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Godai Nyorai - The Five Tathagata, Especially Important to Shingon Sect of Esoteric Buddhism in Japan (515 words) |
 | They embody five fundamental wisdoms -- wisdom against anger, envy, desire, ignorance, and pride -- to help us break free from the cycle of death and rebirth, or the Six States of Existence (i.e., the cycle of suffering, Sanskrit = samsara). |
| Each of the five has a specific Mudra (hand gesture) that corresponds to one of five defining episodes in the life of the Historical Buddha. |
| Padma (Lotus) Family; converts desire, lust and passion into the wisdom of discriminating awareness, or the wisdom of distinction; Amida corresponds to the meditation of the historical Buddha under the Bodhi tree; statues typically shown Amida forming the meditation mudra (Skt. |
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