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不空成就如来
不空成就如来
Japanese
| Kanji in this term | |||||
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| 不 | 空 | 成 | 就 | 如 | 来 |
| Grade: 4 | Grade: 1 | Grade: 4 | Grade: 6 | Grade: S | Grade: 2 |
不空成就如来: a Tibetan statue of Amoghasiddhi.
Proper noun
不空成就如来 (hiragana ふくうじょうじゅにょらい, romaji Fukūjōju Nyorai)
- (religion, Buddhism) Fukūjōju Nyorai: the Buddha of the North, called Amoghasiddhi; the embodiment of the accomplishment of the Buddhist path and the overcoming of envy, one of the Five Dhyani Buddhas, and an important entity in Shingon Buddhism
Coordinate terms
The 五智如来 (Go Chi Nyorai, “Five Dhyani Buddhas”) and associated directions are:
- 阿弥陀如来 (あみだにょらい, Amida Nyorai): west
- 阿閦如来 (あしゅくにょらい, Ashuku Nyorai): east
- 大日如来 (だいにちにょらい, Dainichi Nyorai): center
- 不空成就如来 (ふくじょうじゅにょらい, Fukūjōju Nyorai): north
- 宝生如来 (ほうしょうにょらい, Hōshō Nyorai): south
Related terms
- 如来 (にょらい, nyorai): a buddha, a bodhisattva
- 仏 (ぶつ, butsu): a buddha; 仏 (ぶつ, Butsu): the Buddha
- 仏陀 (ぶっだ, budda; ぶつだ, butsuda): a buddha; 仏陀 (Budda, Butsuda): the Buddha
- 菩薩 (ぼさつ, bosatsu): a bodhisattva
External links
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不空成就如来 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ja
- Amoghasiddhi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Five Dhyani Buddhas on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
Etymology
From Middle Chinese 不空成就如來 (pjuw khuwng dzyeng dzjuwH njo loj). Compare modern Mandarin 不空成就佛 (bùkōng chéngjiù fō), exchanging 如來 (rúlái) for roughly synonymous 佛 (fō).
The Middle Chinese term itself is a compound of 不空成就 + 如來:
- 不空成就 is a translation of Sanskrit अमोघसिद्धि (amoghasiddhi), the name of this entity, and a compound of अमोघ (amogha, “not in vain”) + सिद्धि (siddhi, “perfection; accomplishment, attainment; success”).
- 如來 is an abbreviation of either 如去如來 or 如來如去 (“coming from suchness, going back into suchness”), translations of Sanskrit तथागत (tathāgata, “coming from suchness, going back into suchness; thus coming, thus going”, exact meaning uncertain, see Tathāgata on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )[1][2].