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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: De Gruyter: A Fragment of the Vajrāmṛtamahātantra

Vajrahūṃkārasādhana (वज्रहूंकारसाधन) (=vajrahūṃkāra-sādhana) is the name of the sixth chapter of the Vajrāmṛtatantra or Vajrāmṛtamahātantra: one of the main and earliest Buddhist Yoginītantras, probably datable to between the end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century. In chapter 6, the vajrahūṃkārasādhana-nirdeśa, the Bhagavān explains in brief the sādhana of Vajrahūṃkāra, as well as the procedures for drawing the maṇḍalas of Vajrāmṛta, Heruka, and so on. The shape and the measures of the vajrahūṃkāra-maṇḍala are given in stanza 2. Vajrahūṃkāra, who has three faces and six arms, has to be placed in the centre of this maṇḍala, surrounded by a halo of trembling lights, embellished with ornaments, and encircled by four mudrās (Kelikilā, Vajrāstrā, Vajragarvā, Sparśavajrā). The text continues with a list, sometimes accompanied by iconographical descriptions, of the objects and the deities that have to be drawn in the maṇḍala; the latter include Umā, the Vidyās (Puṣpā, Dhūpā, etc.), the door-guardians, and the eight Bodhisattvas (Maitreya, Mañjuśrī, etc.).

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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: Sadhana, Vajrahumkara.

Starts with: Vajrahumkarasadhananirdesha.

Full-text: Vajrasattvamandala, Vajrahumkarasadhananirdesha, Vajrahumkara, Vajrahumkaramandala, Vajramritatantra.

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