- Vajrayāna (Sanskrit: वज्रयान; lit. 'vajra vehicle'), also
known as
Mantrayāna ('mantra vehicle'), Mantranāya ('path of mantra'), Guhyamantrayāna ('secret...
-
Sarma "fresh", "new" traditions.
Mantrayana has
developed into a
synonym of Vajrayana.
According to the
important Mantrayana Buddhist text
called the Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa...
- and Pure Land (see below). Vajrayāna ("Vajra Vehicle"), also
known as
Mantrayāna,
Tantric Buddhism and
Esoteric Buddhism. This
category is
mostly represented...
- on the
bodhisattva path and the Prajnaparamita. The Vajrayāna, or the
Mantrayana, was also
taught by the Buddha, and
makes use of
numerous tantric methods...
- Dampier.
Traditions of
Mantrayana were also
evident in Indonesia, e.g.
Candi Sukuh. And it is in the
Vajrayana and
Mantrayana traditions of
esoteric transmission...
-
classified as
either Sutra (or Pāramitāyāna) or
Tantra (Vajrayāna or
Mantrayāna),
though exactly what
constitutes each
category and what is
included and...
-
short form: རྡོར་སེམས། Dorsem) is a
bodhisattva in the
Mahayana and
Mantrayana/Vajrayana
Buddhist traditions. In
Chinese Buddhism and the ****anese Shingon...
- "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...
- The
oldest extant esoteric Buddhist Mantranaya (largely a
synonym of
Mantrayana,
Vajrayana and
Buddhist Tantra)
literature in Old Javanese, a language...
-
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...