Vajrabodhi
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Vajrabodhi (
Shingon Buddhism. He is notable for introducing Vajrayana Buddhism in the territories of the Srivijaya Empire which subsequently evolved into a distinct form known as Indonesian Esoteric Buddhism.[1]
Biography
Vajrabodhi was the second of three Vajrayana
Nālandā at the age of ten.[3]
He studied all varieties of Buddhism and was said to have studied for a time under the famous Buddhist logician
Vajrayāna teachings and was duly initiated into yoga
.
Leaving
Persian merchant-vessels,[4] and by AD 720 was ensconced in the Jianfu Temple at the Chinese capital, Chang'an (present-day Xi'an). Accompanying him was his soon-to-be-famous disciple, Amoghavajra
.
Like
Shingon and Esoteric branch of the Tendai school in Japan. Like Subhakarasimha, Vajrabodhi had ties to high court circles and enjoyed the patronage of imperial princesses; he also taught Korean monk Hyecho; who went on to travel India and Umayyad Persia. Vajrabodhi died in 741 and was buried south of the Longmen Grottoes
. He was posthumously awarded the title Guoshi ("Teacher of the Realm").
References
- ISBN 9789810999124.
- ^ Cho, Yi-Liang (2006). Tantrism in China. In: Payne, Richard, K. "Tantric Buddhism in East Asia", Wisdom Publications, pp.47-51.
- ISBN 9781317543275.
- ^ Iranian cultural impact on south-east Asia
Bibliography
- Sundberg, Jeffrey; Giebel, Rolf (2011). The Life of the Tang Court Monk Vajrabodhi as Chronicled by Lü Xiang (呂向): South Indian and Śrī Laṅkān Antecedents to the Arrival of the Buddhist Vajrayāna in Eighth-Century Java and China, Pacific World (3rd Series) 13, 129-222