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- the unusual relationship of the vajracharyas and their ****istant shakyas with Buddhist monasticism: Unlike Vajracharyas, Shakya men may not be priests...
- Vajra Vajracharya (Nepali: गौतम वज्र वज्राचार्य) is a Sanskritist and scholar specializing in the iconography of the Indian subcontinent. Vajracharya was...
- Buddhist Newars, the non-celibate (gr̥hastha) priestly sangha class Vajracharyas and Shakyas ( who are collectively called "Bañdā" or "Baré") were provided...
- Buddhist Newars, the non-celibate (gr̥hastha) priestly sangha class Vajracharyas and Shakyas (who are collectively called "Bañdā" or "Baré") were provided...
- Its caste system has a non-celibate religious clergy caste formed of vajracharya (who perform rituals for others) and shakya (who perform rituals mostly...
- 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...
- Newars have their own priests (Rajopadhyaya Brahmins for Hindus and Vajracharyas for Buddhists) and varying amounts of cultural differences. Religiously...
- Society in History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-566915-2. Vajracharya, Dhanavajra (1 December 1975), "Notes on the Changunarayan Inscription"...
- taught in the context of an initiation ceremony by tantric gurus or vajracharyas (vajra-masters) to the tantric initiate, who also takes on formal commitments...