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	akshobhya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In Vajrayana Buddhism, Akshobhya (Sanskrit for "Immovable One", Jp.
		By convention he is located in the east of the Diamond Realm and is the Lord of the Eastern Pure Land Abhirati, although the Pure Land of Akshobhya's western counterpart Amitabha is popularly far better known.
		Akshobhya appears in the "Scripture of the Buddha-land of Akshobhya" (阿閃仏国経 Ashuku Bukkyokukyō), dating from 147 CE and the oldest known Pure Land text.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /akshobhya.html (239 words)

	Akshobhya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Akshobhya appears in the "Scripture of the Buddha-land of Akshobhya" (阿閃仏国経 Ashuku Bukkyokukyō), dating from 147 CE and the oldest known Pure Land text.
		Akshobhya’s emblem is the vajra, the symbol of Vajrayana Buddhism.
		Thus is Akshobhya touching the earth with the fingertips of his right hand, the earth too being a symbol of the immutable, the solid, and the concrete.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Akshobhya (466 words)

	Akshobhya-Dhyani Buddha of Mirrorlike Wisdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the mandala of the Five Dhyani Buddhas, Akshobhya is usually positioned in the east (which is at the bottom) but he is sometimes placed in the center.
		Akshobhya's lotus throne is supported by the elephant, symbol of steadfastness and strength.
		Akshobhya's bija is Hum and his mantra is Om Akshobhya Hum.
	www.tsl.org /Masters/buddhas/dhyani/akshobhya.html (298 words)

	In Vajrayana Vajrayana Buddhism Akshobhya Sanskrit Sanskrit for Immovable One Jp...
		In Vajrayana Vajrayana Buddhism Akshobhya Sanskrit Sanskrit for Immovable One Jp...
		In Vajrayana Vajrayana Buddhism, "Akshobhya" (Sanskrit Sanskrit for "Immovable One", Jp Jp.
		Akshobhya appears in the "Scripture of the Buddha-land of Akshobhya" (阿閃仏国経 "Ashuku Bukkyokukyō"), dating from 147 147 CE and the oldest known Pure Land text.
	www.biodatabase.de /Akshobhya (259 words)

	Shri Akshobhya Teertharu
		Shripad Akshobhya Teertharu was born in 1159 Sakabja Era (1238 AD) and was the last of Madhwa's direct disciples to sit on the Vedanta Pitha.
		In the year 1336 AD., Shri Akshobhya Teertharu had a scholarly disputation with Shri Vidyaranya on the interpretation of the "Tatvam-asi" ("You are the same as" or "I am that") 'Shruthi' text.
		Empowered by Akshobhya Teertharu he caused such a stir by even pointing out the differences in the basic understandings of 'Adwaita' philosophy of their own leading Sankarites like Vacaspati, Vivarankara, Amalananda, Citsukha and Vijnanashana, giving further strength to the Vaishnavas truths and making the 'mayavadis' all look all the more foolish.
	www.uttaradimath.org /akshobhya.htm (847 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Akshobhya is a one of the five jinas or `victor' Buddhas.
		In the Asian context, east is understood to be at the bottom and the practitioner usually moves clockwise to the south, west, and north, respectively.
		Akshobhya may also appear in the center of the mandala during the completion stages of certain meditations.
	kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu /exhib/sama/jina/pgs/T1041M.html (116 words)

	Mahakaruna Foundation - Akshobhya Practice
		In the Akshobhya sutra, the Buddha Sakyamuni himself extolled the perseverence of Akshobhya in actualizing this intention so powerfully that countless beings have been saved from the intense suffering of lower states of existence.
		Akshobhya meditation can liberate the not only the practitioner him or herself from the fear of inauspicious rebirth, but other beings as well.
		Akshobhya explicitly promised that the merit generated by reciting one-hundred-thousand of his long dyani mantra and creating an image of him could be dedicated to another person, even someone long deceased, and they would be assured of release from lower states of existence and rebirth in spiritually fortunate circumstances.
	www.mahakaruna.com /akshobhya.html (505 words)

