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  • I'd propose that Every Baby Is The Buddha (that is, the Vairocana Buddha = The Entire World).

    Wisdom or Hooey: a Poll. Roger Sutton 2006

  • One of the four Tibetan works is expressly stated to be translated from Khotanese.] [Footnote 519: The Tibetan Chronicles of Li-Yul say that they worshipped Vaiśravana and Śrîmahâdevî.] [Footnote 520: A monk from Kashmir called Vairocana was also active in

    Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot 1896

  • The name occurs in the Mahâvastu as the designation of an otherwise unknown Buddha of luminous attributes and in the Lotus we hear of a distant Buddha-world called Vairocana-rasmi-pratimandita, embellished by the rays of the sun. [

    Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Charles Eliot 1896

  • A monk called Vairocana is also said to have introduced Buddhism into Khotan from Kashmir, but at a date which though uncertain must be considerably earlier than this.] [Footnote 921: See _Journal of Buddhist Text Society_, 1893, p. 5.

    Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot 1896

  • When Francis Xavier and his retinue arrived in Japan in the 16th century, “Deusu Nyorai” was one of the many attempts made at translating His name which also included a disastrous dead-end in which He was identified with Vairocana.

    Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Nyorai 2009

  • "Vairocana und das Lichtkreuz, Manichäische Elemente in der Kunst von Alchi (West Tibet)," Zentralasiatische Studien, vol. 13 (1979), 357-399.

    The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� Bibliography 1976

  • The legend of Kuñjarakarṇa relates how a devout Yaksha of that name went to Bodhicitta [433] and asked of Vairocana instruction in the holy law and more especially as to the mysteries of rebirth.

    Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot 1896

  • The Far East felt shy of the tantric element in this teaching, whereas the Tibetans exaggerated it, but the doctrinal basis is everywhere the same, namely, that there are five celestial Buddhas, of whom Vairocana is the principal and in some sense the origin.

    Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot 1896

  • This doctrine is essentially a variety of Indian pantheism but peculiar in its terminology inasmuch as Vairocana, like Kṛishṇa in the Bhagavad-gîtâ, proclaims himself to be the All-God and not merely the chief of the five Buddhas.

    Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot 1896

  • Possibly it was dedicated to Vairocana who was regarded as the Supreme Being and All-God by some Javanese

    Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot 1896

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