語音導覽 - 四聖塔Audio Guide - Four Noble Truths Stupas
從大佛平台禮拜後便可至四聖塔參拜,佛陀紀念館主體建築四角的四座塔,外觀是仿印度菩提伽耶正覺塔的風格,分別供奉大悲觀世音菩薩、大智文殊菩薩、大願地藏菩薩、大行普賢菩薩。「四聖諦」出自於原始佛教教義,象徵著佛教的「苦、集、滅、道」,四大菩薩就以「四聖諦」廣化教育:「苦」要靠觀音菩薩的悲心救度,「道」要靠文殊菩薩的智慧消除,「滅」需要普賢菩薩的實踐圓滿,「集」要有地藏菩薩的莊嚴大願。從四聖塔到四大菩薩,圓滿實踐菩薩行。
The Four Noble Truths Stupas are dedicated in correspondence to the Four Great Bodhisattvas: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, Manjusri Bodhisattva, and Samantabhadra Bodhisattva. Offerings of incense, flowers, and light can be made to the Bodhisattvas at these stupas.
Circumambulation is a very powerful practice and the very root of practice is to circumambulate with strong devotion and with an undistracted mind. Circumambulations should be done with body, speech and mind.
The sutra says, “By circumambulating stupas, one avoids being born in hell, as a hungry ghost, an animal, a barbarian, a long-life god, a heretic, a fool or in a place where Buddha has not descended. One receives a deva or human body and one has a long life. One is not harmed by hungry ghost, cannibals or other creatures. For hundreds of eons, one is not born blind or crippled with arthritis. By circumambulating stupas one receives perfect power and perseverance. Because there is no laziness one is able to develop the mind quickly. One also becomes an arhat having abandoned all delusion and possessing great psychic power. Finally one achieves the golden ‘body of the Buddha adorned with auspicious signs’.”