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According to the Sūtra on Ten Methods of Rebirth in Amitābha Buddha's Land (十往生阿彌陀佛國經), those people who are devoted to attaining rebirth in the Western Pure Land are protected by a great number of bodhisattvas. Twenty-five of them are given by name: Avalokiteśvara
According to the descriptions in the novel, Zhenyuan Daxian is the great god who interacts with the Three Pure Ones, indicating his incredibly esteemed status.A couplet hung outside his Daoist temple reads, "Longevity like the immortals, a household with the same lifespan as heaven," suggesting an extraordinary level of longevity.
"Indra's net" is an infinitely large net owned by the Vedic deva Indra, which hangs over his palace on Mount Meru, the axis mundi of Buddhist and Hindu cosmology.In East Asian Buddhism, Indra's net is considered as having a multifaceted jewel at each vertex, with each jewel being reflected in all of the other jewels. [4]
The prabhashvara means pure or nothingness which cannot be explained in normal languages but there is no other way to convey the message. While it is often referred as six colors, the prahbashvara is the actual spectrum of Buddha's aura consisting of five colors, in Pāli: nīla (sapphire blue) pīta (golden yellow) lohitaka ; odāta
The dharmachakra (Sanskrit: धर्मचक्र, Pali: dhammacakka) or wheel of dharma is a symbol used in the Dharmic religions.It has a widespread use in Buddhism. [1] [2] In Hinduism, the symbol is particularly used in places that underwent religious transformation.
Sujata occupies a special place in the history of Buddhism, as she was both the last person to speak with the future Buddha and the first to speak to him after his Enlightenment. [6] One day, when Buddha Gautama was talking about the main female lay disciples, he told the monks :
[2]: 85 As cetiya, the Buddha's footprint was classified in a variety of ways. Some were uddesika, representational relics, and others were paribhogika, relics of use or of contact, and occasionally saririka, as though they were not just footprints but the Buddha's actual feet. Some of the depictions of the footprints may signify events in the ...