What is the smiling Buddha holding in his right hand?

Smiling Buddha refers to Maitreya Buddha in Buddhism. Maitreya Buddha is a widely believed and popular Buddha in China. "Maitreya" is the tr

What is the smiling Buddha holding in his right hand?

Smiling Buddha refers to Maitreya Buddha in Buddhism. Maitreya Buddha is a widely believed and popular Buddha in China. "Maitreya" is the transliteration abbreviation of Sanskrit Maitreya, which means "cishi". It is said that this Buddha is always merciful. Kui Ji explained in the Amitabha Sutra: "Or Maitreya, this is cishi. He cultivates compassion and kindness, so cishi who cultivates kindness is the best, and his name can't win. " His name is Ayudo, which means "invincible". According to Buddhist scriptures, Maitreya was born in a Brahmin family in Borneo, ancient India, and was contemporary with Sakyamuni. Later he became a monk with Sakyamuni and became a disciple of the Buddha. He died before Sakyamuni became extinct. It is said that Sakyamuni predicted that after he left this world, he would lead his upper class to live in the Heavenly Palace, where he would tell Buddhism to the sky. It was not until 5.67 billion years after the extinction of Sakyamuni that he led his inferior life to the world. According to the Buddhist scriptures produced under Maitreya, by that time, Jambu-Di^pa, the world of women (that is, the world of all beings we live in), had a winged city and a famous king. Maitreya Buddha was born in the home of a minister named Xiufanmo in this city, and became a monk, saying that his experience was just like that of Sakyamuni Buddha. After Maitreya becomes a Buddha, it will be told three times under the Longhua tree in Hualin Garden, covering all sentient beings. ?

His great influence in China was not limited to this, especially in the Five Dynasties when a monk named Qi Zhe appeared. Legend has it that this monk is short and fat, with a big belly, and often wanders around with a big cloth bag on his back with a bamboo pole. He laughed at everyone, but his impermanence was more effective, so he became famous for a while. When he died, he said,' Maitreya Buddha is really Maitreya Buddha, incarnating tens of billions, showing people all the time, but people don't know its existence'. So it is widely rumored that he is the incarnation of Maitreya. Later, many monasteries imitated the image of Maitreya, with a big belly and a big smile. People in many areas commonly call him "Laughing Monk", "Lohan's Belly" and "A big belly can hold things that are hard to hold in the world; Laugh often and laugh at ridiculous people in the world. This couplet lingers. Of course, there are differences between Maitreya Buddha statues and cloth-bag monks.