Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

98 henrik h. sørensen Amoghapāśa is a martial form of Avalokiteśvara, usually represented as a six-armed or sometimes eight-arme ...

. central divinities 99 Color plate 2. Hayagrīva-Avalokiteśvara. Mt. Baoding, Dazu, Sichuan, thirteenth century. Photo by autho ...

100 henrik h. sørensen during the second half of the Tang.^28 The earliest scripture devoted to her cult is the Cundīdevī dhāran ...

. central divinities 101 Figure 5. Cundī. Frontispiece from Ming edition of the Cundīdevī-dhāraṇī sūtra. ...

102 henrik h. sørensen manifestation of Vajrapāṇi, became extremely important with his own cult in the mature Zhenyan tradition ...

. central divinities 103 xin tuoluoni qiuwen chifa . A group of Five Akāśgarbhas representing the Five Wisdoms^ of the Vajradhā ...

104 henrik h. sørensen translated by Vajrabodhi. Amoghavajra later produced a translation of the Saptabuddhaka^39 in which Ākāśa ...

. central divinities 105 Figure 7. Mañjuśrī as he appears in the Dharmadhātu Mandala. Line-drawing based on Japanese Heian imag ...

106 henrik h. sørensen converted mode as vidyārājas (mingwang ) and mahākrodhas (danu shenwang ). Many originated as personifica ...

. central divinities 107 Figure 8. Acala. Line-drawing based on Japanese Heian image. ...

108 henrik h. sørensen sword and noose. Images of Acala are known from the hoard of Bud- dhist sculptures recovered from the sit ...

. central divinities 109 Dhāraṇī-pitakạ ).^54 Both are ritual works; the former belongs to the dispensation of Esoteric Buddh ...

110 henrik h. sørensen and is normally shown riding an ox.^55 His appearance in the Esoteric Buddhist pantheon took place rather ...

. central divinities 111 China. Surviving ritual scriptures in Chinese reveal that the cult was already present there during th ...

112 henrik h. sørensen Song (color plate 3), as well as in later Buddhist paintings and bronze images from the Ming.^62 Sitātapa ...

. central divinities 113 Color plate 3. Stone sculpture of Mahāmāyūrīvidyārājñī. Mt. Shimen, Dazu, Sichuan, Southern Song, twel ...

114 henrik h. sørensen Usṇ̣īsavijaỵ ā is a female divinity that originated as a spell or dhāraṇī. A latecomer to the Esoteric ...

. central divinities 115 Color plate 4. The group of Ten Vidyārājas at Dafowan. Mt. Baoding, Dazu, Sichuan, thirteenth century. ...

116 henrik h. sørensen Although the cult of Vaiśravaṇa and the Four Heavenly Kings is not directly associated with Esoteric Bud ...

. central divinities 117 Figure 11. Stone sculpture of Vaiśravaṇa. Mt. Bei, Dazu, Sichuan, Tang, ninth century. Photo by autho ...