Thirty-five-buddhas-of-confession: 1 definition
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Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Google Books: Path of the Bodhisattva WarriorEither the thirty-five Buddhas are used as a merit field in themselves, or else one first generates one’s usual merit field [as we described in the fourth preliminary] and then emanates the thirty-five Buddhas from it. In the latter process one first generates the standard merit field. Then from the heart of the central figure, who is in actual nature a symbol of one’s personal guru, there radiates forth thirty-five beams of light. These come from the guru’s heart and open out, like the strands of a whisk. On the tip of each ray is one of the thirty-five Buddhas. These take up their paces in the space in front of you.
Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.
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Full-text: Sakyamuni.
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