Apayanjaha, Apāyañjaha: 2 definitions
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Source: archive.org: The Indian Buddhist IconographyApāyañjaha (अपायञ्जह) is another name for Sarvāpāyañjaha (“remover of all miseries”): a Bodhisattva commonly depicted in Buddhist Iconography, and mentioned in the 11th-century Niṣpannayogāvalī of Mahāpaṇḍita Abhayākara.—Sarvāpāyañjaha is also known by his shorter name of Apāyañjaha.
Apāyañjaha is described in the Niṣpannayogāvalī (Durgatipariśodhana-maṇḍala) as follows:—
Source: Brill: Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions (tantric Buddhism)“Apāyañjaha is of white colour. With both hands he carries the Aṅkuśa (goad)”.
Apāyañjaha (अपायञ्जह) refers to one of the sixteen Bhadrakalpa Bodhisattvas, according to the Niṣpannayogāvalī 44ff and Abhayākaragupta’s Durgatipariśodhana-maṇḍala (Cf. Niṣpannayogāvalī 66ff.).—A set of sixteen Bodhisattvas often supplements the deities of the Tattvasaṃgraha in later Vajradhātu-maṇḍala descriptions. These are generally the sixteen Bodhisattvas of the present aeon (bhadrakalpa) [e.g., Apāyañjaha], as described for example in Abhayākaragupta’s Niṣpannayogāvalī Vajradhātu-maṇḍala.—Cf. also Nāmamantrārthāvalokinī and Abhayākaragupta’s forty-three deity Mañjuvajra-maṇḍala (Tricatvāriṃśadātmakamañjuvajra-maṇḍala: see Niṣpannayogāvalī 50)
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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The Indian Buddhist Iconography (by Benoytosh Bhattachacharyya)