Ratnasambhava
Sign in to saveRatnasambhava (, lit. "Jewel-Born") is one of the Five Dhyani Buddhas (or "Five Meditation Buddhas") of Mahayana and Vajrayana or Tantric Buddhism. Ratnasambhava's mandalas and mantras focus on developing equanimity and equality and, in Vajrayana Buddhist thought is associated with the attempt to destroy greed and pride. His consort is Mamaki and his mount is a horse or a pair of lions.
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- Ratnasambhava
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- 华严寺大雄宝殿殿内明代东方阿閦佛造像组.jpg
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- 200px
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- Ming dynasty (1368-1644) statue of Ratnasambhava in Huayan Temple in Datong, Shanxi, China, one out of a set of statues of the Five Tathāgatas
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- रत्नसम्भव Ratnasambhava
- Buddha.burmese_name
- ရတနသမ္ဘဝ
- Buddha.khmer_name
- រតនសម្ភវៈ(ra-ta-na-som-pha-veak)
- Buddha.korean_name
- 보생여래 (RR: Bosaeng Yeorae)
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- (Traditional)寶生如來(Simplified)宝生如来 (Pinyin: Bǎoshēng Rúlái)
- Buddha.japanese_name
- (romaji: Hōshō Nyorai)
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- རིན་ཆེན་འབྱུང་གནས་ or རིན་ཆེན་འབྱུང་ལྡན་Wylie: rin chen 'byung gnasTHL: rin chen 'byung ldan
- Buddha.mongolian_name
- ᠡᠷᠳᠡᠨᠢ ᠭᠠᠷᠬᠣ ᠢᠢᠨ ᠣᠷᠣᠨЭрдэнэ гарахын орон Erdeni garkhu yin oron
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- Bảo Sanh Như Lai
- Buddha.veneration
- Mahāyāna, Vajrayana
- Buddha.attributes
- Equality, Equanimity
- Buddha.shakti
- Mamaki
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Ratnasambhava (, lit. "Jewel-Born") is one of the Five Dhyani Buddhas (or "Five Meditation Buddhas") of Mahayana and Vajrayana or Tantric Buddhism. Ratnasambhava's mandalas and mantras focus on developing equanimity and equality and, in Vajrayana Buddhist thought is associated with the attempt to destroy greed and pride. His consort is Mamaki and his mount is a horse or a pair of lions.
==Textual History== The first documented mention of Ratnasambhava is found in the Suvarṇaprabhāsa Sūtra and in the Guhyasamāja Tantra (4th Century CE), and he subsequently appears in a number of Vajrayana texts. The most elaborate account of him is to be found in the Pañcakara section of the Advayavajrasaṃgraha.