This religious sect modeled the cosmos as represented by two mandalas \- one was centered upon an Attainment Body assembly and the other focused on an
This religious sect modeled the cosmos as represented by two mandalas \- one was centered upon an Attainment Body assembly and the other focused on an eight-petaled lotus flower and was known as the Womb-world mandala – these diagrams were typically set at right angles to each other at the temple image platforms of this school. It was initially based in the remote monastery of Mount Koya, where its founder preached that all things are a manifestation of Vairocana, the Solar Buddha. That founder, Kukai, transmitted this belief system from his travels with Hui-Kuo in Xian. FTP, name this "school of the True Word," an esoteric sect introduced ►to Japan in the early 9th century along with Tendai Buddhism.
This religious sect modeled the cosmos as represented by two mandalas \- one was centered upon an Attainment Body assembly and the other focused on an eight-petaled lotus flower and was known as the Womb-world mandala
{Shingon} Buddhism (or mantra-yana)