Gold man

Japanese: 金人 - きんじん

A golden person. It refers to a Buddha or a Buddhist statue. In the Wei Shu Shalaozhi, it is written that when Huo Qubing (魍ｸﾎﾟﾝ) defeated the Xiongnu, he captured over 100 golden people, who were worshipped by Emperor Wu of Han. There are also many legends about this, such as the story of Emperor Ming of Han dreaming of a golden person flying in his garden, asking his close aides who told him it was a Buddha, and dispatching an envoy to the Western Regions. There is also the story of the First Emperor of Qin capturing 18 monks from the Western Regions, and that night a god of gold (the same as a golden person) appeared, broke the prison, and rescued the monks, for which the First Emperor apologized. It is thought to be a legend connected to the historical fact of the introduction of Buddhism to China.

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Japanese:

金色の人の意。仏陀や仏像のこと。『魏書釈老志』には，霍去病 (かっきょへい) が匈奴を討伐したとき，丈余の金人を手に入れ，それを漢の武帝が拝したことが記され，また漢の明帝が金人が庭を飛ぶのを夢に見て，近臣にたずねたところ，仏陀であるとの答えを得て，西域に使者を派遣したこと，また秦の始皇帝が西域の沙門 18人を捕えたところ，その夜金神 (金人に同じ) が現れて牢を破り，沙門らを助けたので，始皇帝が謝罪したことなど，伝説が多い。仏教の中国への伝来の歴史的事実と連関する伝説と考えられている。

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