The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c12.s1.2

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Vajrarāga Mañjuśrī is also known by the two names of Vāk and Amitābha Mañjuśrī showing his allegiance to the Dhyāni Buddha Amitābha of red colour. Vajrarāga is one-faced and two-armed. His two hands are joined on his lap forming what is called the Samādhi or the Dhyāna mudrā. In this respect he is identical with the Dhyāni Buddha Amitābha whose effigy he bears on his tongue. He differs from the Dhyāni Buddha in respect of his ornaments and dress. Images of this form of Mañjuśrī are not altogether rare in India or in the Buddhist countries of the North. The Sādhanamālā describes his form in the following Dhyāna :—