What does the cassock mean?

The cassock refers to the cassock that binds monks and is famous for its improper color.

1, cassock refers to the cassock that binds monks and is famous for its improper color. He also made lotus dresses, cassocks, Carocha maps, Gaza maps, Gaza maps and Carocha maps. Free translation means bad color, abnormal color, red color, dyeing, etc. The vestments worn by Buddhist monks are named after the wrong color.

2. After Buddhism was introduced to China, people wore red clothes during the Han and Wei Dynasties, and later there were black clothes (clothes), tsing yi and brown clothes. After the Tang and Song Dynasties, the court often gave monks purple clothes and scarlet clothes. Buddhism in Ming Dynasty can be divided into three categories: Zen (Zen), Buddhism (Tiantai, Huayan, Faxiangzong) and Buddhism (also known as Dharma, funeral ceremonies and sacrificial ceremonies).

The court clearly stipulated that Zen monks should wear dark brown clothes and jade robes, told them to wear jade robes, green robes and light red robes, taught them to wear soap clothes, black robes and light red robes, and then generally wore black clothes.

3. There are two kinds of cassock: the "through shoulder" hanging on the left and right shoulders, and the "right shoulder" hanging on the left shoulder with the right shoulder exposed. When offering sacrifices to Buddhist monks, he leans to his right shoulder; If you go out for a parade or enter an ordinary house, put on the shoulder method.

The meaning of cassock:

"cassock" is Sanskrit, and it was not until Ge Hong wrote the word garden in the Jin Dynasty that it was changed to "cassock". "Robe" is also called "Robe Field" or "Garosha Tuo", which means "turbid, bad color, abnormal color, red color" or "dyed".