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| Vajrasattva | |
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| Sanskrit | वज्रसत्त्व
Vajrasatva |
| Chinese | 金剛薩埵菩薩
(Pinyin: Jīngāng Sàduǒ Púsà) |
| Japanese | 金剛薩埵菩薩
(romaji: Kongōsatta Bosatsu) |
| Khmer | វជ្រសត្វ (vach-cha-sat) |
| Korean | 금강살타보살
(RR: Geumgang Salta Bosal) |
| Mongolian | Доржсэмбэ |
| Tagalog | Baklasattba |
| Thai | พระวัชรสัตว์โพธิสัตว์ |
| Tibetan | རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ་ Wylie: rdo rje sems dpa' THL: Dorje Sempa རྡོར་སེམས་ THL: Dorsem |
| Vietnamese | Kim Cang Tát Đỏa Bồ Tát |
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Vajrasattva (Sanskrit: वज्रसत्त्व, Tibetan: རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ། Dorje Sempa, short form: རྡོར་སེམས། Dorsem)[1] is a bodhisattva in the Mahayana and Mantrayana/Vajrayana Buddhist traditions.
In Chinese Buddhism and the Japanese Shingon tradition, Vajrasattva is the esoteric aspect of the bodhisattva Samantabhadra and is commonly associated with the student practitioner who, through the master's teachings, attains an ever-enriching, subtle and rarefied grounding in their esoteric practice. In the East Asian esoteric Buddhist Diamond Realm Mandala, Vajrasattva sits to the East near Akshobhya Buddha.
In some esoteric lineages, Nagarjuna was said to have met Vajrasattva in an iron tower in South India, and was taught tantra, thus transmitting the esoteric teachings to more historical figures.[2] In Tibetan Buddhism, Vajrasattva is associated with the sambhogakāya and with purification practice.
Vajrasattva appears in various Buddhist texts, including in the esoteric Vairocanābhisaṃbodhi Sūtra and in the Vajraśekhara Sūtra. Vajrasattva also appears as a major character in the Ghanavyūha sūtra. In the Nyingma canon, Vajrasattva also appears in various Dzogchen texts, such as the Kulayarāja Tantra and The Mirror of the Heart of Vajrasattva.
Vajrasattva's mantra is oṃ Vajrasattva hūṃ (Sanskrit: ॐ वज्रसत्त्व हूँ; Chinese: 唵 斡資囉 薩答 啊 吽 / 嗡 班扎 薩埵 吽; Pinyin: ǎn wòzīluō sàdá a hōng / wēng bānzhā sàduǒ hōng).
- ^ "Rangjung Yeshe Dictionary Page". Rywiki.tsadra.org. Retrieved 2013-06-14.
- ^ Abe, Ryuichi (1999). The Weaving of Mantra: Kukai and the Construction of Esoteric Buddhist Discourse. Columbia University Press. pp. 131–133, 198, 221, 222. ISBN 0-231-11286-6.