The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c18.1

c18.1

There are several Buddhist deities emanating from the Dhyāni Buddha Amoghasiddhi whose colour is green and whose distinctive signal is the Abhaya mudrā. Out of the deities emanating from the Dhyāni Buddha Amoghasiddhi only one is a male, while all others belong to the female sex. The description of the only male deity, Vajrāmṛta by name, comes from the Niṣpannayogāvalī of Abhayākara Gupta. The deities are described here one after another in the order of their importance.