Explore: Vajrasattva

Vajrasattva (Sanskrit: वज्रसत्त्व, Tibetan: རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ། Dorje Sempa, short form: རྡོར་སེམས། Dorsem) is a bodhisattva in the Mahayana and Mantrayana/Vajrayana

holding or wielding the vajra. The most famous of these are Vajrapani, Vajrasattva, and Vajradhara. The figure of the Wrathful Vajrapani (lit. vajra in

needed] According to Tibetan Buddhism, Hayagriva is the wrathful form of Vajrasattva, who assumes the form Avalokiteśvara and turns into Hayagriva in order

bodhisattva of power that flanks Amitābha in Pure Land Buddhism and as Vajrasattva in Tibetan Buddhism. They are usually portrayed as a pair of figures

tantra are superior because only tantra makes use of what is called "the Vajrasattva meditative stabilization", which refers to a non-dual consciousness that

Kagyé.[citation needed] Vajrakilaya is a wrathful form of the Buddha Vajrasattva. His distinctive iconographic trait is that he holds the dagger called

120–185 (The Rajatarangini of Kalahana: Fourth Book). "The Bodhisattva Vajrasattva". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Reedy, Chandra L. (1997). Himalayan

and Japan, incorporates yidams like Marici and the "five mysteries of Vajrasattva". These variations reflect the integration of yidam practices into local

Abhisheka (coronation ceremony) of Shingon Buddhism He was united with Vajrasattva, a Bodhisattva, as a secular emperor, and became a symbol of the unification

how to visualize the deities of the mandala—usually Mahāvairocana and Vajrasattva. Afterwards, the initiate is taught the secret mudras and mantras of