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ID: 901001387
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001387
Record Type: Character/Person

Vajrapāṇi (Buddhist bodhisattva)

Note: In Mahāyāna Buddhist mythology, one of the celestial bodhisattvas (“Buddhas-to-be”), the manifestation of the self-born Buddha Akṣobhya. Vajrapāṇi in Sanskrit means "Thunderbolt-Bearer," believed to be the protector of the nāgas (half-man, half-serpent deities) and sometimes assumes the shape of a bird in order to deceive their traditional enemy, the hawklike Garuḍa.

Names:
Vajrapāṇi (Buddhist bodhisattva) (preferred,English-P,D,N)
Vajrapani (Buddhist bodhisattva) (English,U,N)
Vajrapāṇi, Bodhisattva (Buddhist bodhisattva) (English,U,N)
Phyag-na-rdo-rje (Buddhist bodhisattva) (Tibetan (transliterated),U,N)
Phyag-rdor (Buddhist bodhisattva) (English,U,N)
Kin-kang (Buddhist bodhisattva) (Chinese (transliterated),U,N)
Kongō (Buddhist bodhisattva) (Japanese (transliterated),U,N)
金剛手 (Buddhist bodhisattva) (Chinese,U,N)
বজ্রপাণি (Buddhist bodhisattva) (Bengali,U,N)
금강수보살 (Buddhist bodhisattva) (Korean,U,N)
執金剛神 (Buddhist bodhisattva) (Japanese,U,N)
ཕྱག་ན་རྡོ་རྗེ (Buddhist bodhisattva) (Tibetan)
Bát bộ Kim Cương (Buddhist bodhisattva) (Vietnamese,U,N)

Hierarchical Position:
Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
....<Buddhist iconography> (P)
........<Buddhist characters> (P)
............Vajrapāṇi (Buddhist bodhisattva) (I)
Other Relationships:
role/characteristic is .... bodhisattva
.....(people in religion, people in religion and related occupations, people in the humanities, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
culture/religion is .... Mahayana Buddhism
.....(Buddhism, religions (belief systems, cultures), religions and religious concepts, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:
Vajrapāṇi (Buddhist bodhisattva)
................British Museum [online] (1999-)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
Vajrapani (Buddhist bodhisattva)
................British Museum [online] (1999-)
Vajrapāṇi, Bodhisattva (Buddhist bodhisattva)
................Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) no2002041873
Phyag-na-rdo-rje (Buddhist bodhisattva)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
................Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
Phyag-rdor (Buddhist bodhisattva)
................Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
Kin-kang (Buddhist bodhisattva)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
Kongō (Buddhist bodhisattva)
................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
金剛手 (Buddhist bodhisattva)
................Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajrapani
বজ্রপাণি (Buddhist bodhisattva)
................Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajrapani
執金剛神 (Buddhist bodhisattva)
................Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajrapani
ཕྱག་ན་རྡོ་རྗེ (Buddhist bodhisattva)
................Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajrapani
Bát bộ Kim Cương (Buddhist bodhisattva)
................Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajrapani
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Source for image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajrapani#/media/File:Varjapani_magao_caves.jpg
................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) "Vajrapāṇi," accessed 17 June 2017
................ British Museum [online] (1999-) http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=249251&partId=1&searchText=Vajrapani&page=1
................ Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) https://lccn.loc.gov/no2002041873

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