The significance of the number of beads

Each bead is composed of a certain number of beads, and the number of beads represents different meanings according to the classics. The list is as follows:

One hundred and eight

This is the most common number. In order to prove ignorance, eliminate 108 kinds of troubles and let the body and mind reach a state of silence.

There are different opinions about the content of 180. Generally speaking, six roots have their own pains, joys and sorrows, which makes them eighteen. There are six kinds of good and evil, eighteen kinds, thirty-six kinds, and one hundred and eight kinds of troubles.

1080 pieces

According to Tiantai Sect's theory, there are good and evil in the ten realms, so the number 1080 indicates that each of the ten realms has 108 kinds of troubles, and 1080 kinds of troubles are synthesized. The "Ten Realms" refer to the mysterious and enlightened whole world, namely: 1, Hell Realm, 2, Hungry Ghost Realm, 3, Beast Realm, 4, Shura Realm, 5, Man Realm, 6, Heaven Realm, 7, Sound Realm, 8, Yuanjue Realm, 9, Bodhisattva Realm,/kloc-

54 capsules

Practice fifty-four positions on behalf of Bodhisattva, including ten faiths, ten residences, ten lines, ten directions, ten places and fifty places, plus four good roots. The breakdown is as follows:

Ten letters:

1. Confidence, 2. Mindfulness, 3. Diligence, 4. Wisdom, 5. Center, 6. Protect the heart, 7. Return to the heart, 8. Watch out, number nine. Give up the heart, 10. Willing to take it to heart.

Ten lives:

1. Start living in my heart, 2. Governing the country, 3. Living in practice, 4. Life is expensive, 5. Convenient and sufficient, 6. Live in your heart, 7. Do not retire, 8. Innocent life, 9. Living in Prince Faw, 10. Live with enlightenment.

Ten lines:

1. Happy behavior, 2. Rao Yixing, 3. No hatred, 4. Endless behavior, 5. Wandering from madness, 6. Good performance at present, 7. Do nothing, 8. Respect behavior, 9. Good at law, 10. Really implement.

Ten directions:

1. Save all sentient beings and turn back from all sentient beings, 2. It's not bad to turn around, 3. When the buddhas turn back, 4. Go back to all places, 5. Hide endless merits, 6. Looking back with equality and good roots, 7. The audience is born and goes back, 8. Turn back in phase, 9. Looking back freely, 66.

Ten places:

1. Happily, 2. Stay away from dirty land, 3. Glowing land, 4. Burning land, 5. Difficult resort, 6. Present and former land, 7. Travel destination, 8. Immovable land, 9. Land of wisdom, 10. Fayundi

Four good roots:

It refers to the four levels of practice before seeing the Tao, that is, observing the four truths and practicing sixteen lines to reach a perfect position, including: 1, warm position, 2, top position, 3, forbearance position, 4, and the first dharma position in the world.

Sishili capsules

It represents the forty-two levels of Bodhisattva's practice process, namely, ten dwellings, ten lines, ten directions, ten places, equal senses and wonderful senses.

Equality consciousness: it is equal to Buddha in content, but slightly inferior to Buddha in practice. For details, please refer to Kumarajiva's translation of "Benevolent King Prajna Paramita Accepts Goods".

Miaojue: refers to a Buddha's fruit of complete consciousness, which is obtained by equal awareness breaking the ignorance of a product.

Thirty-six capsules

There is no exact meaning, and it is usually considered to be portable, so dividing 108 blocks into 36 blocks contains the principle of seeing the big from the small, so it is the same as 108 blocks.

27 pieces

It represents the twenty-seven sages of Hinayana who practiced four fruits in four directions, namely, the "eighteen studies" of the first four directions and three fruits and the "nine unfinished studies" of the fourth A Luo Han Guo.

Eighteen have studied: 1, Shun Xin, 2, Shun Fa, 3, Understand Xin, 4, See it, 5, ID card, 6, family, 7, one room (one kind), 8, Forward Flow, 9, Forward Flow Fruit, 10, One-way, 65433.

Nine have no learning: 1, eliminated, 2, eliminated, 3, eliminated, 4, eliminated, 5, advanced, 6, eliminated, 7, eliminated, 8, eliminated, 9, eliminated.

2 1 piece

It means ten places, ten paramita and Buddha fruit. See "Fifty-four Pieces" for "Ten Places" and "Ten Paramitas" for the introduction of "Disciple Zhu", so I won't repeat them here. And "Buddha fruit" refers to the fruit position of the ultimate Buddha.

Eighteen pieces

Commonly known as "eighteen sons", the so-called "eighteen" here refers to the "eighteen realms", that is, six roots, six dusts and six senses.

Six roots: 1, vision, 2, ear boundary, 3, nose boundary, 4, tongue boundary, 5, body boundary, 6, meaning boundary;

Six dusts: 1, color dust, 2, sound dust, 3, fragrance dust, 4, taste dust, 5, contact dust, 6, method dust;

Six knowledge: 1, eye knowledge, 2, ear knowledge, 3, nose knowledge, 4, tongue knowledge, 5, body knowledge, 6, consciousness.

Fourteen pieces

It means that Guanyin Bodhisattva shares the same sorrow with all sentient beings such as Shifang, Shisan and Liudao, and makes all sentient beings gain fourteen fearless merits. Fourteen fearless:

1, so that all beings can reflect on their own nature and get rid of it;

2. Make all sentient beings know, it is difficult to meet fire, and fire cannot burn;

3. Let all sentient beings spin and listen. Although they are floated by the flood, water cannot be drowned;

4. Make all beings enter the ghost country of Luo Cha, and the ghost will self-destruct;

5. Make the six sentient beings disappear, and the knife section is broken when killing;

6. Bodhisattva shines on all sides, so that all beings are not harmed by medicine forks;

7. Free all beings from false sound and dust;

8. Make all beings walk on dangerous roads, such as smooth roads, and avoid being robbed by thieves;

9. promiscuous people have no lust;

10. Let those who hold a grudge not be miserable;

1 1. Keep all stupid and heartless people away from stupidity;

12. Make all living beings childless, and those who want men give birth to men;

13. Create childless beings, and those who want women are born;

14. Those who make all beings hold the name of Guanyin will be rewarded with blessings like Ganges sand.

Extended data:

Beads are the most convenient instrument for spreading Buddhism, so it has been used by Dade monks unfortunately. In the classics, it is emphasized that the merits and demerits of different materials of rosary are different. For example, in "A Comparison of the Merits of Several Beads Said by the Buddha", the Buddha said to the public:

You are a good listener. My speech today is influenced by the difference between merits and demerits. If someone recites the names of Dalagni and Buddha, wants to be self-interested and protect others, and strives for the success of all methods quickly, the method of counting beads should be like this, and it will be accepted: if you count beads with iron, you will recite them five times at a time; If you count beads with copper, you will be blessed if you read them ten times; If you count pearls as real pearls, corals, etc. It is blessed to recite it once.

Count the beads with pegs, read them once and bless them a thousand times. I want to go to the pure land of Buddhas, to the Heavenly Palace, and to collect Buddhist beads. If you count pearls with lotus seeds, you will be blessed if you recite them once; If you count beads with Indra fork, you will be blessed one million times when you read them once;

If you count beads with Urutura fork, you will be blessed if you recite them once; If you count the beads with water, you will have a blessing if you recite them once; If you count beads with bodhi, or pinch them, or hold them in your hand, you can't count them once, and it's hard to look them up.

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