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'''Vajrapani''' (Skt. ''Vajrapāṇi''; Tib. ཕྱག་ན་རྡོ་རྗེ་, ''Chakna Dorje'' | '''Vajrapani''' (Skt. ''Vajrapāṇi''; Tib. [[ཕྱག་ན་རྡོ་རྗེ་]], ''Chakna Dorje'', [[Wyl.]] ''phyag na rdo rje'') — one of the [[eight great bodhisattvas]] and [[lords of the three families]]. He represents the power of the [[buddha]]s and is usually depicted as blue in colour and holding a [[vajra]]. | ||
He is especially responsible for transmitting the [[tantra]]s to the human realm, which is one explanation for his epithet 'Lord of Secrets' (Tib. གསང་བའི་བདག་པོ་, Wyl. ''gsang ba'i bdag po'')<ref>''gsang ba'i bdag po'' generally translates the Sanskrit ''guhyakādhipa/guhyakādhipati''. ''Guhyapati'', although commonly used in secondary literature, appears to be unattested in Sanskrit sources. The synonymous epithet ''guhyendra'' is generally translated ''gsang dbang'', and ''guhyarāṭ'' as ''gsang ba'i rgyal po''.</ref>. The epithet is also glossed as indicating his role as the lord of the ''guhyaka''s, i.e. ''[[yaksha]]s''.<ref>See Tribe, Anthony, ''Tantric Buddhist Practice in India: Vilāsavajra’s commentary on the Mañjuśrī-nāmasaṃgīti'', p. 121 n74.</ref> | |||
==Notes== | |||
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==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== | ||
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==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
*{{LH|words-of-the-buddha/blue-clad-vajrapani|Rituals for the Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi}} | |||
*[http://www.himalayanart.org/pages/vajrapani/index.html Vajrapani Outline Page at Himalayan Art] | *[http://www.himalayanart.org/pages/vajrapani/index.html Vajrapani Outline Page at Himalayan Art] | ||
*{{84000|http://read.84000.co/translation/UT22084-087-003.html|The Tantra of the Blue-Clad Blessed Vajrapāṇi}} | *{{84000|http://read.84000.co/translation/UT22084-087-003.html|The Tantra of the Blue-Clad Blessed Vajrapāṇi}} | ||
*{{84000|https://read.84000.co/translation/toh747.html| The Bhūtaḍāmara Tantra }} | |||
*{{84000|https://read.84000.co/translation/toh750.html|Vajra Conqueror}} | |||
*{{84000|https://read.84000.co/translation/toh805.html| The Tantra of Subāhu’s Questions}} | |||
[[Category:Buddhas and Deities]] | [[Category:Buddhas and Deities]] | ||
[[Category:Bodhisattvas]] | [[Category:Bodhisattvas]] | ||
[[Category:Eight Close Sons]] | |||
Latest revision as of 20:07, 15 September 2023
Vajrapani (Skt. Vajrapāṇi; Tib. ཕྱག་ན་རྡོ་རྗེ་, Chakna Dorje, Wyl. phyag na rdo rje) — one of the eight great bodhisattvas and lords of the three families. He represents the power of the buddhas and is usually depicted as blue in colour and holding a vajra.
He is especially responsible for transmitting the tantras to the human realm, which is one explanation for his epithet 'Lord of Secrets' (Tib. གསང་བའི་བདག་པོ་, Wyl. gsang ba'i bdag po)[1]. The epithet is also glossed as indicating his role as the lord of the guhyakas, i.e. yakshas.[2]
Notes
- ↑ gsang ba'i bdag po generally translates the Sanskrit guhyakādhipa/guhyakādhipati. Guhyapati, although commonly used in secondary literature, appears to be unattested in Sanskrit sources. The synonymous epithet guhyendra is generally translated gsang dbang, and guhyarāṭ as gsang ba'i rgyal po.
- ↑ See Tribe, Anthony, Tantric Buddhist Practice in India: Vilāsavajra’s commentary on the Mañjuśrī-nāmasaṃgīti, p. 121 n74.
Further Reading
- Jamgön Mipham, A Garland of Jewels, (trans. by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso), Woodstock: KTD Publications, 2008
