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Stamped images of the cosmic buddha Dainichi Nyorai (大日如来) dating to 1179, possibly from Negoroji Temple (根来寺) in Iwade, Wakayama Prefecture
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Stamped images of the cosmic buddha Dainichi Nyorai (大日如来) dating to 1179, possibly from Negoroji Temple (根来寺) in Iwade, Wakayama Prefecture
10/10 patterns on both kohaku
Mandala Ryōkai.
Golden and silver ink on silk, 411x366 cm
c.830
Kyōto, Jingoji.
Lobby card for Document Of Blood (Senketsu No Kiroku, 鮮血の記録), 1970, directed by Takashi Nomura (野村孝) and starring Akira Kobayashi (小林旭) and Kumi Mizuno (水野久美).
The cosmic buddha Dainichi Nyorai (大日如来) by the artist Kimura Buzan (木村武山), 1935, at Kongōbuji Temple (金剛峯寺) on Mount Kōya (高野山) in Wakayama Prefecture
Image from "Sacred Treasures of Mount Kōya: The Art of Japanese Shingon Buddhism" published by the Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2002, page 70
Sculpted images of the cosmic buddha Dainichi Nyorai (大日如来) flanked by Sonshō Butchō (尊勝仏頂) on the left and Kongōsatta (金剛薩埵) on the right enshrined in the Great Dharma Transmission Hall of Negoroji Temple (根来寺) in Iwade, Wakayama Prefecture, with Sonshō Butchō dating to 1405 and the other two to 1387
Photo by WolfgangMichel on March 9, 2012
A copy of the Hōryūji Goson Mandara (法隆寺五尊曼荼羅), a mandala dating to the 13th century depicting the five venerable divinities & saints then associated with Hōryūji Temple in present-day Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, with the cosmic buddha Dainichi Nyorai (大日如来) in the center, Kokūzō Bodhisattva (虛空藏菩薩) to the upper left, Nyoirin Kannon Bodhisattva (如意輪観音菩薩) to the upper right, the youthful regent and crucially significant lay patron Shōtoku Taishi (聖徳太子) (574-622) to the lower left, and the Shingon founder Kūkai (空海) a.k.a. Kōbō Daishi (弘法大師) (774-835) to the lower right, suggesting a diagonal correspondence between the celestial bodhisattvas above and the earthly saints below as well as a link between the latter two as incarnations of even earlier pivotal historic and semi-historic figures
Image from “Plotting the Prince: Shōtoku Cults and the Mapping of Medieval Japanese Buddhism” by Kevin Gray Carr, University of Hawai’i Press, 2012, page 63