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 |
| 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 |