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Vajra

majorlegendaryIndo-Tibetan traditionBuddhism

The indestructible thunderbolt-scepter, diamond-hard truth that cuts through illusion.

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✦Signature powerIndestructibleDiamond-thunder that cuts through every illusion.

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Illustrated storyThe Night Under the TreeA prince is walled inside a paradise so he will never learn that beings grow old, sicken and die, and learns it in four chariot rides. He walks out at midnight, starves himself to the edge of death, accepts a bowl of milk-rice, and sits down under a fig tree with a vow not to rise. What comes for him in the dark is Mara, with an army, three daughters, and one devastating question, and what answers is the earth itself.Begin reading →