Inner Asia: The Art of Nepal II: Newar Buddhist Art
The image of Vairocana as arrayed in offerings and new garments during
the Satpujas. Vairocana manifests the Dharmadhatujnana (transcendental
insight of the realm of Dharma), knowledge of ones own identity with/as
the Absolute state [Sunyata]. This is essentially the final realization
of the cessation of a Buddha. Vairocana is not different from the fully
enlightened state of Sakyamuni and, in essence he may be called Sakyamuni/Vairocana.
The only distinction is that Vairocana generates all the Buddhas "of
the ten directions," i.e., all Buddhas everywhere, and as the primogeneric
source may be envisioned as a radiant lamp, projecting little images of
himself throughout the universe. Vairocana's paradise is Akanistha, the
highest and most abstract form of the realms
