Vajrapani
Sign in to save' (Sanskrit; Pali: Vajirapāṇi,' 'holder of the thunderbolt', lit. meaning, "Vajra in [his] hand") is one of the earliest-appearing bodhisattvas in Mahayana Buddhism. He is the protector and guide of Gautama Buddha and rose to symbolize the Buddha's power.
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- Vajrapāṇi
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- Vajrapani from Rig Sum Gonpo (Lords of the Three Families), view 1, collected by Sven Hedin in 1930, Efi Khalkha temple, Chahar, Inner Mongolia - Östasiatiska museet, Stockholm - DSC09310.JPG
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- Vajrapāṇi from Rig Sum Gonpo (Lords of the Three Families), collected by Sven Hedin in 1930, Efi Khalkha Temple, Chahar, Inner Mongolia. Housed in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm.
- Buddha.sanskrit_name
- वज्रपाणि Vajrapāṇi
- Buddha.bengali_name
- বজ্রপাণি
- Buddha.pali_name
- वजिरपाणि Vajirapāṇi
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- 金剛手菩薩(Pinyin: Jīngāngshǒu Púsà)
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- (romaji: Kongōshu Bosatsu)
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- ཕྱག་ན་རྡོ་རྗེ་Wylie: phyag na rdo rjeTHL: chak na dorje
- Buddha.khmer_name
- វជ្របាណិ(vach-cheak-baa)
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- 금강수보살(RR: Geumgangsu Bosal)
- Buddha.tagalog_name
- Baklapani
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- พระวัชรปาณีโพธิสัตว์(Phra Watcharapani Phothisat)
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- Очирваань
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- Kim Cương Thủ Bồ Tát
- Buddha.veneration
- Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana
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' (Sanskrit; Pali: Vajirapāṇi,' 'holder of the thunderbolt', lit. meaning, "Vajra in [his] hand") is one of the earliest-appearing bodhisattvas in Mahayana Buddhism. He is the protector and guide of Gautama Buddha and rose to symbolize the Buddha's power.
Vajrapāni is also called Chana Dorji and Chador and extensively represented in Buddhist iconography as one of the earliest three protective deities or bodhisattvas surrounding the Buddha. Each of them symbolizes one of the Buddha's virtues: Manjushri manifests all the Buddhas' wisdom, Avalokiteśvara manifests all the Buddhas' immense compassion, and Vajrapāni protects Buddha and manifests all the Buddhas' power as well as the power of all five tathāgatas (Buddhahood of the rank of Buddha).