Vajrayāna

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Key Term	Vajrayāna
Hover Popup Choices	diamond vehicle; Tantric Buddhism
Featured People	Padmasambhava, Nāropa, Maitrīpa
In Tibetan Script	རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པ།
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration	rdo rje theg pa
Devanagari Sanskrit Script	वज्रयान
Romanized Sanskrit	vajrayāna
Tibetan Phonetic Rendering	dorje thekpa
Chinese Script	金剛乘
Chinese Pinyin	Jin'gangsheng
English Standard	Diamond Vehicle
Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term	Vajra Vehicle
Term Type	Noun
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.
Has the Sense of	An adamantine system for being based on the innate nature of reality and using the state of Buddha as a way to actualize enlightenment.
Related Terms	tantra;secret mantra;mantra
Related Topic Pages	https://kuenselonline.com/vajrayana-the-diamond-vehicle/
Definitions
Rangjung Yeshe's English Term	Vajra Vehicle, Vajrayana, vehicle of indestructible reality, the vajra vehicle [of Secret Mantra] vajrayana, diamond vehicle, indestructible approach to the teaching, Indestructible Reality Way, Indestructible Way Vajrayana. The 'vajra vehicle.' The practices of taking the result as the path. Same as 'Secret Mantra.'
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

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.

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.

Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism.