Key Terms/Vajrayāna
From Bodhicitta
वज्रयान Vajrayāna
Diamond Vehicle
རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པ།
rdo rje theg pa
金剛乘
Jin'gangsheng
Sanskrit - 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 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.
| Term Variations | |
| Key Term | Vajrayāna |
|---|---|
| Topic Variation | Vajrayāna |
| Tibetan | རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པ། ( dorje thekpa) |
| Wylie Transliteration | rdo rje theg pa ( dorje thekpa) |
| Devanagari Sanskrit | वज्रयान |
| Romanized Sanskrit | Vajrayāna |
| Chinese | 金剛乘 |
| Chinese Pinyin | Jin'gangsheng |
| Buddha-nature Site Standard English | Diamond Vehicle |
| Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term | Vajra Vehicle |
| Term Information | |
| 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/ |
| Term Type | Noun |
| Definitions | |
| Rangjung Yeshe Dictionary | 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 |
