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Vajrayana

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

Summary

Vajrayana is a yana[1]. Vajrayana draws 3,806 Wikipedia views per month (yana category, ranking #1 of 4).[2]

Key Facts

  • Vajrayana's religion is recorded as Buddhism[3].
  • Vajrayana's instance of is recorded as yana[4].
  • Vajrayana is a type of Buddhism[5].
  • Vajrayana's Commons category is recorded as Vajrayana[6].
  • Vajrayana's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Vajrayana[7].
  • Vajrayana's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as denomination=vajrayana[8].
  • Vajrayana's topic has template is recorded as Template:Vajrayana[9].
  • Vajrayana's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/tags/vajrayana[10].
  • Vajrayana's different from is recorded as Tibetan Buddhism[11].
  • Vajrayana's different from is recorded as Tantra techniques[12].
  • Vajrayana's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[13].

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Definition and Type

Vajrayana's instance of is recorded as yana[4]. Vajrayana is a type of Buddhism[5].

Why It Matters

Vajrayana draws 3,806 Wikipedia views per month (yana category, ranking #1 of 4).[2] Vajrayana has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] Vajrayana is known by 133 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d 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 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 39180, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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