| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fu Daishi 傅大士 | Ch: Fu Daishi. Buddhist Master Fu or Great Teacher Fu. The Chinese Buddhist layman Fu Xi (Jp: Fu Kyū 傅翕, 497-569)… |
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| Fudarakusen 補陀落山 | Sanskrit: Potalaka. Sometimes written 普陀楽山, 布落迦山; also called Fudaraku 補陀落. Octagonal island-mountain paradise inhabited by… |
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| Fudō Myōō 不動明王 | The chief of the Five Great Myōō, *Godai Myōō 五大明王, Fudō has been, and… |
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| Fugen 普賢 | Lit. "universally good" (Sk: Samantabhadra); also Henkitsu 遍吉. A bodhisattva, *bosatsu… |
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| Fuji mandara 富士曼荼羅 | Devotional paintings of Mt. Fuji 富士 in a large hanging scroll format. Usually they are in the form of sankei mandara… |
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| Fūjin Raijin 風神雷神 | Lit. "Wind God and Thunder God." Based on popular Indian deities (Sk: Vayu and Varun) and Chinese deities (Ch: Fengshen 風神… |
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| Fukūkenjaku Kannon 不空羂索観音 | Also known as Fukūkensaku Kannon. His name, "non-empty noose," is pronounced differently in Shingon 真言 (Fukaukenjaku) and… |
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| Fukurokuju 福禄寿 | ✓ | Ch: Fu Lu Shou. A popular deity of wealth (fuku 福), happiness (roku 禄), and longevity (ju 寿),… |
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| hachibushū 八部衆 | Abbreviation of tenryū hachibushū 天竜八部衆. Eight classes of Indian deities who were converted by *… |
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| Hachidai Dōji 八大童子 | Lit. "eight great youths." Eight attendants of either *Monju 文殊 or more commonly *… |
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| Hafuki no Amida 歯吹きの阿弥陀 | Lit. "*Amida 阿弥陀 with teeth exposed." An image of a standing Amida with his… |
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| Hakusan mandara 白山曼荼羅 | Devotional paintings of the cult of Hakusan 白山 (white mountains), a group of mountains that border Gifu, Fukui, Ishikawa,… |
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| Hannya bosatsu 般若菩薩 | In full Hannya-haramitsu (or Hannya-haramitta) bosatsu 般若波羅蜜(般若波羅蜜多)菩薩. A bodhisattva *… |
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| henge Kannon 変化観音 | The transformations in which *Kannon 観音 appears in order to save sentient beings. The… |
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| hiten 飛天 | Flying apsaras. Heavenly beings invisible to the human eye, believed to fly with superhuman power and speed. Found in Middle… |
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| hōkan Amida 宝冠阿弥陀 | Lit. "*Amida 阿弥陀 with a Jeweled Crown." A typical representation of Buddha… |
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| Hokekyō hensō 法華経変相 | Drawings or paintings, zu 図, depicting the doctrine and stories of the Lotus Sutra Hokekyō 法華経,… |
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| Hokke mandara 法華曼荼羅 | Lit. "Lotus Mandala." Also Hokekyō mandara 法華経曼荼羅 (mandala depiction of the Lotus Sutra), Hokekyō hōtō… |
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| Hokuto mandara 北斗曼荼羅 | A variety of mandala dedicated to specific deities *besson mandara 別尊曼荼羅… |
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| Hōnen 法然 | Commonly known as Hōnen Shōnin 法然上人 or St. Hōnen (1133-1212), founder of the Pure Land, Jōdo 浄土 sect in Japan. After early… |
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| honjibutsu 本地仏 | The original Buddhist identity of a Shinto deity *kami 神. Sometime before the… |
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| honjō-zu 本生図 | Lit. "Illustrations of original lives." The original lives; honjō 本生 or honshō, or former lives of… |
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| Hōrōkaku manadara 宝楼閣曼荼羅 | A specific type of mandala *besson mandara 別尊曼荼羅, based on the Daihō… |
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| Hoshi mandara 星曼荼羅 | Lit. "star mandara." A variety of dedicated mandala *Butsugen mandara… |
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| Hossō Rokuso 法相六祖 | Lit. "Six Patriarchs of the Hossō sect." In Japan: Shin'ei 神叡 (?-737), Genbō 玄昉 (?-746), Zenshu 善珠 (723-97), Gyōga 行賀 (729… |
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| Hotei 布袋 | ✓ | Ch: Budai. A semi-legendary, itinerant 10th-century Buddhist monk who became a popular subject in Chinese and Japanese ink… |
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