The meeting of ontology and existentialism in Buddhism, Vairocana Buddha

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I am not a Buddhist. It was an accidental opportunity for me to post on Buddhism. I happened to visit old Buddhist temples and find things I had never known before. I have visited various temples with such an opportunity.

At first I thought they were all the same, but everything else had a different meaning. There is a tendency in Buddhism trying to explain the truth through parables and symbols rather than direct explanation.

I thought that Buddha statues were all the same thing. As I have studied, I noticed that each Buddha statue had a different meaning. While looking at Maitreya statue in Gwan Chock Sa, I learned that there are several Buddhist statues nearby.

The first one was the Buddha statue of Vairocana. Word 'Vairocana' originated from Sanskrit language. I heard that the Buddha statue of Vairocana was located in front of the temple.

But even the residents in the village did not know where it was exactly. A lady informed me of the exact location. The Buddha statue of Vairocana, more than 1000 years old, was in the corner of the yard of a country house.

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A dog was looking at me with silent, it didn’t bark at me.
I thought this dog would find a way under the influence of Vairocana Buddha.

There was no wall and door. Anyone could enter into this house without permission to look at Vairocana Buddha statue.

I did not know what the Vairocana Buddha was. When I looked up the data, I could find the Vairocana Buddha contained the ontological meaning of Buddhist world view point.

Vairocana Buddha seemed to have similar meaning to Aristotle's God. Aristotle thought that God must be mechanical existence and it would be similar to the principle or the law which is moving the world. According to Aristotle, God must be a non-personal existence.

This Vairocana Buddha was expressed in the form of a Buddha Statue. Originally, Vairocana Buddha is believed in non-personal and mechanical principles that make the world exist. It was explained as a light much brighter than the sun's light. Explanations and Interpretations were different according to the factions of Buddhism.

There are lots of hand signs in Buddha’s postures. In this case, it could be named of the finger and the fist type.
The statue wrapped the index finger with hand

The meaning of this hand sign is said that Buddha and human are one.

Vairocana contains the ontological meaning of explaining the world in Buddhism. What is interesting is that in Buddhism, ontology is linked closely with existential philosophy.

Buddhism interprets the world in an existential way. In this aspect, Vairocana Buddha could be interpreted as a connection point between Buddhist point of view and ontology