The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c18.s5.2
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c18.s5.2
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c18.s5.2
There are many Sādhanas for Sitatārās, or the Tārās of white colour but in none of them are they mentioned as bearing the image of Amoghasiddhi on their crowns. It is only in this case that the image of the Dhyāni Buddha is expressly mentioned. This White Tara is three-faced and six-armed, and the Dhyāna describes her form in the following terms: