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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

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Āryavajravārāhī (आर्यवज्रवाराही) is a variety of Vajravārāhī: one of the various emanations of Vairocana, as mentioned in the 5th-century Sādhanamālā (a collection of sādhana texts that contain detailed instructions for rituals).—Her Appearance is terrible; her Āsana is the ālīḍha; she has four arms.

The four-armed form of Vajravārāhī is also similar to the forms mentioned before, and is called Ārya-Vajravārāhī. The difference lies only in the attitude, number of arms, and the symbols carried in her hands. She carries in the two right hands the vajra and the goad, and in the two left the kapāla and the tarjanī with the noose. She is one-faced and three-eyed, and appears terrible with contortions of eye-brows, the adamantine excrescence, and the protruding tongue, teeth and belly. She stands in the ālīḍha attitude on the corpse, unlike the other forms of Vajravārāhī. The khaṭvaṅga hangs from her left shoulder as usual.

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Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.

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Partial matches: Vajravarahi, Arya.

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The Indian Buddhist Iconography (by Benoytosh Bhattachacharyya)

Figure 159-160 - Emanations of Vairocana: Vajravārāhī

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