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Namo buddha wiki1/9/2024 Proposals include: Śundhi (purity), Sunda (bright and beautiful), Cuṇṭi (which means well), or Cuṇḍī (to become smaller). In the Japanese Buddhism, there is no agreed upon etymology. Regarding Candrā, the name means moon in Sanskrit and the goddess is often described as being the color of the moon. Īccording to The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary, the word Cuṇḍā in Sanskrit can also mean a small well or reservoir. Robert Gimello and the Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism claim that the deity may have emerged as a local yakshini that became important in Indian Buddhism in around the 8th century. The name Cundī connotes a low caste woman, prostitute or other low class female position (such as a madam/ procuress). The meaning of these names is not always clear. Peter Alan Roberts comments, in a note to a translation of the Tibetan version of the Kāraṇḍavyūhasūtra: "Cale cule cunde are the vocative forms of Calā, Culā, and Cundā, three variations of her name. The deity's mantra, "oṃ cale cule cunde svāhā," seems to indicate the original name being Cundā. Benoytosh Bhattacharyya argues the correct Sanskrit name should be Cundā. Conze notes that the Tibetan terms for the goddess may go back to the Sanskrit: Cundī, Caṇḍī (a name for Durga), Cunda, Chundi, or Cuṇṭi. The name Cundī (along with other variations like Cundā, Cundrā, Candrā, Caṇḍā, and Cuṇḍrā) refers to an Indian Mahayana Buddhist deity found in numerous Indian sources such as the Śikṣāsamuccaya, Cundādhāriṇī Sūtra, Sādhanamālā, Niṣpannayogāvalī, Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa and the Guhyasamāja. In India Stone statue of Chunda from Sarnath ( Uttar Pradesh), time of Gahadavala dynasty, 11th century CE, National Museum, New Delhi. In Tibetan Buddhism she is known by the name Lhamo Cunda, Chunde or Cundi (‘Lhamo’ in Tibetan is ‘ Devi’ in Sanskrit, a term of veneration meaning ‘ goddess’). As such, some images of these goddesses are difficult to identify. Some depictions of Cundī share many iconographic and symbolic elements with another female Buddhist deity, Prajñāpāramitā Devi. This deity is also called by various other names and epithets, including Cundavajrī, Saptakoṭi Buddha- bhagavatī ("The Blessed Buddha of the Seventy Million", 七俱胝佛母), "Zhunti Buddha Mother" (準提佛母, Zhǔntí Fómǔ) in Chinese and Saptakoṭibuddhamatṛ ("Mother of Seventy Million Buddhas", though this Sanskrit reconstruction of 佛母 is speculative). She is considered to be able to purify negative karma, provide protection, support spiritual practice which allows one to quickly attain Buddhahood. In Chinese Buddhism, she is associated with the practice of the well known Cundī dharani, which is performed along with a specific mudra (hand gesture), as well as the use of a circular mirror. Hanging scroll depicting the eighteen-armed form of Cundi, China, Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)Ĭundī ( Sanskrit, IPA: Chinese: 準提 pinyin: Zhǔntí Japanese: Juntei Tibetan: ལྷ་མོ་སྐུལ་བྱེད་མ།, Wylie: lha mo skul byed ma, THL: lha-mo kül-jé-ma) or Cundā ( IPA: Ch: 羅馬化) is a female Indian Buddhist deity which remains popular in East Asian Buddhism.
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