The Indian Buddhist Iconography
by Benoytosh Bhattachacharyya | 1958 | 51,392 words | ISBN-10: 8173053138 | ISBN-13: 9788173053139
This page contains an iconography image of Emanations of Akshobhya: Yogambara and represents figure 133 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 133 - Emanations of Akṣobhya: Yogāmbara
Figure 133: Yogāmbara
(Peiping)
God Yogāmbara is the principal deity of the Yogāmbara Maṇḍala or the Niṣpannayogāvalī. The blue colour of the deity shows that Yogāmbara belongs to the family of the Dhyāni Buddha Akṣobhya. Yogāmbara is known in China. His Chinese statuette is illustrated in Fig. 133.
Colour: blue;
Faces: three;
Arms: six;
Variety: Yab-Yum;
Śakti: Jñānaḍākinī;