The Indian Buddhist Iconography
by Benoytosh Bhattachacharyya | 1958 | 51,392 words | ISBN-10: 8173053138 | ISBN-13: 9788173053139
This page contains an iconography image of Bodhisattva Bhadrapala and represents figure 69 of the book Indian Buddhist Iconography, based on extracts of the Sadhanamala English translation. These plates and illustrations represent either photographs of sculptures or line-drawing reproductions of paintings or other representations of Buddhist artwork.
Figure 69 - Bodhisattva Bhadrapāla
Figure 69: Bhadrapāla
The name of Bhadrapāla occurs in the second list of sixteen Bodhisattvas headed by Maitreya. At least two independent forms of this Bodhisattva are to be found in the Niṣpannayogāvalī.
Bhadrapāla is represented only once in the Chinese collection and there his form is identical with that of his sire Amitābha. Fig, 69 illustrates a Nepalese drawing of Bhadrapāla .
Colour: red or white;
Symbol: jewel;