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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: Google Books: An Illustrated History of the Mandala

Rūpavajra (रूपवज्र) is the deity associated with Rūpa (“physical happiness”): one of the Seventeen Viśuddhipadas (“stations of purity”), according to the Prajñāpāramitānayasūtra: an ancient Buddhist Tantric text recited daily in the Japanese Shingon sect which is closely related to the Sarvatathāgatatattvasaṃgraha.—The seventeen-deity maṇḍala, representing the deification of the seventeen viśuddhipadas, corresponds to the great maṇḍala described in the Mahāsamayatattvavajra, which explains seventeen viśuddhipadas (twenty in the Chinese translation). [...] Iconographically, these four Bodhisattvas arranged in the four gates of the outer maṇḍala correspond to the four gatekeepers of the Vajradhātumaṇḍala—i.e., Rūpavajra corresponds to Vajrāṅkuśa.

Source: academia.edu: The Structure and Meanings of the Heruka Maṇḍala

Rūpavajrā (रूपवज्रा) or Rūpavajrī is the name of a Ḍākinī who, together with the Vīra (hero) named Rūpavajra forms one of the 36 pairs situated in the Hṛdayacakra, according to the 10th century Ḍākārṇava chapter 15. Accordingly, the hṛdayacakra refers to one of the four divisions of the sahaja-puṭa (‘innate layer’), situated within the padma (lotus) in the middle of the Herukamaṇḍala. The 36 pairs of Ḍākinīs [viz., Rūpavajrā ] and Vīras are reddish yellow in color; they each have one face and four arms; they hold a skull bowl, a skull staff, a small drum, and a knife.

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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.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Rūpavajrā (रूपवज्रा):—[=rūpa-vajrā] [from rūpa > rūp] f. Name of a Buddhist goddess, [Kālacakra]

[Sanskrit to German]

Rupavajra in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Vajra, Rupa.

Full-text: Rupavajri, Vajrankusha, Rupa, Hridayacakra, Vishuddhipada.

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