The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c11.s17.2

The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c11.s17.2

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c11.s17.2

The Bodhisattva Maitreya who is supposed to be waiting in the Tuṣita heaven in order to come down to earth as the Future Buddha is described several times in the Niṣpannayogāvalī. Maitreya heads the list of Bodhisattvas in the Mañjuvajra Maṇḍala. Although he takes the form of his spiritual sires Vairocana and Akṣobhya two of his independent forms are nevertheless available.

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Niṣpannayogāvalī — Abhayākaragupta, Sanskrit