CONSECRATION - ဗုဒၶါဘိေသက

CONSECRATION Buddhᾱbhiseka

ဗုဒၶါဘိေသက - ဗုဒၶါဘိေသကမဂၤလာျပဳျခင္း၊ ဘုရားဆင္းတုေတာ္ကုိ အေနကဇာတင္ျခင္း။

ျမတ္စြာဘုရားသည္ ဘုရားအျဖစ္သုိ႔ ေရာက္ေတာ္မူေသာအခါ အေနကဇာတိသံသာရံ စေသာ ဂါထာေတာ္ျဖင့္ ဥဒါန္းက်ဴးေတာ္မူခဲ့သည္။ ဤဂါထာသည္ ျမတ္စြာဘုရား ပထမဆုံးစိတ္ေတာ္ျဖင့္ ဆင္ျခင္သည့္ ပထမဗုဒၶ၀စန ျဖစ္သည္။ သုိ႔ျဖစ္၍ ဗုဒၶဘာသာ၀င္တုိ႔သည္ ဆင္းတုေတာ္မ်ားကုိ ျမတ္စြာဘုရား အမွတ္ျဖင့္ ကုိးကြယ္လုိေသာအခါ ျမတ္စြာဘုရားရွင္သည္ ဘုရားျဖစ္ၿပီးစ အခ်ိန္၌ ပထမဆုံး ဥဒါန္းက်ဴးခဲ့သည့္အတုိင္း ျမတ္စြာဘုရား၏ တပည့္သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားက ျမတ္စြာဘုရား၏ ကုိယ္စား အေနကဇာတိသံသာရံ စေသာ ဂါထာေတာ္ကုိ ႐ြတ္ဆုိေတာ္မူၾကသည္။ ယင္းတုိ႕ ပူေဇာ္ျခင္းကုိ အေနကဇာတင္သည္ဟု ေခၚသည္။

Buddhabhiseka maṅgala, consecration of an image of the Buddha.

Soon after his attainment of Enlightenment, the Buddha breathed forth two verses of exultation (udᾱna-gᾱthᾱ), the first words of which are “anekajᾱtisaṁsᾱraṁ” (infinitely numerous are the existences in the round of rebirths). These are the Buddha’s first words, “pathama Buddha vacana” which were uttered after his contemplation of Buddhahood. That is the reason why, when the Buddhists wish to have Buddha images consecrated, the Saṁgha, symbolically taking the place of the Buddha would recite the above verses, just as the Buddha had done on his attainment of Buddhahood. This ceremony is known as consecration of anekajᾱ ceremony.