Vajrayāna
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| 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. |
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