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object called the vajra. As the divine virility is pure and unshakable, the vajra is described as a
“diamond” or “jewel”. As a “thunderbolt” it is one of the lightning symbols. Everything masculine is
termed vajra. It is thus no surprise that the male seed is also known as vajra. The Tibetan translation
of the Sanskrit word is dorje, which also has additional meanings, all of which are naturally
associated with the masculine half of the universe. The Tibetans term the translucent colors of the sky
and firmament dorje. Even in pre-Buddhist times the peoples of the Himalayas worshipped the vault
of the heavens as their divine Father.
Vajra and Gantha (bell)
The female counterpart to the vajra is the lotus blossom (padma) or the bell (gantha). Accordingly,
both padma and gantha represent the vagina (yoni). It may come as a surprise to most Europeans how
much reverence the yoni is accorded in Tantrism. It is glorified as the “seat of great
pleasure” (Bhattacharyya, 1982, p. 228). In “the lap of the diamond woman” the yogi finds a “location
of security, of peace and calm and, at the same time, of the greatest happiness” (Gäng, 1988, p. 89).
“Buddhahood resides in the female sex organs”, we are instructed by another text (Stevens, 1990, p.
65). Gedün Chöpel has given us an enthusiastic hymn to the pudenda: “It is raised up like the back of
a turtle and has a mouth-door closed in by flesh. ... See this smiling thing with the brilliance of the
fluids of passion. It is not a flower with a thousand petals nor a hundred; it is a mound endowed with
the sweetness of the fluid of passion. The refined essence of the juices of the meeting of the play of
the white and red [fluids of male and female], the taste of self-arisen honey is in it.” (Chöpel, 1992, p.
62). No wonder, with such hymns of praise, that a regular sacred service in honor of the vagina
emerged. This accorded the goddess great material and spiritual advantages. “Aho!”, we hear her call
in the Cakrasamvara Tantra, “I will bestow supreme success on one who ritually worships my lotus
[vagina], bearer of all bliss” (Shaw, 1994, p. 155).