Amoghavajra
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Amoghavajra was a prolific translator who became one of the most politically powerful Buddhist monks in Chinese history and is acknowledged as one of the Patriarchs of Zhenyan Buddhism and Shingon Bud
Portrait of Amoghavajra. Japan, Kamakura Period (14th century)
The Vajradhātu maṇḍala used in Amoghavajra's teachings from the Tattvasaṃgraha.
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Shingon Buddhism
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Shingon is one of the major schools of Buddhism in Japan and one of the few surviving Vajrayana lineages in East Asian Buddhism. It is a form of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism and is sometimes called "Tōm
Amoghavajra
…who became one of the most politically powerful Buddhist monks in Chinese history and is acknowledged as one of the Patriarchs of Zhenyan Buddhism and Shingon Buddhism. There are differing views as to where Amoghavajra's origins were from. Zhao Qian states that Amoghavajra was born in Samarkand of an Indian merchant…
Danjō garan of Kongōbu-ji, the head temple of the Kōyasan sect based in Mount Kōya
Kamakura-period statue of Thousand-armed Kannon at Sanjūsangen-dō in Kyoto, Japan.
Painting of Kūkai from a set of scrolls depicting the first eight patriarchs of the Shingon school. Japan, Kamakura period (13th–14th centuries).
Jingo-ji, on Mount Takao, the first major temple in which Kūkai worked on his return to Japan