Key Terms/Vajrayāna
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.
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.'
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།
