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The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c10.s2.7

The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c10.s2.7

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c10.s2.7

Images, sculptures, paintings and drawings of this description are found in all Buddhist countries including India, Tibet and China. One miniature painting of the Dhyāni Buddha is reproduced in Fig. 19. Besides the two-armed form various other forms are known of this and other Dhyāni Buddhas. It may be remembered here that all the five miniatures reproduced here belong to the collection of Dr. Evans-Wentz.