ID: 901002288 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002288	Record Type: Character/Person

	Vajrakilaya (Buddhist deity)

Note: Yidam deity who embodies the enlightened activity of all the buddhas and known for being powerful in removing obstacles. The wrathful form of the Buddha Vajrasattva. His distinctive iconographic trait is that he holds the phurba dagger.

Names:

	Vajrakilaya (Buddhist deity) (preferred,English-P,D,N)
	རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་པ་ (Buddhist deity) (Tibetan-P,D,N)
	Vajrakumara (Buddhist deity) (English)

Hierarchical Position:

		Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
		....<Buddhist iconography> (P)
		........<Buddhist characters> (P)
		............Vajrakilaya (Buddhist deity) (I)

Related Iconography:

	manifestation of .... Vajrasattva
	..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Buddhist iconography, Buddhist characters, Vajrasattva (Buddhist character)) [901000390]

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... deity
	.....(people in religion, people in religion and related occupations, people in the humanities, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	culture/religion is .... Buddhist
	.....(religions (belief systems, cultures), religions and religious concepts, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	symbolic attribute is .... dagger (weapon)
	.....(edged weapons, weapons, Weapons and Ammunition (hierarchy name), Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	Vajrakilaya (Buddhist deity)
	................Sahai, Minor Hindu and Buddhist Deities (1975)
	................Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) sh 99000151
	རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་པ་ (Buddhist deity)
	................Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajrakilaya
	Vajrakumara (Buddhist deity)
	................Sahai, Minor Hindu and Buddhist Deities (1975)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Source for image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajrakilaya#/media/File:Vajrakilaya_(8557221604).jpg