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thumb|right|18th-century Chinese statue of Vajradhara made with wood and lacquer

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thumb|right|18th-century Chinese statue of Vajradhara made with wood and lacquer

Vajradhara (; ; ; ; ; ; ) is the ultimate primordial Buddha, or Adi-Buddha, according to the Sakya, Gelug and Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism. It is also a name of Indra, because "Vajra" means diamond, as well as the thunderbolt, or anything hard more generally.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vajradhara” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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