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The only Mahayana deity that has entered the worship of ordinary Buddhists in Theravada Buddhism is Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. In Sri Lanka, he is known as Natha-deva and is mistaken by the majority for the Buddha yet to come, Bodhisattva Maitreya. The figure of Avalokitesvara is usually found in the shrine room near the Buddha image. [19]
Inside, during the repentance ceremony, eleven monks invoke the Bodhisattva and repeat the Eleven-Faced Avalokitesvara Heart Dharani Sutra for several hours, six times a day. The text introduces the heart dhāraṇī of the Bodhisattva, Avalokitesvara, as the following lines, translated by Prof. Abe indicate: [3] 世尊我此神咒有大威力。
The bodhisattva, as the archetypal Mahayana Buddhist, relies on the perfection of wisdom, defined in the Mahaprajnaparamita Sutra to be the wisdom that perceives reality directly without conceptual attachment thereby achieving nirvana. All Buddhas of the three ages (past, present and future) rely on the Perfection of Wisdom to reach unexcelled ...
Thus, according to Studholme, the significance of the mantra in the Kāraṇḍavyūha is mainly that it is the "innermost heart" of Avalokitesvara, and therefore is "a means both of entering into the presence of Avalokitesvara and of appropriating some of the bodhisattva's power". [21]
Shristhikantha Lokeśvara, 18th century painting in Nepal. Sahasrabhuja Lokeśvara on the facade of the Janabahā temple, Keltole, Kathmandu. Alexander Studholme writes that the Kāraṇḍavyūhasūtra presents the great bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara (Lokeśvara) as a kind of supreme lord of the cosmos and as the progenitor of various heavenly bodies and divinities (such as the Sun and Moon ...
Then Avalokitesvara offers some basic instructions on how to practice the dharani: [9] World-Honored One, if there are bhikṣus, bhikṣuṇīs, upāsakas, upāsikās, boys, or girls who seek great merit and blessings in this life, they should, day and night, diligently practice in accordance with the law and uphold this Cintāmaṇi-cakra ...
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Thus, the term bodhisattva could also mean: "one whose mind, intentions, thoughts or wishes are fixed on bodhi". [157] In this sense, this meaning of sattva is similar to the meaning it has in the Yoga-sutras, where it means mind. [157] Tibetan lexicographers translate bodhisattva as byang chub (bodhi) sems dpa (sattva).