Rebecca Reads Mythology...
Oct. 15th, 2003 05:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccastareyesInteresting bit taken from Encyclopedia Mythica's Chinese Mytholgy section:
Di-cang is depicted as a monk with in his right hand a metal staff with six jingling rings on it, which opens the gates of the hells for him. In his left hand he holds a wish-fulfilling jewel, the radiance of which illuminates the hells and calms the sufferings of the damned. He is occasionally portrayed with a crown of the type that was usually worn by monks during funeral ceremonies.
Ya know I always wondered where the image in anime of the priest/monk with the jingly staff came from...
Di-cang is depicted as a monk with in his right hand a metal staff with six jingling rings on it, which opens the gates of the hells for him. In his left hand he holds a wish-fulfilling jewel, the radiance of which illuminates the hells and calms the sufferings of the damned. He is occasionally portrayed with a crown of the type that was usually worn by monks during funeral ceremonies.
Ya know I always wondered where the image in anime of the priest/monk with the jingly staff came from...
