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Mahasthamaprapta, the Glossary

Mahāsthāmaprāpta is a bodhisattva mahāsattva who represents the power of wisdom.^[1]

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Amitayurdhyana Sutra

The Amitāyurdhyāna Sūtra (Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit);; Vietnamese: Phật Thuyết Kinh Quán Vô Lượng Thọ Phật; English: Sutra on the Visualization of Immeasurable Life) is a Mahayana sutra in Pure Land Buddhism, a branch of Mahāyāna Buddhism.Buswell, Robert E.; Lopez, Donald S. Mahasthamaprapta and Amitayurdhyana Sutra are pure Land Buddhism.

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Amitābha

Amitābha (अमिताभ; 'Infinite Light') is the principal Buddha of Pure Land Buddhism. Mahasthamaprapta and Amitābha are pure Land Buddhism.

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Avalokiteśvara

In Buddhism, Avalokiteśvara (meaning "God looking down (upon the world)", IPA), also known as Lokeśvara ("Lord of the World") and Chenrezig (in Tibetan), is a tenth-level bodhisattva associated with great compassion (mahakaruṇā). Mahasthamaprapta and Avalokiteśvara are bodhisattvas.

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Ākāśagarbha

Ākāśagarbha (Standard Tibetan: Namkha'i Nyingpo) is a bodhisattva in Chinese, Japanese and Korean Buddhism who is associated with the great element (mahābhūta) of space (''ākāśa''). Mahasthamaprapta and Ākāśagarbha are bodhisattvas.

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Śūraṅgama Sūtra

The Śūraṅgama Sūtra (Sūtra of the Heroic March) (Taisho no. 945) is a Mahayana Buddhist sutra that has been especially influential on Korean Buddhism (where it remains a major subject of study in Sŏn monasteries) and Chinese Buddhism (where it was a regular part of daily liturgy during the Song).

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Bodhisattva

In Buddhism, a bodhisattva (English:; translit) or bodhisatva is a person who is on the path towards bodhi ('awakening') or Buddhahood. Mahasthamaprapta and bodhisattva are bodhisattvas.

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Chinese Buddhism

Chinese Buddhism or Han Buddhism (p) is a Chinese form of Mahayana Buddhism which draws on the Chinese Buddhist canonJiang Wu, "The Chinese Buddhist Canon" in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism, p. 299, Wiley-Blackwell (2014). Mahasthamaprapta and Chinese Buddhism are Buddhism in China.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China.

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Griddharaj Parvat

Griddharaj Parvat, which means "the hill of vultures" (also called Griddhakut Parvat, known locally as Giddhaila Pahar and known in English as Vulture Peak), is a hill of religious, archeological and ecological importance.

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Guanyin

Guanyin is a Bodhisattva associated with compassion.

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Japanese language

is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.

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Kṣitigarbha

Kṣitigarbha (क्षितिगर्भ,, ས་ཡི་སྙིང་པོ་ Wylie: sa yi snying po) is a bodhisattva primarily revered in East Asian Buddhism and usually depicted as a Buddhist monk. Mahasthamaprapta and Kṣitigarbha are bodhisattvas and Buddhism in China.

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Khara-Khoto

Khara-Khoto (Хар хот (Khar Khot); "black city"), also known as Heishuicheng or Heishui City, is an abandoned city in the Ejin Banner of Alxa League in western Inner Mongolia, China, near the Juyan Lake Basin.

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Longer Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra

The Longer Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra (Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit),; Vietnamese: Phật Thuyết Kinh Vô Lượng Thọ; Japanese: Taisho Tripitaka # 360) is one of the two Indian Mahayana sutras which describe the pure land of Amitābha. Together with the Shorter Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra, this text is highly influential in China and Japan where it is revered by the Jōdo-shū and Jōdo Shinshū congregations. Mahasthamaprapta and Longer Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra are pure Land Buddhism.

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Lotus Sutra

The Lotus Sūtra (Sanskrit: Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtram, Sūtra on the White Lotus of the True Dharma, 妙法蓮華經) is one of the most influential and venerated Buddhist Mahāyāna sūtras.

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Mahayana

Mahāyāna is a term for a broad group of Buddhist traditions, texts, philosophies, and practices developed in ancient India (onwards).

