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 | | Vairochana, who is the central buddha of the school, is the universe itself, without beginning or end. | | | According to the view of the Shingon school, these esoteric teachings were expounded as absolute truth by Vairochana, the cosmic buddha, and only the initiated can learn to understand them. | | | In the middle of this mandala is Vairochana, sitting on a red lotus blossom on the eight petals of which are the four transcendent buddhas and bodhisattvas. |
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http://www.manjushri.com/TEACH/jShingon.htm
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| Â | Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on Dhyani Buddha Vairochana |
| | Vairochana is usually located in the center of mandalas of the Dhyani Buddhas. | | | Vairochana's transcendent wisdom reveals the realm of highest reality and overcomes the poison of ignorance, or delusion. | | | The name Vairochana means "He Who Is Like the Sun" or "the Radiating One." Vairochana represents either the integration of or the origin of the Dhyani Buddhas. |
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http://www.tsl.org/Masters/buddhas/dhyani/vairochana.html
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| Â | Dzogchen: The Importance of Sem-de |
| | Vairochana was one of the twenty-five disciples of Padmasambhava, and is considered to have brought the sem-dé and long-dé teachings to Tibet. | | | Both Vairochana and Nyak Jnana Kumara are said to have been ordained as monks; however, line drawings in The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism by Düd'jom Rinpoche depict all but Vairochana with long hair and yogic dress. | | | Vairochana also transmitted the sem-dé teachings to Nyak Jnana Kumara, who was born in Yarlung in the late 8th century. |
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http://www.aroter.org/history/semde.htm
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| Â | Buddhist Cosmology |
| | Vairochana -- center, white, tathagata family, ignorance and wisdom, the primordial Buddha. |
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http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/buddhacosmo.html
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| Â | Vairochana - Sarvavid (Sarvadurgati Tantra) (Himalayan Art) |
| | Sarvavid, Maha Vairochana (Tibetan: kun rig nam par nang dze lha sum chu so dun kyil khor. | | | English: The 37 Deity Mandala of all the Families of Great Vairochana), the central deity of the Sarvadurgati Parishodhana Tantra of the Yoga Classification. | | | 'Faultless wisdom of the dharmadhatu, Bhagavan Vairochana with the mudra of meditative stabilization; to the All Knowing Bhagavan, I bow.' (Sakya liturgical verse). |
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| Â | Mandala of Vairochana Buddha |
| | Vairochana is believed to transform the delusion of ignorance into the wisdom of reality. | | | The central deity of this mandala is Vairochana Buddha, the first of the five Dhyani (transcendent) Buddhas. | | | Each of the five Dhyani Buddhas is associated with a specific human delusion, and it is believed that they help mortal beings in overcoming them. |
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| Â | Met Object Page Seated Transcendent Buddha Vairochana: description |
| | This combination is one assigned to Vairochana, a transcendent Buddha that plays an important role in early Esoteric Buddhism and provides the basis for the tentative identification of this figure, which may have been part of a larger three-dimensional assemblage such as a mandala. | | | Seated Transcendent Buddha Vairochana, Central Javanese period, ca. | | | The Buddha's raised right hand makes the teaching or expository gesture ( vitarkamudra) and his left rests on his right foot, in a gesture that approximates the dhyanamudra, or meditative gesture. |
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http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/06/sse/hod_1987.142.23.htm
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| Â | - Vairochana with Attendants |
| | Vairochana, the Buddha of the Zenith, can be identified by his white coloration and his gesture of bodhyagri mudra (wisdom fist). | | | Nepalese script, and in the Buddhist creed below it, penned in Tibetan letters, "dharma" is spelled with a | | | Note the parallel jewelry (which is also akin to that seen in the Shalu murals), including the large anklets, although here the armlets are seen in profile rather than head on. |
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http://www.asianart.com/exhibitions/svision/i41.html
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| Â | The Buddha Vairochana |
| | Moreover, a late Mahayana-sutra mentions Sakyamuni Buddha in preaching form as Vairochana Buddha. | | | It is well known that the Mahayana tradition of Buddhism was very much popular in Tibet, Nepal, Kashmir, China and Central Asia etc. So on the basis of this the present image is identified as the Buddha Vairochana. | | | The Buddha is shown seated in Vajrasana on a lotus seat. |
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| Â | Vairochana's Pure Land (MiamiMOO) |
| | You have been transported to Vairochana's Pure Land, and you will most definitely attain Buddhahood!!! |
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http://moo.muohio.edu:7000/585
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| Â | The Buddha Vairochana |
| | The Buddha Vairochana is shown seated in vajrasana on a lotus throne. | | | The Buddha Vairochana is frequently described in Tantric works, but the description occurs in Advayavajrasangraha in full. | | | He originates from the white syllable Om placed on the orb of the moon. |
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| Â | Birushana Nyorai - Big Buddha of Nara, Todai-ji Temple |
| | He had the Todai-ji (Great Eastern Monastery) built in Nara, in which there is a colossal image of the buddha Vairochana (Jap., Birushana). | | | This monastery is still today the center of the Kegon school. | | | Emperor Shomu (724-748) wanted to rule Japan according to the principles of Kegon. |
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http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/birushana.shtml
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| Â | Tantric Symbols |
| | The five upper prongs of the vajra represent the Five Buddhas (Akshobhya, Vairochana, Ratnasambhava, Amitabha and Amogasiddhi), and the unity of their five wisdoms, attributes and qualities. | | | The four [outer] curved prongs curve inwards to the central prong, symbolising that the four aggregates of form, feeling, perception and motivation depend upon the fifth aggregate of consciousness. |
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http://buddhism.kalachakranet.org/tantra_symbols.html
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| Â | Encyclopedia4U - Kukai - Encyclopedia Article |
| | However he was unable to a suitable teacher to explain it to him. | | | Kūkai's family were aristocratic, and being a gifted child he was sent to university were he studied the Chinese-classics, became acquainted with Tantric-Buddhism. | | | In particular he had discovered the Dainichikyo, or Maha Vairochana Sutra. |
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http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/k/kukai.html
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