加か持じ身しん

noun

buddha-body within a practitioner

In esoteric Buddhism (Shingon), the practitioner's body that is empowered through ritual and meditation to manifest the buddha's qualities.

• 加か持じ身しんとは、修しゅ行ぎょう者しゃの身しん体たいが仏ほとけの力ちからによって加か持じされた状じょう態たいを指さす。

  Kajishin refers to the state in which the practitioner's body is empowered by the buddha's power.

noun

altruistic manifested form of Mahavairocana

In New Shingon doctrine, the compassionate, manifested body of Mahavairocana that appears to save beings; contrasted with 本地身 (honjishin), the fundamental, unmanifested form.

See also: 本地身

• 新しん義ぎ真しん言ごん宗しゅうでは、加か持じ身しんは大だい日にち如にょ来らいの利り他たのために現あらわれた姿すがたとされる。

  In New Shingon, Kajishin is considered the form of Mahavairocana that appears for the benefit of others.