Vajrayāna
| 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 |
| 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 tantric school for being based on texts known as tantras. |
| 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. |
| 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 |