Sādhanamālā
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Sādhanamālā (T. sgrub thabs rgya mtsho). “Garland of Sādhanas.” A compendium of some three hundred sādhanas, possibly composed between the 5th and 11th centuries.[1][2] The sadhanas in the compendium provide detailed descriptions of the deities to be visualized, and are therefore an important source of tantric Buddhist iconography.[1]
The version preserved in Tibetan is entitled Sādhanasāgara, “Ocean of Methods.”[1]
Further reading
- Bhattacharya, Benoytosh. Sādhanamālā. 2 volumes. Gaewkwad’s Oriental Series 41. Baroda: Oriental Institute, 1968.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. Sādhanamālā
- ↑ Sādhana, Encyclopedia Brittanica