The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sadhanamala and Other Cognate Tantric Texts of Rituals c9.s3.14
The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals c9.s3.14
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In the Uttama Sevā (excellent worship) Yoga with its six limbs should be employed. These six limbs are: Pratyāhāra, Dhyāna, Prāṇāyāma, Dhāraṇā, Anusmṛti and Samādhi. Pratyāhāra (control) is here described as the process by which the ten sense-organs are controlled. Dhyāna (meditation) is explained as the conception of the five desired objects through the five Dhyāni Buddhas, namely, Vairocana, Ratnasambhava, Amitābha, Amoghasiddhi and Akṣobhya. This Dhyāna is again subdivided into five kinds: Vitarka (cogitation), Vicāra (thinking), Priti (pleasure), Sukha (happiness), and Ekāgratā (concentration).