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'''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, | '''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. ''yakṣa''s.<ref>See Tribe, Anthony, ''Tantric Buddhist Practice in India: Vilāsavajra’s commentary on the Mañjuśrī-nāmasaṃgīti'', p. 121 n74.</ref> | ||
==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== | ||
Revision as of 18:18, 19 January 2020
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. yakṣas.[2]
Further Reading
- Jamgön Mipham, A Garland of Jewels, (trans. by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso), Woodstock: KTD Publications, 2008
Internal Links
External Links
Rituals for the Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi- Vajrapani Outline Page at Himalayan Art
The Tantra of the Blue-Clad Blessed Vajrapāṇi
- ↑ 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.