Adi-Buddha

“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

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.

Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891

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).

Mistaken Foreign Myths about Shambhala

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.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux

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].

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3

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.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3

The doctrine of the Adi-Buddha was not however new or really important.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3

Adi-Buddha [1028], or primordial Buddha God, from whom all other

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3

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

Adi-Buddha, but the Buddhas of Confession, the finite Sakya-Muni, are the objects of worship in these systems.

Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology