Kaiguang

Kaiguang (: 开光; Pinyin: Kāiguāng）is the Buddhism term in Chinese for consecration of Buddha statue. In Chinese, the literary meaning of Kaiguang is "turn on brightness". The essential process of Kaiguang is to hold a ceremony and let well-achieved monks and nuns chant Buddhism scripture sincerely together so that a divine body of the Buddha is invited to stay on the statue in another dimension. After Kaiguang, the statue becomes the Buddha's tangible body in this dimension and will look after the worshipers.

Whether or not Kaiguang is successfully done depends on whether the monks and nuns participating the Kaiguang process read the Buddhism scriptures sincerely enough.

A Buddha statue that has not gone through Kaiguang is not intelligent and cannot be worshiped. If worshiped, evil spirits may get onto the statue and take advantage of or do harm to the worshipers.