Binzuru faith - Binzuru Shinko

Japanese: 賓頭盧信仰 - びんずるしんこう

Belief in Piṇḍolabhāradvāja, a disciple of Shakyamuni. Binzuruharada was the first of the Sixteen Arhats (Rhakants), possessed supernatural powers, and once, encouraged by someone, performed a miracle by taking a sandalwood bowl from a tall elephant's tusk while sitting down without using a ladder or a staff. When Shakyamuni heard this, he reprimanded him for having shown a heretic, and said that he would not be allowed to enter the state of Nirvana (free from worldly desires) until the appearance of Maitreya Buddha in the Latter Day of the Law, and that he would have to continue preaching in this world.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

釈迦の弟子賓頭盧頗羅堕（びんずるはらだ）Piṇḍolabhāradvājaに対する信仰。賓頭盧は十六羅漢(羅漢)の第一にあげられ，神通力を有し，あるとき人にすすめられ，高象の牙に懸かる栴檀の鉢を梯杖を用いず座しながら取る奇跡を演じた。これを知った釈迦から外道（げどう）を現じたとして呵責され，末法の世，弥勒仏が出るまで煩悩なき涅槃（ねはん）の境地に入ることを許されず，この世で布教を続けねばならぬとされた。

出典　株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典第２版について　情報

<<: Binswanger, Ludwig

>>: Pinsk (English spelling)