Popular Deities of Chinese Buddhism (Illustrated)

  8. T O A K In whom who is thus. Om, the Seer, transcending the world. H M S ...

  20. S S N S To the powerful Lord of Union, svaha! To the one with the blue neck, svaha ...

  “N T-P K S Y P’” Out of the great compassion of the Buddha Amitabha, from his pure Dharma Body, you app ...

 (Ta Pei Jou) and the Heart Sutra as a mark of my love and grati- tude for your Great Compassion for having shown me the way: ...

 K S Y P’ ...

 C IX en-hu-hih-i ’usa anjusri odhisattva Manjusri, the personification of Transcendental Wisdom, is the first B ...

 W-S-S-L P’ — M ...

  addressed as ‘Manjugosha’ with ‘Manju’ meaning ‘soft’ indicat- ing that his continuum has become softened by his wisdom ...

  tices. ey should first of all conjure in their minds a shining blue sky. From it a youthful prince of about sixteen yea ...

  he had no choice but to ‘open, with his sword, several val- leys on the southern side of the lake, thus draining the wat ...

  He is adored as the Master of Wisdom and Knowledge and is more commonly seen to be seated in meditation on a golden- man ...

 faith in the Bodhisattva. However they should bear in mind that those who make this arduous trips are generally not mere sig ...

 W-S-P’ ...

  Manjusri Bodhisattva has many other forms which cannot be fully described in a book of this size. Suffice it to say that ...

  C X u sien ’usa amantabhadra odhisattva Samantabhadra or Universal Virtue is known to the Chinese as Pu Hsien ...

 To confess past sins and to reform. 5. To rejoice in the virtues and happiness of others. 6. To request Buddha to preach th ...

 S B ...

 the purity of the six senses). Under the legs of the elephant lotus flowers grow... the whiteness of the elephant is of the ...

 P H P’ ...

 Pu Hsien P’usa is not generally worshipped by the ‘average’ Buddhists as temples dedicated to her are very scarce. How- ever ...