| Key Term |
vajrayāna |
| Hover Popup Choices |
diamond vehicle; Tantric Buddhism |
| 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 |
| Basic Meaning |
The esoteric Buddhist tradition which developed as a syncretic system involving deity worship, use of mantras, physical energy and mystical practices. |
| Has the Sense of |
An adamantine system for being based on the innate nature of reality and and using the state of Buddha as a way to actualise enlightenment. |
| Definitions |