The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c25.67
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c25.67
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Pātra, begging bowl or bowl generally found in the images of the five Dhyāni Buddhas and of Buddha Śākyasiṃha. Sometimes the Kapāla is used in the Sādhanamālā to designate a bowl (See Kapāla). Getty records a Buddhist legend to show how a Pātra came in the possession of the Buddha. Getty : GNB, p. 193.