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	Vajrapani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vajrapani was used extensively in Buddhist iconography as one of the three protective deities surrounding the Buddha.
		For the yogi, Vajrapani is an archetype deity of fierce determination and symbolizes unrelenting effectiveness in the conquest of negativity.
		Vajrapani is believed to be the savior of snakes (nagas), and since the Nagas are believed to control the rain-clouds, Vajrapani as their protector is looked upon as the Rain God, and it is to him Buddhists appeal when rain is needed, or is too abundant.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vajrapani (447 words)

	Vajrapani -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Each of them symbolizes one of the Buddha's virtues: (additional info and facts about Manjusri) Manjusri (the manifestation of all the Buddhas' wisdom), (A male Bodhisattva; widely associated with various gods and people) Avalokitesvara (the manifestation of all the Buddhas' compassion) and Vajrapani (the manifestation of all the Buddhas' power).
		The first representations of Vajrapani in (A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947) India associated him with the (A person who adheres to Hinduism) Hindu God (Chief god of the Rig-Veda; god of rain and thunder) Indra.
		In Japan, Vajrapani is known as Shukongōshin (執金剛神;, "Diamond rod-wielding God"), and has been the inspiration for the (additional info and facts about Niō;) Niō (仁王;, lit.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/va/vajrapani.htm (264 words)

	Vajrapani Institute for Wisdom Culture
		Vajrapani Institute for Wisdom Culture is a California Tibetan Buddhist retreat center located in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Boulder Creek, California, USA.
		Vajrapani is an extremely blessed setting and has been visited over the years by many Holy Beings including a visit by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 1989.
		Vajrapani Institute is a California Tibetan Buddhist Retreat Center, founded in 1977 by Lama Thubten Yeshe, his heart disciple, Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, and a group of extremely dedicated students.
	www.vajrapani.org (543 words)

	Green Tara Statue, White Tara Statue, Manjushree Statue: Bodhisattva Statues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vajrapani with the vajra symbol is the spiritual son of the Dhyani Buddha Akshobhya who is the progenitor of the Vajra family.
		Vajrapani was charged by Tagthagata to guard them from the attacks of their mortal enemies, the Garudas.
		Vajrapani when represented either stands or sits and carries usually a lotus on which is placed the family symbol of Vajra.
	www.himalayanmart.com /greentarastatue/greentarastatue.php (1844 words)

	Nio Protectors of Japan - Japanese Buddhism Photo Dictionary
		Vajrapani is the keeper of all tantras of Vajrayana Buddhism.
		Vajrapani, dark blue in colour with one face and two hands, appears in the form of a raksha (a daemon of classical Indian mythology) with three large staring eyes, a gaping mouth with bared canine teeth and orange beard, eyebrows and hair flowing upward like flame.
		Vajrapani is common to all Schools of Tibetan Buddhism and has numerous forms and practices which span all sets of tantric classification and levels of complexity from a solitary aspect up to the large and complex mandalas with many deities.
	www.onmarkproductions.com /html/nio.shtml (1242 words)

	Waking the wild within
		Vajrapani is usually depicted at the moment just before he hurls the vajra; this speaks of breaking through ignorance into Enlightenment.
		Vajrapani's advice in these circumstances is to 'whack the pig on the snout' if she strays into the kitchen.
		The figure of Wrathful Vajrapani that we encounter in the Buddhist tradition undergoes a gradual spiritual transformation: it's the story of energy in pursuit of the Good.
	www.dharmalife.com /issue26/vajrapani.html (2126 words)

	Book - A "shtamahabodhisttva" The Great Bodhisattva in Art and Literature
		Endowed with thuderbolt which is also the attribute of the Hindu god Indra or Sakra, Vajrapani is associated with Buddha as his attendant wherever he went to preach the dharma.
		It is said that when the Tathagata subdued the gigantic Naga in Udiyana, he charged Vajrapani to guad the other serpents (who surrendered to the Tathgata to save them from the attack of Guruda).
		Vajrapani is the Dhyani Bodhisattva corresponding to the five celestial Buddhas or Jinas.
	www.ibiblio.org /radha/rdbook01.htm (2803 words)

	Cloudband : Magazine : BEAUTY AND ENLIGHTENMENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One painting in the show, a ca.9th century banner from Dunhuang, the Chinese pilgrimage site in Gansu province which Tibetans controlled during the late 8th and early 9th centuries, is one of a handful of works from the site that are thought to have been painted by Tibetans.
		Vajrapani's large, staring eyes indicate the emphatically iconic role this painting may have served.
		Vajrapani is drawn in a determined though somewhat clumsy, inexpressive line.
	www.cloudband.com /magazine/articles/rev_singer_beauty_0599.html (1506 words)

