Pantheon Deity Chinese Buddhism
Eight Protectors of the Zodiac
十二生肖守护神 zh 十二支の御守り本尊 ja
- Members 8 on record
- Tradition Chinese Buddhism
Gods in company,
as the records
count them.
Not a fixed roster
The members
Everyone it counts
A pantheon is not a fixed roster — membership is what the records say.
What this means
8 records name this as the whole they are part of. That is what makes it a pantheon here — no class on Wikidata says so consistently, and nobody publishes a machine-readable roster.
So the list is complete in one direction only: a god whose record does not name this pantheon is missing even if every account places them in it — a gap in the data, not in the tradition. Accounts disagree about who belongs, too; the Twelve Olympians are twelve in some lists and fourteen in others.
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MañjuśrīBodhisattva in Mahāyāna Buddhism, who represents the transcendent wisdom of the Buddhas -
VairocanaCelestial Buddha embodying emptiness -
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SamantabhadraIn Buddhism, a bodhisattva associated with practice and meditation -
AcalaWrathful deity and dharmapala (protector of the Dharma) prominent in Tibetan and East Asian Buddhism -
MahāsthāmaprāptaBodhisattva mahāsattva -
ĀkāśagarbhaBodhisattva in Chinese, Japanese and Korean Buddhism -
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Thousand-Armed Thousand-Eyed AvalokiteśvaraManifestation of Avalokiteśvara which has a thousand arms -
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Amitābha BuddhaCelestial buddha of Mahayana Buddhism
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Tradition
The tradition this pantheon’s own record names.
Connections
How Eight Protectors of the Zodiac connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 3
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure · personal belief at every point in a life · the practice of a population
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- is part of Chinese zodiac lunar calendar classification, assigning a symbolic animal and its reputed attributes to each traditional Chinese daily hour or Chinese lunar year for a repeating cycle of twelve forming the Earthly Branch
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belongs to Chinese Buddhism Buddhism with Chinese characteristics -
belongs to Shingon Buddhism school of Buddhism in Japan
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
3 statements on this record
- 3 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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