Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Video of a Buddhist who knew in advance his/her own departure -Part 4




(Bhaisajyaguru Buddha) 
 
Summary of the video:
The most interesting part of this video is that after the cremation of this old granny, her bones turned into a nice looking Buddha, and another part of her bone became a small lotus which fit perfectly for the Buddha( created from the old granny's bone) to stand on it.

Yes this old granny devote most of her time reciting the name of the Buddha. She started reciting Amitabha Buddha's names in 1995.
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English translation for this video in details:( this video is in Mandarin  and Indonesian, so Indonesian language will not be translated).

This old granny was born in 1906 and passed away  in 2000. So she was 94 years old when she passes away. She was born from family of Guan Huan in China. She was a good hearted person during her school time. In 1987, she started to believe in the teaching of Buddha. This affecting all her family members to embrace Buddhism.

In 1992 she started reciting Amitabha Buddha's names. It stated in the video: Master Hong Yi( was  a wellknown Buddhist Master in China) suggesting: "Amitabha Buddha is the king of the medicine. If got sick and not beg from Amitabha Buddha, it's a great mistake".

It described further this old granny suffered a heart and stomach digestion diseases. After she took refuge to triple jewels: Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha, and plus reciting Amitabha Buddha's names diligently, then her health improved a lot. In 1996  she stopped taking any medicines, she said she got strenght from reciting the Buddha's names.

In 1998, lunar calender month 7, day 15, at 03:00 AM in the morning, she woke up and looked outside the window ,there in the sky she saw Guan Yin Posa wearing a white robe. Then 1 hour later again she saw a bright light in the sky, from this light appeared Amitabha Buddha. After this incident every night before she go to bed, this old granny would pray to be born in the heaven of Amitabha Buddha.

This old granny further foretold her son that she would passed away next year. From this time on, she deligently prayed to Buddha. Sometimes lots of her family members were talking in her room, she just go on reciting the Buddha's names.

As she approached her final moment, her son seeing a lot of light appeared in the room. Also he saw there was a light 1 meter height( around 3 feet), and 20 cm width. Then during this time( April 12 2000) this old granny passed away while in the middle of reciting the Buddha's names.

The most interesting part of this video is that after the cremation of this old granny, her bones turned into a nice looking Buddha, and another part of her bone became a small lotus which fit perfectly for the Buddha( created from the old granny's bone) to stand on it. This small Buddha statue has: long ear, head , face, arm, body , and feet.
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Check out this video on YouTube:
http://youtu.be/400bJ1IpYAA

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48 vows of Amitabha Buddhas were made by Amitabha Buddha 10 kalpas ago(according to Amitabha Sutra)*.
From these 48 vows, 3 are very imporatant aspects to sentient being living in this earth. These vows no: 18, 19 and 20 have a good direct impact to our lifes here. These 3 vows are:

Vow 18: If I become a Buddha,  the beings of the ten directions  who after hearing my name, and thus awakened their highest faith and aspiration of rebirth in my country, even they only have such a thought of ten times, they are destinied to be born there( with the exception those who created five big offences/karma and those who blasphemed the Dharma), otherwise I will not become a Buddha.

Vow 19: If I become a Buddha, the beings of ten directions, who have directed their thoughts towards the Bodhi and cultivate various merits in the hope of rebirth in my country ( will be born in my country), if at the moment of their death, I don't come to fetch them with my assembly of retinue, then I will not become a Buddha.

Vow 20: Provided I become a Buddha, if the beings of ten directions, after having heard my name and longing to be born there, and they cultivate various merits for the purpose to be born in my heaven( Sukhavati Heaven), if they expectation failed, then I will not become a Buddha.

Then the rest of the 48 vows are mainly concern about: the conditions/ the goodness in this heaven, and the characteristics of this heaven.
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*according to Wikipedia, 1 kalpa(aoen) derived from Sangskrit word(कल्प kalpa). According to India's system, 1 kalpa is equal 4,32 billion years. So 10x4,32 billion=43,2 billion years.
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Namo Omitofo