The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c12.s5.2
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c12.s5.2
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c12.s5.2
This form of Mañjuśrī with the effigy of the Dhyāni Buddha Akṣobhya on the crown is known as Nāmasaṅgīti Mañjuśrī, to whom only one Sādhana in the Sādhanamālā is assigned In this Sādhana he is described as three-faced and four-armed, and as bearing the image of Akṣobhya on the crown. The first or the principal face is red, the second blue and the third white. Of his four hands, the first pair holds the bow and the arrow and the second the book and the sword. He sits in the Vajraparyaṅka attitude on the lotus. The Dhyāna describes him in the following terms :