Viśuddhacāritra (Sanskrit: विशुद्धचारित्र; also known as Pure Practice), is one of the four great primarily or eternally evolved bodhisattvas mentioned in the 15th chapter of the Lotus Sutra.[1][2] He is considered to represent the "purity" characteristic of buddhahood, "Nirvana's freedom from all that is impure."[3]
| Viśuddhacāritra | |
|---|---|
| Sanskrit | विशुद्धचारित्र Viśuddhacāritra |
| Chinese | 淨行菩薩 (Pinyin: Jìngxíng Púsà) |
| Japanese | 浄行菩薩 (romaji: Jōgyō Bosatsu) |
| Khmer | វិសុទ្ធចារិត្រ (vi-sut-chaa-reut) |
| Korean | 정행보살
(RR: Jeonghaeng Bosal) |
| Tagalog | Bisuddhakaritla |
| Tibetan | སྤྱོད་པ་རྣམ་པར་དག་ Wylie: spyod pa rnam par dag |
| Vietnamese | Tịnh Hạnh Bồ Tát |
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| Venerated by | Mahāyāna, Vajrayāna |
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editReferences
edit- Kato, Bunno (1993). The Threefold Lotus Sutra. Tokyo: Kosei Publishing Company. ISBN 4-333-00208-7.
- McCormick, Ryuei M. "The Bodhisattvas of the Earth" Nichirenscoffeehouse.net. Nichiren's Coffeehouse and Gohonzon Gallery, 2002. Web. 15 October 2014.
- Reeves, Gene (2008). The Lotus Sutra: A Contemporary Translation of a Buddhist Classic. Somerville: Wisdom Publications. ISBN 978-0-86171-571-8.
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