Because of the long horns on its head, it is also called "man is not human". In addition, there are men and women in Kinnara. Men have a horse's head, while women have dignified looks and beautiful voices. In China Buddhism, Kinnara once turned into an old monk who cooked incense in Shaolin Temple and beat back the Red Scarf Army around the temple with a three-foot poker. Therefore, it is revered by Shaolin Temple as Galand, the protector, and also called "Jail-guarding Bodhisattva". There are three statues of Bodhisattva in Jail Prison, namely, the Dharma-holding Dharma Body, the Dharma-protecting Dharma Body and the Magic Dharma Body. There is a rising smoke on the top of the head, and there is a statue of Guanyin standing barefoot on the smoke. The image of the dharma body is bare-chested and barefoot, holding a fire stick, completely looking like a Wulin figure.
There are three clouds in the book "The Sound and Meaning of Xuanying": "Zhen Datura, the true Datura, or the Kinnara, are all incorrect; It' s just a slap in the face, and this translation is inhuman. "
the sound and meaning of Hui Lin (Dazheng 54·374c) is recorded in Volume 11: "True Tara, the ancient cloud Kinnara, is a musical heaven. There are beautiful voices that can be used for singing and dancing. Men can sing with horses' heads, while women can dance upright. On this day, women are mostly wives with dry women. " In the Mahayana Classics, Kinnara often attended the Buddhist story meeting.
The Sutra Asked by the Great Tree Kinnara-Ra Ja, the boundless Kinnara, Ganqipo, Zhutian, Mahoraga, etc., * * * came to the Buddhist temple in Xiangshan, and played the glass piano before the Tathagata, and Da Jiaye sighed, "This is a wonderful harmony of elegance. All the laws are silent, so even up and down, empty and quiet, and there is no annoyance, and no scale is the most obvious today. "
In esoteric religion, Kinnara is the family member of all Piluo, and is located in the third place in the mandala map transmitted by Yalong Pear. In the mandala of the present map, there are two Kinnara statues in the north of Mahoraga, north of the King Kong Department. They are all flesh-colored. One is to place a horizontal drum on the knee, and the other is to place two vertical drums in front of the knee, all of which are intended to drum.
Most Buddhists in China know that there is a "Great Sage King Kinnaro Bodhisattva", but they don't know that there is a "Great Tree King Kinnaro Bodhisattva".
In China, this Bodhisattva is similar to God, and specializes in managing the kitchen, so when offering sacrifices, the name of this Bodhisattva is also added. Kinnara was originally one of the protectors of the Dharma, so the legend is like a god, because there has always been a story circulating in China:
A temple was robbed and rioted by robbers, and it was about to endanger the Sambo Dojo. At that time, monks in the temple couldn't figure out a way to return the thieves. Just then, a chef in the kitchen took out a big shovel and drove all the robbers away at once. After that, the monk also disappeared. This is the legendary King Kinnaro Bodhisattva, so it has a relationship with the kitchen. In fact, in the Buddhist scriptures, it is just a big tree, King Kinnaro and Bodhisattva.
Kinnara, an Hindi language, belongs to the Eight Dragons, just like Dragon and Hag. He is one of the musical gods of the heavens, and he is of the same nature as Ganlu Shiva (for example, the one who plays the pipa among the four donkey kong in the mountain gate is one of Ganlu Shiva); Whenever the Dharma meetings are held in the heavens, they are all responsible for playing music.
why are they called "Kinnara"? Kinnara's translation into Chinese is "disbelief", which is because they have horns on their heads, which are like human beings, inhuman, and a little confusing, so they are named disbelief. The leader in Kinnara is the King of Kinnaro. One of the most famous great bodhisattvas, King Kinnaro, is now leading Kinnara, that is, this great tree Kinnaro.