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The Influence of Indian and Buddhist Elements in Medieval China: A Study of Buddha’s Birthday Celebrations In Luoyang during the Northern Wei dynasty
The Buddha’s birthday festival reached an unprecedented level of grandeur during the rule of Northern Wei when its capital was at Luoyang (495 to 534 CE). Buddhism was indigenous to neither the rulers nor the native Han Chinese. Yet, the Buddha’s birthday celebration on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month became a popular ritual in which the entire city participated. This paper studies a particular phenomenon in this public ritual, the use of carriages in image processions, tracing the heritage of these carriages back to the religion’s land of origin, India, and their literary sources. The intention of this paper is to study the reasons for such phenomenal success, in particular as they relate to the functional role of a religious festival and how the tenets of a religion can enable itself to be popular and sustainable. The Buddha’s birthday is a relevant case study because over 1,500 years later, countries such as Cambodia, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam continue to celebrate it as their public holiday.
一盞不滅的法燈 ―《星雲大師人間佛教傳燈錄》讀後
「法幢不容傾倒，慧燈不可熄滅」—星雲大師的最後囑咐，如今已成為佛光山弟子編纂《星雲大師人間佛教傳燈錄》（以下簡稱《傳燈錄》）的精神火炬。這部由佛光山宗務委員會發行、佛光山住持心保和尚總監修，歷時兩年、凝聚十多位佛光弟子心血的百萬字巨著，在2025 年5 月10 日佛誕節莊嚴問世，它從395 冊《星雲大師全集》（以下簡稱《全集》）中淬煉出人間佛教的思想精髓，恰似一盞穿透迷霧的明燈，為當代人的精神困頓指引出路。
佛誕節浴佛暨三皈五戒法會
佛誕節浴佛暨三皈五戒法會 Buddha’s Birthday Celebration and Triple Gem Refuge and Five Precepts Ceremony
