The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c9.171

c9.171

Above the head of the acolyte a group of two little Buddhas, side by side in the same niche, seems to materialize what we are told by the texts (cf. above, p. 157) of the conversations of the Master with his magic double, or with his colleague in another world-system, the Buddha Prabhūtaratna (Lotus de la bonne Loi, trans. BURNOUF, pp. 151-2, etc.), who once came into ours to pay him a solemn visit. (Cf. above, p. 166.)