Sanmaya-e 　三昧耶会

KEY WORD :　 art history / iconography

Also read Samaya-e. The second of the nine *mandara 曼荼羅 comprising the *Kue mandara 九会曼荼羅, where it is positioned below the central Joushin-e 成身会. It corresponds to the Kongouhimitsu mandara 金剛秘密曼荼羅 (Adamantine Secret Mandara), the second of the six mandara described in Chap. 1 of the KONGOUCHOUKYU 金剛頂経 (Diamond Peak Sutra ; Sk:Sarvatathagatatattvasamgraha; Taishou Nos. 865, 882), on which the *Kongoukai mandara 金剛界曼荼羅 is based. Its name derives from the fact that the deities are all represented by means of symbolic objects sanmayagyou 三昧耶形, with, for example, the central deity *Dainichi 大日 being represented by a stupa *tou 塔, Kongou satta 金剛薩た by a five-pronged vajra *gokosho 五鈷杵, and Kongouhou 金剛法 (Sk:Vajradharma) by a lotus on top of a single-pronged vajra *tokkosho 独鈷杵. It is known that *Kuukai 空海 (774-835) brought back with him a copy of a Kongokai sanmaya mandara 金剛界三昧耶曼荼羅 executed in line drawing *hakubyou 白描 on white feltlike cloth, but because the Kue mandara became the most widely used form of the Kongoukai mandara, there are virtually no examples of independent versions of the Sanmaya-e. See *sanmaya mandara 三昧耶曼荼羅.

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