The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c10.s9: Mortal Buddhaśaktis
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c10.s9
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Mortal Buddhaśaktis
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Like the Dhyāni Buddhas, the Mortal Buddhas have also their respective Buddhaśaktis through whom they obtained the seven Mortal Bodhisattvas. The Buddhaśaktis are :—
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1. Vipaśyantī
2. Śikhimālinī
3. Viśvadharā
4. Kakudvatī
5. Kaṇṭhamālinī
6. Mahīdharā
7. Yaśodharā
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Representation of these are not met with anywhere in India. Only one Statuette of the last Yaśodharā is found in China ¹.
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¹ Clark : TLP, II, p. 171. For the names of the Buddhaśaktis see Oldfield : Sketches from Nipal, Vo. II. 163 and 185 ff.