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The Realm of the Divine: Three MaNDalas from the NiSpannayogAvalI	by	Terence M. Hays
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Abstract - The Realm of the Divine: Three MaNDalas from the NiSpannayogAvalI
The NiSpannayogAvalI was written by AbhayAkaragupta, a Buddhist monk who lived in the 11th-12th century, and contains the descriptions of a number of Tantric maNDalas. The paper, after offering a brief overview of the historical setting of AbhayAkaragupta and his work, gives the translation, based on Sanskrit texts and their Tibetan Peking edition, of the depiction of three maNDalas, the Five Guardian maNDala" the NairAtmA maNDala, and the Sambara MaNDala.
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