Psychedelic Buddhism: a User's Guide to Traditions, Symbols, and Ceremonies by Lama Mike Crowley

Author:Lama Mike Crowley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Entheogens/Spirituality
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2022-12-07T00:00:00+00:00

The vajra has a central sphere, a ring of lotus petals, and then a number of prongs, which, in Japanese tantric schools, may number one, three (in a flat plane), or five, and in Tibet and Mongolia, five or nine. That is, there is one central tine with either four or eight arranged around it. These peripheral tines each emerge from the mouth of a makara (chu-sin in Tibetan), a mythical sea monster that the Tibetans inherited from India. The Nyingma school tends to use the nine-pointed vajra, while the Sarma schools (Kagyud, Śākya, Gelug, and Jonang) use the five-pointed kind, although most versions of the deity Vajrakila hold both types. When depicted in paintings, both kinds of vajra are shown with three tines, though to indicate a nine-pointed vajra, the tines are shown not touching (as in the far right image in figure 18).

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