Vajrayāna
A living tradition within Buddhism. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Vajrayāna is a living tradition within Buddhism. Also written Tantric Buddhism, Mantrayāna, Esoteric Buddhism.
Origin
No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. No founder or founding date. Calkowski states that Tibetan Buddhism 'is nearly entirely a Vajrayāna tradition', applying to all four major existing Tibetan schools. McRae dates the arrival of Esoteric Buddhism (Mijiao) in China through Śubhākarasiṃha (637–735), Vajrabodhi (671–741) and Amoghavajra (705–774).
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Vajrayāna.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-vajrayana.
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title = {Vajrayāna},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {English version},
url = {https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-vajrayana},
note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.