Deity Eight Great Bodhisattvas
Samantabhadra
समन्तभद्र sa ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ། bo 普贤菩萨 zh
In Buddhism, a bodhisattva associated with practice and meditation
- Also called Universal Worthy, Universal Virtue
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- is part of Eight Great Bodhisattvas Multiple conbinations of eight Great Bodhisattvas in Buddhism
- is part of Eight Protectors of the Zodiac
- is part of Four Great Bodhisattvas (Womb Realm Mandala) four Bodhisattvas in Chinese Buddhism
- belongs to Mahāyāna branch of Buddhism popular in East Asia and Vietnam that sees the goal of becoming a buddha through the bodhisattva path as being available to all and sees the state of the arhat as incomplete
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