Visual Encyclopedia of Buddhist Iconography

This site contain computer graphic drawings produced by Professor John C. Huntington,
as part of his on-going research on Buddhist art and religion.

Site created by Mara Colasante

December 2004 - February 2005

Buddhist Methodologies

• Chitta Series
  • The Heart-Mind
  • The Location of the Chitta
  • The Size of the Chitta
  • The Components of the Chitta
  • The Symbolism of the Chitta

   

• Mount Meru

• Mount Meru and the Yogin
  • Mount Meru with Its Components
  • The Center of Mount Meru
  • The Adamantine Seat
  • Vairochana in Heaven
  • The Location of Mount Meru
  • Meditation and Mount Meru

• The Five Certainties
  • The Five Fundamental Certainties
  • The Place
  • The Teacher
  • The Peers
  • The Teachings
  • The Time

• Rebirth Karma (under construction)

• The Bhavachakra (under construction)

• Infinity of the Kalpas (under construction)

• Escape (under construction)

• Life of Shakyamuni (under construction)

• The Trikaya

• The Enlightenment of the Five Jina Buddhas
  • Vairochana
  • Akshobhya
  • Ratnasambhava
  • Amitabha
  • Amoghasiddhi

• A Buddhist Lesson from Particle Physics

• Explanatory Charts
  • Garbhadhatu and Vajradhatu Mandalas
  • Vairochana as Shakyamuni's Dharma Mind
  • Shakyamuni's Mind
  • Dharmakaya
  • Vairochana's Iconological Forms

   

Buddhist Symbol Systems

• Indra's Net

• Symbolic Systems of Stupas

• Svayambhu Jyotirupa of Nepal

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Created January 2005