	Tashi Deleg! - The Padma Samye Ling Monthly Bulletin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Secret Holder of the Blue Jacket: Vajrapani is the embodiment of power of all the buddhas.
		This specific form of Vajrapani is the antidote for disease and trouble.
		This is the union of kama and terma teachings given by Mipham Rinpoche.
	www.padmasambhava.org /webapps/padma.apoye.com/tashideleg/index.jsp?storyId=vajrapani.nyc (175 words)

	Kungfu Magazine: Print Friendly Feature
		By the sixteenth century at the latest, the staff became the dominant weapon of Shaolin monks, for which reason they replaced the martial god's original vajra with it, creating a legend according to which Vajrapani was the divine progenitor of their renowned staff techniques.
		Vajrapani was also known in Chinese as Naluoyan (from the Sanskrit: Narayana), a name similar to Kimnara's Chinese transliteration: Jin'naluo.
		In this essay, however, we are concerned not with Shaolin's tutelary deity Vajrapani, but with another motif featured in the Tang-Period story: the connection between fighting and the consumption of meat.
	ezine.kungfumagazine.com /print.php?article=521 (4408 words)

	Newsletter ...10-1-2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vajrapani Institute is part of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), a worldwide organization of more than 100 retreat and city centers, hospices and health care projects, monasteries and nunneries, and schools and publishing houses.
		Vajrapani Institute has been blessed over the years with visits by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and many other esteemed spiritual teachers.
		Vajrapani is ideally suited for meditation retreats, yoga workshops, staff and board retreats, health trainings, support group meetings, business seminars, environmental conferences and all types of spiritual activities.
	www.urbandharma.org /udnl/nl100102.html (7322 words)

	8 Bodhisattvas
		Vajrapani (Chana Dorje>phyag.na rdo.rje) is royal blue or blue-fl, and, in peaceful form, balances the dorje upon his palm or wrathful, wields a vajra (dorje) in warning as if to throw it.
		Vajrapani (Chin: Jin Gang Shou; Jap: Kongo Shu) means "Lightning Hand," an epithet pointing to his identity with India's thunderbolt-wielding king of gods, Indra, also called Shakra (Pali: Sakka.) This identity is borne out by his other Buddhist epithets, i.e.
		Vajrapani is associated with Buddha Shakyamuni and mentioned, usually by one of his other names, as the attendant who accompanied Him wherever he went.
	www.khandro.net /deities_bodhisattvas.htm (2358 words)

	Instructions on the Amitabha Sadhana
		In the heart of the front-visualisation Amitabha and in the heart of the Amitabha in the vase is a moon-disc, on which stands a red HRIH encircled by the long 'dharani-mantra' of Amitabha, turning clockwise.
		On Amitabha's left is Vajrapani, who is the embodiment of the strength and power of all the buddhas.
		At the time of Sakyamuni, Vajrapani requested the tantric teachings, so he is the master of the tantras.
	www.quietmountain.org /links/teachings/amitabha/amitabha.htm (8985 words)

	Standing Vajrapani [Nepal] (L.1993.51.5) \| Object Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It can be identified as the Bodhisattva Vajrapani by the symbolic thunderbolt (vajra) he holds in his left hand; his right hand once held a small object, possibly a lotus bud or a fruit.
		Vajrapani is an embodiment of the wisdom-component of enlightenment (the other component being compassion) and his vajra represents the diamond-like nature of the Buddhist doctrine.
		Unlike later heavily ornamented bodhisattvas, this image of Vajrapani wears only a simple miter-shaped tiara, small earrings, a diagonal sash, and a type of skirt known as a dhoti.
	www.metmuseum.org /TOAH/hd/neps/hod_L.1993.51.5.htm (191 words)

	Tse Chen Ling: Resources
		Vajrapani Institute is a Tibetan Buddhist retreat center located in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Boulder Creek, California.
		Vajrapani appeals to and serves a wide spectrum of visitors: people who participate in group rentals, practice in individual retreat cabins, and take part in courses, workshops and group retreats.
		One of the longest established centers in the United States, Vajrapani is a blessed place to bring your practice.
	www.tsechenling.org /resources.html (737 words)

	Tale of Two
		When Vajrasattva and Vajrapani, the Buddha and Bodhisattva of the Vajrayana become Hayagriva and Vajravarahi in heruka form, blazing in the nine kinds of physical magnificence and splendor, they proceeded to the abode of the Rudra at Malaya Mountain.
		Then Vajrapani manifested still greater divine powers of every imaginable description, and all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas established their abodes on the greatly enlarged and distended body of the Rudra.
		Vajrapani, producing ten other divine beings of the terrific type (Krodhabhairava,) gave a p'hurba (three-sided peg or dagger) to each and commanded them to go and destroy Rudra and his party.
	www.khandro.net /deity_tale_of_two.htm (5578 words)

	Hindu Gods in Tantric Buddhism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vajrapani, who starts out in the early sutras as a general of the Yaksas and ends up as Lord of the House of the Vajra family, is the one responsible for their defeat.
		Vajrapani rises up and defeats Siva through the use of a magical mudra, causing all the Gods to run to him for protection.
		His consorts range from a female version of himself to a pig-faced woman who carries an axe and a vessel full of blood.His own form is frequently that of a wrathful deity whose function in Tantra is to protect one from the obstacles of enlightenment.
	duard.dreamscrying.net /hindugods.html (1703 words)

