Deity Buddhist traditions
Vajrapani
वज्रपानि sa ཕྱག་ན་རྡོ་རྗེ། bo 金剛手菩薩 zh
Mahayana bodhisattva
- Also called Vajrapāṇi
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Connections
Identification 7
- Acala wrathful deity and dharmapala (protector of the Dharma) prominent in Tibetan and East Asian Buddhism
- Heracles divine hero in Greek mythology, son of Zeus and Alcmene
- Hercle Etruscan god
- Hercules Roman adaptation of the Greek divine hero Heracles
- Jupiter chief deity of Roman state religion
- Nio two wrathful and muscular guardians of the Buddha standing at the entrance of Buddhist temples in East Asian Buddhism
- Zeus Greek god of the sky and king of the gods
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