Sanskrit Noun
Vajrayāna
Diamond Vehicle
वज्रयान
རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པ།
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 | རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པ། ( dorje thekpa) |
| Wylie Tibetan Transliteration | rdo rje theg pa ( dorje thekpa) |
| Devanagari Sanskrit | वज्रयान |
| Romanized Sanskrit | vajrayāna |
| Chinese | 金剛乘 |
| Chinese Pinyin | Jin'gangsheng |
| Buddha-nature Site Standard English | Diamond Vehicle |
| Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term | 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 | 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 |
