An Encyclopaedia of Buddhist Deities, Demigods, Godlings, Saints and Demons (in 2 Vol Set) Sri Aurobindo Ashram (Pondicherry) This volume contains the fourteen

This volume contains the fourteen tracts mentioned in the Preface to Vol

The term Indic religions by contrast is used to refer only to the religion of Indian origin collectively namely Hinduism Buddhism

photographs and diagrams making the subject easy to follow

unworded inner love and devotion (bhakti) for a Godhead that was itself internal

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An Encyclopaedia of Buddhist Deities, Demigods, Godlings, Saints and Demons (in 2 Vol Set) Sri Aurobindo Ashram (Pondicherry) This volume contains the fourteenBeginning with a few aniconic symbols, like foot prints, a throne, the Bo tree or stupas, in the prechristian Indian art, Buddhism came to evolve a variety of picturesque representations of a Self Existent, Super immanent Principle: in myriad forms and emanations that range from the superbly magnificent to sheerly grotesque. Endowed with diverse iconographic attributes, Buddhist deities saints demons have grown, over the rolling centuries, into