The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c9.16

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puri, Vikramaśīla, Nālandā, Sarnath and Jagaddala monasteries will prove no less fruitful in this respect. The museums of Eastern India such as Sarnath, Patna, Calcutta, Dacca, Rajshahi, Mayurbhanj, Khiching and few others contain numerous metal images and sculptures belonging to the Tāntric cult. That Bengal in the pre-Muhammadan period was practically Buddhist is made obvious by the fact that the worship of Dharma and Mañjughoṣa still prevails there, and that numerous Buddhist sculptures are being constantly discovered throughout the length and breadth of the province. It is needless to add that the Buddhist images discovered in Bengal, Bihar and Assam are mostly the product of the Tāntric school of the Buddhists.