Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

118 henrik h. sørensen Figure 12. Mahākāla. Line-drawing based on Japanese Heian image. secondary divinities in the Dharmadhātu ...

. central divinities 119 Mārīcī, Goddess of War.^86 During the Tang this goddess appears in two major forms: as a standing, mul ...

120 henrik h. sørensen Figure 13. Stone sculpture of Mārīcī. Mt. Bei, Dazu, Sichuan, Tang, twelfth century. Photo by author. ...

. central divinities 121 Shensha , King of Ghosts.^93 One of the earliest occurrences of Shensha in the Chinese sources is in t ...

122 henrik h. sørensen Figure 14. Shensha. Line-drawing based on Japanese Heian image. ...

. central divinities 123 Figure 15. Vināyaka. Sino-Tibetan print. Qing. ...

124 henrik h. sørensen Jāṅgulī, the Jungle Woman: This violent female figure is among the more peculiar forms of Avalokiteśvara ...

. central divinities 125 of Buddhist temples and images of him are usually placed in or near temple gates together with images ...

126 henrik h. sørensen Figure 16. Yama. Line-drawing based on Japanese Heian image. ...

. central divinities 127 Astral Divinities Astral divinities, including the gods associated with heavenly bodies, were present ...

128 henrik h. sørensen Gods of the Great Dipper: Although they were of secondary impor- tance, worship of the Great Dipper was o ...

. central divinities 129 dhism it is common for higher divinities, such as buddhas or bodhisat- tvas, to be in control of these ...

130 henrik h. sørensen Nāgas,^126 and the Five Plague Spirits,^127 as well as the whole array of astral and elemental gods and s ...

. central divinities 131 Doumu cults, mentioned above, and that of Vaiśravaṇa and Marshal Li Jing.^132 The Sino-Tibetan Panthe ...

132 henrik h. sørensen emperors, and the cults of many Tantric Buddhist cults were intro- duced at this time.^139 Due to the gre ...

8. HOMA Richard K. Payne and Charles D. Orzech Overview and Structure In addition to understanding the doctrinal bases upon whic ...

134 richard k. payne and charles d. orzech nuance to more traditional approaches, such as doctrinal and bio- graphical studies, ...

. homa 135 Homa is also employed in several different contexts. It is, for exam- ple, the culminating ritual in the contemporar ...

136 richard k. payne and charles d. orzech 2003, 6–7). The seven elements of the saptavidhā-anuttarapūjā are praise (vandanā), w ...

. homa 137 appears in the sixth century Avalokiteśvaraikādaśamukhadhāraṇī (sūtra) of Yaśogupta (Shiyimian guanshiyin shenzhou ...