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	Vajrayana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		From this point of view the esoteric Vajrayana is the only Buddhist teaching which is not a compromise with the limited nature of the audience to which it is directed, since the teachings are said to be the Dharmakaya (the principle of enlightenment) in the form of Mahavairocana, engaging in a monologue with himself.
		Vajrayana Buddhism survived in Indonesia and Malaysia until eclipsed by Islam in the 13th century.
		Vajrayana would decline in China and Mongolia with the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, replaced by resurgent Daoism, Confucianism, and Pure Land Buddhism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vajrayana (2187 words)

	Buddhism Today - Dda.o Pha^.t Nga`y Nay, default page-english
		Vajrayana initiation means introducing the disciple into the mandala, the sacred or magic circle, of one of the tutelary deities of the Vajrayana pantheon--deities who are special esoteric forms of the Buddha, meditation on whom can bring about enlightenment.
		Therefore, when we say that the Vajrayana initiation introduces a disciple into the mandala of one of the tantric tutelary deities, what we mean is that it introduces him or her to the purified universe of one of these deities.
		The Vajrayana tutelary deities can be divided into four classes of ascending power or efficacy in bringing about the transformation from an unenlightened mode of existence to an enlightened and sacred mode of existence: (1) the kriya class, (2) the charya class, (3) the yoga class, and (4) the anuttarayoga class.
	www.buddhismtoday.com /english/philosophy/vaira/006-initial.htm (2495 words)

	Vajrayana and Hindu Tantricism
		In the Sakya tradition of the Tiabetan Vajrayana, it is said Sal tong zung juk ryu yee chen key dang or in Sanskrit 'Prabhaswar sunyata yuganadha cha sahaja hetu' which means 'Clarity, Emptiness and their two in one are the spontaneously born Cause- Base.
		Many persons are confused about the fact that both Vajrayana and Hindu tantricism use mantra and deities in their practices as a proof that their practices are basically the same.
		Whereas in Hindu Practice, it is the deity that gives liberation through his grace, in Vajrayana the Yidam (Istadeva) is the major support or aid for the spontaneous arising of the actualisation of the nature of mind and it is only the actualisation of the nature of mind that gives liberation.
	www.buddhim.20m.com /4-2.htm (4575 words)

	"Tantric" Means
		The purpose of Vajrayana Buddhist practice is to attain the perfect enlightenment of Buddha whereas in [the] Hindu Tantric system, the basis is to realize the Ten Mahavidyas as the highest forms of deities.
		In Vajrayana Tantric meditation, the method is the generation and completion stage of the meditation whereas in Hindu Tantric meditation system, the method is limited to the generation stage.
		Vajrayana practitioners achieve the state of complete enlightenment, whereas in Hindu Tantric system, the attainment is the Brahma realm.
	www.khandro.net /Buddhism_tantric.htm (3650 words)

	Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick \| Vajrayana
		Vajrayana Buddhists themselves often classify their school as the final stage in the evolution of Indian Buddhist theory which they enumerate as: Hinayana, Mahayana, Vajrayana (see dharma wheel).
		In particular, the Vajrayana fondness for the fearsome and macabre may be found in weakened form in Mahayana temples where protector deities may be found glaring down at visitors.
		Vajrayana would decline in China and Mongolia with the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, replaced by resurgent Taoism, Confucianism, and Pure Land Buddhism.
	www.thelemapedia.org /index.php/Vajrayana (1859 words)

	Vajrayana - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The Vajrayana is actually an extension of Mahayana Buddhism, the extensions consisting not in philosophical differences, but in the adoption of additional techniques (upaya, or 'skilful means').
		It should also be noted that the goal of the Mahayana and Vajrayana is the attainment of Buddhahood, whereas the goal for Theravada practice is liberation from the cycle of rebirth in Nirvana.
		Vajrayana relies on various tantric techniques rooted in scriptures known as tantras, written in India.
	www.voyager.in /Vajrayana (2098 words)

	Wikinfo \| Vajrayana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Vajrayana Buddhism developed in Northern India circa 7th century and was exported to China, Japan, and Tibet.
		However the best known form of Vajrayana Buddhism is that of Tibet, which was subsequently adopted in Mongolia and Bhutan.
		The essence of Shingon Vajrayana practice is to experience Reality by reproducing the communication of the Dharmakaya through the meditative ritual use of mantra, mudra and visualization of mandala.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Vajrayana (829 words)

