The Glorious Vajrapāṇi, the Protector of the Buddha’s Doctrine, who was one of the eight close sons of the incomparable Sage, the compiler of all the teachings of the secret mantra, manifested in an emanation body in the wilderness of Aṭakāvatī, the great general of the yakṣas, and protected the Buddha’s doctrine, has dark blue coloured body and three eyes. In his right hand, he brandishes a vajra that all the Buddhas have accomplished and which they have placed in his hand. In his left hand, he holds a bell at his hip. He wears a necklace of five dry skulls and fifty fresh ones. His right leg is bent and his left one is upright. He is surrounded by the eight classes of nāgas, nyen spirits, and earth lords. Upon a lotus, crossed vajra, and sun seat are lion and elephant skins and a blue silk upper garment. He wears a human-skin belt and a tiger-skin skirt, and he has the inconceivable blessings and power to avert all harm from local spirits, nāgas, and nyen spirits, and to establish countless beings who are difficult to tame on the path to enlightenment. Although the sādhanas exist in both the old and new translation schools, in the old tradition there is also a section on the teachings that were discovered.