The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c16.t13.2
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c16.t13.2
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Vasudhārā figures in the pantheon of the Mahāyāna Buddhists as the consort of Jambhala, the Buddhist god of wealth. Only three Sādhanas are devoted to her worship and in one of these only is she said to bear the image of Akṣobhya. The two others assign her to the Dhyāni Buddha Ratnasambhava. It may be noticed, by the way, that Vasudhārā is of a greater antiquity than the Dhyāni Buddhas themselves. The Dhyāna describing the goddess with the figure of Akṣobhya on the crown runs as follows :