In Myanmar, there are teams of monks wearing maroon robes holding black bowls and walking barefoot along the street for alms, while nuns wearing pink robes holding silver bowls. When the team walks to the door, devout people will always bring out their own meals. , Respectfully give alms to every monk.
A nun in a pink cassock
is really "the four hundred and eighty temples of the Southern Dynasties, how many buildings are in the mist and rain", but there is no mist and rain in Myanmar, only the scorching sun and the long rainy season. Mandalay, there is a Buddhist temple in almost every block. I went to Myanmar for the first time and went deep into the city center of Mandalay. I took a car through the Federal Highway until I reached Lashio. I saw numerous large and small Golden-topped stupa, teams of barefoot monks, and countless pious people.
Common Burmese pagodas
Monk discipline and social morality, temple architecture and palace attic, Buddhist calendar New Year and Splashing Carnival...Buddhist culture and national culture are integrated and complement each other, and the country Use the power of Buddhism to unite the people. Without Buddhism as a bond, a country composed of more than one hundred ethnic groups would have fallen apart. The ethnic culture dominated by Burmese culture would gradually decline, and the nation would cease to exist. Therefore, almost every household in enshrines Buddha statues. In addition to portraits of leaders, portraits of famous monks and masters will be hung in school classrooms. Even the Burmese army will build a Burmese-style Buddhist temple every time it occupies an ethnic minority area, and monks from central and southern Burma are invited to stay there.
The high-level leaders of the army visited the monks. The wars in northern Myanmar are perennial. No matter how fierce the fighting is, the warring parties have always reached a tacit agreement-not to use force at the temple.Therefore, the temple is often used as a temporary refuge (sometimes there are exceptions, such as a cannonball accidentally dropped into the temple and damaged the building, and one party does not insist on military virtues to force a camp in the temple). Under the double blow of the epidemic and positive changes, the social unemployment rate is as high as 15%. Many people have problems eating. At this time, temples often send out rice and oil to the people from time to time.
During the epidemic, people lined up to receive grain and oil from the temple.
Since the epidemic, it has become unrealistic for monks to go to the streets for alms, but there are still many people who come to the temple to give to the monks in the temple and pray for the blessing of Buddha. Usually, if there is a problem in the family, they go to the temple to give alms, and ask the master for advice. I have roughly understood that the Burmese monks are still very kind and effective in chanting (psychological effects?) The amount of donation depends on the donor and does not force it.
The master issues a donation certificate to the donor
Group photo of the donor
When the vaccine arrives, the monks will be vaccinated first, and the monastery is densely populated with refugees and many people come to worship the Buddha temporarily. , The vaccine is also used in practice.
Temple Nucleic Acid Test
It is difficult for ordinary Chinese to understand Burmese society’s obsession with religion, but when you think about it, Buddhism, as a cultural phenomenon, always has a social soil suitable for its existence. Buddhism has established a set of social ethics, produced countless literary classics, merged and absorbed different cultures to form a unique architectural style, and as a cultural bond, it vigorously maintains the unity of the country (on the bright side).
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