The Buddha of Enlightenment is enshrined in the Birojeon.

It stands 2. 1 meters tall and is located at the left side of the front garden of Birojeon.

Monks were taken to Male and beheaded, The Satihirutalu ( the chattravali or chattrayashti crowning a stupa ) were broken to disfigure the numerous stupasm and the statues of Vairocana, the transcendent Buddha of the middle world region, were destroyed ; and the destruction was not limited to sculptures.

* Retired Emperor Shōmu takes part in the dedication ceremony of the great statue of Vairocana Buddha at the Tōdai-ji, and declares himself a Buddhist.

File: Spring Temple Buddha picturing Vairocana, in Lushan County, Henan, China. png | Spring Temple Buddha, the world's tallest statue, overall 502 feet in height, completed 2002.

These examples are seen in present-day Nara and Kyoto, most notably a colossal bronze statue of the Buddha Vairocana in the Tōdai-ji temple.

The Pali Canon refers to many previous ones ( see List of the 28 Buddhas ), while the Mahayana tradition additionally has many Buddhas of celestial, rather than historical, origin ( see Amitabha or Vairocana as examples, for lists of many thousands Buddha names see Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō numbers 439 – 448 ).

Several of the structures at Narita-san temple have been designated National Important Cultural Properties ; the Kōmyō-dō, built in 1701 and dedicated to the Dainichi Nyorai Buddha ( Vairocana ), the principal image of Shingon Buddhism ; the three-storied, 25-meter high pagoda built in 1712 ; the Niōmon main gate, built in 1830 ; the Shaka-dō ( Shakyamuni Hall ), built in 1858 ; and the Gaku-dō ( Votive Tablet Hall ), built in 1861.

In the Chinese tradition, Ksitigarbha is sometimes depicted wearing a crown like the one worn by Vairocana Buddha.

National Treasure No. 26 ( Bulguksa geumdong birojana buljwasang ), designated on December 20, 1962, is a seated gilt-bronze Vairocana Buddha statue at Bulguksa Temple.

Some buddhist sculptures, such as Buddha Vairocana, Boddhisattva Avalokiteshvara and Maitreya, were discovered in numerous sites in Sumatra and Malay Peninsula.

Vairocana Buddha

Vairocana ( also Vairochana or Mahāvairocana ) is a celestial buddha who is often interpreted, in texts like the Flower Garland Sutra, as the Bliss Body of the historical Buddha ( Siddhartha Gautama ).

Vairocana Buddha is first introduced in the Brahma Net Sutra:

He is also mentioned in the Flower Garland Sutra ; however, the doctrine of Vairocana Buddha is based largely on the teachings of the Mahavairocana Sutra ( also known as the ) and to a lesser degree the Vajrasekhara Sutra ( also known as the Tantra ).

In Sino-Japanese Buddhism, Vairocana was gradually superseded as an object of reverence by Amitabha Buddha, due in large part to the increasing popularity of Pure Land Buddhism, but Vairocana's legacy still remains in the Tōdai-ji temple with its massive bronze statue and in Shingon Buddhism, which holds a sizeable minority among Japanese Buddhists.

The Shingon Buddhist monk, Dohan, regarded the two great Buddhas, Amida and Vairocana, as one and the same Dharmakaya Buddha and as the true nature at the core of all beings and phenomena.

There are several realisations that can accrue to the Shingon practitioner of which Dohan speaks in this connection, as Dr. James Sanford points out: there is the realisation that Amida is the Dharmakaya Buddha, Vairocana ; then there is the realisation that Amida as Vairocana is eternally manifest within this universe of time and space ; and finally there is the innermost realisation that Amida is the true nature, material and spiritual, of all beings, that he is ' the omnivalent wisdom-body, that he is the unborn, unmanifest, unchanging reality that rests quietly at the core of all phenomena '.

The Vairocana statue in Nara's Tōdai-ji in Japan was the largest bronze image of Vairocana Buddha in the world.

In Java, Indonesia, the 9th-century Mendut temple near Borobudur in Magelang was dedicated to Dhyani Buddha Vairocana.

Built by the Sailendra dynasty, the temple featured a three-meter tall stone statue of Dhyani Buddha Vairocana, seated and performing the Dharmachakra mudra.

The Spring Temple Buddha of Lushan County, Henan, China, with a height of 126 meters, is now the tallest Vairocana Buddha statue, as well as the tallest statue in the world ( see List of statues by height ).

Its Great Buddha Hall ( 大仏殿 Daibutsuden ), houses the world's largest bronze statue of the Buddha Vairocana, known in Japanese simply as Daibutsu ( 大仏 ).

