What is "samantabhadra"

Samantabhadra ( Sanskrit, "Universal Worthy") is a bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism associated with practice and meditation. Together with Gautama Buddha and his fellow bodhisattva Mañjuśrī, he forms the Shakyamuni trinity in Buddhism. He is the patron of the Lotus Sutra and, according to the Avatamsaka Sutra, made the ten great vows which are the basis of a bodhisattva. In China, Samantabhadra is associated with action, whereas Mañjuśrī is associated with prajñā. In Japan, this bodhisattva is often venerated by the Tendai and in Shingon Buddhism, and as the protector of the Lotus Sutra by Nichiren Buddhism. In the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism, Samantabhadra is also the name of the Adi-Buddha – in indivisible Yab-Yum with his consort, Samantabhadrī.

Samantabhadra was a Digambara acharya (head of the monastic order) who lived about the later part of the second century A.D. He was a great proponent of the Jaina doctrine of Anekantavada. The Ratnakaranda śrāvakācāra is the most popular work of Acharya Samantabhadra. Acharya Samantabhadra lived after Acharya Umaswami but before Acharya Pujyapada.

Samantabhadra is a bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism associated with practice and meditation.

Samantabhadra can also refer to:

• Samantabhadra (Jain monk)
• Samantabhadra (Karmole)
• Samantabhadra Meditation Sutra

Samantabhadra (1891-1988) was a '' Digambara monk.