。《大毗婆沙论》卷一七八更说释尊于第三阿僧只劫曾遇七万七千佛，其中之首位，即为燃灯佛。
　　然灯佛授记，对于释尊的历劫修行，是一关键性大事。因为确认然灯佛授记时，菩萨得「无生法忍」，然后「菩萨为欲饶益有情，愿生恶趣、随意能往」大菩萨的神通示现，普度众生。
　　依《大唐西域记》卷二所述，北印度那揭罗曷国有释尊供养燃灯佛而受记之遗迹。今印度山崎塔门之刻画中，有定光如来化作大城之图像，此与《四分律》所述相合。
  由于燃灯佛在辈分上是释迦的老师，所以燃灯佛当属「过去佛」。许多供奉「竖三世」佛的庙宇，往往在正殿大雄宝殿中供奉燃灯佛（左侧）、释迦牟尼佛（正中）、弥勒佛（右侧），代表过去、现在、未来三世。

      （本文参考资料：燃灯古佛网络佛学资料）

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Introduction to Zhuge Changqing: Zhuge Changqing, the inheritor and promoter of traditional Chinese culture, is willing to "learn from sages, promote virtue, revitalize China and benefit the world" together with people with the same ideals in the world.

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Zhuge Changqing's Chinese Dream

Learn from sages and carry forward virtue

Revitalizing China for the benefit of the world

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诸葛长青简介：诸葛长青，中国国学传统文化传承弘扬者，愿与天下志同道合者一起“学习圣贤、弘扬善德、振兴中华、造福世界”。

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