| Temples & Legends Of Bihar |
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| It is,
therefore, very difficult to find out what the borrowed elements, if any, are in the
Tantras. They are so well-fitted into the system that they have lost their exotic
character. Yet some stray references may be discovered in the Tantras to the borrowing of
foreign modes of Sadhana. A particular mode of Tantric Sadhana called Cinacara is found in
the Tantras. The Tara-Tantra, adopted both by Hinduism and Buddhism, says that the cult of
Cinacara came from Maha Cina. A well- known Brahmana sage Vasishtha is said to have gone
to the country of Maha Cina to learn this mode of Sadhana from the Buddha. It was not to
he found either in India or in Tibet. So Vasishtha had to go to Maha Cina, where the
Buddha into the secret doctrine of Cinacara initiated him. He subsequently came back to
India and propagated it. Some scholars are inclined to discover in this Cinacara a distant
echo of the secret societies of Chia. It is tile cult of the Maha-Cina-Tara, which is
introduced by tile Cinacara.
"Maha-Cina-Tara, as can be ascertained by the Buddhist, Sadhana, was the same
Goddess Ekajata, whose cult is said to have been discovered by Siddha Nagarjuna in Tibet,
The description of Ekajata is found in six different Buddhist Sadhanas. It closely agrees
with that of Maha-Cina-Tara, as found in some of the Sadhanas. |
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