Nanling County Sijia Feng Village Temple And Its Social Role

Nanling County Sijia Fengcun temple, built in 2011. The temple of local gods "Yang bodhisattva". According to local people, Yang Bodhisattva real person. In the period of the Republic of China, Yang Bodhisattva to spiritual practice and life suffering, and finally into flesh bodhisattva. But no one has been building temples for him. Si Jia Feng Cun temple built by the village of Ms. liu. Ms. Liu young had the work, but that "eventually cannot escape from religious fate". Therefore, she returned to home in the apprentice into road and Yang Bodhisattva to built the temple. Liu Xiu is the goddess of wisdom, claiming to be the goddess of mercy around the dragon. So four Feng Cun temple also known as "dragon Yang Fotang".The yogi people have dragon rescue treatment, in addition to Chongming, Sichuan Province etc.. She passed the incense in the form of help to find what she said, pointing to their dragon can one or two. Dragon lady thinks her job is Purdue sentient beings, and actively to this belief into practice and help many people in need of help. In recent years, there are many pilgrims come and go to the temple, there are a lot of people call her. Long Yang Temple played a certain role in the local society, can be summed up as follows:A psychological adjustment:when people were injured, sick, but also the most vulnerable time, at this moment, often engaged Buddhism in the holy field, the it as a "safe haven". The life of the peace and ease of the temple, and the vegetarian diet, make the old people happy, healthy and long life of a lot of. All kinds of law itself of Buddhism also can have a fitness function, prolong life.Social control:Buddhism is certain social behavior and moral standards, and make it sacred and internalized, which is conducive to the moral and civilized construction of society. Buddhism with its particular beliefs and doctrines, all members of society in concept to accept the established reality of fate, especially "Transmigration" theory, people to reconcile the reality of their own social status, willing to bear all the earthly joys and fortunes.Role of behavior norms:Buddhism advocates harmonious society, individual tolerance and interpersonal love, which is conducive to the social order and social stability, in the socialist society too. Long Yang Temple often practice of trapped poverty, social assistance of vulnerable groups, which also contributes to the social stability. In the conduct of both husband and wife, the dragon often helps a lot of couples reconciliation. If it is a man’s negligence on the outside raising small wife the, she will harshly scold, said that since into the temple, listen to dragon Bodhisattva will be good, often husband at home in the old man’s resentment now bowed his head, dare Zhisheng, frighten dared not go back.Bearing the role of traditional culture:a study of Buddhist culture, we study and grasp the key Chinese traditional culture. Long Yang Temple there are many classics, such as the Earth Store Bodhisattva this may "and many Buddhist story of the video disc, songs of the discs, etc.. Every big temple fair, such as the lunar summer June 19, she took to open the DVD, they are kneeling immediately loudly sing Foge, everyone are pious and solemn.Give Gulao sick care role:when people were injured, sick, lonely, but also the most vulnerable time, often came to the temple, to get psychological also a level of comfort. The dragon can give people the care of love, to help them through the difficulties in life. There are many pilgrims for a dead and restless heart, and nightmares to the temple to find the dragon. Dragon Qiazhiyisuan, or say the deceased is not the next generation or wife to take care of the poor, or lack of money. This way can play a role in promoting the social tradition of filial piety. Dragon sometimes dead home requirements go to his house to do by repentance or ritual can also for the dead to provide palliative comfort and provide grief for the relatives of sustenance. From both historical and practical, the elderly is always a major religious group.Strengthen the role of interpersonal:in today’s society, especially in the city, every family can be behind closed doors to "self unification", even live in the same building floor neighbor can be "silos", and people are needed in emotional love and give love. All kinds of activities in the temple temple can provide such an emotional communication platform to compensate for this shortcoming.Of course, there is a distinct feature of social function, that is, its dual nature. In terms of social role, any social system, not only the positive function, because of the consequences of some of the things, often bring negative function, also is to say these consequences, will reduce the social adaptation and debugging. Temple is the psychological adjustment function, when people meet mental troubles and obstacles, Buddhism can be through the pursuit of supernatural forces and on the other side of the world so that people get the comfort, transfer their attention and reduce people’s mental tension, detached away from the reality, to eliminate them to the social reality of fear, resentment. But the temple but also the social role of the corresponding negative. Buddhism stresses "destiny", "past" and so on, easy to make people own destiny superstitious, resulting in a fatality thoughts, negative to rely on supernatural and allow the fate of mercy.And temple is to strengthen the interpersonal and social role, mainly through religious education, but the religious education has a negative effect, education content, the Buddhist education stressed that inevitably caused in the modern society and modern scientific knowledge out of touch with the Buddhist doctrines and precepts and theology, virtually caused by individual and social isolation emphasis the in form of knowledge, hampered by the individual socialization in these areas.So, the complexity of society have a clear understanding of the role of the temple. How to make Temple development and social harmony, how to generate a positive function to the society, and try to avoid and mitigate its negative side. As ye pointed out:"religious and social adaptation of the problem, theoretically speaking is to control this kind of inner conflict and to give vent to the moderate and the social progress positive role in promoting. In other words, the problem is essentially the inherent tension of religion how to guide, how to arrange the problem."...