Tathagata Akshobhya and the Vajra-kula' deals with the iconography of Tathagata Akshobhya and the deities belonging to his family known as the 'Vajra-kula'. The book has four chapters, the first of which deals with the sources and brief history of the emergence of Vajrayana. It also describes the methods by which the images of Dhyani-Buddhas can be differentiated from those of the Buddha, as invariably the representations from both the groups appear to be the ...
