Kûkai's claim was that only through the Buddhism of esoteric teachings can one attain to an experiential recognition of hosshin seppô, i.e. that the cosmos itself is describing the immediate enlightened body-and-mind state of the Buddha.
The Great Buddha of Nara is the world's largest gilt bronze statue of Buddha.
Absurd amenity: The statue of Buddha feels a little sacrilegious.
Fig. 8 Normal maps of a head statue of Buddha recovered using various methods.
5th state: "The mind freed from karmic seeds" (batsu gôinju-shin): The state of the pratyeka-buddha, who, masterless on his own, attains insight into the chain of dependent origination to recognize the impermanence, self-less-ness, and non-substantiality of all, thus preventing new karma to arise.
All visible and/or tangible forms and movements constitute the Buddha's body and its movements, all sounds are his voice, and the mind's comprehension of this principle is the manifestation of the Dharma in mandalic form expressing the Buddha's state-of-mind.
The Kalachakra ceremony, an important teaching ritual in Tibetan Buddhism, takes place some winters in Bodh Gaya, the site in the Indian state of Bihar where the Buddha is believed to have attained enlightenment.
They were creating statues of Hindu gods and of Buddha in various poses: Buddha reclining, Buddha meditating beneath the bodhi tree, Buddha's head.
He was now in a state of nirvana -- like the Buddha we'd heard about.
Buddhist texts state that the Buddha not merely surpassed all yogis in knowledge of previous existences but, in fact, had conquered time.
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