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The work Sadhanamala as the title itself suggests, is a compilation of serveral Sadhanas of Buddhist Tantric rituals, composed by different authors. it belongs to little know branch Vajrayana of Buddhist. It was edited by the great scholar of Buddhist and First Director of our Institute Dr. Benoytosh Bhattacharyya, on the basis of eight Manuscripts rituals for Worshipping the deities, but also prescribe numerous Mudras. The importance of the work can be ...
In spite of the prevalent view against Tantricism and Tantric literature, Hindus in general are in the grip of this very Tantra in their daily life, customs and usages with all the attendant good and evil. The present work investigates and places before the scholars a dispassionate account of the Tantras in general and Buddhist Tantras in particular. The author traces its origin to primitive magic and its development. Narrating the rise of Vajrayana and its place ...
This volume is an attempt to present a comprehensive work on Buddhist iconography of India, and is mainly based on Sanskrit text prepared from seven recensions of the Sadhanamala alias Sadhanasamuccaya. The text has been illustrated by pictures representing images in several museums in India and elsewhere in the collection of numerous Nepalese monasteries. In the present work endeavour has been made to identity the images of Buddhist deities by means of Dhyanas ...