The Emperor Manjushri or Great Emperor Manjushri (Tibetan: འཇམ་དབྱངས་གོང་མ་ཆེན་པོ, Wylie: vjam dbyangs gong ma chen po; Chinese: 文殊皇帝; pinyin: Wénshū Huángdì; Manchu: ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠᠰᡳᡵᡳ ᡥᠠᠨ, Mölendorff: Manjusiri han or Chinese: 文殊大皇帝/曼殊師利大皇帝) was an honorific title in Tibetan Buddhism given to emperors of China's Qing dynasty, notably the Qianlong Emperor.
Kublai Khan, founder of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty, had been regarded by the Tibetan Buddhists as a reincarnation of Manjushri. The Yongle Emperor of the Ming dynasty promoted the idea that he too was the earthly manifestation of Manjushri and styled himself the wheel-turning king.[1][2] The emperors of the Qing dynasty further portrayed themselves as the incarnation of Manjushri and the wheel-turning king who brings peace to the world. The title (文殊菩薩皇帝 or 文殊大皇帝) was commonly used by the Tibetans as the opening words when addressing to the Qing court during the Shunzhi period,[3] and the Manchus referred to the Qing emperors as "Old Buddha" (佛爺).
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The EmperorManjushri or Great EmperorManjushri (Tibetan: འཇམ་དབྱངས་གོང་མ་ཆེན་པོ, Wylie: vjam dbyangs gong ma chen po; Chinese: 文殊皇帝; pinyin: Wénshū Huángdì;...
Manjushri (Sanskrit: मञ्जुश्री, romanized: Mañjuśrī) is a bodhisattva who represents prajñā (transcendent wisdom) of the Buddhas in Mahāyāna Buddhism...
Jinchuan and Taiwan. During his lifetime, he was given the deified title EmperorManjushri by the Qing's Tibetan subjects. Domestically, Qianlong was a major...
emperor was referred to as the "Emperor of China" (or "Chinese Emperor") and "the Great Emperor" (or "Great EmperorManjushri"), such as in the 1856 Treaty...
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Tibetan (on the west side). The height of the stone tablet is 598 cm. EmperorManjushri Tibet under Qing rule "喇嘛說 - 維基文庫，自由的圖書館". zh.wikisource.org....
during most of their rule. The reign of the Qianlong Emperor (respected as the EmperorManjushri) was the high mark for this promotion of Tibetan Buddhism...
Tibetans the Qing emperor was referred to as the "Emperor of China" (or "Chinese Emperor") and "the Great Emperor" (or "Great EmperorManjushri"), such as in...
"(Manchu) Emperor" by their Mongol subjects, and as "Emperor of China" (or "Chinese Emperor") and "the Great Emperor" (or "Great EmperorManjushri") by their...
dynasty. He is only known from an inscription in Eran, and a mention in the Manjushri-mula-kalpa. Only mentioned in the Eran inscription as a "Raja" and not...
Pala dynasty has also been branded as Shudra in some sources such as Manjushri-Mulakalpa. A medieval writer Abul Fazl going by this tradition described...
རྒྱ་ནག་གོང་མ་, rgya nag gong ma) and "the Great Emperor" (or "Great EmperorManjushri", in Tibetan: འཇམ་དབྱངས་གོང་མ་ཆེན་པོ, vjam dbyangs gong ma chen po)...
Ejen), and Qing emperors were referred to as "Emperor of China" (or "Chinese Emperor") and "the Great Emperor" (or "Great EmperorManjushri") by their Tibetan...
"(Manchu) Emperor" by their Mongol subjects, and as "Emperor of China" (or "Chinese Emperor") and "the Great Emperor" (or "Great EmperorManjushri") by their...
"(Manchu) Emperor" by their Mongol subjects, and as "Emperor of China" (or "Chinese Emperor") and "the Great Emperor" (or "Great EmperorManjushri") by their...
while according to the Puranas, he ruled for 25 years. The Buddhist text Manjushri-Mula-Kalpa claims that he ruled for 70 years, which is not historically...
accompanied the Buddha of wisdom, Manjushri. This lion dog had the ability to turn himself into a lion to carry Manjushri on his back. The physical features...
under the supervision of the bodhisattva Manjushri and an arhat with a khakkhara (xīzhàng) staff. Manjushri is usually depicted in the costume of a meditation...
(单檐歇山顶). Five statues of Manjushri with different appearance enshrined in the hall. In the spring of 1750, Qianlong Emperor visited Mount Wutai and wrote...
Sri Lanka Silver Manjushri, Sailendra, early 9th century Central Java, National Museum Bodhisattva Manjushri as Tikshna-Manjushri (Minjie Wenshu), China...
center of Pushyamitra's anti-Buddhist campaign. The medieval-era Arya-Manjushri-Mula-Kalpa mentions a wicked and foolish king named Gomimukhya ("cattle-faced")...
1872 – October 1937) was recognized as the 6th reincarnate of the Donkor-Manjushri Gegen. He served as chief abbot of the Manjusri Monastery and later was...
principally enshrines statues of Vairocana Buddha and the Bodhisattvas Manjushri and Samantabhadra. In addition, a total of 5,050 wood-carved Buddha statues...
The writings of Xuanzang and an 8th century Buddhist text, the Arya-manjushri-mula-kalpa suggest that the dynasty belonged to the Vaishya caste. The...
monkeys living in the north-west parts of the temple. They are holy because Manjushri, the bodhisattva of wisdom and learning, was raising the hill which the...
visit, Yongle promoted the idea that he was the earthly manifestation of Manjushri just like Kublai Khan and styled himself a Buddhist sage ruler. A large...
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