The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c16.t1.2
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c16.t1.2
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Two Sādhanas are devoted to the worship of Mahācīnatārā or Tārā of Mahācīna (Great China) and two Dhyānas, one in prose and the other in verse describe one and the same form of the goddess. She is also known in Buddhist Tāntric literature as Ugratārā, and the Vajrayogini temple at Śāṅku in Nepal, contains in the sanctum a figure of Ugratārā. This Ugratārā or Mahācīnatārā of the Buddhists has been incorporated in the Hindu pantheon under the name of Tārā, and is now regarded as one of the ten Mahāvidyā goddesses. The Dhyāna in the Sādhanamālā describes her form in the following verses: