The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c9.5

c9.5

The Sādhanamālā is thus the most valuable and important aid to Buddhist iconography not only because it records the latest advances in psychic research of the Vajrayāna Buddhists, but also because it was a product of a period when Buddhism was about to be destroyed in Bengal due to Mussalman invasion. This standard work on Buddhist iconography has been published in two volumes as Nos. 26 and 41 of the Gaekwad’s Oriental Series with an elaborate introduction dealing with the text and the various problems raised therein.