The Sanskrit term Caṇḍamahāroṣaṇatantra can be transliterated into English as Candamaharosanatantra or Candamaharoshanatantra, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Alternative spellings of this word include Chandamaharoshanatantra.

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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: archive.org: The Indian Buddhist Iconography

Caṇḍamahāroṣaṇatantra (चण्डमहारोषणतन्त्र) or simply Caṇḍamahāroṣaṇa is the name of a book dealing with Buddhist iconography.—Besides the above mentioned Niṣpannayogāvalī, there are numerous Tāntric texts which furnish considerable material for the study of Buddhist iconography of the Tāntric period with which this work primarily concerns itself. Some of the more important materials can be found in the original Tantra works such [viz., Caṇḍamahāroṣaṇatantra], and many others.  [...] Their handwritten copies can be found in the manuscript libraries such as the Durbar Library, Nepal; Asiatic Society’s Library, Bengal; University Library, Cambridge; Musee Guimet, Paris; and the Russian Academy of Sciences in Leningrad. Numerous such manuscripts are also to be found in the hundreds of Buddhist monasteries of Nepal at Kathmandu, Pattan and Bhatgaon.

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Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Caṇḍamahāroṣaṇatantra (चण्डमहारोषणतन्त्र):—[=caṇḍa-mahā-roṣaṇa-tantra] [from caṇḍa > caṇḍ] n. Name of a Buddhist work.

[Sanskrit to German]

Candamaharoshanatantra in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Partial matches: Candamaharoshana, Tantra.

Full-text: Khaganana, Rosana, Candaroshana, Candamaharoshana.

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The Indian Buddhist Iconography (by Benoytosh Bhattachacharyya)

Figure 124 - Emanations of Akṣobhya: Caṇḍaroṣaṇa

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