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大日如来

大日如来

See also: 大日如來

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 大日如来 – see 大日如來.
(This term, 大日如来, is the simplified form of 大日如來.)
Notes:

Japanese

大日如来 (Dainichi Nyorai): a statue of the Vairocana Buddha at Tōdai-ji in Nara.
Kanji in this term
大 日 如 来
だい
Grade: 1 		にち
Grade: 1 		にょ
Grade: S 		らい
Grade: 2
on'yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 大日如來 ‎(/dajH njit njo loj/). Compare modern Mandarin traditional 大日如來 and simplified 大日如来 ‎(Dà rì rú lái).

Middle Chinese 大日如來 is a compound of 大日 + 如來, where 大日 ‎(literally “great sun”) is a translation of Sanskrit महावैरोचन ‎(Mahāvairocana, the name of this Buddhist entity)[1][2], and 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].

Pronunciation

Proper noun

大日如来 ‎(hiragana だいにちにょらい, romaji Dainichi Nyorai)

  1. (religion, Buddhism) Dainichi Nyorai: the sun Buddha, called Vairocana or Mahāvairocana; the embodiment of the Buddhist concept of emptiness or sunyata, 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:

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References

  1. 1 2 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  3. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

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