Vajrayāna

Sanskrit Noun

Vajrayāna

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वज्रयान

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金剛乘

Basic Meaning

The esoteric Buddhist tradition which developed as a syncretic system involving deity worship, use of mantras, physical energy, and mystical practices. It is also known as the mantra tradition and the tantric school as a result of being based on texts known as tantras.

Term Variations
Key Term	Vajrayāna
Topic Variation	Vajrayāna
Tibetan	{{#arraymap: རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པ། |, |@@@ |@@@ |,  }}  ( {{#arraymap: dorje thekpa |, |@@@ |@@@ |,  }})
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration	{{#arraymap:rdo rje theg pa |, |@@@ |@@@ |,  }}  ( {{#arraymap: dorje thekpa |, |@@@ |@@@ |,  }})
Devanagari Sanskrit	वज्रयान
Romanized Sanskrit	vajrayāna
Chinese	{{#arraymap:金剛乘|,|@@@|@@@|, }}
Chinese Pinyin	{{#arraymap:Jin'gangsheng|,|@@@|@@@|, }}
Buddha-nature Site Standard English	{{#arraymap:Diamond Vehicle|,|@@@|@@@|, }}
Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term	{{#arraymap:Vajra Vehicle|,|@@@|@@@|, }}
Term Information
Source Language	Sanskrit
Basic Meaning	The esoteric Buddhist tradition which developed as a syncretic system involving deity worship, use of mantras, physical energy, and mystical practices. It is also known as the mantra tradition and the tantric school as a result of being based on texts known as tantras.
Related Terms	{{#arraymap: tantra,secret mantra,mantra | , | @@@ | @@@ | ,  }}
Related Topic Pages	Https://kuenselonline.com/vajrayana-the-diamond-vehicle/
Term Type	Noun
Definitions
Dung dkar Tshig mdzod Chen mo	གསང་སྔགས་ཀྱི་ལམ་ལ་གོ་དགོས། དེ་ཡང་རྒྱུད་སྡེ་བཞི་ནས་བཤད་འི་ལམ་གྱི་རིམ་པ་རྣམས་ཡིན། ཐེག་པ་དང་ལམ་གཉིས་སྤྱི་དང་བྱེ་བྲག་ཡིན་པས་ཁྱབ་ཆེ་ཆུང་ཡོད།
Wikipedia	wikipedia:Vajrayana