	Vajrayana
		Vajrayana, the "Thunderbolt" or "Diamond" Vehicle, is one of the three major divisions of Buddhism.
		Vajrayana arose from a group of texts called Tantras which described meditation and ritual techniques for advanced Mahayana practitioners.
		Some examples of these practices are: repetition of short potent phrases called mantras or dharanis; complex visualizations, such as sending colored light to multiple realms in the cosmos; and creation of and meditation on mandalas, sacred diagrams of deities or buddha lands.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /mcel/omm/B1471.html (305 words)

	Vajrayana Vipassyana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		But the mantras used in Vajrayana are not merely devotional like “Namo Buddho” etc. They are intimately related with Nadis and Chakras which again are related with the subtle energies of the mind.
		Vajrayana mantras quickly open up blocked Nadis which are making the mind unclear and this help in easily achieving high levels of Samatha easily and fast.
		In Vajrayana, mind is not only quickly made conceptless, it is actually made to replicate the death process and it is quickly made to arrive at its subtle level.
	www.byomakusuma.org /Default.aspx?tabid=34 (2096 words)

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		The Vajrayana meditation, therefore, is both method and goal--depending on one's place along the path, on the level of one's understanding and attainment.
		In the second half of the Vajrayana meditation, therefore, we have an imitation of the activities or career of the Buddha, with its phenomenal and transcendental dimensions of Buddhahood.
		In the context of the Vajrayana meditation, the visualization and the recitation are also paradigmatic of interdependently originated phenomena and of emptiness, respectively.
	www.ecst.csuchico.edu /~dsantina/tree/ch29.txt (1811 words)

	Three Main Schools of Buddhism - History of Buddhism before Arriving in Japan (Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana)
		Vajrayana's main claim is that it enables a person to reach Nirvana (freedom from suffering) in a single lifetime -- rather than passing through countless lives before achieving salvation.
		Vajrayana Buddhism lays great emphasis on mantras (incantations), mudras (hand gestures) and mandalas (diagrams of the deities and cosmic forces), as well as on magic and a multiplicity of deities.
		Vajrayana differs significantly from the Theravada and Mahayana schools (generally speaking, that is, for there are always exceptions).
	www.onmarkproductions.com /html/schools-three-vehicles.shtml (5735 words)

	Vajrayana
		Vajrayana, or Tantric Buddhism, has been described as the latest phase in the development and evolution of Buddhist thought.
		Indeed, if anything good has come out of the terrible Chinese invasion and oppression of the Tibetan homeland in the 2nd half of the 20th century, it has been that this has driven Tibetan lamas and teachers to the West, and encouraged them to spread their tradition among sympathetic Westerners.
		Vajrayana metaphysics is, like Indian Tantra, a hybrid affair: a coming together of Indian Tantrism, Mahayana Buddhism, and the original aboriginal shamanism - the Bon tradition - of Tibet itself.
	www.kheper.net /topics/Buddhism/Vajrayana.htm (764 words)

	Vajrayana
		Practitioners are introduced to a collection of Vajrayana practices through a series of initiations.
		Vajrayana, which developed in Northern India circa 7th century, has its main philosophical roots in Madhyamika of Nagarjuna, Chandrakirti and Vijnanavada[?] (aka Yogachara[?]), Chittamatra[?]) of Asanga, and Vasubhandu[?].
		The most famous teacher of Vajrayana is Guru Padmasambhava.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/va/Vajrayana.html (191 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> The Origins Of Tibetan Vajrayana Tantric Practice?
		The Vajrayana does not have roots, as it were, in the Shravaka canon.
		Vajrayana teachings are independent of the teachings of the Shravaka canon, subsume them, and go beyond them.
		The Vajrayana teachings teach the complete path to Buddhahood too, but the difference is that with Vajrayana teachings, one can accumulate the necessary wisdom and merit accumulations to acheive full Buddhahood in a single lifetime, without the need for the three incalculable eon career of the common Mahayana path.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?showtopic=6272 (2729 words)

	Everything Tantra - OccultForums.com
		Vajrayana Buddhism, also known as Tantric Buddhism and Esoteric Buddhism, is often viewed as the third major school of Buddhism, alongside the Theravada and Mahayana schools.
		Vajrayana Buddhists do not claim that Theravada or Mahayana practices are in any way invalid, only that they represent slower paths to the same goal.
		Vajrayana Buddhism had mostly died out in India by the 13th century, its practices merging with Tantric Hinduism, and both tantric religions experiencing pressure from the rising importance of Islam.
	www.occultforums.com /showthread.php?t=9265 (8664 words)

