Phra Ruang ~ Monday Buddha – Parng Harmyart
Phra Ruang
Monday Buddha – Parng Harmyart
6.5cm (H) Silver with Golden Crown
This is a standing Buddha pose, with the left hand hanging down by the side. The right hand is raised at the chest or can be both hands, palm facing outwards, in a singe-handed gesture. This posture represents “Preventing Calamities”, which is also known as “Pacifying the Relatives.”
The Buddha stops the relatives from fighting or pacifying his relatives.? When the Buddha came back from Heaven, he found that his relatives were quarreling about the right to use water from a river for their rice fields. The Buddha encouraged them to compromise and said that human life is much more valuable than water and it was not worth killing men for water. Then, his relatives stopped fighting.
星期三屬於水星掌管(南方天神),
星期四屬於木星掌管(西 方天神),
星期五屬於金星掌管(北方天神),
星期六屬於土星掌管(西南方天神)。當小孩誕生於星期六,然後他便要向屬於土星掌管的西南方天神,祈求平安。
後來佛教的誕生,這些星宿家也追隨了佛祖,便把七個不同的星宿改為七種不同的佛像,所以便有星期佛的出現,以下便是山越法師簡要地述說星期佛的由來。
星 期一佛的由來:有一年天氣非常乾旱,農田需大量的水來灌溉,兩個國王也是佛祖的親屬,為了一個水閘發生了爭執,差一點就爆發戰爭,幸好佛祖知道並及時趕 到,舉起一隻手停止他們的爭論並同時向他們宣說佛理,而停止了這場爭論,那天剛好是星期一,星宿家就把這件事定為星期一佛。
星期一佛(拍班漢壓 Phra Pam Hamyati)意思是停止爭論。
(現在有些佛像也有雙手舉起,其 實是一樣的)
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