The Indian Buddhist Iconography Sri Ramanasramam Tamilnadu in contrast to the Tibetan

in contrast to the Tibetan language and literary context of the prayers

Apart from two papers original to this volume the collection carries papers published in a span of over forty years in various books and journals

These stories are shorter and more concise versions of the translations that are included in More Tales from the Devayana- from the epic

central issue confronting scholars across the discipline

1 Introduction

The Indian Buddhist Iconography Sri Ramanasramam Tamilnadu in contrast to the TibetanThis 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 identify the images of Buddhist deities by means