The Dragon culture in The Buddhist Book Of Initiation

Abstract

Dragon is a very special existence, whether in China or in the West, there is its fi gure. Dragon culture involves a very wide range of fi elds, such as art, architecture and so on. Of course, there will also be dragons in some religious cultures, for ex-ample, in Buddhist culture, it is indispensable. Through studying the Buddhist classics, we will fi nd that the introduction to the dragon is specifi c. In the classics, the world construction of the dragon, the cause of the dragon, the life form of the dragon and the species of the dragon are all introduced in detail. The article takes the rising Sutra as an example, through the content of the text, the world of the dragon and the cause of the dragon, the four life of the dragon and the type of the dragon king, the lifestyle of the dragon and the relationship between the dragon and the Dapeng bird. And from then on, the scriptures have come to see the dragon world in Buddhism.