The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c24.36
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c24.36
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36. Jñānadhātu Lokeśvara. He is one-faced and eight-armed and stands on a lotus. Two of his hands are joined against his chest in forming the Añjali mudrā; the second pair exhibits what is called the Kṣepaṇa mudrā. The remaining hands hold the rosary and the Tridaṇḍī in the right and the book and the noose in the left.