Hevajra
Sign in to saveright|thumb|300px|Hevajra and Nairātmyā, surrounded by a retinue of eight ḍākinīs. Marpa Lotsawa|Marpa transmission. Hevajra (Tibetan: ཀྱེའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་ kye'i rdo rje / kye rdo rje; Chinese: 喜金剛 Xǐ jīngāng / 呼金剛 Hū jīngāng;) is one of the main yidams (enlightened beings) in Tantric, or Vajrayana Buddhism. Hevajra's consort is Nairātmyā (Tibetan: བདག་མེད་མ་ bdag med ma).
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right|thumb|300px|Hevajra and Nairātmyā, surrounded by a retinue of eight ḍākinīs. Marpa Lotsawa|Marpa transmission. Hevajra (Tibetan: ཀྱེའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་ kye'i rdo rje / kye rdo rje; Chinese: 喜金剛 Xǐ jīngāng / 呼金剛 Hū jīngāng;) is one of the main yidams (enlightened beings) in Tantric, or Vajrayana Buddhism. Hevajra's consort is Nairātmyā (Tibetan: བདག་མེད་མ་ bdag med ma).
==History==
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