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Vairochana
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Vairochana

Cosmic Buddha, Dainichi in Japan; central to esoteric Buddhism.

He is usually depicted at the centre of mandalas. In Shingon Buddhism, all gods, all objects, and all thoughts are manifestations of Dainichi (‘great Sun’). Outside esoteric Buddhism, he is known in Japan as Birushana, and in Ryōbu Shinto is twinned with the Sun goddess Amaterasu.
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The Daibutsu, the great image of the Maha Vairocana Buddha at the temple of Todaiji in Nara, erected in about B.
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The original Tibetan text The Oral Transmission of Vairocana is included, along with commentary, diagrams, and photographs.
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Each color is associated with one of the five families of deities, each of these governed by a celestial Buddha (tathagata): Vairocana (white), Aksobhya (blue), Amitabha (red), Ramasambhava (yellow), and Amoghasiddhi (green).
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