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Dhāraṇī and Vajrayana

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Difference between Dhāraṇī and Vajrayana

Dhāraṇī vs. Vajrayana

A (Devanagari: धारणी) is a Sanskrit term for a type of ritual speech similar to a mantra. Vajrayāna, Mantrayāna, Tantrayāna, Tantric Buddhism and Esoteric Buddhism are the various Buddhist traditions of Tantra and "Secret Mantra", which developed in medieval India and spread to Tibet and East Asia.

Similarities between Dhāraṇī and Vajrayana

Dhāraṇī and Vajrayana have 3 things in common (in Unionpedia): Kūkai, Mantra, Sanskrit.

Kūkai

Kūkai (空海), also known posthumously as, 774–835, was a Japanese Buddhist monk, civil servant, scholar, poet, and artist who founded the Shingon or "True Word" school of Buddhism.

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Mantra

A "mantra" ((Sanskrit: मन्त्र)) is a sacred utterance, a numinous sound, a syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words in Sanskrit believed by practitioners to have psychological and spiritual powers.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism; a philosophical language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism; and a former literary language and lingua franca for the educated of ancient and medieval India.

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Dhāraṇī and Vajrayana Comparison

Dhāraṇī has 15 relations, while Vajrayana has 254. As they have in common 3, the Jaccard index is 1.12% = 3 / (15 + 254).

References

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