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n. (context Buddhism English) A school of Buddhism widely practised in Tibet.
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Vajrayāna ( Sanskrit: वज्रयान, literally meaning either the Diamond Way or Thunderbolt Way, also metaphorising the Indestructible Way), otherwise known as Tantrayāna (literally the Tantra Way, frequently rendered "Tantric Buddhism"), Mantrayāna (literally Mantra Way, frequently rendered "Secret Mantra"), otherwise called Esoteric Buddhism, is a complex and multifaceted system of Buddhist thought and practice which has evolved over several centuries.
According to Vajrayāna scriptures, the term Vajrayāna refers to one of three vehicles or routes to enlightenment, the other two being the Śrāvakayāna (also known as the Theravada or Hīnayāna) and Mahāyāna.
Founded by Indian Mahāsiddhas, Vajrayāna subscribes to Buddhist tantric literature.
Vajrayana is an EP by Bass Communion, one of Steven Wilson's side projects. The 7-inch was limited to 200 copies and is now out of print.
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Nagarjuna's Mahayana (Madhyamika) revolution, on the other hand, was Non-dual (advaya) to the core, seeing that nirvana and samsara are "not two," which also gave rise to tantric or Vajrayana Buddhism, where even the lowest defilements were seen to be perfect expressions of primordial wakefulness (rigpa).
But not only the extraordinary flowering of Mahayana and Vajrayana rests on Nagarjuna's shoulders: his dialectic was a major influence on Shankara, Vedanta's greatest philosopher-sage (Ramana Maharshi being one of Shankara's many descendants), and Shankara's Nondual (Advaita) Vedanta revolutionized all of subsequent Indian philosophy/religion (so similar was it in many respects to Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka that Buddhism simply died out in India, being almost, as it were, reabsorbed in essentials back into Hinduism).
One then moves to Vajrayana, or the final dissolution of exclusively monological apprehension and dialogical exchange, and rests in the nondual luminous Emptiness that playfully manifests all worlds (translogical).
Higher stages of meditative development, Vajrayana claimed, would disclose these subtle and very subtle dimensions of consciousness (particularly in the anuttarayogatantra tradition, which we will discuss in a moment), and the Abhidharma system, they claimed, was completely inadequate in this regard: it covered only the Nirmanakaya (gross-form-oriented or sensorimotor-oriented consciousness).