The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c10.s3.2
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c10.s3.2
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Next in importance and antiquity is the Dhyāni Buddha Akṣobhya who is mentioned as a Tathāgata in the smaller recension of the Amitāyus Sūtra which was translated into Chinese between A. D. 384 and 417. Akṣobhya is regarded as the Second Dhyāni Buddha by the Nepalese Buddhists. His description appears almost everywhere in Tāntric literature. The Pañcākāra section of the Advayavajrasaṅgraha perhaps gives the best description thus :