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Forty-two peaceful deities
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Recorded
Peaceful deities of the Bardo Thödol mandala
The Tibetan Book of the Dead enumerates 42 peaceful deities (with 58 wrathful, totalling 100).
What it supports
A received iconographic count in Nyingma treasure literature.
What it does not
Not a Western 42.
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