FUDÕ

 EXECERPT FROM THIS BOOK: A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN JAPAN (INCLUDING FORMOSA), BY BASIL CHAMBERLAIN,F.R.G.S. AND W.B. MASON, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND LATE OF THE IMPERIAL  JAPANESE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS. WITH THIRTY MAPS AND PLANS AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. NINTH EDITION, REVISED THROUGHOUT. LONDON. JOHN MURRAY, ALLEMARLE STREET. YOKOHAMA, SHANGHAI,- KELLY&WALSH, LIMITED-HONKONG, SINGAPORE.1913

FUDÕ - Enlightenment personified

WHAT IS IS  FUDÕ- (Sanskrit Achala) 

Much obscurity hangs over the origin and attributes of this popular divinity. According to Monier Williams,- Achala which means "immovable".  Fudo( 不動 translates this meaning exactly) is a name of the Brahmini call The God Siva and of the first of the nine deified persons, who are called "White Balas".. Among the Jainas (Satow says):- Fudō Akshara is identified with Dainichi (Vâirôkana), else The God of Wisdom, which quality is symbolised by the flames which surround him. It is a common error to suppose that he is the God of Fire.

According to the popular view- the sharp sword which he grasps in the right hand is to frighten evil doers, while in his left hand he holds a rope to bind them with. Fudo is generally represented in art attended by his two chief followers Seitaka Dōji and Kongara Dōji. 

Fudo is Enlightenment personified.

 CITATION FROM

IMPERIAL HOTEL GUIDE BOOK AND ΤΟΚΙΟ OF JAPAN  1892

 His image sits or stands on a rock in flames of fire, and has a sword is in the right hand and a twisted rope in the left.

 The flame represents the purifying power and the rock immovableness ; the name Fudo itself means immovableness. 

Fudo cuts wicked thoughts with his sword and ties passions with the rope and keeps them under his complete control. Now this is the result of Enlightenment.

 Sakyamuni said:- "Fudo dwells in the heart of every man". He represents, as we have saidm Enlightened Reason and every person has a germ of enlightenment in his mind. When a man gets enlightenment and keeps his passions under the complete control of his reasonm which standing on the firm basis of the rock of Truth, cuts and ties bad passions and thoughts then and therem he is a temple of Fudom-nay he is Fudo himself. But the popular superstition has taken literally the highly figured language of the sacred book  and has made Fudo a separate being with personal at tributes, He is believed to have power to work miracles.