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Vajrayana
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Vajrayana [ˌvʌdʒrʌˈjɑːnə]
n
(Non-Christian Religions / Buddhism) a school of Tantric Buddhism of India and Tibet
[from Sanskrit: vehicle of the diamond or thunderbolt]
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arika) and emphasized the capacity of alt beings to attain Buddhahood, was founded as a synthesis of the doctrines and practices of Tien-Tai, Zen, esoteric Buddhism and the Vinaya sect Shingon was a form of Mantrayana, esoteric Buddhism which taught secret doctrines and mystic rituals The Tendai sect, which was based on the Lotus Sutra (Saddharma Pun?
Buddhism Comes to Japan Part 2 by Saronkorn Seuyouyong / Philosophy and religion community
There in the same page (15) he continues to say, "In the 10th century the Tantric phase developed in Northern India, Kashmir and Nepal into the monstrous and poly-demonist doctrine, the Kalachakra, with its demoniacal Buddhas, which incorporated the Mantrayana practices and called itself the Vajrayana.
An emic critique of Austine Waddell's Buddhism and Lamaism of Tibet - ... by Rana, Sridhar / Contributions to Nepalese Studies
 
 
 
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