The mantle, pronounced bō yú.

Bō, sounding b, rhyming o, one tone.

yú, pronounced y, rhymes with u, and has a tone of two.

The mantle is a monk's alms-getting utensil, usually for personal use, famous monks use the bowl made of lacquer, because it is lighter, so the lacquer bowl represents the monk's high status, there are unearthed in the Famen Temple. Ordinary monks use wooden bowl more.

Generally, before a monk passes away, he will pass on his robe and bowl to his disciple, which is the origin of the idiom "passing on the mantle".

The origin of the mantle

On the origin of the mantle there is a short story, in the Buddha's time, Siddhartha Gautama was sitting in the bamboo forest to cultivate, coincidentally, there are two merchants passing by, saw the Buddha's dedication to cultivate, and then sent a kind heart to the Buddha will be honey and other food, but the Buddha in the acceptance of the food before the long thought, the monks before are with the bowl to carry food, and now their own empty! But the Buddha thought for a long time before accepting the food, because in the past the monks used to carry food in their bowls, but now he was empty and did not know how to accept the food.

However, the four heavenly kings knew about this, so the gold bowl offered, the Buddha thought it was too expensive, refused to accept, so the four heavenly kings will be replaced by a silver bowl, a glass bowl, an onyx bowl, Siddhartha Gautama did not accept, and ultimately replaced by a stone bowl, Siddhartha Gautama to accept, but then thought, if you only accept one person, then the other three will be annoyed, and have a separate mind, so the four bowls into one.