	Akshobhya -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In (Click link for more info and facts about Vajrayana) Vajrayana Buddhism, Akshobhya (((Hinduism) an ancient language of India (the language of the Vedas and of Hinduism); an official language of India although it is now used only for religious purposes) Sanskrit for "Immovable One", (Click link for more info and facts about Jp) Jp.
		Akshobhya appears in the "Scripture of the Buddha-land of Akshobhya" (阿閃仏国経 Ashuku Bukkyokukyō), dating from (Click link for more info and facts about 147) 147 CE and the oldest known Pure Land text.
		According to the scripture, a monk wished to practice the Dharma in the eastern world of delight and made a vow to think no anger or malice towards any being until (Education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge) enlightenment.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ak/akshobhya.htm (356 words)

	Buddhist Mantra ( Second Eddition ): This site was created to give buddhist infomation about buddhism
		Akshobhya is also mentioned in several Mahayana sutras, the Vimalakirti Nirdesa being the most famous.
		Akshobhya as a monk is said to have taken a vow before the buddha who, endlessly long ago, reigned over Abhirati, never to feel disgust or anger towards any being.
		Akshobhya rules over the element of water and personifies the skandha of form.
	www.freewebs.com /buddhist_mantra2/buddhaakshobhya.htm (336 words)

	Sripad Akshobhya Tirtha and -Jaya Tirtha
		Sripad Akshobhya Tirtha was born in 1159 Sakabja Era (1238 AD) and was the last of Madhwa's direct disciples to sit on the Vedanta Pitha.
		Sripad Akshobhya Tirtha moved after this a little north to Pandharapur on the banks of the Bhima-rathi River, which is where he met his future disciple Jaya Tirtha.
		Sripad Akshobhya Tirtha who is believed to be a Rudra-amshi (a partial incarnation of the aspect of Lord Shiva), has his 'brindavana' (samadhi) on the banks of river Kagini in a place called Malkeda (Karnataka).
	www.salagram.net /gp-Akshobhya-JT.htm (2436 words)

	Akshobhya Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Akshobhya Buddha established his enlightened intention to enable us to be able to purify any degree of non-virtue even the extreme non-virtue of hatred, violence, and killing.
		Akshobhya explicitly promised that the merit generated by reciting one-hundred-thousand of his long dyani mantra and creating an image of him could be dedicated to another person, even someone long deceased.
		If you would like to undertake an Akshobhya retreat yourself to practice on behalf of the persons who have been sponsored by their loved ones and friends, please email Elise de Grande.
	www.chagdud.org /en/khadro_ling/projects/akshobhya.htm (480 words)

	The Berzin Archives - Buddha-Family Traits (Buddha-Families) and Aspects of Experience
		Akshobhya (blue, center) represents the aggregate of types of consciousness.
		Akshobhya represents mirror-like deep awareness (according to Gelug, the deep awareness of the sphere of reality).
		To work with any Buddha-family, such as that of Amitabha, we need to put together, in a meaningful manner, all the various aspects that are associated with the Buddha-nature aspects that are its family-traits.
	www.berzinarchives.com /tantra/buddha_family_traits.html (1077 words)

	Tibetan Thangka Paintings - Tibetan Motifs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Akshobhya is next in importance among the Dhyani Buddhas.
		Each spire or stop represents a heaven, the uppermost portion being a point which is supposed to be the highest peak of Mount Sumeru, a mythical mountain whence the Boddhichitta loses itself in sunya.
		Gesture and attitude are equally characteristic of the historic Buddha Sakyamuni and of his earthly predecessors.
	www.yoursourceinjapan.com /thangka/motifs.htm (11738 words)

	Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism: Akshobhya
		Akshobhya means immovable; hence this Buddha is also known by the name Immovable.
		According to the Land of Akshobhya Buddha Sutra, Akshobhya Buddha carried out his bodhisattva practice under the Buddha Large Eyes and attained enlightenment, completely freeing himself from all animosity and earthly desires, and now preaches in the Land of Joy.
		Akshobhya Buddha, who is said to dwell in the east, appears in many Mahayana sutras along with Amida Buddha of the west.
	www.sgi-usa.org /buddhism/library/sgdb/lexicon.cgi?tid=2283 (174 words)

	Buddha's head reunited with torso - theage.com.au
		For more than 1300 years, the Akshobhya Buddha, one of four large statues of Buddha at the Four Gate Pagoda in China's Shandong Province, sat solemnly looking eastward, face locked in a beatific expression.
		The Four Gate Pagoda, built in 611 during the Sui dynasty as part of the Shentong Monastery, was closed to the public as the Chinese Government dealt with this embarrassing blow to its efforts to protect a site that had been a top priority for historic preservation.
		On December 17, the Akshobhya Buddha was returned to its torso - this time affixed to the shoulders by a steel rod.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/01/09/1041990047967.html (463 words)

	entities ~ metaxu buddhism
		Nila Tara, Blue Tara, the Shakti of Akshobhya, the second Dhyani Buddha.
		The Buddhas Vairocana, Akshobhya, Ratnasambhava, Amitabha, Amoghasiddhi, (the Dhyani Buddhas), and Vajrapani and Lokeshvara.
		The spiritual son of the Dhyani-Buddha Akshobhya and his shakti Mamaki.
	metaxu.to /buddhism/entities.php (3814 words)

	[Advaita-l] Re: Epigraphica about Vidyaranya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		229--230, which says about Akshobhya T.: == begin quote His chief claim to recognition rests on the incident of his historic disputation with Vidyaranya, on the purport of the `tattvamasi' text, a disputation which is believed to have taken place at Mulbagal, ten miles from Kolar.
		This tradition is corroborated [1] by the vedAntadeshika-vaibhavaprakAshikA of Mahacharya (16th century) and by the still earlier (15th cent.) work of Brahmatantra Svatantra Jeer III, accounted to have been the third in spiritual succession from Desika, at the Parakala Matha, in Mysore.
		A covert allusion to Akshobhya's victory is perhaps intended by Jayatirtha, in one of the introductory verses of his TP: durvAdivAraNavidAraNadaxadIxamaxobhyatIrthamR^igarAjamahaM namAmi
	www.advaita-vedanta.org /archives/advaita-l/2003-June/012563.html (412 words)

	Dharma Drum Mountain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Master Sheng Yen, in his address, recounts that even in the modern civil society, there are some ignorant and foolish people who plunders ancient religious artifacts for personal gains, this is indeed a tragedy for these artifacts; ironically, as a result of this, they are preserved whilst being circulated overseas.
		Hence Master Sheng Yen, using the event of the donation of the head statue of Akshobhya Buddha, calls for people from both sides of the Strait to cultivate the appreciation for the preservation and protection of cultural heritage, and expressed his hopes for them to adopt a healthy religion for spiritual and moral guidance.
		The ancient head statue of Akshobhya Buddha will be transported to its historic origin tomorrow (December 17) in a crate that is constituted of 23 pieces by DDM.
	www.dharmadrum.org /news/newsDetail.asp?Pkey={355FFCD9-6163-4A6A-A2FA-CF6CC250750D} (624 words)

	Krishna.com :: 9. Akshobhya (or Akshobhya Tirtha)
		Akshobhya appeared in this world sometime between 1238 and 1317 in Uttara-Karnataka.
		Akshobhya was known for successfully refuting nondualistic Advaita philosophy.
		In a historic encounter at Mulbagal, Karnataka, he defeated in debate Vidyaranya, a scholar and descendant in the Advaita line of Sankaracharya, the most important exponent of the Advaita Vedanta school.
	www.krishna.com /main.php?id=358 (79 words)

