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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, and is known, in this context, as the 'Lord of Secrets' (Skt. ''Guhyapati''; Tib. གསང་བའི་བདག་པོ་, Wyl. ''gsang ba'i bdag po'').
'''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>
 
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==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/browser/released/UT22084/087/UT22084-087-003.pdf|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}}


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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

  1. 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.
  2. 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

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