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- proper noun Buddhism The Primordial Buddha, a self-emanating, self-originating
Buddha , present before anything else existed.
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“Adi-Buddha” means Buddhahood based on the primordial state, the primordial basic purity of the mind.
Examining Karma Immediately after 9/11 ��� Session Three: The Laws and Varieties of Karma
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From recognizing no God at all at first, Buddhism had, by the seventh century A.D., a veritable Trinity, with attributes resembling those of the Triune God of the Christians, and by the tenth century it had five trinities with One Supreme Adi-Buddha over them all.
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The earliest Western material on the topic was an 1833 article entitled “Note on the Origins of the Kalachakra and Adi-Buddha Systems” by the Hungarian pioneer scholar Alexander Csomo de Körös (Körösi Csoma Sandor).
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Buddhism was so modified as to allow the worship of an eternal, supreme deity, Adi-Buddha, of whom the historic Buddha was declared to have been an incarnation, an avatar.
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The Kâlacakra adopted all the extravagances of the Tantras and provided the principal Buddhas and Bodhisattvas with spouses, even giving one to the Adi-Buddha himself [1031].
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Under the influence of the Kâlacakra the Lamas did not become theists in the sense of worshipping one supreme God but they identified with the Adi-Buddha some particular deity, varying according to the sects.
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The doctrine of the Adi-Buddha was not however new or really important.
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Adi-Buddha [1028], or primordial Buddha God, from whom all other
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In the tenth century we find what at first seems to be a growth out of Polytheism into Monotheism, for a new Being, to whom the attributes of infinity, self-existence and omniscience are ascribed, is invented and named Adi-Buddha, or the primordial Buddha.
The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji
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Adi-Buddha, but the Buddhas of Confession, the finite Sakya-Muni, are the objects of worship in these systems.
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