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成身會

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: perfected body assembly

Senses:

  • The Perfected Body Assembly is the first and central group in the nine assemblies that comprise the Vajradhātu-maṇḍala 金剛界曼荼羅. Also known as 金剛界大曼荼羅, karma assembly 羯磨會 and foundational assembly 根本會, it is the foundational assembly mandala upon which the other eight groups are based. The mandala enshrines 1,061 deities: the thirty-seven honored ones 三十七尊, the thousand buddhas of the present epoch 賢劫千佛, the four deities of the elements 四大神, and an outer layer of twenty deities 二十天 who protect the mandala. The thirty-seven honored ones 三十七尊 form the mandala proper:
    1. The five dhyāni-buddhas 五佛: Mahāvairocana 毘盧遮那・大日如來 in the center, Akṣobhya 阿閦 in the east, Ratnasaṃbhava 寶生 in the south, Amitâbha 阿彌陀 in the west, and Amoghasiddhi 不空成就 in the north;
    2. The four pāramitā bodhisattvas 四波羅蜜菩薩, who encircle Mahāvairocana;
    3. The sixteen great bodhisattvas 十六大菩薩, four bodhisattvas surrounding each of the other four dhyāni-buddhas;
    4. The eight offering bodhisattvas 八供養菩薩
    5. The four gathering bodhisattvas 四攝菩薩
    Cf. 金剛界曼荼羅 and 兩部曼荼羅.

    Source

    Snodgrass, Adrian. 1988. The Matrix and Diamond World Mandalas in Shingon Buddhism. New Delhi:  Aditya Prakashan.

    [Cate Pearce, Charles Muller; source(s): MDJ, MJ, Ui, Nakamura, Soothill, Iwanami]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 570

    Iwanami bukkyō jiten 430

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 745c

    Fo Guang Dictionary 2924

    Ding Fubao {Digital Version}

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)1314b

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 967-1

    Soothill 238

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    Entry created: 2002-06-10

    Updated: 2015-02-28