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Chinese Mythology
Category: Miscellaneous Asked by: knik-ga List Price: $20.00 |
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19 Sep 2005 21:48 PDT
Expires: 19 Oct 2005 21:48 PDT Question ID: 569984 |
In popular Chinese superstition, how many Buddhas are there & what are their Chinese names Anglicized? What do they symbolize? E.g slangily, we hear of a "happy" Buddha, the "money" Buddha, the "chief" Buddha (Lama?), Kwan Yin, Sadaksari etc. What do divine animals, dragons, phoenixes, etc. symbolize & what power do they have? |
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Re: Chinese Mythology
From: oxnyx-ga on 25 Sep 2005 11:37 PDT |
Ok, there is only one Buddha, what your looking at when you see "Money" Buddha or "Lucky" Buddha is like seeing pictures of Christ on the Cross, or Christ meeting John the Bapist. The Buddha is likely a statue from pocket size to huge stone temple guard. Different ways of drawing or craving the Buddha will state what "type of buddha" your looking at. http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/chinarts.html Dragons: Yes, using have powers from Air or Water Phoenixes: Yes, the power of rebirth, they mate only one and die in flames, the ash of the flames turn into the new Phoenix take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_mythology#Mythical_creatures for more creaters. |
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