Dear O-Henro .... Haijin, visitors and travelers,
Today I have launched a new feature as you can find in the menu above. I have called it "Ghost-Writer" and in that new feature I invite haiku kai family-members to write a post. We will see if that's gonna work.
Today we enter temple 72, Mandara-ji, this temple is devoted to Vairocana, the embodiment of the Buddhist principle Emptiness, and he is refered to as the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama.
Vairocana is first mentioned in the Brahma Net Sutra:
“Now, I, Vairocana Buddha am sitting atop a lotus pedestal; On a thousand flowers surrounding me are a thousand Sakyamuni Buddha’s. Each flower supports a hundred million worlds; in each world a Sakyamuni Buddha appears. All are seated beneath a Bodhi-tree, all simultaneously attain Buddhahood. All these innumerable Buddha’s have Vairocana as their original body".
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| Vairocana Buddha |
What to say more? I just thought to leave it this way. We are still on our pilgrimage and the end is coming nearer ...
an empty bowl,
lost on the street, toy for the wind,
home for a todd
(c) Chèvrefeuille
To conclude this episode I love to share a photo of Mandara-ji temple.
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| Mandara-ji (temple 72) |
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