The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c23.26
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c23.26
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c23.26
The Mudrās also are nothing but the manifestations of the Bodhicitta. If protection is needed, Bodhicitta is conceived as the Abhaya mudrā; if boon is desired it becomes Varada; when instruction in Buddhist Law is required it becomes Dharmacakra, and so on.