Samantabhadra 普賢菩薩 Pǔxián Púsà
Samantabhadra (समन्तभद्र; "Universal Worthy") is a bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism associated with practice and meditation. Together with Gautama Buddha and his fellow bodhisattva Mañjuśrī, he forms the Shakyamuni trinity in Buddhism. He is the patron of the Lotus Sutra. Samantabhadra is associated with action, whereas Mañjuśrī is associated with prajñā (transcendent wisdom).
In the Nyingma (oldest of the four major schools 紅教) school of Tibetan Buddhism, Samantabhadra is also the name of the Adi-Buddha (原始佛 Primordial Buddha) – in indivisible Yab-Yum with his consort, Samantabhadrī (普賢王佛母 a dakini and female Buddha from the Vajrayana Buddhist tradition). Samantabhadri is white, the primary symbol of the wisdom aspect of mind - in contrast to her consort who is sky blue, representing limitlessness and formlessness. Like her consort she appears 'naked' (Sanskrit: digambara) and unadorned, representing the essential nature of mind. Samantabhadri is usually shown in yab-yum union with her consort but she is sometimes shown alone, seated in 'lotus posture' (also known as mahamudra) with her hands in meditation posture in her lap.
In the Lotus Sūtra, Samantabhadra is described at length in the epilogue, called the Samantabhadra Meditation Sutra (觀普賢菩薩行法經; Guān Pǔxián Púsà Xíngfǎ Jīng), with special detail given to visualization of the bodhisattva, and the virtues of devotion to him. According to the sutra itself, Samantabhadra was born in the east Pure Wonder Land and whose form was already mentioned clearly by the Buddha in the Avatamsaka Sutra. He is an adherent to the four practices:
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He practices the teachings of the Lotus Sutra.
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He protects the Dharma teachings from every kind of persecution.
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He witnesses the merits obtained by those who practice the teachings and the punishments of those who slander the Dharma or persecute the practitioners.
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He proves that those who violate the Dharma can be delivered from their transgressions if they are sincerely penitent.
In the Meditation Sutra, the Buddha describes Universal Virtue's body as unlimited in size, and the range of his voice and the forms of his image are also described as unlimited. Universal Virtue rides the white elephant for the sole purpose of guiding the people of Jambudvīpa, or the sahā-world, through practices that are associated with their environment. The bodhisattva riding on his white elephant is a symbolic image of Buddhist practice, as well as a representation of purity. The purity of the six sense organs is represented by the six tusks of Universal Virtue's white elephant.
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Statue of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva on Mount Emei, with his six-tusked elephants.
Mount Emei 峨眉山 Sichuan, China
