In 543 BC, the founder of Buddhism, Sakyamuni , came to an end. When the body was cremated, people found that some crystal clear and colorful beads remained in his body, which later people called it relic .
From then on, many eminent monks also produced relics during cremation. For example, the famous Master Xuanzang, the Tang Monk in "Journey to the West", was also discovered many relics after being cremated. There is also the Five Barbarians and Sixteen Kingdoms period, Later Qin Empress monk Kumarajiva , and relics were also left behind. Moreover, in modern times, there seem to be more and more relics. In recent years, many monks have left relics after their deaths.
relic, Sanskrit is called śarīra, also known as "Sheliro" and "Srira". Its original meanings are two. One refers to the name of a bird, which is sometimes used as a human name, and the other refers to the remains, or the body bone. What we usually call relics refers to the second meaning. The crystals left behind by the cremation of the monk's remains are the so-called relics.
relics have different categories:
According to the different fruit position, they can be divided into Buddha relic , Bodhisattva relic, Arhat relic, Pratyekabuddha relic and monk relic. Among them, Buddha relic is the most noble;
According to the different color, there are generally white relic, red relic, black relic, green relic, yellow relic and five-color relic;
can be divided into hair relic, tooth relic, bone relic, flesh relic, etc. according to the different organs from the relic source;
can also be divided into whole-body relic, half-body relic and broken relic according to the source location.
What’s amazing is that only Buddhist monks can produce relics. People have never heard of ordinary people or ordinary monks who are found to have relics after cremation. The relics vary in size, as small as rice grains; the number varies. Some monks' bodies can incinerate hundreds of relics; the colors vary, and some even say that the relics can shine on their own (probably related to sunlight).
These special phenomena add a layer of mysterious color to the relics.
Buddhism naturally has their own statement about the causes of relics. They believe that only those monks who are exquisite in Buddhism, profound in Taoism, and have great enlightenment will have relics behind them. If ordinary monks do not practice enough, they will not be able to form relics. Therefore, the relics not only became evidence for Buddhism to promote their own ideas, but also became a symbol of measuring the level of a monk's practice.
There is also a more exaggerated statement that relics can produce an energy field, which is why they can emit light. People who hold this view point out that when monks practice, they can absorb the essence of the heaven, earth and the universe and transform it into a certain energy stored in their bodies so that they can emit light.
Of course, for many people, Buddhism is a bit broad-minded and just wants to listen to how to explain the phenomenon of relics from a scientific perspective.
Some people think that relics are actually stones in the bodies of these monks. This sounds a bit reasonable, and these relics do look a bit like some form of "stone".
However, there is another question here: Stones are very common and many people will encounter them. Why do only Buddhists appear?
Someone explained: This is because Buddhists quit meat, eat vegetarian food every day, and may also drink more mountain spring water. This diet will lead to organ stones because they will consume more minerals and accumulate in the body and may "refin" the relics from living fossils.
This cannot dispel all the questions of people: First, there are many people who do not believe in Buddhism, but are also vegetarians, so why have they not seen relics appear? Second, since Buddhists are all vegetarians, why can only a very small number of monks appear relics?
And we know that before Buddhism was introduced to China, believers allowed to eat meat. Including the Buddhist ancestor Sakyamuni, he also ate meat. After his body was cremated, he also left relics. It can be seen that there is no necessary connection between relics and vegetarian food.
In addition, the number of relics in different monks is different, and some thin monks even have more relics in their bodies with fat monks, which is not in line with common sense. Not to mention the difference in body weight, modern medicine also believes that obese people are more likely to have stones, so fat monks should have more relics.
has said so much, and the various theories mentioned above come from the folk and some Buddhist believers. Until now, we have not seen any scientists conduct formal research on relics from the perspective of chemical composition and other aspects. For Buddhist believers, both monks and relics are inviolable. It would be a bit blasphemous for scientific identification in the secular world, and of course they would not agree.
Therefore, the truth about the relics has not yet surfaced, and there is no reason.
However, it is worth mentioning that in 2004, a company in the United States applied for a patent technology that can convert the ashes of a person's body after incineration into diamonds, which they call the Diamond of Life. After years of development, this technology has become much more advanced than it was at the beginning. The incubation time is getting shorter and shorter, and the requirements for the amount of ashes are also getting lower and lower. Now it is not just humans, but even pet ashes are enough to make life diamonds. Moreover, under the control of different pressure, temperature and other parameters, diamonds can form different colors.
This obviously gives materialist a good theory. Whether it is diamonds or other gems, they are composed of various chemical elements in nature. These substances react chemically under special conditions and may form crystal clear stone beads. The monks experienced a high temperature environment when they were incinerating, which was likely to promote a chemical reaction that we did not know.
No matter what, we should maintain a respectful attitude towards religion and a rigorous attitude towards science. Buddhism emphasizes understanding of relics from the perspective of idealism . Ordinary people want to explore the essence of relics from materialism, and both sides can only maintain their own views.
Of course, we also hope that some scientists can analyze it from various perspectives such as chemistry, physiology, , etc. Even if there is any mystery in Buddhism, it should be able to explain it scientifically...
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