Vajrapani Page
Vajrapani (Skt. Vajrapāṇi; Tib. ཕྱག་ན་རྡོ་རྗེ་, Chakna Dorje, Wyl. phyag na rdo rje) — one of the eight great bodhisattvas and lords of the three families. He represents the power of the buddhas and is usually depicted as blue in colour and holding a vajra.
He is especially responsible for transmitting the tantras to the human realm, which is one explanation for his epithet 'Lord of Secrets' (Tib. གསང་བའི་བདག་པོ་, Wyl. gsang ba'i bdag po)[gsang ba'i bdag po generally translates the Sanskrit guhyakādhipa/guhyakādhipati. Guhyapati, although commonly used in secondary literature, appears to be unattested in Sanskrit sources. The synonymous epithet guhyendra is generally translated gsang dbang, and guhyarāṭ as gsang ba'i rgyal po.]. The epithet is also glossed as indicating his role as the lord of the guhyakas, i.e. yakshas.[See Tribe, Anthony, Tantric Buddhist Practice in India: Vilāsavajra’s commentary on the Mañjuśrī-nāmasaṃgīti, p. 121 n74.]
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Further Reading
*Jamgön Mipham, A Garland of Jewels, (trans. by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso), Woodstock: KTD Publications, 2008
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*{{LH|words-of-the-buddha/blue-clad-vajrapani|Rituals for the Blue-Clad Vajrapāṇi}}
*[http://www.himalayanart.org/pages/vajrapani/index.html Vajrapani Outline Page at Himalayan Art]
*{{84000|http://read.84000.co/translation/UT22084-087-003.html|The Tantra of the Blue-Clad Blessed Vajrapāṇi}}
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*{{84000|https://read.84000.co/translation/toh750.html|Vajra Conqueror}}
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