7/8th-century Indian Vajrayana Buddhist monk and teacher in Tang-dynasty China
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Vajrabodhi
Painting of Vajrabodhi. Japan, Kamakura period (14th century)
Personal
Born
c. 671
Central India or Odisha
Died
c. 741 CE
China
Religion
Buddhism
School
Vajrayana
Education
Nalanda
Senior posting
Students
Amoghavajra
Vajrabodhi (Sanskrit: वज्रबोधि, Chinese: 金剛智; pinyin: Jīngāng Zhì, 671–741 CE) was an Indian esoteric Buddhist monk and teacher in Nalanda and later in Tang China. He is one of the eight patriarchs in 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]
^Krishnan, Gauri Parimoo (2016). Nalanda, Srivijaya and Beyond: Re-exploring Buddhist Art in Asia. Asian Civilisations Museum and University of Hawaii Press. p. 192. ISBN 9789810999124.
Vajrabodhi (Sanskrit: वज्रबोधि, Chinese: 金剛智; pinyin: Jīngāng Zhì, 671–741 CE) was an Indian esoteric Buddhist monk and teacher in Nalanda and later in...
prominent in China due to the careers of two South Asian monks, Vajrabodhi and Amoghavajra. Vajrabodhi or Vajrabuddhi was the son of a South Indian aristocrat...
source in the theory and practice of tantric rituals. After monks such as Vajrabodhi and Śubhakarasiṃha brought Tantra to Tang China (716 to 720), tantric...
and early 8th century by the Indian esoteric masters Divākara (685 CE), Vajrabodhi (723 CE), and Amoghavajra (8th century). In iconographic form, she is...
the Tang dynasty period with the arrival of esoteric masters such as Vajrabodhi and Amoghavajra to the capital city of Chang'an. The succeeding Song dynasty...
candidates for Taoist examinations. In 726 he called upon the Indian monk Vajrabodhi (671–741) to perform tantric rites to avert a drought. In 742 he personally...
centuries) by Indian vajrācāryas (esoteric masters) like Śubhakarasiṃha, Vajrabodhi and Amoghavajra. These esoteric teachings would later flourish in Japan...
flourished among the Chinese people. The Tantric masters Śubhakarasiṃha, Vajrabodhi and Amoghavajra, established the Esoteric Buddhist Zhenyan (Chinese: 真言...
after his father's death. In 719, he was ordained into the sangha by Vajrabodhi and became his disciple. After all foreign monks were expelled from China...
mantra is in a collection of mantras (T.866) translated into Chinese by Vajrabodhi (c. 671-741) in 723 CE called A Summary of Recitations Taken from the...
founder of the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism. Indian monks, such as Vajrabodhi, also travelled to Indonesia to propagate Buddhism. The decline of Buddhism...
the Guhyasamāja Tantra. Other figures in his lineage include Nagabodhi, Vajrabodhi, Aryadeva-pada and Candrakirti-pada. Later figures include Bodhibhadra...
Subhūticandra, Indian Buddhist scholar active in the 11th and 12th century Vajrabodhi, 7th–8th century Indian esoteric monk and one of the patriarchs of Chinese...
Atisha, Dharmapala, a professor of Nalanda, and the South Indian Buddhist Vajrabodhi. Srivijaya was the largest Buddhist empire ever formed in Indonesian history...
tantric texts and commentaries systematizing the tradition. Others such as Vajrabodhi and Śubhakarasiṃha brought tantra to Tang China (716 to 720), and tantric...
Indian monks responsible for propagating Esoteric Buddhism in China, Vajrabodhi and Amoghavajra, visited the island during this time. Abhayagiri remained...
embassy was definitely led by the venerated Southern Indian Buddhist Monk Vajrabodhi. The Chinese emperor also sent an ambassador to confer by brevet the title...
in the history of Chinese Buddhism was the arrival of Subhakarasimha, Vajrabodhi, and Amoghavajra, and their establishment of Chinese Esoteric Buddhism...
may be credited in part to the writings of Amoghavajra and his teacher Vajrabodhi. While some scholars have put forward the theory that Acala originated...
during the Tang dynasty by Indian tantric masters like Śubhakarasiṃha, Vajrabodhi and Amoghavajra. Chinese esoteric Buddhist practice was based on deity...
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