Vairocana is a non-person, AFAIK: a primordial Buddha. Vairotsana, on the other hand was the historical human being, a translator, who (among other things) must be the one who first committed this practice to writing
@ruzickaw what is the difference between ritual and practice? Regarding ritual per se, Gautama Buddha also said that nothing is absolute and singular, even his words. So how is that to be applied to the words you attribute him: 'rites and rituals are fetters'? Perhaps that not all are fetters or ...
I adore the steaming black hole in Wonkette's chest where its heart would be... but how is this comment form the %1-er being a tool?