A ninth century scroll of the Vajradhātu Maṇḍala
New Delhi: Mrs. Sharada Rani, 1986. First edition, 4to, pp. 350; illustrations throughout, tables; introduction in English; notes to illustrations in Chinese, English, Sanskrit, and Tibetan; very good, sound, and clean in original green cloth, gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine. Issued as volume 343 in the publisher's Śata-piṭaka series. "Lokesh Chandra, who has studied the twenty-four mandalas described in the Sarva Tathagata Tattva Samgraha Tantra, notes that the Vajradhatu was one of the earliest mandalas to appear in Tibet during the Chidar (the Later Diffusion); some of its mandalas appeared in the main temple at Tabo (dated ca. 996-1042). The iconographically similar Diamond World mandalas, commonly seen in Esoteric Japanese Buddhism, also stem from the STTS, which was translated into Japanese by Amoghavajra (705-774)" (asianart[.]com). Item #71703
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