	Buddhist Meditation \| Mantra Meditation \| Vajrapani Mantra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vajrapani doesn't, to many newcomers to Buddhism, look very Buddhist at all.
		Vajrapani looks wrathful, but as a representation of the enlightened mind, he's completely free from hatred.
		A familiarity with Vajrapani does, of course, help here, although the sound of the mantra is itself rather energetic.
	www.wildmind.org /meditation/mantra/vajrapani.html (151 words)

	SOMA - Urine Handout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But the monster Rahu, a Lhamayin, happened to hear of this precious discovery, and having carefully watched Vajrapani's movements, seized an opportunity, in the absence of the latter, to drink the water of life; not satisfied with this act, he even voided his water deliberately into the vessel.
		To pour it out would have been most dangerous to human beings, as it contained a large quantity of the poison Hala hala; they therefore determined that Vajrapani should drink it, in just punishment for the carelessness through which the water of life was lost.
		Vajrapani conceived, from his transfiguration, a most violent rage against all evil demons, and in particular against Rahu, who, notwithstanding his deadly wounds, was prevented from dying by the water of life.
	www.somamushrooms.org /Speakers/Urine/body_urine.html (8992 words)

	The God Who Drank Urine
		Lhamayin, happened to hear of this precious discovery, and having carefully watched Vajrapani's movements, seized an opportunity, in the absence of the latter, to drink the water of life; not satisfied with this act, he even voided his water deliberately into the vessel.
		Thus, "The Legend About Chakdor" contains references to three classes of autochthonous entities: Vajrapani is a yaksha (albeit one who has converted to Buddhism), Rahu is an asura and his legs are replaced with the tail of a naga.
		At last we turn to the oddest, and yet most crucial, element of the Vajrapani myth: he drinks Rahu's urine and, as a result becomes terrifying, blue and adorned with snakes.
	www.takeourword.com /urine.html (8914 words)

	thangka gallery \| Vajrapani
		On the popular level, Vajrapani, Holder of the Thunderbolt Scepter (symbolizing the power of compassion), is the Bodhisattva who represents the power of all the Buddhas, just as Avalokiteshvara represents their great compassion, Manjushri their wisdom, and Tara their miraculous deeds.
		On the Vajrapani's left is Dam-chen Dorje Legpa.
		Wrathful protector of the Tibetan ancient pre-Buddhist religious he was conquered by Guru Padmasambhava.After this Dorje Legpa took vows and became the most powerful protector of the Nyingmapa.
	www.thangka.ru /gallery/ge_wadjrapani.html (252 words)

	Trikaya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		With the development of the Mahayana and the Vajrayana the number of sambhogakaya Buddhas and Bodhisattvas multiplied enormously.
		While some had historical antecedents (such as Gautama, or Padmasambhava) many new figures began to appear who had none: among the Boshisattvas there is Tara, Manjusri, Vajrapani, Avalokiteshvara.
		Another development was placing Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in special environments called "Buddha fields" where everything has a perfected form, and where beings are not required to eat, do not reproduce sexually, and spend all their time sitting at the feet of the Buddha listening to them preach the Dharma.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dharmakaya (778 words)

	TIBET-80st.com -------------- Thankas -------------- tibetan store,tibetan gifts,tibetan ...
		He is the wrathful deity that destroys mind chatter and brings our minds back into attentive focus.
		Vajrapani is a famous celestial Bodhisattva, he represents the concentrated power of all Buddhas.
		He is a blue Tantric figure that is surrounded mostly by a flamed halo, and wears a garland of skulls and a wreath of snakes
	www.tibet-80st.com /thankas_Paint_01.html (365 words)

	ajanta2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This image and the image of Vajrapani (see below) flank the two sides of the doorway to the central shrine in Cave 1, and represent the aspects of a perfect Buddha-infinite Compassion, and absolute transcendent Wisdom.
		This image of the bodhisattva Vajrapani is the companion piece to the image of Padmapani shown above (Padmapani is on the left-hand side of the doorway, and Manjushri on the right).
		The bodhisattva Vajrapani ("bearing the thunderboltManjushri is the bodhisattva who symbolizes perfect wisdom, which allows one to distinguish truth from falsity.
	www2.carthage.edu /~lochtefe/buddhism/ajanta2.html (462 words)

	Vajrapani Buddhist Centre
		Vajrapani Centre is a residential Buddhist centre located in Highfields area of Huddersfield.
		The Centre is home to a community of lay and ordained practitioners and offers a wide range of classes and other events in Kirklees, Wakefield and other surrounding areas.
		Vajrapani Centre is a registered charity and is one of many 100s of centres worldwide that together form the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT).
	www.meditationinhuddersfield.org (166 words)

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