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Vajrayana

Indian Buddhist tantric traditions given to Tibet, Bhutan, and East Asia
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Summary

Vajrayana is a yana[1]. Vajrayana draws 8,097 Wikipedia views per month (yana category, ranking #1 of 4).[2]

Key Facts

  • Religion or worldview: Buddhism[3]
  • Subclass of: Buddhism[4]
  • Commons category: Vajrayana[5]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Vajrayana[6]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: denomination=vajrayana[7]
  • Topic has template: Template:Vajrayana[8]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/tags/vajrayana[9]
  • Different from: Tibetan Buddhism[10], Tantra techniques[11]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[12]

Why It Matters

Vajrayana has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] Vajrayana is known by 150 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

Related Entities

Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → ['2kAmJm', '1Gahp2']
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  2. 14w ago · A121008 · 2026-07-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Great norwegian encyclopedia id → vajrayana
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Great norwegian encyclopedia id: vajrayana"
  3. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → ['0228635-vadzrajana', 'h0008742-tantricky-buddhismus']
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0228635-vadzrajana, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259547|batch #259547]]"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Different from → Tibetan Buddhism, Tantra techniques
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 1893987
    Aliases → —
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|25 */ Yso id: 39180, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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