Sarvanivarana-Vishkambhin

Sarvanivāraṇaviṣkambhin is a bodhisattva revered in Mahāyāna Buddhism. He is one of the Eight Great Bodhisattvas with Mañjuśrī, Samantabhadra, Avalokiteśvara, Mahāsthāmaprāpta, Ākāśagarbha, Kṣitigarbha and Maitreya.

Sarvanivāraṇaviṣkambhin
Sanskritसर्वनिवारणविष्कम्भिन्
Sarvanivāraṇaviṣkambhin
Chinese(Traditional)
除盖障菩薩
(Simplified)
除盖障菩萨
(Pinyin: Chúgàizhàng Púsà)

(Traditional)
凈諸業障菩薩
(Simplified)
净诸业障菩萨
(Pinyin: Jìngzhūyèzhàng Púsà)
Japanese除蓋障菩薩（じょがいしょうぼさつ）
(romaji: Jogaishō Bosatsu)
Korean정제업장보살
(RR: Jeongje'eobjang Bosal)
제개장보살
(RR: Jegaejang Bosal)
Tibetanསྒྲིབ་པ་རྣམ་སེལ་
Wylie: sgrib pa rnam sel
THL: dribpa nam sel
VietnameseTrừ Cái Chướng Bồ Tát
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Venerated byMahāyāna, Vajrayāna
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Role

He is invoked to remove or eliminate all the obstacles to insure a successful meditation.

Nivāraṇa

Although the eight Mahāsattvas belong to the current Mahāyāna, the term nivāraṇa is most commonly used in the Theravada texts where it refers to the five mental obstacles: desire (kamacchanda), hostility (vyapada), laziness (thinamiddha), distraction and worry (uddhachcha-kukuchcha), doubts (vichikicha) towards the Three Jewels. Sarvanivāraṇaviṣkambhi is best known to meditators and is not an important subject to individual worship like the other seven mahāsattvas.

In Vajrayāna

In Tantric Buddhism, he is usually placed in the lineage of Amoghasiddhi Buddha, one of the five Dhyani Buddhas, more rarely of Akshobhya Buddha. He is sometimes considered a form of Vajrapāṇi, though this is most likely a confusion with the mahāsattva Mahāsthāmāprāpta which Vajrapāṇi is one of its incarnations.

Iconography

In iconography, he has often a flower in one hand, sometimes with a jewel (Cintamaṇi).

Sutras concerned

He is mentioned in the Lotus Sutra, in which he pays homage to Avalokiteśvara, and in the Mahavairocana Tantra.

Mantra

The mantra of this great bodhisattva to remove all obstacles and disturbances mentioned in the Vairocana-sūtra, is as follows:

namaḥ samantabuddhānāṃ/ aḥ/ sattva hitābhyudgata/ traṃ/ traṃ/ raṃ/ raṃ/ svāhā

Bibliography

Radha Banerjee: Ashtamahābodhisattva, the Eight Great Bodhisattvas in Art and Literature, Abha Prakashan, (ISBN 81-85704-22-8)

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