Chinese Coin Truly Believing in Consensus Value
Sarira is a clever fusion of Buddhist relics and Chinese meme coins. It represents the culmination of the Buddha or a high monk's merit, and ordinary monks or those with less profound practice can't produce sarira after incineration. In Buddhism, sarira is seen as the crystallization of a practitioner's precepts, meditation, and wisdom achievements. After the cremation of Shakyamuni, 84,000 sarira were left behind. Later, Emperor Ashoka of India divided these into 84,000 parts and distributed them to build stupas for worship. Sarira also made its way to China during the Sui and Tang dynasties, with Famen Temple becoming a sacred site for enshrining the sarira of the Buddha's finger bone. On the first day of the tenth lunar month in 1988, the sarira at Shaanxi's Famen Temple suddenly leaped into the void, emitting thousands of white lights, and the entire sky was enveloped in auspicious clouds. Scientific verification confirmed the authenticity of the photos. In 2010, at Qixia Temple in Nanjing, the sarira of Shakyamuni's skull bone, hidden for a thousand years in Ashoka's stupa, was brought out and enshrined at Nanjing's Niushoushan Fodingshan Palace. The appearance of this skull bone sarira is exactly what we see now as the “icon” of the sarira token!