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Butsugen butsumo@•§Šα•§•κ
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Also Butsugenson •§Šα‘Έ (Venerable Buddha-Eye). Lit. Buddha-Eye, or Mother of the Buddha. Sk: Buddhalocanal Locana. An Esoteric Buddhist goddess personifying the Buddha's discerning vision, and more specifically, as the division mother, bumo •”•κ, of the Buddha division or family, one of the three groups and later five groups into which deities were classified in Esoteric Buddhism mikkyou –§‹³. She appears in the *Taizoukai mandara ‘Ω‘ ŠE™ΦδΆ—… in the Henchi-in •Υ’m‰@ (seated in a meditative pose with her hands forming the *hokkai jouin –@ŠE’θˆσ mudra) and in the Shaka-in Žί‰ή‰@ (with the left hand holding a lotus surmounted by a jewel) and the right hand raised in the manner of the mudra for bestowing fearlessness *semui-in Ž{–³ˆΨˆσ. In the former case she is also called Kokuugen ‹•‹σŠα (Empty-Space Eye, Sk: Gaganalocana) and in the latter case Henchigen •Υ’mŠα (Omniscient Eye), Noujakumo ”\Žβ•κ (Shaka's Mother) or Issai nyoraihou ˆκΨ”@—ˆ•σ (Jewel of all the Tathagatas, Sk: Sarvatathagatamani). In a well-known pictorial representation of her, which is kept at Kouzanji ‚ŽRŽ› in Kyoto and which is based on the YUGIKYOU ΰο‹_Œo (Taishou No. 867), she is shown white in color, clothed in white robes, seated on a white lotus, and wearing a crown with a lion's head. She also appears at the center of the *Butsugen mandara •§Šα™ΦδΆ—… and in the *Ichijikinrin mandara ˆκŽš‹ΰ—Φ™ΦδΆ—….
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