不空成就如来

Chinese edit

For pronunciation and definitions of 不空成就如来 – see 不空成就如來 (“Amoghasiddhi”). (This term is the simplified form of 不空成就如來).
Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Alternative spelling
不空成就如來 (kyūjitai)

不空成就如来: a Tibetan statue of Amoghasiddhi.

From Middle Chinese 不空成就如來 (pjuw khuwng dzyeng dzjuwH njo loj). Compare modern Mandarin 不空成就佛 (bùkōng chéngjiù fō), exchanging 如來／如来 (rúlái) for roughly synonymous 佛 (fō).

The Middle Chinese term itself is a compound of 不空成就 + 如來 (ȵɨʌ lʌi):

不空成就 is a translation of Sanskrit अमोघसिद्धि (amoghasiddhi), the name of this entity, and a compound of अमोघ (amogha, “not in vain”) + सिद्धि (siddhi, “perfection; accomplishment, attainment; success”).
如來 (ȵɨʌ lʌi) is an abbreviation of either 如去如來 or 如來如去 (“coming from suchness, going back into suchness”), translations of Sanskrit तथागत (tathāgata, “coming from suchness, going back into suchness; thus coming, thus going”, exact meaning uncertain, see Tathāgata on Wikipedia.Wikipedia ).^[1]^[2]

(religion, Buddhism) Fukūjōju Nyorai: the Buddha of the North, called Amoghasiddhi; the embodiment of the accomplishment of the Buddhist path and the overcoming of envy, one of the Five Dhyani Buddhas, and an important entity in Shingon Buddhism

The 五智如来 (Go Chi Nyorai, “Five Dhyani Buddhas”) and associated directions:

如来 (にょらい, nyorai): a buddha, a bodhisattva
仏 (ぶつ, butsu): a buddha; 仏 (ぶつ, Butsu): the Buddha
仏陀 (ぶっだ, budda; ぶつだ, butsuda): a buddha; 仏陀 (Budda, Butsuda): the Buddha
菩薩 (ぼさつ, bosatsu): a bodhisattva

^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN