The Glorious King of Tantras: The Fearsome Vajra of Destruction

This short tantra, The Fearsome Vajra of Destruction, presents a dialogue between the bodhisattva Vajragarbha and the Blessed One, in which the latter gives detailed explanations of the meanings of the terms that constitute the tantra’s title. The majority of the tantra deals with elucidations of the various aspects of the word vajra, which center on a vajra’s quality of indestructibility and its ability to crush and destroy dualistic concepts.