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五相成身

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: achieving the body of Vairocana through the fivefold meditation

Senses:

  • To achieve the body (of Mahāvairocana) by practicing the fivefold meditation. In esoteric Buddhism it is taught that one can realize the Mahāvairocana-body in the vajradhātu 金剛界 by the following fivefold meditation:
    1. entry into the bodhi-mind; the novice imagines in meditation his mind to be like a full moon 通達心 (also called 通達菩提心)
    2. this meditation is further refined 修菩提心,
    3. attainment of the adamantine mind 成金剛心; this achieves the tenth bhūmi, adamantine absorption
    4. realization of the adamantine body 證金剛身, and
    5. perfect attainment of buddhahood 佛身圓滿.
    It refers also to the five perfect forms of cognition 五智 of the Vairocana group; also written as 五轉成身, 五法成身, and 五相成身觀.

    Sources:

    Sawa Ryūken 佐和隆研. 2002. Mikkyō Jiten 密教辞典 . Tokyo:  Hōzōkan.

    Todaro, Dale. 2006. “An Annotated Translation of the Pancābhisaṃbodhi Practice of the Tattvasaṃgraha.”  In Tantric Buddhism in East Asia. Boston:  Wisdom Publications.

    〔金剛頂瑜伽護摩儀軌 T 908.18.918a2〕 [Cate Pearce, Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, JEBD, Nakamura, Soothill]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 280

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 90a/99

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 370d

    Ding Fubao

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 526-2

    (Soothill's) Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms 123

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    Entry created: 2001-12-07

    Updated: 2018-06-16