The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c9.21
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c9.21
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c9.21
The above is a short survey of materials of different kinds that are available to the student of Buddhist iconography. It may be noticed that the images, sculptures, bronzes, drawings, miniatures, and the gods and goddesses represented by these, together with the literature explaining them, all belong to the Tāntric mode of thought and culture. They are brought together under the comprehensive term of Vajrayāna or the "Adamantine Vehicle". It leads therefore to a consideration of that form of Budhhism which is well known as Vajrayāna.