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Bhaiṣajyasamudgata

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Bhaiṣajyasamudgata
Sanskritभैषज्यसमुद्गत
Bhaiṣajyasamudgata
Chinese(Traditional)
藥上菩薩
(Simplified)
药上菩萨
(Pinyin: Yàoshàng Púsà)
Japanese薬上菩薩やくじょうぼさつ
(romaji: Yakujō Bosatsu)
Korean약상보살
(RR: Yagsang Bosal)
Thaiพระไภษัชยสมุทคทโพธิสัตว์
VietnameseDược Thượng Bồ Tát
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Venerated byMahāyāna, Vajrayāna
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Bhaiṣajyasamudgata (Sanskrit: भैषज्यसमुद्गत; or Medicine Risen) is a bodhisattva mentioned within the Lotus Sutra and the Bhaiṣajyarāja-bhaiṣajyasamudgata-sūtra (Chinese: 佛說觀藥王藥上二菩薩經; Sūtra Spoken by the Buddha on Visualizing the Two Bodhisattvas Bhaisajyarāja and Bhaisajyasamudgata).[1][2][3] In chapter 23 of the Lotus Sutra (The Bodhisattva Bhaiṣajyarāja), the Buddha tells the story of Bhaiṣajyasamudgata's brother the 'Medicine King' Bodhisattva, who, in a previous life, burnt his body as a supreme offering to a Buddha.[4][5][6] He is said to have been reborn over a period of numerous lifetimes healing and curing diseases, and is a representation of the healing power of the Buddha.

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  1. ^ Buswell, Robert Jr; Lopez, Donald S. Jr., eds. (2013). Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. p. 109. ISBN 9780691157863.
  2. ^ Watson, Burton (tr.) (2009). The Lotus Sutra and Its Opening and Closing Chapters. Tokyo: Soka Gakkai. ISBN 978-4-412-01409-1, pp. 321-330
  3. ^ Kern, H. (tr.) (1884). Saddharma Pundarîka or the Lotus of the True Law. Sacred Books of the East, Vol. XXI, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  4. ^ Williams 1989, p. 160.
  5. ^ Benn 2007, p. 59.
  6. ^ Ohnuma 1998, p. 324.

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