Buddha's hairstyle

　Hello.

A product called a “screw hair knit cap” sometimes appears in the advertisement on the right side of the hasunoha site.
A hairstyle that looks like a punch perm is called “screw hair (lahotsu).”

The appearance of the Buddha (Buddha) is called “32 phases and 80 types,” and it is said that there are 112 characteristics in total. Buddha statues and Buddhist paintings are drawn and created in accordance with it. “Rahotsu (Lahotsu)” is based on “hair color such as blue pearl,” which is 78th “hair twirl,” which is 78th out of the “80 types.” It is said to be derived from the hairstyles of high-ranking people in India in the old days.

In addition to the “screw hair knit cap,” it seems that “nikkei (nikkei)” and “earring draping (jirin suijo)” out of the “32 phases 80 types” have also been reproduced.
(No, I'm not getting anything from the company that makes this lol)

Good, I was relieved that Kozenshi explained difficult things (laughs)

The physical characteristics of the Buddha are summarized in “32 Phases and 80 Kinds of Good,” but there are descriptions that touch on physical characteristics from fairly early sutras, and it seems that there are slight differences depending on the sutras.

However, why did the Buddha, who was supposed to be a human being, look so detached from humans?

I think it contains a wish to somehow express the “truth” that made Buddha a Buddha, that is, something that goes beyond form.

Therefore, it was probably assumed that any Buddha awakened to the “truth,” showing “32 phases and 80 types of goodness,” which have the same characteristics.

BUT!

Since Buddha became a monk in the first place, isn't it smooth?

The question remains. It is also stipulated to shave hair at a fixed frequency in the old rules (as determined by the religious group), and it is presumed that Buddha did the same.
You probably grew some hair during the period when you weren't shaved, but is that a bit shabby? It's hard to even think that the figure was made into a Buddha statue.

I think there is a history of focusing on wisdom about how noble and dignified people who respected and adored the Buddha would be, after all, called “giving authority.”

As proof of this, early Buddha statues have Greek style wavy hair, and it seems that there is a conch shaped Mathura Buddha above the head, and it seems that screw hair is characteristic from the 3rd century onwards.
There also seems to be a theory that it was the hairstyle of the royal aristocrats at the time, or that it followed Greek statues.

The history of Buddha statues is also interesting if you look at it from the perspective of people's wishes and the teachings expressed there.

I've heard that the hairstyle of Buddha, who was the prince of the Buddha tribe, had long hair, made many fine braids, and tied them together at the top of his head.
The Buddha statue (probably a national treasure) at Seiryo-ji Temple in Sagano, Kyoto is said to be a Buddha statue from the Three Kingdoms (India → China → Japan), but the Buddha statue's hairstyle is not a “rahotsu” like a punch perm, and it also looks like a bundle of long hair braids.
Maybe people in later generations who saw Buddha statues saw Buddha statues with the preconceived idea that a monk equals a shaved head, so they misunderstood that the pattern on the head was not a braid but a punch perm, and that the bulge above the head was full of flesh rather than a bun of hair.

It sometimes becomes a topic of conversation with parishioners, so I procrastinated while wondering if it would be better to look it up. It was a good opportunity, so I did a lot of research.

・Assumptions
Originally, being able to read characters is not a matter of course. So what do we do? I use pictures and sculptures to proselytize. It's like this ↓
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/kassy1946/70625286.html

If you can read characters, you should write “Buddha” to add “father,” “mother,” and “me” to the picture, but what do you do when you can't use even one letter? The silhouette alone, like “Straw Hat Luffy,” requires characteristics that can be recognized as a Buddha. That's why everyone has similar hairstyles.

・Meaning
Nowadays, Buddha statues are objects of worship, but in the past they were also textbooks. Therefore, the characteristics of the Buddha also have a Buddhist meaning. The most common explanation for this area is the sutra called Kegon Kyō (Kegon Kyō).

Even if you put Buddhist kanji on it, who benefits it, so if I write it with some deformation in my own way,
“Manji style with a clockwise movement” (swastika) hair. Buddha hairstyles such as screw hair (right twisting hair), that is, nails, and “bodhisattva hairstyles like orbs” (kakikimei pearls) “can remove people's worries” (power destroys all sentient beings) and “illuminates all worlds by emitting light” (tokumei hair). It says (That light shines ten ways around the world).

Needless to say, the manji is a well-known symbol of Buddhism; the orb is a symbol of the Buddha's wisdom, and light is also a symbol of the Buddha's wisdom, as is often the case with explanations of candles on Buddhist altars. In short, the message is that Buddhist wisdom can take away worries... Buddha's wisdom will save you... it's probably this kind of message. The roots are a different story.

・digression
Also, I'm skeptical about whether the Buddha's head was always 0 millimeters. The oldest Buddhist religious group had a rule of “shaving hair at least once every two months or before the length of the hair reaches the width of two fingers” (Sasaki Kan's “What Is a Monk?” Okura Publishing). That's why the upper seat is still relatively black.
http://gh51.blog96.fc2.com/blog-entry-640.html

There is an image that the precepts become looser with time, but the opposite is actually true. Japanese people these days in particular get nervous about everything, whether it's table manners or business manners. Moreover, he has an exclusive temperament. I feel that this is a direction that is not good for mental health