Image title: Figure 45: Seven Mortal Buddhas with Maitreya

This photo shows: Seven Mortal Buddhas with Maitreya extracted from the book “the Indian Buddhist Iconography” by Benoytosh Bhattachacharyya. It is figure number 45.

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These photos exposes Buddhist iconography in the form of sculptures found throughout Asian countries such as Nepal and China. The book in which they are found also contains large extracts from the the Sadhanamala, a Sanskrit book dealing with meditation through visualization, using a variety of Sadhanas (psychic exercises in the form of visualization and meditation).