A Wikipedia article on Akshobhya, one of the Five Dhyani Buddhas of Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism, associated with the eastern direction and the transformation of anger into mirror-like wisdom. The article illustrates him with a late 13th century Tibetan thangka held by the Honolulu Museum of Art.
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A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here only for the thangka's subject and museum attribution, corroborated independently by the Wikimedia Commons file record stating the museum's own accession number for the same object. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akshobhya
Source Typeencyclopedia
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- Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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