Buddhists say that there are seven treasures, but the records of each kind of Scripture are different. For example, the seven treasures mentioned in the Prajna Sutra are gold, silver, glass, coral, amber, Trident canal and agate. The seven treasures mentioned in the Dharma Sutra are gold, silver, colored glass, Trident, agate, pearl and rose. The seven treasures mentioned in the Amitabha Sutra translated by Qin jiumorosh are: gold, silver, colored glass, glass, tridactyla, red beads and Manau. The seven treasures mentioned in the praise of pure land Sutra translated by Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty are: gold, silver, Bayi colored glass, posoka, Mou Saluo jierava, chizhenzhu, and ashimo jierava.
Well, among all the Buddhist scriptures in China, the first five categories of the seven treasures of Buddhism are recognized, namely gold, silver, glass, Trident and agate. The latter two categories are different, some say they are crystal, some say they are amber and glass, and some say they are agate, coral, pearl and musk. But one thing is certain, that is, colored glass is recognized as a Buddhist treasure.
After Buddhism spread to China, glass was regarded as the most precious treasure. The "Oriental pure land" where the "pharmacist glass light Tathagata" lived, that is, the pure glass was used as the ground to illuminate the darkness of the three realms of "heaven, earth and people". In the pharmacist's Sutra, the pure colored glass pharmacist Buddha once made a vow: "may my body be like colored glass, clear inside and outside, and pure and immaculate when I get Bodhi in the next life.". When the Buddha vowed to attain Bodhi, his body was like colored glass, which shows the precious and rare of colored glass.
Glass is also the top of China's five famous artifacts: glass, gold and silver, jade, ceramics and bronze
Post time: Sep-13-2022