	Akshobhya - Ascension Research Center
		But when all is said and done and all of those components of the threads of karma are consumed in one great Violet Flame bonfire, you will come to know and you will remember one day that I have said the entering in is simplicity itself, humility itself, purity itself."
		It has the same unalterable quality as the Buddha’s fingers touching the ground, and the same determination that carried Gautama Buddha through his tribulations.
		Akshobhya, December 31, 1993, Pearls of Wisdom ®, Volume 37 Number 4 (The Summit Lighthouse, 1994) Copyright © 1998 Church Universal and Triumphant, Inc.
	www.ascension-research.org /Akshobhya.html (673 words)

	Seated Buddha Akshobhya (?), the Imperturbable Buddha of the East [Tibet] (1995.106) \| Object Page \| Timeline of Art ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Seated Buddha Akshobhya (?), the Imperturbable Buddha of the East [Tibet] (1995.106)
		The same gesture is also associated with Akshobhya, one of the five great cosmic Buddhas central to the iconography of early Tibetan Buddhism.
		The position of the Buddha's other hand, with his thumb and middle finger pressed together in an unusual gesture is not associated with the Historic Buddha and seems to support the identification of the sculpture as Akshobhya.
	www.metmuseum.org /TOAH/ho/06/ssh/hod_1995.106.htm (228 words)

	Shri Madhava Teertharu
		Some suggest that Sri Akshobhya Tirtha obtained his sannyasa ashrama from Sri Madhava Tirtha, however from my understanding Akshobhya Tirtha was a sannyasi when Madhwa installed him with the others at Kanva tirtha to be the heads of the various Mutts
		He also gave 'ashrama' to Sri Akshobhya Tirtha and installed him as the Pith Adipatya or pontiff of Sri Uttaradi Mutt to worship the idols/Deities which were personally worshipped by Srimad Acharya (Madhwa) himeself.
		He was defeated in debate by Akshobhya Tirtha, the debate having been umpired by the great Sri Vaishnava Sri Vedanta Desika."(K.Raghupathi Rao.
	www.uttaradimath.org /madhava.htm (1119 words)

	Go towards Akshobhya (MiamiMOO) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		You were not frightened by the bright white light of Akshobhya.
		You have dissolved into the rainbow light in the heart of Akshobhya.
		You will now be transported to his eastern pure land, Abhirati, and will most assuredly attain Buddhahood.
	moo.muohio.edu:7000 /488 (40 words)

	The Five Meditating Buddhas - An Enquiry into Spiritual Aesthetics
		The mirror always stands imperturbable and immutable, just as we should, whether the circumstances be favorable or unfavorable to us.
		It has the same unalterable quality as the Buddha’s fingers touching the ground, and the same determination that carried Buddha through his tribulations.
		Akshobhya is considered the ruler over the eastern direction.
	www.exoticindiaart.com /article/dhyanibuddhas (3660 words)

	j a g a t ~ h o m e p a g e - Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Madhava’s disciple was Akshobhya, who was followed by Jayatirtha, Jïanasindhu, Mahanidhi, Vidyanidhi and Rajendra.
		Jayadharma Muni was one of Rajendra’s many disciples and Vishnu Puri, the author of Bhakti-ratnavali and Purushottama the lover of Brahmin culture became his disciples.
		In the Madhvaite tradition, Padmanabha, Nrihari, Madhava and Akshobhya are all considered to be direct disciples of Madhva, rather than being links of a historic chain.
	www.jagat.wisewisdoms.com /articles/showarticle.php?id=13 (3187 words)

	James Singer on Asianart.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Akshobhya Buddha, associated with the steadfast qualities which enabled the historical Buddha Shakyamuni to overcome distractions and attain enlightenment, became a popular celestial Buddha as in the present example, which dates to about the fourteenth century.
		His right hand is in the earth-touching gesture (bhumisparsha mudra), the left appears upward-turned in his lap.
		The base is sealed with a plate, in traditional Tibetan manner, securing consecration materials within the sculpture.
	www.asianart.com /jsinger/10.html (70 words)

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