History of Indian and Indonesian Art c8.s3.71

c8.s3.71

¹ The words Vajrāsana “adamantine seat” and Bodhi-maṇḍa “place of enlightenment” are both used by Hsüan Tsang to designate the seat occupied by the Bodhisattva on the occasion of the Great Enlightenment (Mahāsambodhi). The term Gandhakuṭī used to designate a Buddhist temple is derived from the name of a cell occupied by the Buddha in his lifetime. For descriptions of the temple, see Cunningham, 3, and Bloch, 2; the former seems the better account.