Hōshō Nyorai

• Hosho Nyorai

From Japanese 宝生如来 (Hōshō Nyorai).

Hōshō Nyorai

1. (Japanese mythology, Buddhism) The Japanese name for the Southern Buddha, Ratnasaṃbhava, one of the Five Dhyani Buddhas.
   • 2007, Philip L. Nicoloff, Sacred Koyasan, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 127:

     As we face Dainichi, the Buddha seated at our near left is Hōshō Nyorai, the Buddha of the South.

   • 2010, Hillary Pedersen, The Five Great Space Repository Bodhisattvas‎ (dissertation), University of Kansas, page 208:

     The Hōshō Nyorai sculpture sits on a lotus base, which rests on the back of several seated, winged horses. The deity's left hand grasps the edge of the robe, the left rests on the knee, palm facing upward in the wish-granting mudra.

   • 2016, Jacqueline I. Stone, Right Thoughts at the Last Moment, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, pages 289–290:

     Or if the dying person should manifest a sign presaging rebirth among any of the thirty-six kinds of hungry ghosts, the attendant should immediately intervene to save that person by performing the rites of Hōshō Nyorai, Kokūzō, Jizō, Thousand-Armed Kannon, Bodhisattva Perfection of Giving, and the rite of offering Deathbed Attendants

• Dainichi Nyorai
• Ashuku Nyorai
• Amida Nyorai
• Fukūjōju Nyorai

Hōshō Nyorai

1. Rōmaji transcription of ほうしょうにょらい