11) Gilding of Buddha and Bodhisattva Statues 佛菩薩聖像貼金

Gilding of Buddha and Bodhisattva Statues

佛菩薩聖像貼金

Three Buddhas and Four Bodhisattvas in the Main Buddha Hall
Manjusri Bodhisattva Statues in the Five Directions
All Buddha Statues in the Buddhist Garden
加國五台山大殿三佛四菩薩、五方文殊菩薩、全山佛像貼金

 

All Buddha and Bodhisattva Statues in Cham Shan Temple
湛山精舍準提菩薩, 觀音菩薩, 全寺佛像貼金

In the “Past-Present-Future Sutra” it states: "What causes one in high position in this life? One cause is the gilding the Buddha statue in one's past life, as one reaps what one sows. Gilding a Buddha statue is gilding oneself. What adorns the Buddha adorns oneself." To cover the Buddha statue with gold sheets is to enhance the stature of the Buddha and to bring forth a sense of respect and purity to the viewer. Gilding Buddha statues is a meritorious deed to accrue merit and virtue in one's cultivation, which brings blessing to one's parents and
career. The merit gained is inconceivable as it brings fortune to this life and helps in future liberation.

《三世因果文》中寫到“今生做官為何因,前世黃金裝佛身。前世修來今世受,紫袍玉帶佛前求。黃金裝佛裝自己,遮蓋如來蓋自身。”貼金佛身使佛像相貌莊嚴,增加神聖莊嚴的氣氛,使觀看者生恭敬清凈的心,見佛莊嚴,心生恭敬。因此,給佛像貼金不僅為自身的解脫積累殊勝的資糧,獲得深厚的福德,亦能為現世父母雙親增福延壽,自身事業發展,獲得出世及世間的雙重利益。為佛像貼金的功德是非常不可思議的。

Gild Categories

佛像貼金功德項目:

$20 $50 $80 $200 $500 $1000 $5000

Name engraved for $500 and over($500以上將留刻功德芳名)

The virtues of making Buddha statues are mentioned in several Sutras and they are
summarized below:

1. All past light offences will be eradicated and heavy offences will be diminished.
2. Protection against plague, flood, fire, robbery, war, and imprisonment.
3. Benefit from the Dharma to be forever free of suffering from vengeance and retribution.
4. Cannot be harmed by ghost, poisonous snake and hungry tiger.
5. Blessing of peace and health with the absence of nightmare and calamity.
6. Blessing of wealth, harmony and longevity.
7. Gain affection and respect from others.
8. The fool becomes wise; the sick becomes healthy; the poor becomes rich; the
oppressed becomes liberated.
9. Forever reborn in favorable realms with good look, intelligence and luck.
10. Reborn in land of Dharma, to help self, relatives and all beings towards Buddhahood.

爲佛像貼金的功德妙用:

造像功德不可思議,能令自他解脫,成就菩提。《佛說作佛形像經》、《佛說造立形像福報經》、《大乘造像功德經》、《造像度量經》、《地藏菩薩本願經》等不少經典中,詳細地述說了塑造佛像的功德利益:

一、從前所作種種罪過,輕者立即消滅,重者亦得轉輕。

二、常得吉神擁護,一切瘟疫、水火、寇盜、刀兵、牢獄之災,悉皆不受。

三、 夙生怨怼,鹹蒙法益,而得解脫,永免尋仇報複之苦。

四、夜叉惡鬼,不能侵犯,毒蛇餓虎,不能爲害。

五、心得安慰,日無險事,夜無惡夢,顔色光澤,氣力充盛,所作吉利。

六、至心奉法,雖無希求,自然衣食豐足,家庭和睦,福祿綿長。

七、所言所行,人天歡喜,任到何方,常爲多衆傾城愛戴,恭敬禮拜。

八、愚者轉智,病者轉健,困者轉亨,爲婦女者,報謝之日,捷轉男身。

九、永離惡道,受生善道。相貌端正,天資超越,福祿殊勝。

十、能爲一切衆生,種植善根,以衆生心,作大福田,獲無量勝果。

所生之處,常得見佛聞法。直至三慧宏開,六通親證,速得成佛。


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