Talk:Vairocana

Largest bronze?

Which is accurate: the largest bronze Buddha or the largest bronze Buddha? - Nat Krause 15:29, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Neither, but it is the largest bronze Vairocana Buddha =) Jpatokal 01:37, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Um, right. Well, I wonder what the largest bronze Buddha statue is, then? - Nat Krause 05:58, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hong Kong's Tian Tan Buddha is the largest bronze seated outdoor Buddha. No, I don't know if there's a bigger non-bronze, non-seated or non-outdoor Buddha out there.... Jpatokal 08:22, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Is 'largest' being measured by height, or something else, like mass or breadth here? Because if height is the measure, there are at least two taller bronze statues of Vairochana in Japan alone, made by the same company, no less!: the Echizen-Daibutsu in Fukui (17m) and the Showa-Daibutsu in Aomori (21m). Pokeplun (talk) 21:29, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

References

Mudras

I've qualified the article to say that Vairochana often displays the Dharmachakra mudra, given the image to the right. Melchoir 00:53, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Dainichi Nyorai

Dainichi Nyorai redirects to this article, but this article only once mentions the word Dainichi, leading me to think that this article has little or nothing to do with Dainichi Nyorai and vice versa. Can someone please clarify this for me? 172.190.90.154 04:41, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, that one mention of the word is enough: "Vairocana (also Vairochana or Mahavairocana; [...] Japanese: Dainichi Nyorai)", meaning that Dainichi Nyorai and Vairocana are two name in two different languages for the same subject. --Εξαίρετος (msg) 13:49, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Correct, the word "nyorai" just means "tathagata" as in the title. The actually name of the Buddha is just Vairocana or dainichi. --Ph0kin (talk) 10:05, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Too many pictures?

For an article this short, we have lots of good pictures of Vairocana. Perhaps we can move most of them into an album of some kind? I think it would improve readibility? --Ph0kin (talk) 10:07, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

wakyamuni is thus considered the nirmAOakAya of Vairocana while Vairocana is considered the saNbhogakAya of wakyamuni. http://books.google.com/books?id=DTWZLMGFFgkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+concept+of+the+buddha&cd=1#v=onepage&q=wakyamuni%20is%20thus%20considered%20the%20nirmAOakAya%20of%20Vairocana%20while%20Vairocana%20%20is%20considered%20the%20saNbhogakAya%20of%20wakyamuni.&f=false —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.153.97.122 (talk) 03:28, 21 February 2010 (UTC) Vairocana Buddha in the *AvataNsaka may be considered the saNbho- gakAya of wakyamuni and the Lotus World his Pure Land. From the same source —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.153.97.122 (talk) 14:54, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Bliss Body or Dharmakaya

I had learned that Vairocana was supposed to be the dharmakaya, not just a sambhogakaya (bliss body). Can anyone else confirm this? Apatheticresistance (talk) 23:44, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

According to the Fo Guang dictionary of Buddhism: "To every Buddha Mahāyāna attributed a three-fold body: [...] The trinity finds different methods of expression, e.g. Vairocana is entitled 法身, the embodiment of the Law, shining everywhere, enlightening all; Locana is 報身; cf. 三寶, the embodiment of purity and bliss; Śākyamuni is 化身 or Buddha revealed. In the esoteric sect they are 法 Vairocana, 報 Amitābha, and 化 Śākyamuni.". The official website of the japanese Soto school also confirms this data: "In the Tendai (C. Tiantai 天台) school's interpretation of the doctrine of the three bodies (sanshin 三身, S. trikāya) of Buddha, Birushana 毘盧遮那 is the dharma body (hosshin 法身, S. dharmakāya), Rushana 盧舍那 is the response body (ōshin應身, S. sambhogakāya)". So I was going to edit the article with this information, but apparently the Chinese version of this article says that different schools may consider Vairocana either the Dharmakaya, Sambhogakaya or Nirmanakaya; it doesn't cite a source for this information though. I'm new to editing the Wikipedia so I'm unsure of how to resolve this. FomenPeasant (talk) 21:03, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

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