Editing Acala (section)

== In popular culture ==
* [[Gary Snyder]]'s 1969 poem ''[[Smokey the Bear Sutra]]'' portrays [[Smokey Bear]] (the mascot of the [[United States Forest Service|U.S. Forest Service]]) as an incarnation of Vairocana (the "Great Sun Buddha") in a similar vein as Acala. Indeed, Acala's Mantra of Compassionate Help is presented in the text as Smokey's "great mantra."<ref>{{Cite web|title=Smokey the Bear Sutra|url=https://www.inquiringmind.com/article/2201_27_snyder_smokey-bear-sutra/|access-date=2020-12-12|website=Inquiring Mind|language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Sailor Mars]] from the ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' series invokes Acala through the Sanskrit chant of the Mantra of Compassionate Help during her "''Fire Soul Bird''" attack. Acala is flashed multiple times as a shadowed figure in flames, consistent with Japanese iconography, and in line with Sailor Mars's element of fire.