This edict states that, following Saichō ’ s request, the ordinands would be divided between two curricula: the shanagō course, centering on the study of the Mahavairocana Sūtra ( this was the Mikkyō curriculum, shana being the abbreviation for Birushana, the Japanese transliteration of Vairocana ), and the shikangō course, based on the study of the Mo-ho chih-kuan, the seminal work of the T ’ ien-t ’ ai patriarch Chih-i 智顗 ( 538 – 597 ) ( this

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The Gandavyuha Sutra is thought to be the source of a cult of Vairocana that later gave rise to the Mahāvairocana-abhisaṃbodhi tantra, which in turn became one of two central texts in Shingon Buddhism and is included in the Tibetan canon as a carya class tantra.

There are several realisations that can accrue to the Shingon practitioner of which Dohan speaks in this connection, as Dr. James Sanford points out: there is the realisation that Amida is the Dharmakaya Buddha, Vairocana ; then there is the realisation that Amida as Vairocana is eternally manifest within this universe of time and space ; and finally there is the innermost realisation that Amida is the true nature, material and spiritual, of all beings, that he is ' the omnivalent wisdom-body, that he is the unborn, unmanifest, unchanging reality that rests quietly at the core of all phenomena '.

The front hall houses the Thousand Handed Avalokitesvara ( known as Kuan Yin in Chinese culture ) and the main hall in the back houses the Five Dhyani Buddhas, Amogasiddhi, Ratnasambhava, Vairocana, Amitabha and Akshobhya.

* Wayman, A and Tajima, R. 1998 The Enlightenment of Vairocana.

Its important to note that, because of the interdependence between emptyness and form, Vairocana is also a representation of collective phenomena, of the universe itself.

In Chinese and Japanese Buddhism, Vairocana is also seen as the embodiment of the Buddhist concept of Emptiness.

In the conception of the Five Wisdom Buddhas of Vajrayana Buddhism, Vairocana is at the centre.

Vairocana is not to be confused with Virocana, who appears in the eighth chapter of the Chandogya Upanishad as the king of the Asuras.

Vairocana features prominently in the Chinese schools of Tiantai, Hanmi Esoteric School and Hua-Yen Buddhism, also appearing in later schools including the Japanese Kegon and esoteric lineages of Tendai and Shingon.

In the case of Shingon and Hua-Yen schools, Vairocana is the central figure.

During the initial stages of his mission in Japan, the Catholic missionary Francis Xavier was welcomed by the Shingon monks since he used Dainichi, the Japanese name for Vairocana, to designate the Christian God.

The two most prominent statues were the giant standing Buddhas Vairocana and Sakyamuni, identified by the different mudras performed, measuring 55 and 37 metres ( 180 and 121 feet ) high respectively.

In the larger main room there is lotus pedestal and throne carved with makara, lion, and elephant figure, similar to the Buddha Vairocana throne founds in Mendut temple.

The Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty was a supporter of Shaolin Temple, and he wrote the calligraphic inscriptions that still hang over the Heavenly King Hall and the Buddha Hall today.

From 8: 00 a. m., Osho gave a 60-to 90-minute spontaneous lecture in the ashram's " Buddha Hall " auditorium, commenting on religious writings or answering questions from visitors and disciples.

Raigō paintings on the wooden doors of the Phoenix Hall, depicting the Descent of the Amida Buddha, are an early example of Yamato-e, Japanese-style painting, and contain representations of the scenery around Kyoto.

The second floor also consists of a Buddha Hall and a shrine dedicated to the goddess of mercy, Kannon.

There is the Welcoming Hall, the eight Chinese-styled pagodas that stand for the Noble Eightfold Path, Photo Terrace, Bodhi Square, Memorial Hall, four stupas that symbolize the Four Noble Truths, and the Fo Guang Buddha.

The Museums Act 1845 “ boroughs with a population of 10, 000 or more to raise a 1 / 2d for the establishment of museums .” In 1864 the first public exhibition room, was opened when the Society and other donors presented 64 pictures as well as the Sultanganj Buddha to Birmingham Council and these were housed in the Free Library building but, due to lack of space, the pictures had to move to Aston Hall.

Jade Buddha Temple's main courtyard and Grand Hall.

In addition, there are 3 floors beneath the Buddha statue: The Hall of Universe, The Hall of Benevolent Merit, and The Hall of Remembrance.

According to records kept by Tōdai-ji, more than 2, 600, 000 people in total helped construct the Great Buddha and its Hall.

The Great Buddha Hall ( Daibutsuden ) has been rebuilt twice after fire.

To the left of Preaching Hall is the Hall of the Recumbent Buddha ( wo fo dian ; 卧佛殿 ), where, behind a long, gilded altar, a gilded, bejeweled statue of Buddha stretches out almost twenty feet in length.

Opposite the Hall of the Recumbent Buddha is the Shandong Zhanshan Buddhist College ( Shandong Zhanshan Fo xue yuan ; 山东湛山佛学院 ).