Mañjuśrī

The sword and the book are his standard attributes; the retrieved treatment gives the vow and the quality and not the iconography, so the record gives the vow and the quality. TYPE deity IS THE NEAREST CATEGORY THIS SCHEMA HAS AND THE TRADITION DOES NOT USE IT. Buddhism does not regard a Buddha or a bodhisattva as a god; the devas this corpus already holds under the Buddhist key are, in this tradition's own view, unenlightened beings inside samsara, and the figures in this block stand above them precisely by NOT being gods. The record says so rather than letting the type field make the claim.

Domains

• wisdom

Relations

• of the eight great bodhisattvas with: AvalokiteśvaraIn-batch. The kind records a SET MEMBERSHIP the source states outright, on the footing lane 25 used for the circle of Hebat in the kaluti — it is not a claim about a relationship between two beings.Reference treatment of the eight great bodhisattvas: they are the eight principal attendants of the Buddhas in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism, representing the main enlightened qualities of the Buddha — Manjushri, Avalokiteshvara, Vajrapani, Maitreya, Ksitigarbha, Akasagarbha, Samantabhadra and Sarvanivaranaviskambhin; Tara, the embodiment of compassion and swift activity, is related to this bodhisattva tradition. (secondary)

Sources

• One of the three great bodhisattvas, who embodies wisdom, and who vowed to return as a bodhisattva to share the Buddha's teaching about voidness and selflessness.: Reference treatment of the eight great bodhisattvas: they are the eight principal attendants of the Buddhas in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism, representing the main enlightened qualities of the Buddha — Manjushri, Avalokiteshvara, Vajrapani, Maitreya, Ksitigarbha, Akasagarbha, Samantabhadra and Sarvanivaranaviskambhin; Manjushri embodies wisdom, Avalokiteshvara compassion, Vajrapani power; Maitreya represents loving-kindness and is prophesied to be the next Buddha when the teachings of Shakyamuni fade; Ksitigarbha embodies the vow to rescue beings from the lowest realms, particularly the hell realms; Samantabhadra's particular specialty is making the most potent aspirations and wishing prayers; Tara, the embodiment of compassion and swift activity, is related to this bodhisattva tradition. (secondary)