When Prince Nezha Subdues The Dragon King

The Naga Dragon Flaming Buddha

Dragons are actually huge lizards that did exist from the primeval prehistoric evolutionary dinosaur ancestry when aquatic dinosaurs such as the spoon bill herbivores inhabited the oceanic swamp lands. The best evidence of this is the Indonesian Commodore dragon which exists in that region of the Malay Archipelago due to its migration as a result of continental drift.
According to Doctor. Ong Hein Tat%u2019s Chinese Lung, the Christian connoisseur of Ancient Chinese and Christian occultism arts and practices in magic , the parental ancestor of the Commodore dragon first appeared as an enormously huge mammoth river reptile lizard at the mouth of the River Yangtze during the commencement of Spring annually due to its luscious evergreen ecological climates of the season . This outlined the commencement of the Chinese race tis reptilian pre-evolutionary connection and living favourably in harmony and a sound ecological balance with its natural environment .
As this gigantic river reptile inspired an overwhelming sense of awe, revence and terror in the mind of primitive Chinese society, the Dragon thus became an ambient animal associated with majesty , the imperial royal lineage , vestiges of power as well as a propitious and auspicious mystical symbol From here , we derive the Chinese saying of Lung Xiang Xian rui or the dragon emperor%u2019s auspice bestows peace hung on every door of the river coastal households in the older outskirts of the water regional towns of Hangzhou, Shanghai, Suzhou and Wuxi who are still into River dragon worship .
Dragons or Draco in the Greek most definitely existed in Mesopotamia. In the aprochapha, there is a story of Daniel and the Dragon when King Nubuccanazzar sited a huge lizard monster that struck awe and terror into the hearts of the many to the effect that he proclaimed a mandatory worship of the beast and call it the living god. All the people were to worship this gigantic beast of terror except the prophet Daniel who resolutely refused in his Jewish monotheist world view.
To proof his point of contention, he made a huge dumpling out of dough boiled in a cauldron and fed it to the dragon. The gruel mixture got stuck in the jaws of the creature and it died instantly of asphyxiations to demonstrate how foolish and futile the Babylonian was in their imagination.
From this period of time , we get this biblical cross reference to the later chapters of the book of revelations used by many Christian end times proselytizers of the terror of the end times that awaits the fateful terror and judgement of the nations of the beast that we hear of today.
This is but one example of the dragon worshipping culture and it is till prevalent in present day China and overseas Chinese society. The Yellow earth movie for example depicts a scene of Dragon king lore. The same is for the Yao and Yi and the Dai minority groups of the Yunnan indigenous groupings who are the descents of the Asiatic Austronesian Chinese migrations into Cambodia, Vietnam, Burma, Laos, Borneo and the Philippines. This is why the Vietnamese hui and Laos people have the Auc lac or the sea dragon worship from their migration from Yunnan into Tonkin and subsequently to the Malay archipelago, The Hmong people from their native Thai tribal migration, the Bajaus of Native Sabah, Bugis, Trojans of the Celebes and the Kayaks have Kahingara or their sea dragon folklore from their Cambodian Austronesians Tibetan locomotion.
The predominance of Theravada Buddhism in Burma, Thai, Cambodia and Laos is combined with early practices of animism , ancestral worship and Brahmin Hinduism which created its extremely militant autocratic and authotarian society . This is because the Buddha being the founder of Buddhism was born a prince and destined to attain enlightenment and was elevated to a divine saintly status and its local customary practice of Theravada Buddhism was merged into the Hindu demi- god king divine status. This is the underlying reason why established monasteries of Theravada Buddhist t murals are portrayed with the Buddha with the Naga dragon flame especially in Cambodian of the Angkor king era. According to the Asian times, this is why Cambodia is known as the Naga dragon land and it is even more militantly autocratic than their Asian regional neighbours of Thailand, Laos and Vietnam and Myanmar.
For me personally, gaining an awareness into these heritage falls in line with my personal interest in Thai yoga Chinese Daoyin Qigong . In Myanmar , chinese Qigong as practiced by The Burmese hokkiens and local Burmese monks alike is known as Za-min meaning of the people %u2013 something g of their health and national preservation interest. Vietnamese and Thai Theravdha Buddhist monks practice Qigong along with their vissapi or insight meditation as well as training in a rigorous stick-fighting routines to supplement their physical ability and vigilance, viriity in their arms, neck and shoulders joints mediative postures while Lao monks perform long hours of standing Qigong to develop deep breathing power and Samadhi or rightfulness concentration.
In Thailand%u2019s history, King Mongkut of Siam attempted to introduce a purer form of Thevadha Buddhism from the Sukhothai and Ayutthaya era which were the dawn of the Thai civilisation to reform and educate the nation being very backward and steeply rooted in their animistic tradition.
To achieve this end and as the father and pioneer of modern Thailand, King Mongkut of Siam created many Theravada Buddhist schools and monasteries to pass on his legacy . His radical reform programs included:
1.the creation of the Thai Shangha or Thai Buddhist Council community in line with the spread of Theravada Buddhism from Sri Lanka of Price Asoka
2. Compulsive monkhood. Boys of 18 years old were drawn from every household to become Buddhist sit novices
3. Introduction of western education in science, medicine, astronomy and adoption of the British judiciary adversary system.
4. Promotion of national sports including Thai-boxing and self-defence. This is why Thai Budhist monks are coaches in Muay Thai, self-defence and Kabri Kapong or the arts of Thai sword and staff fighting in line with the application of the skanda or the force of the inner soul dynamics from Theravada Buddhist quest of inner truth and self-knowledge to gain liberation and enlightenment form ignorance or vijra and endless intense suffering or Dukkha for its long term national health and defence