The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c11.s9.2

The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c11.s9.2

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The Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara (The Watchful Lord) also called Padmapāṇi (Lotus bearer) is the spiritual son of the Dhyāni Buddha Amitābha. He is one of the most popular Bodhisattvas of the Buddhist Pantheon having as many as 108 different forms. A separate chapter is devoted to this Bodhisattva in this work. Here only his special form that occurs in the Niṣpannayogāvalī in the list of Sixteen Bodhisattvas will be referred to.

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Niṣpannayogāvalī — Abhayākaragupta, Sanskrit