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also emerged, blending Vajrayāna practices with existing Chinese Buddhist traditions. Each of these traditions adapted Vajrayāna principles to its cultural

practices of Vajrayāna are not included in Sutrayāna, all Sutrayāna practices are common to Vajrayāna practice. Traditionally, Vajrayāna is held to be

common classification among scholars is threefold: Theravāda, Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna. In contemporary Buddhist studies, modern Buddhism is often divided into

and early origins of Vajrayāna remain a subject of debate among scholars. Some scholars like Alexis Sanderson argue that Vajrayāna derives its tantric

describe the three main schools of Buddhism: Theravāda, Mahāyāna, and Vajrayāna. Buddhism is an Indian religion and dhārma that encompasses a variety

Vajrayāna, is practised in the Himalayan states as well as in Mongolia and Russian Kalmykia and Tuva. Japanese Shingon also preserves the Vajrayana tradition

(Sanskrit: भैरव, lit. 'frightful'), or Kāla Bhairava, is a Shaivite and Vajrayāna deity worshipped by Hindus and Buddhists. In Shaivism, he is a powerful

of Theravāda with the rituals of Vajrayāna in the 7th century. In and of itself not a school of Buddhism, Vajrayāna, literally meaning "adamantine" or

with the rise of the Vajrayāna, which created a hierarchy of the teachings with the Vajrayāna being the highest path. The Vajrayāna itself became multilayered

hidden teachings that are key to the Vajrayana of Tibetan Buddhism and Bon spiritual traditions. In the Vajrayana Nyingma school tradition, two lineages