Vajrasattva
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Vajrasattva (Sanskrit: वज्रसत्त्व, Tibetan: རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ། Dorje Sempa, short form is རྡོར་སེམས། Dorsem)[1] is a bodhisattva in the Mahayana, Mantrayana/Vajrayana Buddhist traditions. In Chinese Buddhism and the Japanese Shingon tradition, Vajrasattva is the esoteric aspect of the bodhisattva Samantabhadra and is commonly associated with the student practitioner who through the master's teachings, attains an ever-enriching subtle and rarefied grounding in their esoteric practice. In Tibetan Buddhism, Vajrasattva is associated with the sambhogakāya and purification practice.
Vajrasattva | |
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Sanskrit | वज्रसत्त्व
Vajrasatva |
Chinese | 金剛薩埵菩薩
(Pinyin: Jīngāng Sàduǒ Púsà) |
Japanese | 金剛薩埵菩薩
(romaji: Kongōsatta Bosatsu) |
Khmer | វជ្រសត្វ (vach-cha-sat) |
Korean | 금강살타보살
(RR: Geumgang Salta Bosal) |
Mongolian | Доржсэмбэ |
Tagalog | Baklasattba |
Thai | พระวัชรสัตว์โพธิสัตว์ |
Tibetan | རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ་ Wylie: rdo rje sems dpa' THL: Dorje Sempa རྡོར་སེམས་ THL: Dorsem |
Vietnamese | Kim Cang Tát Đỏa Bồ Tát |
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Venerated by | Mahāyāna, Vajrayāna |
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Vajrasattva appears principally in two Buddhists texts: the Mahavairocana Sutra and the Vajrasekhara Sutra. In the Diamond Realm Mandala, Vajrasattva sits to the East near Akshobhya Buddha.
In some esoteric lineages, Nagarjuna was said to have met Vajrasattva in an iron tower in South India, and was taught tantra, thus transmitting the esoteric teachings to more historical figures.[2]
His mantra is oṃ Vajrasattva hūṃ (Sanskrit: ॐ वज्रसत्त्व हूँ; Chinese: 唵 斡資囉 薩答 啊 吽 / 嗡 班扎 薩埵 吽; Pinyin: ǎn wòzīluō sàdá a hōng / wēng bānzhā sàduǒ hōng).