The term "Heavenly Dragons and Eight Parties" comes from Buddhist scriptures. Many Mahayana Buddhist scriptures describe that when the Buddha preached to Bodhisattvas, monks, etc., there were often "Heavenly Dragons and Eight Parties" involved in listening to the Dharma. For example, "The Lotus Sutra: Devadatta": "The Eightfold Heavenly Dragons and Eight Parties,

Both humans and non-humans can see the dragon girl becoming a Buddha from afar. "Non-humans" include eight kinds of Shinto monsters. Because they are headed by "Heaven" and "Dragon", they are called "The Eight Parts of Heaven and Dragon". Eight Parts of Luo,

Seven Returns to Naluo, Bama Tingluojia. "Heaven" refers to the gods. In Buddhism, the status of gods is not supreme, but they can enjoy greater and longer blessings than humans. Buddhism believes that everything is better.

Impermanence, after the life of the gods ends, they will also die. There are five symptoms before the gods die: dirty clothes, withered flowers on the head, stinky body, sweating under the armpits, and unhappiness (the fifth symptom).

Or "Jade Separation"), this is the so-called "five declines of heaven and man", which is the greatest sorrow of the gods. Emperor Shi is the leader of the gods. "Dragon" refers to the dragon in the Buddhist scriptures and the legend of our country.

Dragons are roughly the same, but they have no legs. Some large pythons are also called dragons. In fact, the Chinese people's concepts of dragons and dragon kings mainly come from Buddhist scriptures. There are five dragons, five dragon kings, eight dragon kings, etc.

The ancient Indians respected dragons very much and believed that the dragons were the most powerful among the objects in the water. Therefore, people with high virtues were respectfully called "dragon elephants", such as "Long Xiang from the West", which refers to dragons from the west.

Eminent monk. The ancient Indians believed that rain was caused by dragons taking water from the sky and spreading it to the world. The Chinese also accepted this idea. The number of dragons taking water indicates the amount of rainfall this year. One of the dragon kings was named Sha.

When he and his young daughter were eight years old, they went to the Vulture Mountain where Sakyamuni Buddha preached and transformed into a male body. When she became a Buddha, she was seen by the eight deities and dragons.

It is a kind of ghost and god in Buddhist scriptures, with terms such as "Eight Great Yaksha Generals" and "Sixteen Great Yaksha Generals". The original meaning of "Yaksha" is the god who can eat ghosts, and it also means agile, brave, light, secret, etc.

"Vimalakirti Sutra" notes: "Shi said: 'There are three types of yakshas: first, on the ground, second, in the void, and third, yaksha in the sky."

'" Now when we talk about "yakshas", they all refer to evil spirits. But in the Buddhist scriptures, there are many yakshas who are good, and the task of the eight generals of yakshas is to "maintain the world of living beings." "Gandharva" is a kind of person who does not eat alcohol or meat.

, a god who only seeks fragrance as nourishment. He is one of the gods of music who serves Emperor Shi. His body emits a strong fragrance. "Gandharva" means "unpredictable" in Sanskrit. The magician is also called "Gandharva".

"Gandharva", the mirage is called "Gandharva City". The fragrance and music are vague and elusive. "Asura" is a very special kind of Shinto, the male is extremely ugly, while the female is extremely beautiful. The Asura King often

He led his troops to fight against Emperor Shi, because Asura had beautiful women but no good food, and Emperor Shi had good food but no beautiful women. They were jealous and robbed each other. Every time there was a fierce battle, we often called it a country that was bombed and littered with corpses.

The battlefield was called "Shura Field" because of this. As a result of the war, King Asura was defeated. Once he was defeated and had nowhere to escape, so he transformed into the Asura's silk hole.

The king was irritable, stubborn and jealous. Sakyamuni taught the Dharma, "The Four Foundations of Mindfulness". King Asura also preached the Dharma, talking about the "Five Foundations of Mindfulness". Sakyamuni also taught the Dharma "The Thirty-Seven Paths", and the Asuras taught the Dharma.

Wang Pian has another level, "Telling the Thirty-Eight Levels". Most of the myths and stories in the Buddhist scriptures are metaphors. King Asura has great power and great ability, but he likes to do things such as "I don't believe in evil" and "The world is in chaos.

"The better", Asura is also very suspicious and ill. "Volume 35 of the Great Wisdom Treatise": "Asura has a bad mind and often doubts the Buddha, saying that the Buddha helps heaven.

When the Buddha talks about the "Five Truths", he says that there are six types of truths, not just one. If he talks about the "Four Truths", he says that there are five truths, but does not say a single thing.

"The "five masses" are the five aggregates." The Four Noble Truths are the basic concepts in Buddhism.

Asura listened to the Buddha's teachings and suspected that the Buddha was partial to Sakka, so he deliberately said less.

"Garuda" is a large bird with various solemn and precious colors on its wings and a large tumor on its head, which is a wish-fulfilling pearl. This bird sings sadly and feeds on dragons.

According to the ancient scriptures, Yue Fei was the reincarnation of the "Garuda", and Garuda was the Garuda. It ate one dragon and five hundred little dragons every day.

When it died, the dragons vomited poison and could no longer eat it, so they flew up and down seven times and flew to the top of the Vajra Mountain to die.

Because it feeds on dragons (venomous snakes) throughout its life, it accumulates a lot of poisonous gas in its body, and it burns itself when it is about to die.

After the physical body is burned away, only one heart remains, which is pure green and glazed color.

"Kinnara" means "human but not human" in Sanskrit.

He has the same shape as a human, but has a horn on his head, so he is called "human but not human". He is good at singing and dancing and is the god of music of Emperor Shi.