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The fivefoldness of the one reality
Comparative · Theravāda – Vajrayāna – Śaivism
… Tathāgatas / Jinas: Vairocana, Akṣobhya, Ratnasambhava, Amitābha, Amoghasiddhi maṇḍala, soteriology dharmakāya / tathāgatagarbha Śaivism five Brahmans (pañcabrahma), the five faces of Sadāśiva; five acts (pañcakṛtya) cosmogony, …
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What Nibbāna is not
Nibbāna (part 3)
… laid down within the texts: the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra says expressly that the tathāgatagarbha teaching is taught so as not to frighten those who fear the word …