	Satdharma > Vajrayana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The samaya bond is to be nailed continuously to the wisdom of transmission, which is inseparable from the experience of sacredness.
		Because you’ve had the experience of having the very nature of your mind pointed out to be the trikaya, to be the inseparability of emptiness, luminosity, and unimpeded responsiveness or compassion, you're actually able to glimpse sacred world, sacred outlook.
		As a vajrayana practitioner you can't live without continuously maintaining and refreshing your samaya, which again, on an absolute or essential level, is returning over and over again to the wisdom mind that is demonstrated over and over again through relationship with the teacher, the teachings, and the lineage practices.
	www.satdharma.org /Vajrayana.php?nav=3%E2%8A%82=34 (451 words)

	Luminous Emptiness: May 2004
		Vajrayana, the generation stage is mainly a samatha method, and the completion stage is a vippassana method (or direct insight method).
		If the major factor which distinguishes the Vajrayana from Mahayana and Hinayana is the fact that it uses the result as the path, whereas the other two yanas use the cause as the path, then Zen is most definitely not Vajrayana.
		Vajrayana deity practices have a Generation (or Creation) stage, where one manifests the deity concerned, and engages in a variety of methods to develop ones clarity and awareness, and then enters the Completion Stage where you are engaged with formless meditation, and rest in the nature of the mind.
	luminousemptiness.blogspot.com /2004_05_01_luminousemptiness_archive.html (2694 words)

	Vajrayana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The term distinguishes it from Hinayana and Mahayana, although Vajrayana in itself is a special case of the latter.
		For the last few centuries, the Gelugpa have been the largest and dominant school of Tibetan Buddhism in Tibet itself and are the most prominent in the West; mainly because the Dalai Lama, the traditional spiritual and political leader of Tibet, comes from this background.
		Most of the major Vajrayana scriptures are contained in the Kanjur, others remained outside this Tibetan canon yet continue to inspire people worldwide and up to the present time.
	www.yoniversum.nl /dakini/vajrayana.html (289 words)

	Search Results for "Vajrayana"
		A third school, the Vajrayana, has a long tradition in Tibet and Japan.
		It is also called Tantrayana [tantra vehicle] or Vajrayana [vehicle of the thunderbolt].
		In Buddhist Tantra, or Vajrayana, in contrast to the Hindu, the female principle of "wisdom"...
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=&query=Vajrayana (113 words)

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		However, vajrayana as it is written about and taught refers to the previous age and a different psychological idiosyncracy, and does not apply to our needs.
		To apply vajrayana in these moments is like trying to use herbs and medicines on a patient who really needs CPR.
		Vajrayana is, within the Tibetan system, very potent, but to aquire it requires years of training and initiation.
	www.gnosis-usa.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=961 (388 words)

	The Foundational Practices of Vajrayana:A Summary of the Essential Points (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		All schools of Vajrayana teach certain foundational or preliminary practices (Ngondro) that enable practitioners to settle their minds in the Dharma, to remove karmic hindrances, and to increase merits and wisdom.
		Vajrayana emphasizes the role of the Guru as the embodiment of all Three Jewels, hence Guru is included as one of the objects of refuge.
		In Vajrayana the importance of lineage is particularly emphasized.
	www.yogichen.org /efiles/ngondro.html (8990 words)

	The Rangjung Yeshe Glossary of Vajrayana Buddhist terminology
		Received the Vajrayana teachings from Vajrasattva and transmitted them to Hungchenkara, one of the eight vidyadharas of India.
		The three roots of Vajrayana practice: the guru is the root of blessings, the yidam is the root of accomplishments, and the dakini is the root of activities.
		Mantra is synonymous with Secret Mantra or Vajrayana while Philosophy refers to the 'causal vehicles of philosophy:' Hinayana and Mahayana.
	www.rangjung.com /rootfiles/ryp-glossary.htm (9680 words)

	archive of e-mail postings on vajrayana
		So the Vajrayana elements of Buddhism are alive and well and living in Tibet, whereupon the religious structure undergoes a number of adaptions to the social conditions.
		Vajrayana buddhism is a later form of buddhism that originated during the sixth or seventh century in India, eventualy it spread to Tibet and other places near northeast India, but that isn't of much importance at this point.
		Vajrayanas, on the other hand, believe that one is both intrinsically and actually the Buddha.
	www.drury.edu /ess/eastern/vajrayana.html (3055 words)

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