84000 Glossary of Terms
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རྡོ་རྗེའི་རིགས། | Glossary of Terms
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རྡོ་རྗེའི་རིགས།
- rdo rje’i rigs
- vajrakula
- Term
Publications: 5
Translation by Gyurme Dorje
- Vajra family
- རྡོ་རྗེའི་རིགས།
- rdo rje’i rigs
- vajrakula
In this context, the term vajrakula denotes the retinue of the wrathful bodhisattva Vajrapāṇi.
Translation by Wiesiek Mical
- vajra family
- རྡོ་རྗེའི་རིགས།
- rdo rje’i rigs
- vajrakula
One of the five buddha families.
Translation by Wiesiek Mical
- Vajra family
- རྡོ་རྗེའི་རིགས།
- rdo rje’i rigs
- vajrakula
The family associated with Vajrapāṇi.
Translation by Laura Dainty · Khenpo Tsöndrü Sangpo
- vajra family
- རྡོ་རྗེའི་རིགས།
- rdo rje’i rigs
- vajrakula
One of the five buddha families, it is presided over by the Tathāgata Akṣobhya.
Translation by Lozang Jamspal · Kaia Fischer · Erin Sperry
- vajra clan
- རྡོ་རྗེའི་རིགས།
- rdo rje’i rigs
- vajrakula
One of the three, four, or five clans into which esoteric Buddhist deities are organized. In Kriyātantra literature, the head of this clan is Vajrapāṇi.