The term "Dragon and Eight Parts" comes from Buddhist scriptures.
Many Mahayana Buddhist scriptures describe that when the Buddha preached to Bodhisattvas, monks, etc., there were often eight deities, dragons, and eight tribes involved in listening to the Dharma.
For example, in the Lotus Sutra, Devadatta states: "Eight heavenly dragons, human beings and non-human beings, all saw the dragon girl becoming a Buddha from afar."
"Non-humans" are living beings that look like humans but are not actually humans.
The "Dragon and the Eight Parts" are all "non-human" and include eight kinds of Shinto monsters.
Because they are headed by "Heaven" and "Dragon", they are called the "Dragon and the Eight Parts".
The eight divisions are one day, two dragons, three yakshas, four gandharvas, five asuras, six garudas, seven kinnaras, and eight mahulakas.
"Tian" refers to the gods.
In Buddhism, the status of gods is not supreme, but they can enjoy greater and longer blessings than humans.
Buddhism believes that all things are impermanent, and gods will die after their life span ends.
Before the death of the gods, there are five symptoms: greasy clothes, withered flowers on the head, body odor, sweating under the armpits, and unhappiness.
The fifth symptom of this god is or "Jade Girl is separated", which is the so-called "Goddess is separated".
"The five declines of human beings" is the greatest sorrow of the gods.
Sakyamuni is the leader of the gods.
"Dragon" refers to the dragon god.
The dragons in Buddhist scriptures are roughly the same as the dragons in Chinese legends, but they have no legs.
Sometimes big boa constrictors are also called dragons.
In fact, the Chinese people's concepts of dragons and dragon kings mainly come from Buddhist scriptures.
There are names such as Five Dragon Kings, Seven Dragon Kings, Eight Dragon Kings, etc. in the Buddhist scriptures.
The ancient Indians respected dragons very much and believed that dragons were the most powerful creatures in the water.
Therefore, people with high virtues were respectfully called "Dragon Elephant", such as "Dragon Elephant from the West", which refers to eminent monks from the West.
The ancient Indians believed that when it rained, dragons took water from the sea and sprinkled it on the world.
The Chinese also accepted this view.
The calendar records how many dragons fetched water, indicating the amount of rainfall this year.
Among the dragon kings, there was one named Shajieluo Dragon King.
When his daughter was eight years old, she went to the Vulture Mountain where Sakyamuni taught the Dharma and transformed into a male body, taking on the form of a Buddha.
When she became a Buddha, she was seen by the eight gods and dragons.
"Yaksha" is a kind of ghost and god in Buddhist scriptures, with terms such as "Eight Great Yaksha Generals" and "Sixteen Great Yaksha Generals".
The original meaning of "Yaksha" is the god who can eat ghosts, and it also means agility, bravery, lightness, secrets, etc.
Notes from the Vimalakia Sutra: "It is said: There are three kinds of yakshas: first, on the ground, second, in the void, and third, yakshas in the sky."
Now when we talk about "yakshas", they all refer to evil ghosts.
But in the Buddhist scriptures, there are many yakshas who are good, and the mission of the eight yaksha generals is to "preserve the world of all living beings."
"Gandharva" is a kind of god who does not eat wine and meat, but only seeks aroma as nourishment.
He is one of the gods of music who serves Emperor Sakyamuni, and his body emits a strong fragrance.
"Gandharva" means "unpredictable" in Sanskrit.
The magician is also called "Gandharva", and the mirage is called "Gandharva City".
The scent and the music are elusive and elusive.
The Shinto of "Asura" is very special.
The men are extremely ugly, while the women are extremely beautiful.
King Asura often led his troops to fight with Emperor Shi, because Asura had beautiful women but no good food, and Emperor Shi had good food but no beautiful women.
They were jealous and robbed each other.
Every time there was a fierce battle, the world was turned upside down.
We often call the battlefield that was brutally bombed and littered with corpses "Shura Field", which is why it comes from this.
As a result of the war, King Asura was often defeated.
Once after he was defeated, he had nowhere to escape in the world, so he transformed himself into the pores of the lotus root.
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King Asura is hot-tempered, stubborn and jealous.
Sakyamuni taught the Dharma, talking about the "Four Foundations of Mindfulness", and King Asura also preached the Dharma, talking about the "Five Foundations of Mindfulness"; Sakyamuni taught the "Thirty-Seven Paths", and King Asura added one more, saying "Three-Seven Paths".
Eighteen Taoist Grades".
Most of the myths and stories in Buddhist scriptures are metaphors.
King Asura has great power and ability, but he likes to do things like "I don't believe in evil" and "the world is in chaos, and the more chaos, the better".
Asura is also very suspicious and ill.
Volume 35 of the Great Wisdom Treatise: "Asuras, because their minds are not correct, often doubt the Buddha, saying that the Buddha helps the heavens.
The Buddha said that there are five kinds of beings, and he said that there are six kinds of things, but he did not say one; if he said that there are four truths, he said that there are five truths, but he did not say a thing."
The "five masses" are the "five aggregates", and the five aggregates and the four truths are the basic concepts in Buddhism.
When Asura listened to the Buddha's sermon, he suspected that the Buddha favored Sakyamuni and deliberately said less.
"Garuda" is a large bird with various solemn and precious colors on its wings and a large tumor on its head, which is a wish-fulfilling pearl.
This bird sings sadly and feeds on dragons.
According to the ancient scriptures, Yue Fei was the reincarnation of the "Garuda", and Garuda was the Garuda.
It eats one dragon king and five hundred little dragons every day.
When it died, the dragons vomited poison and could no longer eat it, so they flew up and down seven times and flew to the top of the Diamond Wheel Mountain to die.
Because it feeds on dragons and snakes all its life, it accumulates a lot of poisonous gas in its body, and when it is about to die, it burns itself to death.
After the physical body is burned away, only one heart remains, which is pure green and glazed color.
"Kinnara" means "human but not human" in Sanskrit.
He has the same shape as a human, but has a horn on his head, so he is called "human but not human".
He is good at singing and dancing and is the god of music of Emperor Shi.
"Mohuraka" is the great python god with a human body and a snake head.
This novel is named after Tian Long Ba Bu and tells the story of Dali Kingdom in Yunnan during the Northern Song Dynasty.
Dali is a Buddhist country.
The emperors believed in Buddhism and often gave up the throne and became monks.
This is a very strange phenomenon in the history of our country.
According to historical records, among the emperors of Dali, Emperor Shengde, Emperor Xiaode, Emperor Baoding, Emperor Xuanren, Emperor Zhenglian, and Emperor Shenzong all took refuge in becoming monks.
The Southern Emperor Duan Huangye written in The Legend of the Condor Heroes is the emperor of Dali.
The period of Tian Long Ba Bu is before The Legend of the Condor Heroes.
The story of this book takes place during the reigns of Yuanyou and Shaosheng, Zhezong of the Northern Song Dynasty, around 1094 AD.
The eight kinds of Shinto spirits in the Eight Divisions of Tian Long each have their own unique personalities and magical powers.
Although they are living beings outside the human world, they also have the joys and sorrows of this world.
There are no Shinto spirits in this novel, but this Buddhist noun is borrowed to symbolize some real-life characters, such as the nun Yaksha Sun Erniang and Moyun Golden Winged Ou Peng in Water Margin
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