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Mahāsattva

A mahāsattva is a great bodhisattva who has practiced Buddhism for a long time and reached a very high level on the path to awakening (bodhi). Mahasthamaprapta and mahāsattva are bodhisattvas.

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Maitreya

Maitreya (Sanskrit) or Metteyya (Pali), is a bodhisattva who is regarded as the future Buddha of this world in all schools of Buddhism, prophesied to become Maitreya Buddha or Metteyya Buddha. Mahasthamaprapta and Maitreya are bodhisattvas.

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Manjushri

Manjushri (Mañjuśrī) is a bodhisattva who represents prajñā (transcendent wisdom) of the Buddhas in Mahāyāna Buddhism. Mahasthamaprapta and Manjushri are bodhisattvas.

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Nianfo

The Nianfo, alternatively in Japanese as,, or in niệm Phật, is a Buddhist practice central to the tradition of Pure Land Buddhism, though not exclusive to it. Mahasthamaprapta and Nianfo are pure Land Buddhism.

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Nio (Buddhism)

are two wrathful and muscular guardians of the Buddha standing today at the entrance of many Buddhist temples in East Asian Buddhism in the form of frightening wrestler-like statues. Mahasthamaprapta and Nio (Buddhism) are bodhisattvas and Buddhism in China.

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Pinyin

Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese.

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Prajñā (Buddhism)

() or is a Buddhist term often translated as "wisdom", "insight", "intelligence", or "understanding".

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Pure Land Buddhism

Pure Land Buddhism or Pure Land School (translit;; Tịnh độ tông; also known as Amidism) is a broad branch of Mahayana Buddhism focused on achieving rebirth in a Pure Land. Mahasthamaprapta and Pure Land Buddhism are Buddhism in China.

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Revised Romanization of Korean

Revised Romanization of Korean is the official Korean language romanization system in South Korea.

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Romanization of Japanese

The romanization of Japanese is the use of Latin script to write the Japanese language.

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Samadhi

Statue of a meditating Shiva, Rishikesh Samādhi (Pali and समाधि), in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and yogic schools, is a state of meditative consciousness.

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Samantabhadra (Bodhisattva)

Samantabhadra (lit. "Universal Worthy", "All Good") is a great bodhisattva in Buddhism associated with practice and meditation. Mahasthamaprapta and Samantabhadra (Bodhisattva) are bodhisattvas.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Sarvanivāraṇaviṣkambhin

Sarvanīvaraṇaviṣkambhin is a bodhisattva revered in Mahāyāna Buddhism. Mahasthamaprapta and Sarvanivāraṇaviṣkambhin are bodhisattvas.

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Shi Yinguang

Shi Yinguang (11 January 1862 – 2 December 1940), or Yinguang for short, was a Chinese Buddhist monk and considered the 13th Patriarch of the Pure Land tradition.

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Shingon Buddhism

is one of the major schools of Buddhism in Japan and one of the few surviving Vajrayana lineages in East Asian Buddhism.

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The Buddha

Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism.

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Thirteen Buddhas

The is a Japanese grouping of Buddhist deities, particularly in the Shingon and Tendai sects of Buddhism. Mahasthamaprapta and Thirteen Buddhas are bodhisattvas.

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Tibetan Buddhism

Tibetan Buddhism is a form of Buddhism practiced in Tibet, Bhutan and Mongolia.

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Vajrapani

(Sanskrit; Pali: Vajirapāṇi, 'holder of the thunderbolt', lit. meaning, "Vajra in hand") is one of the earliest-appearing bodhisattvas in Mahayana Buddhism. Mahasthamaprapta and Vajrapani are bodhisattvas.

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Vajrayana

Vajrayāna (वज्रयान; 'vajra vehicle'), also known as Mantrayāna ('mantra vehicle'), Mantranāya ('path of mantra'), Guhyamantrayāna ('secret mantra vehicle'), Tantrayāna ('tantra vehicle'), Tantric Buddhism, and Esoteric Buddhism, is a Buddhist tradition of tantric practice that developed in Medieval India and spread to Tibet, Nepal, other Himalayan states, East Asia, parts of Southeast Asia and Mongolia.

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Western Xia

The Western Xia or the Xi Xia (西夏|w.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahasthamaprapta

Also known as Mahāsthāmaprāpta, Seishi Bosatsu.

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