へんじょうこんごう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of へんじょうこんごう – see the following entry.
遍照金剛
[proper noun] (Shingon Buddhism) synonym of 大日如来 (Dainichi Nyorai): Mahāvairocana tathāgata
[proper noun] (Buddhism) Courtesy name of 空海 (Kūkai), founder of the esoteric Shingon sect of Buddhism
(This term, へんじょうこんごう (henjōkongō), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)