The Cult of Tara

WORSHIP
Fig. 13. The type of Glorious Goddess: Magic Weapon Army. From
an iconographic sketch by Tendzin yongdu.
Kajii worship the Nyingma Lord and Goddess as well as their own,
and this overlap is found in other sects that have had a close historical
relationship. The Gelug sect grew out of the Sacha, and the
important canonical triad of the high patron deities—Guhyasamaja,
Cakrasamvara, and Vajrabhairava—is a common inheritance of
both; the Sacha perform annual evocations of Manjuvajra and Aksobhyavajra,
two deities derived from the cycle of the Guhyasamaja
Tantra, as well as of their own general high patron Hevajra. Perhaps
the sharpest difference between these two sects is that the
Gelug systematically rejected those deities whose authorization was
not clearly found in Indian texts; the famous Gelug reformation in
Tibet was basically cultic rather than doctrinal, and it was perhaps