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Tathāgata

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Five Tathāgatas, The Seven Buddhas of Antiquity & Etymology and interpretation

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Five Tathāgatas

VajrayanaAdi-BuddhaVairocanaVajradharaDharmakāya
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The Seven Buddhas of Antiquity

Pali Buddhist textsNikāyasKalpaVipassīSikhī
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Etymology and interpretation

BuddhaghosaDigha NikayaAnguttara NikayaSandhiTathatā
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The nature of a Tathāgata

SkandhasCittaConditioned phenomenaMaraSariputta
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Bengali
তথাগত
Burmese
တထာဂတ (MLCTS: tathāgata)
Chinese
如來 (Pinyin: rúlaí/ Cantonese=yu loi)
English
One who has thus gone Thus Come One
Japanese
如来 (Rōmaji: nyorai)
Khmer
តថាគត (tathakut)

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Etymology and interpretation

The nature of a Tathāgata

Five Tathāgatas

The Seven Buddhas of Antiquity

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Tathāgata

Nodes60
Edges59
Triples65
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.033333
Components1

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Tathāgata

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related to Five Tathāgatas · 21
Tathāgata → Adi-Buddha, Buddha, Buddhahood, Buddhas, Buddhist Tantras, Dharmakāya, Diamond Realm, Five Great Buddhas, Five Jinas, Five Tathāgatas, Five Wisdom Tathāgatas, In Vajrayana Buddhism, Sanskrit, Tattvasaṃgraha Tantra, The Five Wisdom Buddhas, The Vajrasekhara, Vairocana, Vajradhara, Vajrasekhara Sutra, While
related to The Seven Buddhas of Antiquity · 17
Tathāgata → Antiquity, Buddha, Buddhas, Gotama, In, Kakusandha, Kassapa, Koṇāgamana, Nikāyas, Of, Pali Buddhist, Sattatathāgata, Seven Buddhas, Sikhī, The Seven Tathāgatas, Vessabhū, Vipassī
related to The nature of a Tathāgata · 11
Tathāgata → As Sariputta, Buddha, In, Mara, Sariputta, Tathagata, The, The Buddha, These, Without, Yamaka
Bengali · 1
Tathāgata → তথাগত
Burmese · 1
Tathāgata → တထာဂတ (MLCTS: tathāgata)
Chinese · 1
Tathāgata → 如來 (Pinyin: rúlaí/ Cantonese=yu loi)
English · 1
Tathāgata → One who has thus gone Thus Come One
Japanese · 1
Tathāgata → 如来 (Rōmaji: nyorai)
Khmer · 1
Tathāgata → តថាគត (tathakut)
Korean · 1
Tathāgata → 여래 (RR: yeorae)

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buddha buddhas one thus sanskrit gone pali beyond buddhism five tathagata come word buddhist cannot even seven also death four

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TathāgataBengaliতথাগত1.00infobox
TathāgataBurmeseတထာဂတ (MLCTS: tathāgata)1.00infobox
TathāgataChinese如來 (Pinyin: rúlaí/ Cantonese=yu loi)1.00infobox
TathāgataEnglishOne who has thus gone Thus Come One1.00infobox
TathāgataJapanese如来 (Rōmaji: nyorai)1.00infobox
TathāgataKhmerតថាគត (tathakut)1.00infobox
TathāgataKorean여래 (RR: yeorae)1.00infobox
TathāgataMongolianᠲᠡᠭᠦᠨᠴᠢᠯᠡᠨ ᠢᠷᠡᠭᠰᠡᠨ Түүнчлэн ирсэн1.00infobox
TathāgataPali𑀢𑀣𑀸𑀕𑀢1.00infobox
TathāgataSanskritतथागत1.00infobox
TathāgataSinhalaතථාගත (tathāgata)1.00infobox
TathāgataTagalogTathagata1.00infobox
TathāgataThaiตถาคต1.00infobox
TathāgataTibetanདེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་ (dezhin sheg pa)1.00infobox
TathāgataVietnameseNhư Lai1.00infobox

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