“The Great Destroyer with the Adamantine Essence” (dorje-snying-pos-rab-tu-‘joms-pa, Vajrapramardi) sits directly above Shakyamini in the heavenly field of the ‘essence of space’. He is blue in color and in his hands he holds two admantine scepters (dorje, vajra). “Adamantine” means that his primordial or pristine awareness is non-conceptual; “Essence” signifies that his excellent qualities (yon-tan, guna) are the essential source of all things, and “Great Destroyer” indicates that his function (las, karma) is to destroy everything such as emotional afflictions.
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