大日如来

See also: 大日如來

Chinese
For pronunciation and definitions of 大日如来 – see 大日如來 (“Vairocana”).
(This term, 大日如来, is the simplified form of 大日如來.)
Notes:

Japanese
大日如来 (Dainichi Nyorai): a statue of the Vairocana Buddha at Tōdai-ji in Nara.
Kanji in this term
大 日 如 来
だい
Grade: 1		 にち
Grade: 1		 にょ
Grade: S		 らい
Grade: 2
on’yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 大日如來 (MC dɑiH ȵiɪt̚ ȵɨʌ lʌi). Compare modern Mandarin 大日如來／大日如来 (Dàrì Rúlái).

Middle Chinese 大日如來 is a compound of 大日 + 如來, where 大日 (literally “great sun”) is a translation of Sanskrit महावैरोचन (Mahāvairocana, the name of this Buddhist entity)[1][2], and 如來 is an abbreviation of either 如去如來 or 如來如去 (“coming from suchness, going back into suchness”), translations of Sanskrit तथागत (tathāgata, “coming from suchness, going back into suchness; thus coming, thus going”, exact meaning uncertain, see Tathāgata on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )[1][2].

Pronunciation
  • On’yomi
    • (Tokyo) だいにちにょ​らい [dàíníchí nyóꜜràì] (Nakadaka – [5])[3]
    • IPA(key): [da̠iɲ̟it͡ɕi ɲ̟o̞ɾa̠i]

Proper noun

大日如来 (hiragana だいにちにょらい, rōmaji Dainichi Nyorai)

  1. (religion, Buddhism) Dainichi Nyorai: the sun Buddha, called Vairocana or Mahāvairocana; the embodiment of the Buddhist concept of emptiness or sunyata, one of the Five Dhyani Buddhas, and an important entity in Shingon Buddhism

Coordinate terms

The 五智如来 (Go Chi Nyorai, “Five Dhyani Buddhas”) and associated directions are:

Further reading

References
  1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
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