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'''Anupādaka''' is a word used in the [[Theosophy|Theosophical]] literature derived from the [[Sanskrit]] ''anupapādaka'' "parentless" or "having no material parent".<ref>[http://spokensanskrit.de/index.php?script=DI&beginning=0+&tinput=anupapAdaka&trans=Translate&direction=AU.# Anupapādaka] at Spoken Sanskrit Dictionary.</ref> or ''aupapaduka'', "self-produced".
'''Anupādaka''' is a word used in the [[Theosophy|Theosophical]] literature derived from the [[Sanskrit]] ''anupapādaka'' "parentless" or "having no material parent".<ref>[http://spokensanskrit.de/index.php?script=DI&beginning=0+&tinput=anupapAdaka&trans=Translate&direction=AU.# Anupapādaka] at Spoken Sanskrit Dictionary.</ref> or ''aupapaduka'', "self-produced". [[H. P. Blavatsky]] applied this term to the hierarchy of the [[Dhyāni-Buddhas]]:
 
This term is applied to certain self-created gods, and the [[Dhyāni-Buddhas]]:


<blockquote>“The one merged with the absolute,” can have no parents since he is Self-existent, and one with the Universal Spirit (Svayambhu), the Svâbhâvat in the highest aspect.  The mystery in the hierarchy of the Anupadaka is great, its apex being the universal Spirit-Soul, and the lower rung the Mânushi-Buddha; and even every Soul-endowed man is an Anupadaka in a latent state.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 52.</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>“The one merged with the absolute,” can have no parents since he is Self-existent, and one with the Universal Spirit (Svayambhu), the Svâbhâvat in the highest aspect.  The mystery in the hierarchy of the Anupadaka is great, its apex being the universal Spirit-Soul, and the lower rung the Mânushi-Buddha; and even every Soul-endowed man is an Anupadaka in a latent state.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 52.</ref></blockquote>

Revision as of 19:12, 30 May 2012

Anupādaka is a word used in the Theosophical literature derived from the Sanskrit anupapādaka "parentless" or "having no material parent".[1] or aupapaduka, "self-produced". H. P. Blavatsky applied this term to the hierarchy of the Dhyāni-Buddhas:

“The one merged with the absolute,” can have no parents since he is Self-existent, and one with the Universal Spirit (Svayambhu), the Svâbhâvat in the highest aspect. The mystery in the hierarchy of the Anupadaka is great, its apex being the universal Spirit-Soul, and the lower rung the Mânushi-Buddha; and even every Soul-endowed man is an Anupadaka in a latent state.[2]

Misspelling of the original term

Notes

  1. Anupapādaka at Spoken Sanskrit Dictionary.
  2. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 52.

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