- Vajrayāna (Sanskrit: वज्रयान; lit. 'vajra vehicle'), also
known as
Mantrayāna ('mantra vehicle'), Guhyamantrayāna ('secret
mantra vehicle'), Tantrayāna...
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Sarma "fresh", "new" traditions.
Mantrayana has
developed into a
synonym of Vajrayana.
According to the
important Mantrayana Buddhist text
called the Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa...
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foundations of the Two
Worlds Mandala derive from
Indian Esoteric Buddhism (
Mantrayāna),
specifically from two
seminal scriptures: the Mahāvairocana Sūtra and...
- "sound,
light and rays" (Wylie: sgra 'od zer gsum) and the 'mantra' of the
Mantrayana tradition in particular, Kongtrul, et al. (2005: p. 431)
identifies the...
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commonly referred to as Mantramārga ("Path of Mantra") in
Hinduism or
Mantrayāna ("Mantra Vehicle") and
Guhyamantra ("Secret Mantra") in Buddhism. In Buddhism...
- and Pure Land (see below). Vajrayāna ("Vajra Vehicle"), also
known as
Mantrayāna,
Tantric Buddhism and
Esoteric Buddhism. This
category is
mostly represented...
-
short form: རྡོར་སེམས། Dorsem) is a
bodhisattva in the
Mahayana and
Mantrayana/Vajrayana
Buddhist traditions. In
Chinese Buddhism and the ****anese Shingon...
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literature refers to the vast and
varied literature of the Vajrayāna (or
Mantrayāna)
Buddhist traditions. The
earliest of
these works are a
genre of Indian...
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classified as
either Sutra (or Pāramitāyāna) or
Tantra (Vajrayāna or
Mantrayāna),
though exactly what
constitutes each
category and what is
included and...
- They are
found in
Tantric Hinduism and in
Esoteric Buddhism (Vajrayana /
Mantrayana). A bījamantra is
ritually uttered for the
invocation of a deity. It is...
