What does the eighteen changes in women's universities mean?

The eighteen changes in women's universities refer to many changes in women's appearance and personality during their development and growth.

The 18th change of the Women's University originated from Song Shi Daoyuan's "Jingde Deng Chuan Lu You Zhou Tan Kong Monk": A woman wanted to hold a ceremony, so she asked the master, and the master replied, "Her family doesn't need to hold a ceremony." The girl asked, "The dragon girl became a Buddha at the age of eight, don't you think?" The master said, "The Dragon Maiden has changed eighteen times. You and the old monk try to change. "

The dragon lady mentioned in Hokkekyo devadatta Pin is a magical woman who is changeable and finally becomes a Buddha. She is a bodhisattva, sitting on the lotus seat, and has become an equal consciousness. She has 32 phases and 80 shapes, which are common to all living beings in ten directions.

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The "eighteen" here can refer to both age and change, especially after the legal adult is eighteen now, this "eighteen" seems to have a clear age indication. But in ancient times, there was no saying that you became an adult at the age of eighteen, so it seems that this "eighteen" is not a specific age, but more like a change;

But it doesn't really refer to the changes in eighteen aspects, but uses eighteen to refer to many meanings, which may be related to the traditional preference for eighteen in China culture. For example, there are many words containing "eighteen" in daily life, such as wine with "eighteen Li Hong"; There are "eighteen beaches" and "eighteen plates" in places;

Buddhism has "eighteen arhats" and "eighteen layers of hell"; The characters are "eighteen niangs" and "eighteen aunts", and the music is "eighteen beats by Hu Jia"; As the saying goes, "eighteen kinds of martial arts are proficient in everything" and so on.