maṇḍalas - 2024 ARCADIA

Question

The Shingon abhiṣeka initiation rite instructs students to throw a flower upon one of these objects that represents the Womb Realm and the Diamond Realm. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name these objects that, when based on the Vajraśekhara Sūtra, have Vairocana in the center of the Diamond Realm. Types of these objects made of sand undergo the dissolution ceremony to reinforce life’s transience.

ANSWER: maṇḍalas [accept sand maṇḍalas; prompt on circles]

[10h] Original language term required. Vairocana and the other four of these figures inhabit the realms depicted on Diamond Realm maṇḍalas. These figures are emanations of the Ādi-Buddha’s qualities.

ANSWER: Tathāgatas (“tuh-TA-guh-tuh”) [or Five Wisdom Tathāgatas or Pañcatathāgata; accept Dhyani-Buddhas]

[10e] Womb Realm maṇḍalas depict Vairocana at the center, surrounded by an eight-petaled type of this purity-representing flower. The doctrine of “skillful means” is explained in a major sūtra named for this flower.

ANSWER: lotus [accept Lotus Sūtra, Sūtra on the White Lotus of the True Dharma, or Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtram]

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2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	8	15.00	100%	38%	13%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	1	20.00	100%	0%	100%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	15.00	100%	33%	17%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	18.00	100%	80%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%

Data


Brandeis B	Bowdoin B	10	0	10	20
Brandeis A	Bowdoin C	10	10	10	30
Berkeley A	Berkeley B	10	0	10	20
Carleton A	Toronto B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Johns Creek	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech D	10	0	10	20
Bowdoin A	Boston College B	0	0	10	10
Boston College A	Clark House	0	0	10	10
Tufts A	Clark Wilson	0	0	10	10
MIT	Harvard	10	0	10	20
Amherst	Tufts B	0	0	10	10
Yale	BU	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech C	Virginia Tech A	0	0	10	10
bingy academy	Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans	0	0	10	10
UF A	UCF B	10	0	10	20
UF B	USF	10	0	10	20
Berkeley Past	Stanford	10	0	10	20
McGill A	Toronto Metropolitan A	0	0	10	10
Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	10	0	10	20
Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	Waterloo Aspidistra	0	10	10	20
Waterloo Basic	Toronto Disband the Club 2k24	10	0	10	20
Waterloo Cloze	Toronto A	0	0	10	10
Innovation Academy B	Georgia Tech A	10	0	10	20
Lambert	Mississippi State	0	0	10	10
Chicago B	Illinois Blue	10	0	10	20
Purdue A	Notre Dame	0	0	10	10
Imperial B	LSE B	10	0	10	20
Southampton	LSE A	10	0	10	20
ALCU	Jason et al.	10	0	10	20
Anderson et al.	Claremont	10	0	10	20
U[C]SD	SGV Ventures	10	10	10	30
South Carolina	North Carolina A	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech B	North Carolina B	10	0	10	20
Truman	Missouri	0	10	10	20
Squidward Community College	Missouri	10	0	10	20
WashU	Truman	10	0	10	20
she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	10	0	10	20
In the Mood for Buzz	The cult of SGA	10	0	10	20
Madmen and Specialists	Social credit go vroom	10	0	10	20
Old and Young	Paddington in Peru (2024)	10	0	10	20
Maryland	Penn State	10	0	10	20
RIT	Pitt	0	0	10	10
UCF A	Florida Tech	0	0	10	10
UF C	Valencia	10	0	10	20
Chicago A	Illinois Orange	10	0	10	20
SIUE	Purdue B	10	0	10	20
Cambridge B	Warwick A	10	0	10	20
Warwick B	Cambridge A	0	0	10	10
Warwick C	Bristol	10	0	10	20