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Samantabhadra

Samantabhadra
Massive golden buddha on the sumit of Eimei Shan.jpg
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese 普贤菩萨
Traditional Chinese 普賢菩薩
Tibetan name
Tibetan ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabet Phổ Hiền Bồ Tát
Thai name
Thai พระสมันตภัทรโพธิสัตว์
Korean name
Hangul 보현보살
Hanja 普賢菩薩
Mongolian name
Mongolian Гүндэсамбуу, Самандaбадраа, Хамгаар Сайн
Japanese name
Kanji 普賢菩薩
Sinhalese name
Sinhalese සුමන සමන් ‍දෙවි

Samantabhadra (Sanskrit, "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 and, according to the Avatamsaka Sutra, made the ten great vows which are the basis of a bodhisattva. In China, Samantabhadra is associated with action, whereas Mañjuśrī is associated with prajñā. In Japan, this bodhisattva is often venerated by the Tendai and in Shingon Buddhism, and as the protector of the Lotus Sutra by Nichiren Buddhism. In the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism, Samantabhadra is also the name of the Adi-Buddha – in indivisible Yab-Yum with his consort, Samantabhadrī.

In the Lotus Sūtra, Samantabhadra is described at length in the epilogue, called the Samantabhadra Meditation Sutra (Chinese: 觀普賢菩薩行法經; pinyin: Guān Pǔxián Púsà Xíngfǎ Jīng), with special detail given to visualization of the bodhisattva, and the virtues of devotion to him.


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