The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c13.s2.5
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c13.s2.5
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Four Sādhanas also are devoted to the worship of Siṃhanāda, who is regarded by the Mahāyānists as the curer of all diseases. He is one of the most popular forms of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, and his images are by no means rare in India. At Patan in Nepal, all the more important monasteries have two images of Siṃhanāda, either in stone or in bronze, on either side of the stair-case leading to the sanctum. He appears in many forms only slightly different from one another. The four Sādhanas alike describe him as follows: