The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c9.s2.30
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c9.s2.30
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c9.s2.30
The above is a summary of the contents of a Sādhana devoted to a single goddess, Tārā, and there are hundreds of such Sādhanas for other gods and goddesses. But the important point to be noted in this connection is that the gods have no independent and real existence apart from the mind of the worshipper and the manner of worship. The deities possess no external form, but represent purely mental conceptions of the Sādhaka who by means of the Sādhana undergoes a detailed mental exercise for the development of his spiritual or psychic powers.