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(‘he who holds a vajra in his hand’) Originally, in the earliest Buddhist period, a kind of protective spirit accompanying → Gautama; later, reckoned as one of the eight great → Bodhisattvas, and as an emanation of → Ak
obhya. Finally he was seen as preceptor of esoteric doctrines and ‘lord of secrets’.
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