The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c20.s1.2

c20.s1.2

The Buddhists improved upon the original ideas of the Hindus and showed in an artistic style their origin in an Assembly of the Faithful where the Highest Lord sits in different Samādhis (meditations), and the rays issuing out of his body condense themselves first into syllables which give rise to the different Guardians of the Gates This process of deification is described in the first chapter of the Guhyasamāja a resume of which is already given in this book in the very first chapter.