Studies in Indian Art c12.s3.t1.2
Studies in Indian Art c12.s3.t1.2
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c12.s3.t1.2
It is evident from this that the Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara Padmapāṇi and his spiritual father Amitābha or Amitāyus were the most ancient and popular of the Divine Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Of the mortal Buddhas, besides Gautama, Maitreya is most frequently mentioned, both Fahian and Hiuen Tsang making reference to him. It may be because Avalokiteśvara presides over the present aeon, the Bhadra-kalpa, and Maitreya is to incarnate as the future Buddha in the next kalpa, that the worship of these two besides Gautama, the Buddha of the present age, was more popular than others.