Vajrasattva
Vajrasattva is one of the "five mysteries of Vajrasattva" in the Shingon tradition of Japan. He is also known as Kongosatta in Japanese.
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- co occurs with
- Kelikilā-vajrinī, Kāmesvarā, thirty-six dōji, eight great dōji, Vasudhara, Samantabhadra, Kṣitigarbha, Ākāśagarbha, Cundī, Sūryaprabha, Candraprabha, Sarvanivāraṇaviṣkambhin, Prajñāpāramitā-devi, Bhaiṣajyasamudgata, Bhaiṣajyarāja, Akṣayamati, Ushnishavijaya, Cintamanicakra, Mahāsthāmaprāpta, Krodhisvari, Vajrarakshasha, Marici, Kama, Acala, Maitreya, Taras, Hachiman, Guan Yu, Vajrapāṇi, Vajravarahi
- manifests as
- Samantabhadra, Avalokiteshvara, Vajrakilaya, Hayagriva
- allied with
- Manjushri
- teacher of
- Rudra
- manifested by
- Rāgarāja
- has aspect
- Surata
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“In the Shingon tradition of Japan, prominent yidam include the "five mysteries of Vajrasattva," which are Vajrasattva (Jp. Kongosatta "金剛薩埵")”
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“A sūtra consisting of a discourse on Acala given by the bodhisattva Vajrasattva (identified here with Samantabhadra) to Mañjuśrī, set in "Vairocana's great assembly."”
#13145 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Other male bodhisattvas appearing in Indian sources include Candraprabha, Suryaprabha, Bhaiṣajyasamudgata, Bhaiṣajyarāja, Akṣayamati, and Vajrasattva.”
#22064 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“According to Tibetan Buddhism, Hayagriva is the wrathful form of Vajrasattva, who assumes the form Avalokiteśvara and turns into Hayagriva in order to defeat the powerful demon Rudra, who has submitted the gods.”
#36048 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Vajrakilaya is a wrathful form of the Buddha Vajrasattva.”
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