རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད། | Glossary of Terms
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རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད།
- rnam par snang mdzad
- vairocana
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- Vairocana
- རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད།
- rnam par snang mdzad
- vairocana
“The Illuminator.” Used in this sūtra as an epithet for the Buddha Śākyamuni, who appears in millions of places simultaneously, or, one could say, the buddha who emanates millions of buddhas including Śākyamuni. This is also the name for the principal buddha in the Caryā and Yoga tantras. In this sūtra it is also the name of a buddha that Muktaka sees in a distant realm, and also the name of a buddha in the distant past that Āśā was a student of in a previous life. In chapter 29 the layman Veṣṭhila refers to Vairocana as the principal example of present buddhas, presumably referring to Śākyamuni.
- Vairocana
- རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད།
- rnam par snang mdzad
- vairocana
“The Illuminator” is in this sūtra an epithet for the Buddha Śākyamuni, who appears in millions of places simultaneously. This is also the name of the principal buddha in the Caryā and Yoga tantras.