The Buddhs with his head neatly shaved

 

The Buddhs with his head neatly shaved

 

 

Hyonjisa lf Yongsan Buddhism has enshrind the image of the Buddha

whose head has been neatly shaved. Hyonjisa has declared that ‘the

Buddha abides in the Absolute Realm’, and the Buddha’s images and their

painted images on the wall of this temple show the appearance of having

both eyes open and heads neatly shaved.

 

The Buddha’s image at Hyonjisa is not the appearance of the

Responsive Transformation Body Buddha (Sakyamuni Buddha) who

practiced and entered meditative concentration in the snow covered

mountains some 2500 years ago when his head was not shaved.

 

It is the appearance of the Complets Body of Bliss of the Buddha who is

made of the Immeasurable Light with the 32 bodily signs, and who

teaches and saves sentient beings, coming in and out the relative

discrimination world, after he entered complete nirvana and returned to his

Buddha Body (the Reward Body) in the Absolute Realm.

 

Our teachers (Great Monks Gsangmyong Manduk and Jajae Manhyon)

who whave attained Buddhahood have seen for the first time after the

passing of the Buddha that all Buddhas abide in true suchness in the

Absolute Realm in Selflessness and have listened to their Dharma talks,

and have enshrined the images of the Five Tathagata Buddhas and other

Buddhas as they look in the Absolute Realm so that this temple will serve

as the field of abundant blessings for the Buddhists of this world.

 

‘The Buddha with his head neatly shaved’ that does not exist in another

temple in this country nor in any other temple in the sahs world well

expresses the profound thought of Yongsan Buddhism that is

new Buddhism for the 21st centure, so seeing, prasing, praying and

making offerings to this genuine Buddha here will be utmost merit and virtues.