Vairocana
deity figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Lord Vairocana · the Ten-Powered One · the glorious Vairocana
in the texts
Caryāmelāpakapradīpa
Buddha identified with the total dissolution of the elements at the moment of death.
Having drawn up the whole element, held as both container and contained, the great body of Vairocana issues forth at the moment of death.
Kalpabuddha
The fifth Tathāgata, associated with taste, residence in the heart, and identified with the mind, completing the Divine Five-Souls (Pañcātma).
He who is the sense of taste is Lord Vairocana, residing in the heart, he is the mind.
Kunjarakarna Dharmakathana
The cosmic Buddha figure who opens the narrative preaching the Law to an assembly of gods.
"Ah, Lord Vairocana, your compassion is great and bears fruit!
For that reason he bowed in homage in every direction to the glorious Ten-Powered One.
The glorious Vairocana is the beginning of the story, at the time he was attended by the host of gods.