Hōshō Nyorai

alternative Hosho Nyorai

1. JapaneseBuddhismThe Japanese name for the Southern Buddha, Ratnasaṃbhava, one of the Five Dhyani Buddhas.

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

   2007, Philip L. Nicoloff, Sacred Koyasan, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 127

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   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.

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

   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

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