The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c21.2
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c21.2
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c21.2
These deities are rarely represented. Except probably Prajñāpāramitā and some of the Dhāriṇī goddesses, others are not even known in art or sculpture. But their statuettes are found in the Chinese collection at Peiping, and it is therefore necessary to indicate their forms from original Sanskrit texts so that the statuettes on the one hand and the Sanskrit texts on the other may mutually enlighten each other.