"Eight Dragons", also known as Eight Dragons, Eight Dragons and Eight Dragons, originated from Buddhist scriptures. When many Mahayana Buddhist scriptures describe the Buddha's views on bodhisattvas and monks, eight dragons often participate in listening to the dharma. Eight-step dragon includes eight kinds of Shinto monsters, so it is called "Eight-step dragon" because "heaven" and "dragon" are the most important.
In The Journey to the West, Bai was finally named "Bodhisattva of Eight Tianlong Guangli". Bai Yuan was the Jade Dragon Prince of the West Sea Dragon King, and his name and dharma name were not mentioned in the novel. In the original book, it was called "Jade Dragon Three Princes", but there was no such name as "Little White Dragon". In the TV series The Journey to the West, they call it Aolie.
Because he set fire to the pearls given by the jade emperor in the main hall of the Dragon Palace, he committed a great crime and was sent to the dragon chopping platform for execution. Later, he was rescued by Guanyin Bodhisattva, and ordered him to wait for Tang Priest's Buddhist scriptures in the Snake Mountain, and then he ate Tang Priest's white horse by mistake.
After being surrendered by Guanyin Bodhisattva, he sawed off the scales of his horn and turned it into a dragon horse to carry the Tang Priest to the West instead of the original mount. After completing his merits, he was promoted to a secondary vocational school and was named "Eight Dragons Horse", belonging to one of the Eight Dragons. Among the Buddhas, it is called "Eight Dragon Bodhisattva".
The eight dragons are:
1, Tianzhu
The gods, also known as the gods. In Buddhism, the status of gods is not supreme, but they can get greater and longer blessings than people. Buddhism believes that all things are impermanent and immortals will die.
The immortal died with five symptoms: dirty clothes, withered flowers on his head, smelly body, sweating under his armpits, and unhappy seat (or "Yu Zi separation"). This is the so-called "Five Decays of Heaven and Man", which is the greatest sorrow of the gods.
2. Longzhong
The "dragon" in the "dragon" is different from the legendary "dragon king" or "dragon" in China, and mainly lives in water. The history of China's "dragon" has been pushed to 8,000 years ago. As far as time is concerned, it should be that China's dragon culture was absorbed by India.
There are five dragon kings, seven dragon kings and eight dragon kings in Buddhist scriptures. Ancient Indians had great respect for dragons, and thought that dragons were the most powerful creatures in the water. Therefore, people with noble character were regarded as "dragon elephants", such as "dragon elephants in the west".
3. Witch
It is a transliteration of Sanskrit, which literally translates into "can spit out ghosts", "agile ghosts", "brave and healthy" and "agile". In Buddhism, the King of Vishamen in the north led the Eight Commanders of Hag to protect all sentient beings. In ancient Indian mythology, hag is a demigod, and there are different opinions about its origin.
4. Gandabo
It's a god of incense or music. Originally a group of gods worshipped by Brahmanism, it is said that they serve Indra and play geisha music. Ganlu slope is a symbol of happiness and auspiciousness in Buddhism.
Most of them are described as girls, plump, flying with ribbons and fluttering in the air, which is beautiful. In Indian mythology, Manna is a god who does not eat wine and meat, but only looks for fragrance as nourishment. She is familiar with and reveals the mysteries and sacred principles of heaven, and is regarded as the embodiment of the flame of the sun.
5. Asura
Originally an evil god in ancient Indian mythology. Buddhist scriptures call Asura "unnatural" or "bad weather", which means to start a war for no reason. He is extremely ugly and beautiful. He is similar to a quotation, but he is not a quotation.
He has worldly desires like a man, but he is not a man. He is a non-god, non-ghost, inhuman and extremely ugly monster. According to Buddhist legend, Asura and Indra are sworn enemies, always fighting with each other.
6. Goruda
In ancient Indian mythology, it was the mount of Vishnu, the great god, and the king of birds. Its image is half man and half bird, with eagle head, claws and beak, and its body and limbs are no different from those of human beings. In Buddhist scriptures, they are called golden-winged birds, strange-winged birds, dingying birds, and the sound of eating and complaining.
Affected by this, a golden-winged Dapeng bird was born in China mythology. It is said that Yue Fei was reincarnated as a golden-winged Dapeng bird. Goruda lives in a tree on four continents, shining all over, with a wingspan of 336 Wan Li.
7. Kinnara
Also known as God of Songs, God of Songs and Music Day. Originally a fairy in Indian mythology, she was later absorbed by Buddhism as the god of songs in Tianlong Babu. According to Ramayana, becoming the head of a human body, or the head of a horse body, is also called becoming the first bird body.
According to "Hua Yan Xuan Jing Ji Volume II", Kinnara looks like a human being, but his head has long horns, which makes his life suspicious, so he is also called suspicious. Kinnara has a beautiful voice and is good at dancing. He is Indra's god of law enforcement.
8. Mohologa
Python is the head of a snake. He is good at playing musical instruments, and he is also very powerful.