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- ranking of the Newar castes that are born Buddhist. The emergence of vajracharya institution is ascribed to the decline of celibate Buddhist monks in...
- Vajra Vajracharya (Nepali: गौतम वज्र वज्राचार्य) is a Sanskritist and scholar specializing in the iconography of the Indian subcontinent. Vajracharya was...
- and tools Damaru Ghanta Melong Phurba Vajra Yab-Yum Ordination and transmission Esoteric transmission Pointing-out instruction Samaya Vajracharya v t e...
- Its caste system has a non-celibate religious clergy caste formed of vajracharya (who perform rituals for others) and shakya (who perform rituals mostly...
- Newars have their own priests (Rajopadhyaya Brahmins for Hindus and Vajracharyas for Buddhists) and varying amounts of cultural differences. Religiously...
- A vajracharya (thunderbolt-carrier), a Newar Buddhist priest...
- extensively in tantric literature: the term for the spiritual teacher is the vajracharya; one of the five dhyani buddhas is vajrasattva, and so on. The practice...
- initiation or transmission of secret teachings performed by a tantric guru (vajracharya) to a student in a ritual space containing the mandala of a Buddhist...
- Déva-bhāju) occupied the highest social position in the Hindu side, the Vajracharya (or Guru/Gu-bhāju) formed the head among the Buddhists. For Hindu Newars...
- Society in History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-566915-2. Vajracharya, Dhanavajra (1 December 1975), "Notes on the Changunarayan Inscription"...