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Hōshō Nyorai
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English
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Alternative forms
en Hosho Nyorai
Etymology
From en ja 宝生如来 Hōshō Nyorai.
Proper noun
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en Japanese mythology Buddhism The Japanese name for the Southern Buddha, Ratnasaṃbhava, one of the Five Tathagatas Five Dhyani Buddhas.
en https://www.google.com/books?id=pHmChgKIV0cC&pg=PA127 Sacred Koyasan Philip L. Nicoloff SUNY Press 9780791479292 2007 127 As we face Dainichi, the Buddha seated at our near left is Hōshō Nyorai, the Buddha of the South.
en http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8788 The Five Great Space Repository Bodhisattvas Hillary Pedersen University of Kansas dissertation 2010 208 The Hōshō Nyorai sculpture sits on a lotus base, which rests on the back of several seated, winged horses. The deity's left hand grasps the edge of the robe, the left rests on the knee, palm facing upward in the wish-granting mudra.
en https://www.google.com/books?id=Gl8EEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA289 Right Thoughts at the Last Moment Jacqueline I. Stone University of Hawaii Press 9780824867652 2016 289–290 Or if the dying person should manifest a sign presaging rebirth among any of the thirty-six kinds of hungry ghosts, the attendant should immediately intervene to save that person by performing the rites of Hōshō Nyorai, Kokūzō, Jizō, Thousand-Armed Kannon, Bodhisattva Perfection of Giving, and the rite of offering Deathbed Attendants
Coordinate terms
en Dainichi Nyorai
en Ashuku Nyorai
en Amida Nyorai
en Fukūjōju Nyorai
en Buddhas
Japanese
Romanization
Hōshō Nyorai
ほうしょうにょらい