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Vajrayakṣa

one of the Five Wisdom Kings

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ11646516 ↗
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Vajrayakṣa Vidya-Raja (金剛夜叉明王 or 金剛夜叉明王 in Chinese) is one of the Five Wisdom Kings. He is a manifestation of Amoghasiddhi.

He goes by many names including Kongō-yasha, Vajrayakṣa, or Jingang Yecha Mingwang.

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This entry incorporates text from “Vajrayakṣa” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.