Nezha: Taoist Golden Immortal Becomes Buddhism**
Nezha is a mythical figure, and we often hear his name. So, does Nezha belong to Buddhism or Taoism? In fact, Nezha was originally a character in Buddhism, he was the third son of King Bishaman.
In the Tang Dynasty monk Bukong's translation of the "Northern Bishamen Heavenly King's Follow-up Army** Mantra", it is mentioned that the king of Bishamen "was ordered by Shakyamuni Buddha to send his third son Nezha to carry out a mission, so that he should not leave his side.
In the Tang Dynasty's "Kaitian Biography of the Letter", a magical story was recorded. When the monk Xuanlu was walking at night, he accidentally fell from a height. Just as he was about to fall, he suddenly felt a young man grab him and save him from death.
The monk was very surprised and asked about the boy's identity. The boy told him that he was not an ordinary person, but Prince Nezha, the son of King Bisha, and that he, as the god of **, had been protecting monks for a long time.
After the evolution of the Song Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty, the King of Bishamen became the Taoist King of Tota, Li Jing, and the image of Nezha became fuller. According to the seventh volume of the "Three Sects Source Flow Search God Daquan", Nezha is the ** of the Jade Emperor Da Luo Xian, six feet tall, with three heads, nine eyes and eight arms, spitting green clouds in his mouth, stepping on a stone with his feet, holding the law, shouting, the clouds and rain are from, and the universe is moving.
Because there are many demon kings in the world, the Jade Emperor ordered him to go down to earth and entrust his birth to Li Jing, the king of Tota. On the fifth day of his birth, he bathed from the East China Sea, stepped on the crystal hall, and angered the dragon king, who led the dragons to fight Nezha fiercely.
Nezha killed Jiulong, and intercepted and killed the old dragon at Tianmen. Later, because he accidentally shot the son of Shi Ji Niangniang, Shi Ji Xingbing, Nezha took his father to kill Shi Ji with a demon pestle. Li Jing was angry with Nezha because Shi Ji was the leader of the demons, which caused the demons to be uncontrollable and harassed the people.
Nezha then cut his flesh and bones and returned it to his parents, and his soul begged to see the world-honored Rulai.
Rulai used Heling as a bone, lotus root as meat, silk as tendon, and leaf as clothing, giving Nezha a new life, and teaching him the words ** and "wood eldest son". Since then, Nezha has been able to change the size as he pleases, crossing rivers, going deep into the seabed, and even moving the stars to change the handle.
His supernatural powers are vast and endlessly changing, and all demons fall at his feet. At the Lingshan Meeting, he was named the Taishi of Tongtian and the illustrious general of Weiling; The Jade Emperor named him the first consul of the thirty-six members, and became the leader of the heavenly commanders, forever guarding the gate of heaven.
Nazha, the third son of Li Jing, the chief military officer of Yin Shang Chentangguan, has been wrapped in red balls since birth. His birth was accompanied by a storm, because soon after, he killed the dragon son Ao Bing, causing a catastrophe.
When the Dragon King of the Four Seas came to arrest Li Jing and his wife, Nazha did not hesitate to cut his abdomen, cut out his intestines, and deboned his parents to death in order to express that the matter had nothing to do with his parents. However, Nazha did not disappear there, his soul was returned to his body through the lotus flower, and he was taught martial arts by Taiyi Zhenren.
He stepped on the Hot Wheels, put his arm around the Qiankun circle, and held a fire-tipped spear in his hand to help Jiang Ziya Xingzhou extinguish. In "Journey to the West", Li Jing was once again portrayed as the commander-in-chief of the heavenly soldiers and generals, and Nazha, as his right-hand man and vanguard, once conjured three heads and six arms, and fought with Sun Wukong in the dark, and it was difficult to distinguish the victory or defeat.
These deeds all prove that Nazha is a brave, tenacious, and caring hero.
Because of the legend and the story of Nezha in the sea, coastal fishermen often regard it as a guardian spirit. In the Fujian and Taiwan regions, people's admiration for Nezha is particularly deep, according to Qiu Dezai's "Temples and Gods in Taiwan" four statistics, there are more than 100 temples in Taiwan where Nezha is the main god.
Nezha also has nicknames such as Marshal Zhongtan, Marshal Prince, and Third Prince in Taiwan, because he holds artifacts such as Hot Wheels and Qiankun Circle, and is also known as Li Luoche, Luo Chegong, Da Luo Xian, Marshal Jin Kang, and Marshal Jinhuan.
This popular Nezha has its idol in Taoism and Buddhism, and is the great god in Buddhism, and also the great Luo Jinxian in Taoism.
Nezha has become an eccentric and unruly god of Chinese folk because he is not afraid of power, and he has become an eccentric and unruly god in Chinese folk because of his heroic image of returning flesh to his mother and removing bones to return his father, and he is as famous as Sun Wukong.