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Vajravidarana is a male meditational deity. He can appear as white and peaceful, green and semi-peaceful/semi-wrathful, or blue and wrathful. Four different mandala forms are found in the Kriya classification of Tantra and one wrathful form with a seventy-five deity mandala in the anuttarayoga classification of Tantra. There are also several traditions of Vajravidarana as a solitary figure without any retinue.
Although a meditational deity, Vajravidarana is very much a deity of purification and belongs to the group known as the Five Cleansing Deities. The form with a Seventy-five Deity Mandala is also included as an important branch initiation and practice in the Margapala (Lamdre) teaching cycle of the Sakya Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.