Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This set already includes three of the main five Buddha family Buddhas found in the tantras. Furthermore, examples of four Buddhas arranged in the four cardinal directions are found in Indian Buddhist stupas like Sanchi stupa, Udayagiri stupa, Jajpur stupa and Dekhinath stupa . The Udayagiri stupa for example, houses Vairocana, Amitabha ...
She is the consort and female counterpart of Samantabhadra, known amongst some Tibetan Buddhists as the Primordial Buddha. Samantabhadri herself is known as the primordial Mother Buddha. Samantabhadri is the dharmakaya dakini aspect of the Trikaya, or three bodies of a Buddha. As such, Samantabhadri represents the aspect of Buddhahood in whom ...
Women in Buddhism is a topic that can be approached from varied perspectives including those of theology, history, anthropology, and feminism.Topical interests include the theological status of women, the treatment of women in Buddhist societies at home and in public, the history of women in Buddhism, and a comparison of the experiences of women across different forms of Buddhism.
Independent of whether she is classified as a deity, a Buddha, or a bodhisattva, Tārā remains very popular in Tibet (and Tibetan communities in exile in Northern India), Mongolia, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and is worshiped in many Buddhist communities throughout the world (though in East Asian Buddhism, Guanyin is the most popular female deity).
According to scriptures, Maitreya will be a successor to the present Buddha, Gautama Buddha. [1] [2] The prophecy of the arrival of Maitreya refers to a time in the future when the dharma will have been forgotten by most on the terrestrial world. This prophecy is found in the canonical literature of all major schools of Buddhism.
Paṭacārā or Patachara was a notable female figure in Buddhism, described in the Pali Canon. Among the female disciples of Gautama Buddha, she was the foremost exponent of the Vinaya, the rules of monastic discipline. She lived during the 6th century BCE in what is now Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in India.
Mandāravā (IPA: [mɐndˈaːrɐʋaː], Skt., mandāravā 'Indian coral tree', [1] Tibetan: མནྡཱ་ར་བཱ་མེ་ཏོག, Wylie: man da ra ba me tog) [2] (also known as Pāṇḍaravāsinī) [3] was, along with Yeshe Tsogyal, one of the two principal consorts of great 8th-century Indian Vajrayana teacher Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche), a founder-figure of Tibetan Buddhism.
Cambodian Prajñāpāramitās are often found in a triad with the Buddha and Avalokiteśvara. [32] Other evidence for the importance of the devi in Cambodia comes from hymns to her, often found at the beginning of inscriptions. Some of these call her the mother of the Buddhas and depict her as being able to bestow insight and liberation. [33]