Adi-Buddha

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Samantabhadra, primordial buddha of the Nyingma school, with consort Samantabhadri.

In Buddhism, the Adi-Buddha is the "Primordial Buddha." The term refers to a self-emanating, self-originating Buddha, present before anything else existed. Samantabhadra and Vajradhara are Adi-Buddha.

Ati Yoga (or Primordial Yoga), which is another name for the Tibetan tradition of Dzogchen, employs an Adi-Buddha sadhana, or practice. NB: Ati and Adi are different orthographic representations of phonemes of the language of Uddiyana which equate to 'primordial' according to Chögyal Namkhai Norbu.

In Vaisnavism applies to original form of Buddha as avatar of Vishnu included as one of the ten avatars ^[1] See also: Sugata Buddha‎

[edit] See also

• God in Buddhism
• Supreme Being
• God
• Names of God
• Conceptions of God
• Existence of God
• Cosmos

[edit] External links

• Bardic Productions - The Adibuddha
• Kagyu Lineage - Vajradhara

[edit] Notes

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