The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c23.9
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c23.9
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c23.9
¹ The theory of Ādi-Buddha originated in the Nalanda monastery about the beginning of the 10th century and was accepted first in the Kālacakrayāna, a later form of Vajrayāna. See Csoma de Koros: *The Origin of the Theory of Ādi-Buddha* in J. A. S. B., Vol. II (1833), p. 57f. See also Bhattacharyya: *Buddhist Iconography* in JBORS, March, 1923.