Viśuddhacāritra

Viśuddhacāritra (Sanskrit: विशुद्धचारित्र; also known as Pure Practice), is one of the four great primarily or eternally evolved bodhisattvas mentioned in the 15th chapter of the Lotus Sutra.^[1][2] He is considered to represent the "purity" characteristic of buddhahood, "Nirvana's freedom from all that is impure."^[3]

Viśuddhacāritra
Sanskrit	विशुद्धचारित्र Viśuddhacāritra
Chinese	淨行菩薩 (Pinyin: Jìngxíng Púsà)
Japanese	浄行菩薩（じょうぎょうぼさつ） (romaji: Jōgyō Bosatsu)
Khmer	វិសុទ្ធចារិត្រ (vi-sut-chaa-reut)
Korean	정행보살 (RR: Jeonghaeng Bosal)
Tagalog	Bisuddhakaritla
Tibetan	སྤྱོད་པ་རྣམ་པར་དག་ Wylie: spyod pa rnam par dag
Vietnamese	Tịnh Hạnh Bồ Tát
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Venerated by	Mahāyāna, Vajrayāna
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See also

• Supratisthitacaritra
• Visistacaritra

Notes

1. Reeves 2008, pp. 280 and 446
2. Kato 1993, p. 239
3. McCormick, Ryuei M. "The Bodhisattvas of the Earth" Nichirenscoffeehouse.net. Nichiren's Coffeehouse and Gohonzon Gallery, 2002. Web. 15 October 2014.

References

• Kato, Bunno (1993). The Threefold Lotus Sutra. Tokyo: Kosei Publishing Company. ISBN 4-333-00208-7.
• McCormick, Ryuei M. "The Bodhisattvas of the Earth" Nichirenscoffeehouse.net. Nichiren's Coffeehouse and Gohonzon Gallery, 2002. Web. 15 October 2014.
• Reeves, Gene (2008). The Lotus Sutra: A Contemporary Translation of a Buddhist Classic. Somerville: Wisdom Publications. ISBN 978-0-86171-571-8.

External links

• Soka Gakkai Nichiren Buddhism Library - Pure Practices