Viśuddhacāritra

Viśuddhacāritra
Sanskrit	विशुद्धचारित्र Viśuddhacāritra
Chinese	淨行菩薩 (Pinyin: Jìngxíng Púsà)
Japanese	浄行菩薩（じょうぎょうぼさつ） (romaji: Jōgyō Bosatsu)
Khmer	វិសុទ្ធចារិត្រ (vi-sut-chaa-reut)
Korean	정행보살 (RR: Jeonghaeng Bosal)
Tagalog	Bisuddhakaritla
Tibetan	སྤྱོད་པ་རྣམ་པར་དག་ Wylie: spyod pa rnam par dag
Vietnamese	Tịnh Hạnh Bồ Tát
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Venerated by	Mahāyāna, Vajrayāna
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Viśuddhacāritra (Sanskrit: विशुद्धचारित्र; also known as Pure Practice), is one of the four great primarily or eternally evolved bodhisattvas mentioned in the 15th chapter of the Lotus Sutra.^[1][2] He is considered to represent the "purity" characteristic of buddhahood, "Nirvana's freedom from all that is impure."^[3]

• Supratisthitacaritra
• Visistacaritra

• Kato, Bunno (1993). The Threefold Lotus Sutra. Tokyo: Kosei Publishing Company. ISBN 4-333-00208-7.
• McCormick, Ryuei M. "The Bodhisattvas of the Earth" Nichirenscoffeehouse.net. Nichiren's Coffeehouse and Gohonzon Gallery, 2002. Web. 15 October 2014.
• Reeves, Gene (2008). The Lotus Sutra: A Contemporary Translation of a Buddhist Classic. Somerville: Wisdom Publications. ISBN 978-0-86171-571-8.

• Soka Gakkai Nichiren Buddhism Library - Pure Practices