Kṣitigarbha

Kṣitigarbha (, ,  Wylie: sa yi snying po) is a bodhisattva. People worship him mostly in East Asia. Some people translate his name as  "Earth Treasury", "Earth Store", "Earth Matrix", or "Earth Womb".  

Kṣitigarbha promised to guide all beings in the six worlds during the time between the death of Gautama Buddha and the arrival of Maitreya. He also vowed not to become a Buddha until every hell was empty. Because of these vows, people see him as the bodhisattva who cares for those in hell, and in Japan he is also known as the protector of children and the guardian of children who have died or been aborted.


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 Bibliography 





 French, Frank G. (ed); Shi, Daoji (trans.)(2003). The Sutra of Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha's Fundamental Vows (地藏經), Sutra Translation Committee of the U.S. and Canada/The Corporate Body of the Buddha Educational Foundation Taipei, Taiwan, 2nd ed.


 Moto-Sanchez, Milla Micka (2016). Jizō, Healing Rituals, and Women in Japan, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 43 (2), 307-331

 Visser, Marinus Willem de (1914). The Bodhisattva Ti-Tsang (Jizo) in China and Japan,  Berlin: Oesterheld

 Other websites 

 Jizo Bodhisattva - Photo Dictionary of Japanese Buddhism
 Dizang text from Dunhuang
 The Sutra of the Past Vows of Earth Store Bodhisattva
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