The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c11.s23: 23. Amoghadarśin
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c11.s23
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23. Amoghadarśin
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Colour—Yellow Symbol—Lotus
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The name of Bodhisattva Amoghadarśin appears in the third list of sixteen Bodhisattvas headed by Maitreya in the Niṣpannayogāvalī. The Durgatipariśodhanamaṇḍala contains the only one description as available in the work. There his form is described in the following words:
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Amoghadarśī pītaḥ sanetrāmbhojabhṛd-dakṣiṇakaraḥ kaṭisthavāmamuṣṭiḥ. NSP. p. 66.
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¹ Clark : TLP, II, p. 147.
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“Amoghadarśi is yellow in colour. In his right hand he holds the lotus with its central core, while the clenched left rests on the hip.”¹
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Amoghadarśi’s statuette occurs thrice in the Chinese collection ¹. Fig. 72 is a Nepalese drawing of Bodhisattva Amoghadarśi.
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¹ Clark : TLP, II, pp. 20, 143, 247.
Cites (1)
- Niṣpannayogāvalī — Abhayākaragupta, Sanskrit