Results for "vajra"
15 entries found.
🇮🇳 India and 4 moreVajrayanaVajrayāna
A Buddhist path using rituals and mantras for rapid awakeningTradition · Change and initiation Living
🇧🇹 BhutanVajravarahiརྡོ་རྗེ་ཕག་མོ། (Dorje Pakmo)
A wrathful female buddha in Tibetan Buddhism, depicted with a sow head and dancing posture.Being · Power and authority · Change and initiation Living
🇮🇳 India and 2 morePadmasambhavaཔདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས།
A tantric master credited with establishing Buddhism in Tibet and founding the Nyingma school.Figure · Protection · Power and authority Living
🇮🇳 India and 5 moreBhairavaभैरव
A fierce manifestation of Shiva and a Buddhist protector deity worshipped across South and East Asia.Being · Protection · Cursing and harm Living
🇨🇳 China and 4 moreSky burialབྱ་གཏོར་
A Tibetan funerary rite where human remains are offered to scavenging birdsRite · Speaking with spirits and the dead · Change and initiation Living
🇮🇳 India and 3 moreDakiniḍākinī
A goddess figure in Hinduism and Buddhism, ranging from flesh-eating demoness to enlightened energy.Being · Cursing and harm · Power and authority Historical
🇯🇵 Japan and 1 moreKūkai空海
Founder of Shingon Buddhism who brought Vajrayana esoteric practices from China to Japan.Text · Power and authority · Protection Historical
🇮🇳 India and 2 moreKalachakraདུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ།
A Tibetan Buddhist tantric deity and system of yogic time cyclesTradition · Change and initiation · Speaking with spirits and the dead Living
🇮🇳 IndiaNaropa
An Indian Buddhist master whose teachings shaped Tibetan Vajrayana practiceFigure · Change and initiation Historical
🇮🇱 Israel and 1 moreSolomon's shamirשָׁמִיר
A legendary worm or stone used to carve stone without iron toolsBeing · Power and authority Legendary
🇨🇳 China and 1 morePalden Lhamoདཔལ་ལྡན་ལྷ་མོ།
A fierce Tibetan Buddhist guardian of the teaching and of the Dalai LamasBeing · Protection · Seeing and foretelling Living
🇯🇵 JapanAme-no-Nuboko天沼矛
The jewel-decorated spear of Japanese myth, used to stir the sea into landCharm · Protection · Change and initiation Legendary
🇮🇳 India and 3 moreTermaགཏེར་མ
Hidden teachings in Tibetan Buddhism and Bon, revealed by tertöns when the time is right.Text · Speaking with spirits and the dead · Change and initiation Living
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreDeity yoga
A Vajrayana meditation on embodying a chosen Buddha figure to realize emptinessTradition · Change and initiation · Power and authority Living
🇵🇰 Pakistan and 1 moreApalālaअपलाल
A nāga king of Buddhist story, said to be converted by the BuddhaBeing Legendary
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Naropa: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Apalāla: Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0, source
- Ame-no-Nuboko: Kobayashi Eitaku, Public domain, source
- Palden Lhamo: L. Austine Waddell, Public domain, source
- Vajrayana: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra, CC BY 2.0, source
- Solomon's shamir: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eberhard_Werner_Happel, Public domain, source
- Bhairava: Saankav, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Sky burial: FishOil at English Wikipedia, Public domain, source
- Dakini: Didier Descouens, Public domain, source
- Kūkai: Unknown author, CC BY 4.0, source
- Deity yoga: Anonymous Unknown author, CC0, source
- Vajravarahi: Foto: Andreas Praefcke, Public domain, source
- Kalachakra: Nabin K. Sapkota, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Padmasambhava: John Hill, CC BY-SA 3.0, source